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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 9837633" data-attributes="member: 6693711">Not to spoil too much, but the trajectory of this book seems to be quite a bit different. The second novel in the series (the first chronologically) also involved numerous murders throughout the plot and ends in a big life or death fantasy fight...though I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't read!I won't say that these series DON'T have a predominantly very cozy vibe; they absolutely do! But as to those (like the post I was originally replying to) who say that cozy vibes stories require that "no character may be in danger" or similar, I absolutely can point to examples that show that this isn't so. In any case it's pretty much besides the point when we talk about cozy romantasy in particular, as that is mostly to distinguish it from spicy/explicit stories.But hey, genre definitions are notoriously fluid and hard to rigidly codify. I'm not surprised that the half dozen of us talking about it probably have a dozen total different and variously contradictory definitions we sort of find work. I do think that some of the posters here who seem to dislike cozy stories are operating under a pretty exaggerated view of the actual genre is like, which is part of why I laughed while reading that opening quote from Brigands and Breadknives after seeing what some people in this forum were saying about cozy romantasy stuff.</blockquote>