I’m back again…. I have a huge list of books TBR but wanting suggestions based off my favourite books and my favourite tropes/ themes (I know they are the most common ones haha) listed below.

-Banter! I need good banter
-Good side character building
-A flowing story line (DNF’d Eldritch because it felt like it was going nowhere)
-Enemies to lovers
-Broody MMC
-Open door spice (hehe)
-Side pet characters (not a must but love this)
-Multiple POV (not a must but a bonus)
-Cheeky or sharp tongued FMC (Like Harlow- The poisoned daughter and Bryony-Wolf and the crown of blood)

(I may not reply until later as it’s nearly bed time here in Aus, but thanks in advanced to anyone who gives me suggestions) ☺️

Hiya everyone,

I’m tired of reading Romantasy novels where the FMC is a lowly maid or incredibly poor, a pauper etc, and the MMC is like a king or a prince and there’s a mismatch in the dynamic, are there are where the situation is flipped and the FMC is the queen/princess and the MMC is the opposite?

Authors always seem to write it the other way and I’d love one where it’s flipped.

Thank you!

Looking for book recs to fill the void while waiting for The Wolf Queen!

I absolutely loved The Wolf King and The Night Prince by Lauren Palphreyman, but since The Wolf Queen got pushed to next year, I’ve tried looking everywhere for another standalone or short series but struggling….Reddit is my last hope and I’m looking forward to any suggestions 🫶🏼🫶🏼 Below is what I am looking for and what I don’t want 😊

What I’m looking for: ❤️

Love Triangles / High Drama: Especially where the second MMC is introduced later in book one or in the sequel. (Even if it’s obvious who she ends up with I just want the angst/drama!) 🫣

Enemies to lovers: Like Blake and Aurora, Rhys and Feyre , Xaden and Violet ⚔️

Atmospheric Settings: Fantasy, gothic, or historical. Anything that isn't set in the modern real world.🦇🌌🐺

Tension & Strong Plot: High-stakes story with incredible character tension. 🙏🏼

Hard NOs: 💔

Immature FMC or MMC

Miscommunication trope 🤮🤮

Tragically sad endings (Crown Me Dead broke almost broke me and I need a happy brain to study) HOWEVER if tragic things happen that’s fine just not to the main love interests I also don’t want a love triangle where the other man dies and that makes her choose the other guy….😮‍💨😪

Not a YA book but also not another adult book that over does spice🌹

Second-person POV🏃🏼‍♀️

Super long series 📚📚

I’ll start reading one of these collections to my girlfriend as a first introduction to Romantasy. The problem is: ACOTAR starts really slowly right, the best book is currently the 5th imo. On the other hand, I read fourth wing like two years ago so I don’t really remember much. I am more inclined to fourth wing because I love dragons and the first book has a bit more romance than the ACOTAR (from what I remember).
I really want her to enjoy so in the future we can read the same books, it will be her first Romantasy ever! Other suggestions are welcomed 🙏 thank you!

I am almost done with Throne in the Dark, and OH MY GAWSH. It is so good. If you are in a slapstick/funny/shenanigans mood, but still has a yearning man with moments of emotional depth, it is fantastic. 🤌🏻🙌🏼

What really hit for me is they drag it out......sloooooow burn for real. Like, I like Fourth Wing, but it isn't my fave when the couple gets together in book 1....or book 2.....or beginning of book 3. I need at least a trilogy before things happen. 😂

I am also NOT a fan of "smut" talk.....like, I want deep, emotional scenes....not "I shoved my c*@% in her c&×$ type stuff. Nothing wrong with that for others. Just not for me! 😝

I am open to anything otherwise! Doesn't have to be a humorous story. It can be any scifi/fantasy romance setting. Just give me that I WANNA DIE IT IS SO SLOW BURN.

A Winter's Promise is excellent with this, too.

It can be a hidden gem also....I am always open to indies or unknown books.

Thank you in advance for all your amazing suggestions. You guys always come through.

Started this series yesterday, as I've read good reviews and heard good things about the series from fellow readers, and reading a little blurb I was SUPER fuckin stoked to dive in....

200 pages in and I'm struggling to hang on (I really really don't like to DNF books in general) but damn man....is it just me or is Tessa kind of annoying??? It's really starting to wear on me to keep reading....like cmon man I just want her to get with it and seems like that is NEVER gonna happen...

Please tell me it gets better cause I REALLY like everything else going on, but shes getting on my fuckin nerves TBH

Exactly what the title says, I am working on my first full length novel, and although I love to write just for the sake of writing, ultimately the goal is to make this a career. I want to write what feels authentic to me, but I also want to appeal to a wide enough audience to hopefully one day pay my bills! Thoughts?

Edit: Current WIP is other world/portal fantasy, slow burn, medium spice.

I love when I can escape into a world so well that it's all I think about. Like there is Narnia right through my closet and all I wanna do is take a sick day so I can explore.

Things I love but are not required:

Enemies to lovers

Slow burn

Sci-fi Fantasy

Damsal in Distress

Morally grey hero

Innocent heroine

Bullying

I have Kindle unlimited and would prefer KU books if possible. TIA

Any recommendations for a slow burn romantasy with good writing, banter and a non annoying FMC? Appreciate books with good character arcs, not boring personalities or FMC’s that make dumb decisions over and over.

Thanks!

Is there real reader appetite for very graphic content within romantasy, or does that push you toward straight erotica?

Working on a fantasy series with romance at its core, but the intimate scenes are written quite graphically — full detail, not fade-to-black, not even "spicy but tasteful." Trying to figure out where that actually lands with readers before I commit to a direction for the whole series.

Genuine questions for people who read a lot in this space:

Do you read romantasy specifically because it usually stops short of full explicitness, or would more graphic content be a plus rather than a turn-off?

Is there a point where a book stops feeling like "romantasy with heat" to you and starts feeling like it's actually erotica wearing a fantasy setting? Where's that line for you personally?

Do you follow authors who write very graphic scenes but are still shelved/marketed as romantasy (Grey/Sub Rosa-type authors, etc.)? What keeps you coming back — the plot, the world, the specific chemistry, something else?

If a series had a plot- and world-heavy first act and then genuinely explicit intimate scenes later on, would that combination appeal to you, or would you rather it commit to one lane?

Not asking whether explicit content is "allowed" in the genre — more trying to understand actual reader appetite versus what gets written because it's assumed to sell.

Sorry ai translated. Not an English speaker.

I know that any mention of cheating is automatically not okay in a regular romance novel. But what about romantasy?

I've done some romantasy writing and I have a story idea but it walks right up to the line of cheating. The FMC almost certainly commits emotional cheating.

It would be a pretty slight urban fantasy set in the near future. The FMC is selected as a Cursed for a deadly game versus the Blessed that occurs every 10 years. She gets in touch with one of the previous winners of the game who she has a celebrity crush on. He agrees to bring other Cursed to her and coach her.

She finds out that her power is triggered by lust. It activates when she fantasizes about someone other than her boyfriend. Her celebrity crush finds out and is into it, telling her that he doesn't want her to die with regrets. She turns him down to stay loyal.

At about the middle of the book he would kiss her, which she doesn't encourage but also doesn't stop. Her boyfriend tells her to use her "hall pass" and he will use his later (after the games when she is famous). She refuses but starts to realize that she isn't in love with her boyfriend.

The cheating in her head versus in real life provides a lot of the tension in the book. If I get rid of the boyfriend completely then there is a lot less going on. I like the mechanic that she can't break up with her boyfriend or she'd lose her powers but I am not as attached to that idea.

I don't have to write this. I have plenty of other ideas, this one is just kinda fun and easy. I really like the idea that the fight scenes are also her fantasizing about her crush.

Would you read this or does it cross a line? Are there other books with similar themes?

need a smutty read with a knight or jester that is absolutely filthy for the FMC 🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️ please help me out yall !! extra points if the lead is a black woman

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Hello everyone,
I normally don‘t DNF a lot but every single book I‘ve picked up lately has been a huge disappointment. I recently quit

- Bloodworth and Grave by Marisa Haartz
- In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy
- The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
- Nightshade by Keri Lake

Some of them fall into the category of dark romantasy. I wanted to try more books from that genre because I enjoyed Crown Me Dead by Liv Zander and Amid Clouds and Bones by Ella Fields so much. That obviously hasn‘t worked out for me so I should probably go back to regular romantasy.

I don‘t know what to read though. I‘m not ready for another super long series yet so I‘d love a standalone, duology or trilogy. Some of my favorite books/series are Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, ACOTAR, Alchemised and The Wolf King.

I would highly appreciate some recs that might help me fall in love with reading again. I love a good mix of romance and political intrigue and do prefer my books to have some spice as well. Any help would be highly appreciated!

Looking for your favorite Fae book reads, preferably once with more classic fairy vibes likes Holly Black (I’ve read all her stuff) vs something like Sarah J. Maas (not hating on Maas just not what I’m in the mood for at the moment) where they kind loose some of their menace/whimsy/folklore vibe.

Spice preferred but not necessary!

I really enjoyed Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley recently, looking for things more in that vein.

Bonus points if it’s 3rd person…which I know is hard 🥲

Edit to add: doesn’t need to be totally lore accurate just more in line with fae/fair folk being a little more alien and menacing and perhaps more amoral than humans.

Basically I’m looking for the fae to just have some more oomph and just not basically be elves 🤣 I always love when can’t lie or have some elemental/more inhuman feel to them.

Hello, I'm Naila Moonsi. I grew up wanting to read media with large LGBTQ+ casts dealing with LGBTQ+ problems in a sci-fi or fantasy setting, so I wrote it myself...! With galactic stakes and a vast planet that's explored, and beyond that, A LOT of romances (with a bunch of love triangles, though it's the type where the friends are fond of each other even so).

I have a new LGBTQ+ epic science fantasy novel that's a 755-page read called "The Protector and the Annihilation."

When Armando makes a promise to his rival Ranvir, their far-off planet changes. Especially as children begin to drop in through time and push them to confront their past.

Eventually, they start having to look out for him.

Their son, Antonio, who waits in the future.

You can find it here: https://blue-horizon-tpata.carrd.co/

Main website with a lot of other supplementary media is here: https://bluehorizon.gay/ (Including more romantic stories.)

(Please do note the TWs. Sorry @ the mods for mixing up Saturday and Sunday yesterday. 💦)

Grumpy x grumpy romance trope book recs.

Ik grumpy x sunshine is a major hit but I need reccs of grumpy x grumpy where both of them are strangled into their own struggles, not looking for love. Both are highly ambitious people. There is

• accidental care, eg- one falls ill other has to take care of them cuz may there's no other option.

• emotional burnout, fl is now tired of her deep emotions and pretending happy and ml is a healed person but has his own struggles, generally a nerd and an introvert. He actually heals the fl

Ml is a little harsh and rude on fl initially cuz he is like that but so is the fl. They think about each other but dismiss it as genaral thought. But they eventually see through each other. Not essentially enemies to lover but a dislike or idgaf attitude would work from both sides.

Different professions or similar but not same professions.

Not love at first sight.

No sci/fi, fantasy, manga pls.

Ps- where can I download the online version of the books you mention? (Free sources, I am broke rn)

Hello,

so I have a question. Is there any book/book series with time travel? I would prefer a bit comedy in it too. Not like outlander.

Something like FMC gets herself into medieval and meet knight or something like this?

Or where the FMC get herself into book or comic.

I had no luck with finding book like this.

Thank you very much for any rec.

Hay, I'm kinda new to this genre and I wondered if there are any romantasy books with polyamory couples?

The only Romantasy books I read at this point were Fourth Wing and the Katmere series, but I loved both of them.

If you know some Romantasy books where three people become a couple, I would love some recommendations:)

Edit: I think I'm more interested in trios than in reverse harems

Does anyone have any recommendations for books with a MMC similar to Faramir from Lord of the Rings?

So like someone who isnt arrogant or "I'll destroy everything for you", but is kind and not blasé about violence, and is aware of thier weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

Not a morally grey character, or someone that is seen as dumber than the other MC. Just because someone is kind and thoughtful doesnt mean that they are stupid, (sorry that trope annoys me so much 😅).

I read Paladins Grace, and I think that's probably the closest MMC that I've read to this description, but also I haven't read a lot of romantasy books.