Hello,

I am looking for more romantasy books where the society or FMCs life has a lot of patriarchal elements to it and where the FMCs purity is a larger component. Some books that I really enjoyed that had this element:

- current american politics

- almost every history books

- my Bible study notebook

I’ve been listening to the song “All Star" by Smash Mouth and I feel like I’ve either read a book that has similar vibes to the song or have seen one advertised! But I want recommendations that has the same atmosphere as this song! Thanks in advance.

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Somebody once asked, "Could I spare some change for gas?

I need to get myself away from this place"

I said, "Yep, what a concept, I could use a little fuel myself

And we could all use a little change"

Well, the years start comin' and they don't stop comin'

Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin'

Didn't make sense not to live for fun

Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb

So much to do, so much to see

So, what's wrong with taking the backstreets?

You'll never know if you don't go (go!)

You'll never shine if you don't glow

Hey now, you're an all-star

Get your game on, go play

Hey now, you're a rock star

Get the show on, get paid

(And all that glitters is gold)

Only shootin' stars break the mold

Y’all….I have never been more disappointed in a series in my life.

The FMC made me want to strangle her for 90% of the series. The MMC is barely in the books. It’s mainly annoying conflict the entire series. With riddles that are obvious and characters who just continue to make stupid choices. The premise is good, but the execution is trash.

I don’t get the hype at all.

My brain feels like mush. I will now attempt to find something good to read to rid it of the ick.

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ETA: I bet there’s some good fanfic out there, though.

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bonus: guess what series I'm talking about!!!

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Hi everyone, I’m looking for a new book to add to my TBR and I keep noticing all the FMCs are starting to look the same lol. Is this due to actual preference form the audience or are authors self inserting? I wanted to know what y’all’s ideal hair color for the FMC is

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Yes I just saw the post asking for romantasy with more smut, and I would like book recommendations for ones with plot and a medium portion of a medium amount of smut please. My most recent favorite book series (broken bond Ariana Irendale) took until book 3 for the open door and I am done with that now and want books where the FMC and MMC waste some time in getting it on but not that much.

No non con please and thank you. Demisexual FMCs preferred, especially if he falls first and she is more of a “that was fun in a vague way, see you in a reasonable amount of time!” type.

/uj I grew up very Catholic surrounded by purity culture, so seeing someone advertise their series as Christian Romantasy where characters wear purity rings/struggle to remain pure made me roll my eyes. I'm also PMSing & spiritually unclean today.

/rj

My Christian husband doesn't let me read smutty books because he's insecure about his premature ejaculation a good Christian, so I've decided to write books for other women like me tempted by the perils of Secular Romantasy. That genre is obviously always very unchristian, full of hot premarital sex, and deserving of shame.

So girlies, how about we switch out those cock rings for purity rings? 💍💍

I'm still working around some kinks (non-sexual), like writing a magic/elemental system and coming to terms with the fact that this would have gotten me Christian Imprisoned for blasphemy a few centuries ago.

I've decided to market my books as such *just* as June started, but I swear it's not a reaction to pride month!! However, if you're bothered by all this rainbow hullabaloo? Get my book on Kindle Chastity™ 🙏

Asking for a friend.

If they missed the window for Self Promotion day, but also didn't want to wait and get lost under other promo posts, wouldn't this be more like [Subtle Self Promotion] or maybe even [Undercover Self Promotion]? Who could know?

Anyway, my "friend" wrote an awesome book about knotting and I'm so proud. I also wrote They also wrote a great script for a Reddit post.

If you don't like this post, my cat walked all over my laptop and wrote it without my permission.

Sprayed edging rant because what the hell man?!?!

Listen…I detest sprayed edging. Foiled edging is different, serves a different purpose, has some historical context and makes sense when they appear. But I want my edging to be plain pages. I’m no collector, I read my books and I enjoy simple pages like the simple person I am. Which wouldn’t be a problem, except the sprayed edging trend has gotten out of control!

So many books are only being released as “special editions” (which if they’re all special editions, then non of them are special but that’s a rant for another day), and there actually is no option for a traditional-non-sprayed-edging-book! Even worse, and its happened thrice now, I will intentionally wait to buy a regular boring non sprayed edging version of a book –I'm so glad I can finally use thrice in a sentence– only to have them send the sprayed version I was avoiding!!!! I have double checked to make sure I’m buying the normie version and have been cucked. I want to be lame, let me be lame!!!

Why is it being forced upon me? Why is every book being released with artfully done edging, to the point that most don’t even offer a sad beige option…If that’s what floats your boat, more power to you and your tie-die water, but it harshes my vibe. My mellow has been squandered!

Thank you for listening, please give me back my boring choices. The end.

/uj yes this is low effort where I just changed edge to edging, sue me

Can we talk about how unredeemable Jude is?

I read that series because people claimed that Jude was their favorite FMC.

She has absolutely no redeemable qualities.

She...

Forces Cardan into her servitude

Then tricks him to become King so she can puppet him on the throne

Deceives a child to help her with this plan

Then...

Kills some people

Asks Cardan to make out with his ex for information

Is manipulative and power-hungry

So people like her because...

She has a cute hairstyle

She's good with a dagger

She dislikes Cardan

Guys... C'mon.

I want to talk about how strange it is to write a sex scene with a pastry-shifting MMC when your personal pastry chef(and their team of chefs) are eventually going to read your book.

This is a weirdly specific anxiety that nobody warned me about and that I've now heard mentioned, quietly, by enough sticky-fingered writer friends that I think it deserves a proper conversation.

I'm writing in a genre where sex scenes with powdered sugar are basically expected, and my chef (Gustave) reads everything I publish. My local milkman will also eventually skim it. My chef's sous-chef was at the launch of my first book and bought four copies. I do not want any of these people to read me writing the word "glazed." I especially do not want them to read me writing it well.

But here's the thing. If I write the custard-filled sex scenes badly because I'm imagining my chef Gustave reading them, I'm failing the book. The reader who picked it up because of the genre I'm writing in deserves a real scene, written with the same care as every other scene. The reader hasn't met my personal chef and shouldn't have to suffer for my discomfort about his existence.

I've mostly solved this by, when I sit down to write those chapters, very deliberately not thinking about my chef and his team's buttery fingers. I write them for an imaginary reader who picked the book up off a bookshop table because the cover looked like a dessert cookbook and has zero relationship to me. It works most of the time. The morning after, while eating fresh baked éclairs, I still sometimes have to physically push the awareness of my pastry chef's eventual readership out of my head.

I don't have a real takeaway here. I just think it's funny and a little sad that this is part of the job and nobody really talks about it. If you also write in a genre with moist (as in moist cakes) sex and you also have personal chefs who read you, I see you. We're all silently grimacing through the same chapter, while licking the cinnamon off our lips.

Uj/ someone told me there are pastry-shifters MMCs?

But it has nothing to do with me, so I don't care at all.