r/Romantasy

Hi all! My wife loves Romantasy. I love Fantasy. We really want to buddy read a fantasy / Romantasy book that’s a great blend of both. I don’t mind romance but like most guys I don’t think I can handle it dominating the pages.

What’s a great a book we can both read and be satisfied with?? I don’t mind some romance.

I’ve read a lot of main fantasy along with 4th Wing (which was ok). She has read ACOTAR Universe and 4th Wing.

The only book I don’t want to try which I’ve seen recommended before was Kushiels Dart. I have a daughter and that theme creeped me out.

The Priory and The Orange Tree has caught my eye but not sure if it fits the bill.

Thoughts???

My best friend is deep into Romantasy and is having surgery soon. I want to send her a book with her care package. Can I have some niche recs? Anything popular/mainstream she has without a doubt read. I know she in particular loved Alchemized. And knowing her, the more unhinged the better. I know she also enjoyed The Poison Daughter. Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head as this is not my niche. Haha Thanks in advance ♥️

Okay I primarily read spicy Romantasy. I prefer a 3.5-5 spice level.

Preferred genre= Romantasy

Favorite spicy Romantasy books - a court of silver flames by SJM and tame the darkness by Ella fields.

- I hate it when books are either too kinky, or vanilla and the spice scenes are the same ones written over and over.

The repetitive sex scene, throughout the whole book has been peeving me lately. Like throw some different places and positions in there, and does he have to eat her out 4 times before he fucks her?? Like that’s nice but everytime I’m hearing the same sentences. -He’s using his mouth. -Then he adds a finger. -She’s seeing stars. -She’s moaning and writhing and cumming on him. -she tastes so good and he’s been wanting to taste her for so long. LIKE COME ONNN!!!! I get it but a little creativity would be nice.

- It kills me when the entire sex scene is written in euphemisms- it gets to the point where I don’t even know what is happening.

- Why do lesbian Romantasy books are either way too kinky or the sex scenes seem to be YA level. I have not found a good one. And the most populate are kinky ass age gap ones. I never want to read about someone being fisted. Ever.

hello !! so for context i adored ouabh and beauty and the beast bcs i loved the snowy, magical wintery vibes they had and i am in such desperate need for a book that has that same feeling 😭

i’m in a reading slump atm so it’s been so hard to get back into it but i haven’t been able to find any books that give me that same vibe :(

any help would be sososo appreciated

I have read so much of this genre (like 80 books, I think?), and I've seen it done pretty well once--in {Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews}--but wasn't QUITE what I wanted.>!..I was a little disappoint because the reaction to the pregnancy wasn't included. Very little fluff. Cool protective parents/mama bear stuff, though, so I liked that! And Kate definitely was still "Kate-ing," just with a toddler in tow, sometimes.!<>! But this series has never been great for when you want characters to have deeper fluff or angst and actually sit with their emotions at all, so that left me wanting more.!<

My list of requirements:

1. High-stakes fantasy/romantasy (So no Ice Planet Barbarians. I enjoyed the first book but found it a bit plot-light.)
2. Couple takes a book or two to get together/work through their dynamic as a couple before the pregnancy occurs. (So, no The Everlasting.)
3. Pregnancy is wanted by both parents
4. Pregnancy brings both fluff and angst to the narrative. Angst can be as simple as "She got pregnant during peacetime, and now it isn't peacetime anymore, and both parents are in extra protective mode."
5. NO body horror/traumatic birth experience. I am sooo done with the deadly pregnancy plot.
6. Being a parent is not the FMC's entire personality or main contribution to the story--not a MC's mother in a flashback story arc or narratively going into confinement like this the Victorian Era. If she was doing work as a diplomat before, she's still doing that. Stuff like that.
7. This feels obvious, but no epilogue pregnancy. It's cute and can be satisfying but not what I'm looking for.

*** Pregnancy doesn't have to be a cis lady, really. I'm cool with a queer narrative. As long as someone is pregnant and part of the main couple. My point six just felt pretty cis lady relevant. The Fridged Woman and the Dead Disney Princess Mother.

I’ve recently played FFVII and it’s so romantasy coded 😂 need some book recs that’s feel like it!

Honestly, people use the term morally gray for guys who are just standing in the corner waiting for the plot to happen to the main character. If you take the female lead out of the building and the male lead literally has nothing to do, no opinions, no friends, no actual job that doesn't involve staring at a wall thinking about her, that is not a dark brooding romance hero. That is a cardboard cutout with horns. Proper dangerous characters need to have their own things going on, otherwise it just feels like reading about someone who forgot to load properly on the tram.