r/romantasycirclejerk

Welcome to the first rage-fuelled discussion of A Court of Frost and Starlight!

We are currently discussing chapters 1-14. If you’ve read past that or previously read the book in its entirety, please try to avoid spoilers for those who haven’t. If you’re unsure if something is a spoiler, please use the spoiler function in your comment. 

^(To use the spoiler tag, please put > ! these symbols ! < on either side of your spoiler but without the spaces between characters.)

Alright, let’s hear it: the good, the bad, the wtf?

Gentle reminder that some sloopys will probably enjoy this series, and we won’t judge them for that. Just because they’re wrong, doesn’t mean they can’t hang out with us.

It's Sunday so that means Confession time.

If you want atonement or maybe you crave penance (we know about your humiliation kink!) now is your chance to let the rest of us know what devious shit you've been up to when you thought no one in RCJ was looking.

Are you a Xaden shipper? Do you participate enthusiastically on a romance sub with the label "nontoxic"?

Maybe you swore you'd never read a certain book and somehow found yourself on book 6 and loving it, even though part of you knows this is terrible.

Whatever sins you committed this week now is your chance to let it all out and ask for forgiveness.

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I recently picked up the series and have made it to the second half of Onyx storm, so it may come up, but...

Y'all think Xaden Circumcised or tipped up.

I'm thinking of drawing a fan comic and need a consensus.

I'm thinking he's the cool hooded type, though I could be wrong.

Love y'all.

High fae lords. Seelie princes. Bastard sons of Vampire Kings. Why?!? WHY aren’t these MMC’s more believable?! For once, I just want to have a believable MMC like a Fae CPA. A Vampire Realtor. An Unseelie Podiatrist. Gods know the chances of the majority of us finding a shadow daddy lord or being spirited away as the captured bride of some elven prince are probably lower than my IQ, so…none. But being whisked away by a Fae Sanitation Specialist? One who had a reasonably ok childhood, maybe drinks too much fairy wine on the weekends, and has to manage his ulcerative colitis? Oh, and has a little speed bump belly to pad all those fairy mating bang sessions?!? Now THAT’S an MMC I might actually encounter in the real world. THAT’S an MMC I can actually picture in order to more easily self insert.

{Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare} is a tragedy in the sense that Shakespeare did so much better with his other plays. This one is weak. The amount of coincidence is down right ridiculous, Shakespeare plays way too much into the "love" for a tale that is supposed to be cautionary(or so I think it might've been senseless fighting between two families led to tragic deaths, never really capitalizes on it til the end). It's also the standard for classic love story although it is nothing of the sort. I despised it.

No seriously, I’m actually asking.

I bet you can’t!👀👀👀

I’m in NEED of another make carachter like Rhysand. I need a guy who'll paint the FMC blue then drug her so she blacks out and when she wakes up the next morning she can figure out how bad the sexual harassment got by the handprints on her body. I need a guy who'll react to the FMC crying by licking her tears. The kind of benevolent king who'll celebrate off-brand Christmas with acrobatic, airborne, public fucking over the roofs of his capital city. The closest I’ve found so far is Paul Atreides from the Dune series. Though, I rlly think his story line was rushed, and they could’ve dove a whole lot deeper into his lore, character development and thought processes.

I’m actually STARVING now.. there’s only so many times I can re-read ACOMAF. Help a girl out. 🥲

/uj I know this had already been jerked but I had the post ready before I remembered that we can only do SJM jerk on Saturdays

The title says it all i think. I want a slow romance with tons of angst but nothing happen (preferably they dont even kiss). But romantic intent is implied.

P.s. Idk if thats a crazy ask because the title could apply to a book about laundry detergent or something... but I am hoping someone understands...

Thank youuu

Uj/ I mean I think it was posted in the wrong sub by accident, because what???

NOT A DRILL SLOOPIES

y'all better start uncovering all the recs under rocks and buildings. Get those maternity cosplay outfits out, get the lube out, ITS TIME.

Pregnancy tropes are officially a GO. so let's get out there and read books about birthing children, raising them, watching them die needlessly in a blood war only for you to of course have more and more children ( as the self insert FMC of course I figured that was implied, keep up sloopies )

And it's time to get down to clown, to slam the clam, to push the bush, to participate in the nightly fornicate. In other words it's time to bone. Good luck out there remember, no protection needed. Godspeed

Edit: say what you will sloopies but this post got more upvotes than my anti pregnancy post. 👀👀

/Uj also I'm CF and medically sterile( not infertile ) IRL so there's that

I could really use an EMT rn bc my GI sys is in 911. Could be the 🥵, but my SO is out & I’m drinking lotsa H2O. I’m also ✍️ a book, which is making my GI sys more diarrheal, but Im rly ISO an RN or an MD—maybe even a CRNP or a PA-C. WTF. Anyhoo, my FMC loves a RH, but the MMC is POd and wants no part of it. BTW, every MC in this book has magical elbows.

(Spoilers for The Road to Bones?)

Wow wow wow. Finally a book where the ‘ethnic ambiguity’ was thrown out the door and there is finally a >!MMC that has my hair type so I can self insert like the good little sloopy I want so desperately to be!<. Now of course this was the first book in a series so I accepted that >!FMC was going to pine after and fuck Chris Hemsworth dude for the first 90% of the book.!< But since I am a cis-man and therefore naturally highly intelligent and wise and smart and literate me knew that >!blonde was going to disrespect and betray the little princess and that tall dark and handsome would be shadow daddy.!<

Well then this was all great and the book was a fun engaging read but so much talk of hair throughout the whole thing then why did the >!major POC character with my hair type not have 5-7 chapters dedicated to talking about how he takes care of his hair? What does the author think that those gorgeous curls texture themself? Was this warrior not putting in leave in conditioner but still turning ladies heads?!<

Honestly it completely broke the world building and took away all immersion I could have in the story. Next time I hope the MMC is written >!white medetranian with black hair!< >!ethnically ambiguous per the normal of the genre instead of getting my self insert hopes up before crumbling before my eyes.!<

uj/ good book 4/5 (rj/👎uj/) would recommend. {The Road of Bones by Demi Winters}.

Did you DNF a terrible book but still want to find out what happened?

For example I couldn't get past chapter 5 in Onyx Storm but I wanted to know how stupid it got, so I got the best snark reviewer I know who broke down the full book for me. Now I'm ready to rage read book 4 when it comes out. FOMO y'all.

So, here is how it works

if you want something spoiled make a request in the comments. Then anyone can answer and maybe make it up or tell the truth it doesn't matter just make it funny.

finally all spoilers MUST have spoiler tags. we are not monsters.

(for those that don't know: > ! text ! < but no spaces)

I wanted to ask opinions for a FB post I was going to make in a book group that got rejected. This really handsome Italian fellow that I think looks just like Xaden comes into my starbucks. I was going to post how cool it was to hear someone in person speaking Italian and goin ciao, he comes in and works on his computer, and I was told it was creepy, gross and fetish like? Is it really?

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 just want a FMC that loves cream pies but hates changing diapers. The child free girls have their books, the yung mums have their books.

I don't care if they have kids already, don't have kids but still want them in the future, or don't want them ever.

I, personally, would like to see at least six chapters with nothing but shrimping in my next book

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