Books

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm obsessed with outlander but I've not read others

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd be interested to see the breakdown by gender. Stereotypically, it's a female genre, and I have absolutely no idea whether that's accurate.

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[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I read the better ones my wife recommends to me although she reads the genre much more than me. Also there are a few other husbands in our friend group who do the same. If I read too much romantacy in a row I wonder why my normal fantasy doesn't have sex scenes for a little while.

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Fantasy is funny like that. Its either all chaste and sexless or extremely smutty. I like a mix

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I am a man and have read a few romance novels all of which were in the romantasy genre. I have enjoyed them so far. As a demographics go, I think its mostly female and queer orientated. At least for the more modern books. They are having their moment. I know of a few romance specific book stores opening in larger cities.

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a podcast spun off of Reading Glasses called Reading Smut that covers these kinds of books. The podcast was fun, and I read my first "romantasy" recently.

I like my speculative fiction and fantasy more about world building than character driven, usually, so I haven't really seen much of this stuff.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I keep hearing good things about romantasy. At some point I need to look for some decent F/F offerings of it

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago*

Apparently it's a highly popular genre, but because it's often smutty people are embarrassed to talk about it, so it flies under the radar. If that podcast mentions good FF in particular, I'll let you know.

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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I kind of hate it. No disrespect for what you like, I just really hate it.

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes it's different strokes

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[–] SchrodingersPat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago*

I'm a guy who is pretty new to the genre and I found the Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams invaluabe. The premise is that rich men in Nashville Tennessee formed a club where they read romance books to help their relationships. Each book tackles a different trope in the genre, which was great for someone like me who didn't know the tropes. They are also great examples of positive masculinity and equal partnerships.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started reading some romantacy books over the last years and I really enjoyed it. I love fantasy novels for the world building and interesting themes. Adding some romance in there adds some extra spice and focuses on more character driven. Overall I would recommend

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Any ones you'd recommend?

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been kind of basic bitch so far since this is new for me. So these are likely the most basic suggestions.

I enjoyed The Empyrean Series (Fourth Wing, Iron Wing and Onyx's Strom). There are dragons, war, forbidden love all good elements. I thought it was only a trilogy buts its planned to be like 5 books. So I feel like Onyx storm felt like it had some filler portions but that might change as more books come out.

I also read the Ending Fire Trilogy which was sold more as a romance than it actually was. The first book was good and the two other two were okay. I feel like there was more potential than it actually succeeded.

I didn't love A Court of Thorns and Roses but I hear the others in the series were good. I feel like I could guess the romance subplot and the main story from the get go. People do love to the series. I guess I am not that much into fairies.

I actually found these books by looking at Dipsea's Blog for their romance recommendations. I was trying to better understand the female gaze and they had some good recommendations.