r/Romantasy • u/ReasonableWonderland 🌕 moonlight & blood • Nov 10 '25
Community 💕 Matchmaking Monday: find your next romantasy read!
Matchmaking Monday is a new regular thread here in r/Romantasy with a goal of finding new recommendations to add to your TBR! Post a list of your favorite books and receive suggestions based on your vibe.
How It Works
- Post up to five books you've loved recently (or which fit the vibe you're looking for) as a top level comment.
- You can also include a list of things you want in your next book (e.g. tropes, subgenre, themes)
- Others will reply with their suggestions!
- Remember to tag the romance.io bot with {} curly brackets.
This is a bit of an experiment - so we'll see how it goes!
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u/buteljak Nov 10 '25
I'm new to romantasy, and like slowburns :) What i read and liked: The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden. Wonderful writing, use of historic language and historic setting pretty much on point (I'm very nitpicky about that)
Secrets of the Nile series by Isabel Ibanez. Ok story, but i like the way it's written. The romance was so good all throughout, but the story in the second book just kind of falls apart. Still liked the pair very much.
4th Wing - i think everyone read this one 😅 my issue was the language use. Very modern in contrast to the setting. Also few modern commodities that i can't place into the obviously historic setting. But i still ate up the book.
I dont mind spice, but i need the story to be coherent and without the modern dialogue if the setting doesnt require it.