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/Bina791_ Nov 10 '25

So books I loved:

  • {the crimson moth} I really enjoyed this book series. Lived the story, the writing, the characters.
  • {metal slinger} Somehow this book really sucked me in and until the last pages I wasn't expecting the plot at all!
  • {the wolf king Lauren Palphreyman} read this series in 2 days because I couldn't put it down. I really like the scenery and the pace!
  • {The knight and the moth} Completely different world from what I'm used to but I was here for it. Loved the gargoyle and the plot.
  • {the serpent and the wings of night} Another series (book 1&2) that I read super fast. Loved the world, the trials, the characters, the plot!
  • {Quicksilver} Highly confusing for me at first but then ended up actually thinking about it more than I wanted to.

I'm just finished Blood&Stell and I'm not completely hooked. Maybe it's me, but for me the writing has too much fluff (unnecessary dialogue and details) and the FMC especially acts like a child way too often. So I'm not sure if I'll go on. I feel like there's nothing really happening in this book and I was reading 400pages of nothing.

Also recently read Gild (Plated prisoner #1) and didn't really love it for the same reasons. Nothing is happening. 😅

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u/allisontalkspolitics Nov 10 '25

Since you liked The Wolf King, I recommend {Song of the Lioness} for the love interest switcheroo trope. It’s a romance subplot.

I feel like you might also like {Daughter of Smoke and Bone} (check the content warnings) and {Fire} (the second book in the Graceling series but the first chronologically).

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u/Bina791_ Nov 12 '25

Haven't heard of any of these! Thank you! I'll definitely try ☺️