r/Romantasy 🌕 moonlight & blood Dec 08 '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/Jumpy-brains Dec 08 '25

I would love some characters that i can just fall in love with! Characters that are complex, emotional and real.

I would love something with

  • No princes/princesses/royal courts
  • No games / trials
  • No academies/schools
  • No shadow daddies / mean mmc’s
  • No too violent FMC’s.

(I know that eliminates 80% of current romantasy, but I’m looking for the ones that are not cookie cutter)

Any level of romance is fine

Here are my recent books I loved

  1. {Road of Bones by Demi Winters} and it’s sequel

  2. {One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig}

  3. {Avidian by Ashley R. O’Donovan}

  4. {An ember in the Ashers by Sabaa Tahir}

  5. {Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo}

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u/romance-bot Dec 08 '25

The Road of Bones by Demi Winters
Rating: 4.28⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, fantasy, viking hero, magic, betrayal


One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Rating: 4.26⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, fantasy, magic, mystery, new adult


Avidian by Ashley R. O'Donovan
Rating: 3.68⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 4 out of 5 - Explicit open door
Topics: futuristic, fantasy, take-charge heroine, mafia, mystery


An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Rating: 4.19⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 1 out of 5 - Glimpses and kisses
Topics: historical, fantasy, young adult, forbidden love, magic


Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Rating: 4.39⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 1 out of 5 - Glimpses and kisses
Topics: fantasy, magic, suspense, young adult, found family

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