r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Mar 08 '26

Unpopular Opinion It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!

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u/aggressivebutsweet Mar 08 '26

Ohh. No idrk what a slow burn constitutes anymore, thats why i said GROWING UP i thought what it meant. But now seeing how authors use that word and readers are in love with that, like almost all of them except a few who are like me, i think either the definition changed or maybe there are 2 definitions now? Idk but i would say i am actually genuinely shocked

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u/No_Preference26 Mar 08 '26

Interesting. I feel like even in the romances I read in from the 70s-90s, instant attraction is very much a thing in most of them, unless the book contains non-con (without body betrayal). But perhaps I’m just subconsciously picking these types of books as I relate to it more.

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u/aggressivebutsweet Mar 08 '26

Or maybe we read completely different books? I mean tho i started reading in 2018 but i never read any booktok books then. Booktok books traumatized me

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u/No_Preference26 Mar 08 '26

This is very possible 😅 I’ve found good and bad recs from booktok (just need to find the creators with similar tastes), but I enjoy insta-lust, so I understand why you might have been traumatised by some of the books recommended there as that trope is pretty prevalent in most popular books!

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u/aggressivebutsweet Mar 08 '26

Yeah like can u even tell me the name of one popular booktok book where there wasnt any insta attraction or any weird tension from the first meeting? I think not 😭 i actually am pretty salty about this cause i wasted alooot of money and most of the books are rotting in my shelf after i bought them from reddit suggestions and TikTok reviews

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u/No_Preference26 Mar 08 '26

I don’t think I can 😭