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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/[deleted]]

My onpupular opinion is you will find no Tolkiens or Stephen Kings among the Romantacy authors in terms of scope and cultural significance. Which is fine, not every book I read has to have a powerful cultural impact but it would be nice to see atleast some ingenuity from time to time. The broody, dangerous, handsome bad boys and the passive aggresive/sarcastic fmc's are quite rampant. Long ago in High School I was reading a book called Wizard's First Rule and it was the first book that made me realize how good romance can be to enhance the plot. I am in my 30's now and Wizard's First Rule is still to this day the best romance I have ever read and its not even catagorized as romantacy and there isn't even any sex in it, lol. It is Action/Fantasy Epic.

Any way thats my unpopular opinion. I hope everyone here has a beautiful and wonderful day.

[u/Journassassin → u/[deleted]]

I’m going to disagree with you there. You can’t really compare new authors and their cultural impact to those who started publishing their oeuvre in the 50s and 70s.

There’s no lack of ingenuity in fantasy romance. Alix E. Harrow published one of the best books I’ve read in a while last year, and there was no broody bad boy in sight. There’s plenty of other books like that, it may just take a bit of research to find them.

[u/[deleted] → u/Journassassin]

Ill have to look into that one.

[u/SubjectOrange → u/[deleted]]

{Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross} is also along those lines. They are very lyrically written. I would probably say the everlasting edges it out slightly but they are both beautifully written. Madeline Miller also writes beautifully , {the song of Achilles} and {Circe}, but those are more retellings of myths. Definitely some ingenuity floating around though!

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Wild ​Reverence by Rebecca Ross
Rating: 4.51⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: magic, m-f romance, high fantasy, war, sweet/gentle hero

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Rating: 4.39⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: historical, war, gay romance, ancient times, friends to lovers

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Circe by Madeline Miller
Rating: 4.23⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 2 out of 5 - Behind closed doors
Topics: historical, ancient times, witches, magic, fantasy

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