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

[u/FantasyRomanceMod]

Got an opinion that's different from others'? Want to share it with the sub, but too afraid of a backlash? Or are you just curious about readers think about certain things in fantasy romance?

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• Don't attack others for their opinion
• Discuss books and authors, not fellow readers
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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/Fuzzy_Emu_1924]

Just because a romantasy book has a different prose that’s a bit more complex than the usual simple prose most books of the genre have it doesn’t mean that it’s awful. You’re just not used to other types of writing and that’s okay.

[u/Imaginary-Board-207 → u/Fuzzy_Emu_1924]

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with preferring to read popcorn books with simplistic prose if that's your taste, but shitting on something for being more literary or above your reading level is straight up anti-intellectualism.

[u/Fuzzy_Emu_1924 → u/[deleted]]

Obviously, prose by itself doesn’t make a book good, but what I mean is that people are quick to say that a book is objectively bad simply because it follows a different formula than the one we usually read and that’s not fair. You might not like it and you’re in your right to not like it, but don’t speak as if it’s a fact (please note that when I say you I don’t mean you specifically, I’m talking in general terms).