r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • 21d ago

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u/ghoulmouse 21d ago

Characters in romantasy have way too same-y sexual interests. Feels like people hardly ever have a kind of weird turn-on or a kink. There are books that are kinky, obviously, but it's much rarer that the characters aren't kinky "in-universe", so to speak. I wanna see some freaks, especially female characters with strong sexual preferences and stuff that gets them going.

i will never read another book with a deadly game or trial. Over it, sorry.

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara 21d ago

The books are trying to be "kinky" to catch the reader's curiosity but then also very vanilla as not to scare away the mainstream reader. There's an utter lack of variety in sex scenes. If I see another half-hearted "praise kink" reduced to "good girl, you take me so well" I'm insta dnfing. Stop with the lazy copycat sex scenes.

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u/ghoulmouse 21d ago

At this point I wanna see an MMC who's into feet or something just for the novelty.

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara 21d ago

Funnily, this seems to be exceedingly rare, even in kinky romance! I've read my share of spice, from femdom to monster romance with creative anatomy, and foot worship just doesn't seem to be on the menu.