What’s the Deal With Romantasy?
If you’re a fan of romance AND fantasy, romantasy might just be perfect for you!
Romance and fantasy are two tried and true genres. Many readers, and many writers, enjoy a good ole romance (hello, Romance Lovers Anonymous readers — that’s why we’re all here, right?). Others love to dive into a high fantasy with a complex world, characters, and creatures all with rules outside of our reality.
Either way, readers want to escape — that’s why we read, and that’s why romance and fantasy are genres that have withstood the test of time. Both are some of the biggest genres out there today. Take a look at any bestseller list, and romance and fantasy will occupy it together, with authors from each genre sharing space with one another.
Something that has shifted in recent years, however, is that these romance and fantasy books have begun to overlap more than ever. While, historically, many fantasies have included romance, they haven’t always featured romance as a main plot point. That’s changed, however, as authors like Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo, Rebecca Yarros, and Victoria Aveyard have swept readers away to new worlds and crafted love stories that leave fans swooning.
But what exactly is romantasy, this new and heightened blend of fantasy and romance? And what’s the…
