10 Romantasy Books To Read Now
Romantasy is on the rise and everyone is talking about it!
If you haven’t heard of Romantasy or aren’t quite sure what it is, it is a sub-genre of fiction that combines romance and fantasy.
Why is it so popular?
Because it takes the often hard to digest genre of fantasy and adds a romantic subplot that makes it more appealing to women.
I’ve included a spice rating to help you choose books that you’ll feel comfortable reading. Here is an overview of the rating system:
🌶️ – No sex on the page. Caps at glimpses and kissing.
🌶️🌶️ – Intimate scenes may occur but you won’t have to read them.
🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Minimum of one explicit scene with reasonable descriptions.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Minimum of two explicit scenes with descriptive language and strong depictions of sexual acts.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Several explicit scenes with a variety of sexual acts that are vividly portrayed.
Now that you understand a bit more about Romantasy, here are 10 Romantasy books you should read soon:
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10. The Serpent and the Wings of Night
By: Carissa Broadbent
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Slow Burn, One Bed
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, SA, Self Harm
Wanting to become something more than a weak human prey, Oraya, the human daughter of a vampire king, has to enter a legendary tournament called the Kajari. She is forced into an alliance with a rival for survival. What scares her more than the tournament is the fact that she’s drawn to her rival which might be her downfall if she isn’t careful.
By: Stephanie Garber
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Love Triangle
Trigger Warnings: –
Evangeline Fox has her hopes of a happily ever after ruined when she finds out the love of her life will marry someone else. In order to stop the wedding she makes a deal with the wicked Prince of Hearts. In return for his help, he requests three kisses to be given at his choosing. She quickly finds out that bargaining is a dangerous game and the Prince of Hearts wants more from her than a simple kiss.
By: Rebecca Ross
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers
Trigger Warnings: Substance Abuse, Alcoholism
A magical connection brings together two rival journalists but they must go through hell to be together. Iris is trying to keep her family together but with her brother missing from the front lines of the war, she can’t think of anything to do other than write letters to him. They land in the hands of her rival and he begins to write her back anonymously, forging a bond that will take Iris to the front lines.
By: Sarah J. Maas
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Love Triangle, One Bed, Forced Proximity, Fake Dating
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Slut Shaming
An assassin by the name of Celaena Sardothien is summoned to the castle of a king in a land without magic to win her freedom. She is tasked with defeating twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition as the king’s champion. Beyond the castle, something evil lurks and her competitors begin dying one by one. What started as a competition for freedom becomes a fight for survival.
By: Holly Black
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Secretly Pining
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, Suicide/Ideation, Torture, Graphic Violence
When Jude’s parents are murdered in front of her and her two sisters, they are taken away to live in the High Court of Faerie. Years later, Jude’s main desire is to belong. Meanwhile, the prince despises humans and makes Jude’s life a living hell. Jude makes her move to win her place in the fey world despite Prince Cardan’s warnings. While Jude is finding her strength and discovering her capabilities, betrayal threatens everything in the Courts of Faerie. Jude will have to risk everything to save the world she wants so badly to fit into and the people closest to her.
By: Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Cozy Fantasy
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Mental Trauma
A high-ranking villain is looking for an assistant and Evie Sage’s employment status is essential to supporting her family. A mishap leads to a job offer with this notorious villain and Evie finds herself with a new crush on her hot boss. Just when she’s getting the hang of things she suspects something is after her new boss. Now she has to manage her feelings while also trying to figure out what is affecting his work.
By: Stephanie Garber
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Love Triangle, Arranged Marriage
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Suicide/Ideation
Scarlett Dragna and her sister Tella live with their brutal father on a tiny island. When he arranges a marriage for her, she thinks her wish to see the once-a-year audience particpation performance, Caraval, won’t ever come true. However, the invitation arrives and Tella and Scarlett make their way with the help of a mysterious sailor. The moment they arrive Tella is kidnapped by Legend, Caraval’s organizer. Whoever finds Scarlett’s sister first before the five night of the games are over wins Caraval. On the hunt for her sister, Scarlett has to figure out whether Caraval is real or not and find her sister before she disappears forever.
By: Rebecca Yarros
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Fated Mates, Forced Proximity
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Bullying
Violet Sorrengail only ever wanted to enter the Scribe Quadrant of Basgiath War College. However, her mother, the commanding general, has different plans. Violet is ordered to join hundreds of candidates who want to become elite dragon riders despite her brittle body and small stature. With fewer dragons bonding humans and those that are willing only wanting the strongest riders, Violet is only ever a breath away from death as other candidates would kill her to better their chances. Xaden Riorson, the most powerful wingleader in the Riders Quadrant is one of those people. Every day that Violet survives the target on her back grows bigger as the death toll rises in the Riders Quadrant. While she sleeps with one eye open she finds herself suspecting that leadership is hiding something terrible. Battling her feelings for a man who wants her dead, Violet has to somehow make it to graduation without being killed by another candidate or incinerated by a dragon.
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
By: Sarah J. Maas
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Categories: Enemies To Lovers, Forced Proximity
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, SA, Torture, Suicide/Ideation
Feyre didn’t know that killing a wolf in the woods would end up with her being dragged to a magical land that she was raised to hate. Her captor, an immortal faerie, shows her the magic of their world and wears down her hostility toward her new home and him while igniting a nearly uncontrollable passion. She discovers something isn’t right in this land and must stop it before it dooms him and the world she is learning to love.
By: Sarah Beth Durst
Spice Level: 🌶️
Categories: Cozy Fantasy, Slow Burn, Small Town
Trigger Warnings: –
When Keila and her assistant Caz, a sentient spider plant, spent a decade protecting the empire’s most important spellbooks. When a revolution begins and the library is set on fire, she and Caz flee with spellbooks to Keila’s childhood home, a place she had no plans of ever returning to. Their plan to stay hidden goes up in smoke when her handsome neighbor keeps showing up to check on her wellbeing. In order to keep herself fed, Keila finds herself opening up a jam shop in her home with the help of her parent’s old recipe book, some illegal magic, and a nosy neighbor. Keila finds out there are consequences to using magic when trouble finds its way to the island. Now she has to make sure no one finds out about the spellbooks or the magic she used to survive all while fielding her feelings about her new neighbor.
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Romantasy is a fun genre to read and with its growing popularity, we’re going to see more books being released in the next few years.
So, if you’ve always wanted to read fantasy but have been discouraged by the complexity, Romantasy might be a great place for you to start.
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If you want to learn more about the genre and even how to write your own Romantasy book, you can check out this article from Third Wheel Publishing:
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