Why ‘romantasy’ books are in a sales boom
Readers are devouring spicy tales of dragon riders, beautiful assassins and brooding faerie lords, and say there’s no “guilt” in this pleasure.
Lucy DeanWealth reporter
“OMG, if she gets chosen as the maiden, my ovaries will explode ... Nothing has even happened and it’s so intense … How did she write like this?… She’s a witch.”
This is the running commentary of a 30-year-old woman listening to the audiobook of A Court of Thorns and Roses, the monstrously successful adult fantasy romance novel by American author Sarah J. Maas.
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