Meet, 'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' the fairy romance book taking over TikTok and defining a new genre of publishing.
as old as time — the heartwrenching, steam-inducing, bodice-clenching story of a woman falling head over heels in love with a man who’s more red flag than person. Except in the case of the best-selling bookdidn’t just use these tropes to establish herself in the romance market— she used fairy porn to revive an entire subgenre of
The name on everybody’s lips at the moment is “romantasy,” a blended genre of novels that has taken the publishing world by storm. While the phrase is the literal definition of a successful marketing term, romantasy books are easy to describe. Per their portmanteau, they combine traditional fantasy elements, like magical creatures or mystical words, with traditional romance formats, often sexually descriptive and explicit.
In addition to the fact that later books double down on the porn aspects of Feyre and her friends’ lives, Mass’ books also come with a major plot shift in the sequel. Think Tamlin’s growling, violence, and general control of Feyre was romantic? Well, psych motherfuckers! The prowling villain Rhysand is actually revealed to be Feyre’s true love.
Mass has grown into a publishing giant, spawning the desire for romantasy books with similar themes and tropes. BookTok sensationis just one example, a lush offering of romance between a young dragon rider and her brooding teacher at a dangerous, war-struck military college. But the rise of romantasy isn’t an anomaly. Rather, it’s just another turn of a common cycle in publishing. The years after the success ofseries jumpstarted dystopian youth fiction.
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