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Romantasy (n.) is a genre of novels blending fantasy worlds with a central romance, often with explicit love scenes.
The blend is old: Marie de France's 12th-century lais already mixed fairy magic with desire, as did A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Romantasy (n.) is Tolkien, if the elves had better things to do than walk.
Sarah J. Maas has sold 38 million copies worldwide, 26 million of them since 2022, according to The Globe and Mail.
Romantasy (n.) is a romance novel that needed a sword to get past the snobs.
Romantasy (n.) is a world with its own magic, calendar and language, and somehow only one bed.
Rebecca Yarros's Iron Flame sold 600,000 hardcover copies in the US in its first week.
Romantasy (n.) is an epic where the fate of the realm waits politely outside the bedroom door.
Romantasy (n.) is a book you buy twice: once to read, once for the sprayed edges.
Romantasy (n.) is a quest where the treasure turns out to be a brooding man with wings.