Hello guys, good evening!
Basically, I have been searching for long a non 100% romance book where there is a romance/romance subplot (or even just feelings/crushes/hints) with a character that is (sort of) an abstract being, a force of nature, a forest spirit, a legend, something trapped in a object like a painting, or even (if this request is too difficult) just a well written eccentric fantasy creature/person, like maybe an elf who isn't just stereotyoes.
I'm starving for this kind of content but I loathe romance/romantasy literature because of the horrible booktok-esque writing. I would love if I found something like that with the prose of Tanith Lee, or Tolkien….you get the gist.
And the "monster" stuff I see around aside from being badly written often suffers of making the male love interests too broody or looking like a blue e-boy, which is boring to me. And I'm not a fan of erotica as well, which really diminishes my options ;-;
I know about the winternight trilogy but is there anything else? Specially more old school stuff but I'm taking ANYTHING well written and toughtful (that preferably has an main story to focus on besides the romance as well.)
by Opposite-Agent-8773
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Till We Have Faces, kind of
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier really fits.
Read the trigger warnings though. Not erotica by any means but there is some violence.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang also hits some major points you are asking for.
As She Crawled Across the Table by Lethem