I just got finished reading through the three Sarah J Maas series and Fourth Wing and while there’s definitely a time and place for those books they just weren’t… good enough? I love the concept of romantic fantasy but too many in this genre are YA or very shallow in terms of writing style.
Are there any romantic fantasy books you can recommend where the writing is mature, beautiful, and well done? And the characters are fully grown adults? Where the romance isn’t just “he looks at me and I fucking ~melt~” (🙄) but legitimate emotional complexity and tension? Someone help me. I can’t be the only one.
by haveacaitday
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Jennie Gerhardt – Theodore Dreiser. Not much of a fantasy, but a heartbreaking love story.
T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel series!
Consider the [Liaden_universe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaden_universe) space opera with fantasy & romance.
There are multiple free ebooks on both Amazon or Baen, including the first book in the series [agent-of-change](https://www.baen.com/agent-of-change.html)