SEX HAD BECOME A CHORE. THEN THEY STARTED READING ROMANTASY. , nytimes

Romantasy has become a literary megatrend, selling “millions upon millions” of books and fueling massive BookTok fandoms built around “book husbands” and “spice rankings.” Beyond reviving the fiction market, the genre (which blends fantasy with “what is often very explicit sex,”... See more

Romantasy has exploded because it offers a world where power can be confronted, and where someone who has been wronged can rise, fight back, and win. These books deliver the feeling that the real world has failed to give us: the sense that justice can still be reclaimed.