✍️ Desk of Amy Suto: What is the Romantasy Genre Doing to Women’s Lit?
When romance meets fantasy, sparks fly on the bestseller lists.
Happy Wednesday! Today, ✍️ From the Desk of Amy Suto paid subscribers will get an exclusive issue about…
✨ My love/hate relationship with the romantasy genre in the book world
🧪 Literature vs. popular fiction
📚 What are books meant for? Escapism, or expansion?
📖 The Hunt for a True Pageturner
I decided to stay up late reading a book…
…and knew I was in trouble when the birds started chirping.
It’s been a long time since I couldn’t put a book down, and the second book in the mega-hit series A Court of Thornes and Roses by Sarah J. Maas earned its rare 5/5 Goodreads rating from me.
However, I know that some people — including a past version of myself! — rolled my eyes at “airport books” like these.
I’m here to say that I was wrong, and I have some thoughts about our culture’s disdain for the romantasy genre, why it gets a bad wrap, and why “it’s popular” shouldn’t be a reason why we avoid media.
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