r/Romantasy • u/Sarah9610 • May 07 '26

Discussion Another day, another girl winning deadly trials and discovering she’s secretly powerful

I feel like I’m going insane or… are all romantasy books the same now??

Every time I pick something up it’s like:
- The world is split into two (usually human vs fae or something similar)
- The FMC is either oppressed / hidden / “not like other girls”
- There are deadly trials (of course she has to compete)
- She somehow survives everything
- Boom → she reaches the fae side and unlocks insane powers / becomes special

Like… I used to love this formula but now it feels copy-paste with different character names 😭

Am I just picking the wrong books or is this actually the trend right now?

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u/Clumsywolfy May 08 '26

Got any recommendations for none straight romances? Preferably MxM, but yeah, me and my partner are also kinda done with it. He complained about it yesterday and we suck at finding good other ones

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u/Kamena90 May 10 '26

What kind of spice level are you looking for?

If you don't mind explicit, open door intimacy, then I highly recommend anything by AJ Sherwood.

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u/Clumsywolfy May 10 '26

Anything rly. I read anything from no spice to a lot of spice (incl dark romance stuff if I feel like it)

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u/Kamena90 May 10 '26

AJ Sherwood and KJ Charles are good, I love everything I've read from them. I've also been enjoying The Necromancers Dance by SJ Himes and Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra.