For me it's Because the current book market is so oversatured with the same type of romantasy book with the same tropes and writing style. People aren't original they're just writing what's gonna sell they're so formulaic

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I wouldn’t call it severe, or even hate. It’s just a preference tbh. I feel the same way about it as like regular romance, classics, or self help books. They’re not for me personally, but I don’t care one way or another if people read, like, or hate them. I don’t know how that would make anyone better than anyone else, reading is reading. And I’ve actually seen a lot more talk online about getting people to read romantasy/giving recs than putting it down

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The issue is sheer market oversaturation. It’s the exact same thing that happened after Tolkien released Lord of the Rings, when the market was flooded for decades with uninspired clones trying to mimic his style. Because series like A Court of Thorns and Roses and BookTok proved this specific formula makes massive amounts of money, everyone and their mother is rushing to write to an algorithm. The result is a flood of formulaic books relying on a lazy checklist of the exact same tropes.

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I love reading and when people read, I’ll never hate a genre implicitly. however, I refuse to touch romantasy anymore after trying several times 😭 I’m sticking with the stuff ik I love

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So I really really do not like them, and in the past I may have engaged in a little bit hot hate discourse. I’ve read a few and I nearly dislocated my eye from rolling them so hard. But I like really really nerdy fantasy that would probably bore you to tears so idc

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i think i’m just way too gay to care about the popular romantasy stuff since it’s mostly fxm because i used to be a hater until i read priory of the orange tree and now it’s my favorite book LMAO

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