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We can’t even get good junk food anymore. By junk food, I’m referring to romantasy books, or romance-fantasy, for those of us who haven’t been exposed to the influx of mass produced romantic novels set in fantasy worlds that have sprouted up seemingly overnight in almost every Barnes & Noble I’ve been to. Romantasy sales reached about $600 million dollars in 2024, about $150 million more than the year before, likely due to the genre’s popularity amongst BookTok creators. Of course, even if you’d never heard of it, just typing it into the search bar would inundate you with enough horror stories about bad writing, incoherent plotlines and gratuitous smut to put you off for good. However, if you’re like me, you’re probably wondering what the hell happened.

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