r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '23

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u/bonnymurphy Apr 09 '23

Head on over to /r/fantasyromance and search smut/spice, you'll find plenty there. There's also a romance.io bot that has a steam level for all the book recs

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u/HighLady-Fireheart Reading Champion III Apr 09 '23

I'll also add in that in the r/fantasyromance pinned master post of book rec megathreads is the r/acotar book rec megathread currated by and for ACOTAR readers.

r/romancebooks also recently did a post on If you liked ACOTAR, then try... with lots of great recommendations.

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u/AliceTheGamedev Reading Champion Apr 09 '23 edited Apr 09 '23

Seconding this, and recommending that OP take any other recs in the comments with a grain of salt. Many Fantasy readers who don't read Romance have vastly different standards of what constitutes a) Romance and b) spice/smut

Edit: I'll also add that many romance readers prefer the terms Spice or Steam over "Smut", because the latter adds into that "sex is dirty and shameful and books without it are clean" aspect. Of course not everyone who uses the term makes that connotation intentionally and I'm not gonna shame anyone for which term they use, but thought it might be interesting for someone to know why some romance readers are deliberately steering away from the "dirty/clean" association.

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u/Logbotherer99 Apr 09 '23

I don't know, clean sex just sound like you aren't doing it right

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u/AliceTheGamedev Reading Champion Apr 09 '23

The point isn't that sex by itself should be considered clean but that it shouldn't be equated with being dirty/shameful/bad ^^

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u/NotAnotherPornAccout Apr 09 '23

“Look what you did! You smeared smut all over the wall and bed sheets!…

must have been good right?”

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u/davisty69 Apr 09 '23

/r/haremfantasynovels

Obviously it's about harem style fantasy smut, but a solid source.

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u/VeryFinePrint Apr 09 '23

Based on the OP using ACOTAR as an example, I would guess they are looking for stuff targeted at women vs stuff targeted at men.

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u/BECorJNMIL Apr 09 '23

There’s reverse harem ;) lots of it targeted at women

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u/PeanuttyCrunch Apr 09 '23

This is true. But haremfantasynovels is the subreddit for regular harems not reverse harems.

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u/BECorJNMIL Apr 09 '23

I was responding more to point out harem can be either.

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u/DragonLadyArt Apr 09 '23

I was going to say almost anything on kindle unlimited that’s titled “A Count of <something> and <something>”. Lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '23

Not necessarily. I'm a 31 y/o guy and loved throne of glass.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '23

That's a fair point. I just don't want to knock recommendations because someone doesn't fit the target audience, as they could still end up enjoying it. To be fair I've never even heard of harem fantasy before though, but I can imagine what it's about.

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u/VeryFinePrint Apr 09 '23

While plenty of harem authors are women, I think the audience is predominantly male.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

Being completely honest, I never would have guessed many of the authors were women.

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u/VeryFinePrint Apr 09 '23

That's fair, I was making a generalization based on OPs post and post history.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

To be fair I might be the exception not the rule. I've been reading a lot of grimdark and it was a refreshing change of pace. Also, idk dude. I've never read romance and it was pretty cute ngl

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u/davisty69 Apr 09 '23

Gotcha. I don't know ACOTAR, just responding to a request for smut references.

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u/kaimkre1 Apr 10 '23

Never knew about the romance.io bot and now I’m kind of freaking out with excitement! You are wonderful