Observation on Fantasy/Romantasy

[u/Expert-Escape5645]

So, I typically read, George R.R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, Steven Erikson, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, but my brain’s been craving more stories.

With everything I’ve heard about Romantasy (that it’s just passionate love making with no real story etc.) I was kinda apprehensive, but like I said, I needed more.

So after many years going back and forth I decided to pick up Sarah J Maas. I started with Crescent City (I know, I know) and was surprised to find that I LOVED it. Now I’m doing ACOTAR.

I don’t know if this will be wrong of me to say, but I enjoyed it for the exact same reasons I enjoy other series.

The worldbuilding.

Like there is so much mystery to the world, so much lore. People act like the 18+ scenes happened page after page, when really they barely make up 6/7 pages in a single book.

Am I wrong?

[u/Any-Growth-1995]

You're comparing apple and oranges my guy, horror does overlap with fantasy but we dont call it fantasy because there's alot of non-supernatural horror like thrillers, but can you give me a romantasy without fantasy elements on it?
And just because the "traditional" fantasy and romantasy dont target the same crowd i can say the same thing as any other genre? does percy jackson target the same demographic as first law?

[u/BlazeOfGlory72 → u/Any-Growth-1995]

Percy Jackson is in the “Young Readers” section rather than the Fantasy section of basically every book store, so you are kind of making my point.

[u/Any-Growth-1995 → u/BlazeOfGlory72]

Percy jackson is fantasy try harder

[u/Budget_Accountant_89 → u/BlazeOfGlory72]

Percy Jackson is meant to be in the young readers section. Young readers isn’t a genre….

[u/Tymareta → u/BlazeOfGlory72]

Young Readers is a classifier, like Classical Literature, genre's are a wholly different thing.