My wife discovered Romantasy. It is interesting because she was never the Romance novel type but was very much into traditional fantasy.
She says some of the authors and series are quite good. Some good/interesting world building, interesting characters, solid plots.
She isn't much into the porn-ish parts and won't read the ones that go too far that way. I have been informed that most of these books are not my kind of book and I trust her judgment in that regard.
Just as background info: I met my wife playing a MMO (Lord of the Rings Online) and we are both serious gamers and serious readers of fantasy.
My first exposure to romantasy was by accident. I bought what looked like a good fantasy action adventure novel only to find that the only "action adventure" was was light porn. Yikes!
I don't read much fiction, but seeing the number of book releases on Kobo, I wonder how many are actually AI generated. What do you think? AI, another writer wrote those parts?
Since Romance novels have traditionally been extremely formulaic, I suspect that many of the newer releases are AI generated, and then they are "cleaned up" by the an author (who may not feel as comfortable editing an explicit sex scene as they would a clunky conversation or descriptions of more mundane events).
In my family and friends group, the next big genre in books is Lit Rpg with Dungeon Crawler Carl. What is the Hollywood scuttlebutt on this type of content?
My wife discovered Romantasy. It is interesting because she was never the Romance novel type but was very much into traditional fantasy.
She says some of the authors and series are quite good. Some good/interesting world building, interesting characters, solid plots.
She isn't much into the porn-ish parts and won't read the ones that go too far that way. I have been informed that most of these books are not my kind of book and I trust her judgment in that regard.
Just as background info: I met my wife playing a MMO (Lord of the Rings Online) and we are both serious gamers and serious readers of fantasy.
Shadow and Bone was one of those series that Netflix dropped because I liked it. It had nothing to do with cost. Netflix does this to me all the time.
My first exposure to romantasy was by accident. I bought what looked like a good fantasy action adventure novel only to find that the only "action adventure" was was light porn. Yikes!
So, you judged a book by its cover and the art didn't have any bodice ripping going on?
Yup! The world building parts at the beginning were good, but sadly the porny parts were very badly written. Four chapters in and I was done with it.
I don't read much fiction, but seeing the number of book releases on Kobo, I wonder how many are actually AI generated. What do you think? AI, another writer wrote those parts?
Since Romance novels have traditionally been extremely formulaic, I suspect that many of the newer releases are AI generated, and then they are "cleaned up" by the an author (who may not feel as comfortable editing an explicit sex scene as they would a clunky conversation or descriptions of more mundane events).
🎶I smell sex and dragons in here, mmm. Who's that lounging in my throne.🎶
In my family and friends group, the next big genre in books is Lit Rpg with Dungeon Crawler Carl. What is the Hollywood scuttlebutt on this type of content?