Recently in the era of Book Tok on Tik Tok, the book community has decided a new genre has come to light. A mixture of fantasy and romance. The type of novel that includes almost a 50/50 split of romance and fantasy.
But what are the differences between fantasy, and romantasy.
When people think of Fantasy, they think of great adventures, magic, dragons…etc
Fantasy focuses on the world building, the character development, plot and adventure. It may have a romance part to the novel, but it is not the main aspect of the book.
Romantasy has fantasy element to it, so magic, adventure, a fictional world, but the focus is also on the romance of the characters. The romance is almost more important then the fantasy element of the story.
There is of course the Romance Genre, that has none or very little of a ‘fantasy’ world to it and maybe the only fantasy part to the book is that it is in fact, fiction.
What is your favourite genre? Fantasy? Romance? Romantasy?
Let me know in the comments
-Fallon
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