I just feel like so many books only describe how they find each other attractive and hot, but I want to read a good romance where you can feel that they are truly in love. Any kind of romantasy, I don’t like spice so preferably something without it or something with low levels of spice. Thank you 🙂
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The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, very unique spin on fantasy.
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
The Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The predates romantasy as a genre and so avoids the standard romance novel tropes. The leads trust and respect each other pretty much immediately and their relationship is consistently healthy. Problems instead come from conflicts with relatives and the fact that deathless abominations keep waking up and trying to eat the world.
If I recall correctly, there’s three sex scenes total in a four book series, so not zero spice but not much either and it’s not essential to the plot so you can skim if you want to.
So… it’s a children’s book, so it isn’t super romantic, but it’s very well written and I’ve been rereading it because I love it so much.
Howl’s moving castle. So wholesome and sweet with some funnies in it. I recommend it to everyone but it’s very fitting here lol
There’s some real love between the characters in Six of Crows.
I feel like some of Nora Roberts fantasy books fit this bill. Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series as well.
To Say Nothing of The Dog. Time travel to Victorian era, very compelling romance, zero spice.