Rin’s Reads
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Articles
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ACOTAR Fandom’s War on Gay Ships
You know something wild (but nor really)? In every other fandom I’ve ever been part of, the biggest ships are always the guys. Doesn’t matter if they’re best friends, enemies,… Read more ⇢
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Book Review: Our Rogue Fates
3/5 ⭐ Our Rogue Fates by Sarah Glen Marsh Well, this was certainly… an experience. After seeing all the glowing comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Critical Role, I… Read more ⇢
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The First Person Revolution in Romantasy
Romantasy has completely flipped the script on how we think about narrative perspective in genre fiction. While traditional romance loved its third person dual POV and epic fantasy stuck with… Read more ⇢
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Book Review: Wallflowers and Demons: Ashwood by Eve Devearoux
4/5 ⭐ A Chinese princess meets demon duke in regency England? A Beauty and the Beast retelling?? Dark gothic romance??? Count me in! Katherine is absolutely stellar. She’s sharp, fierce,… Read more ⇢
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Book Review: We Were Men Once
We Were Men Once by Candice Morris 2/5 Stars Oh, this one stings. As a massive DnD nerd who should have been the target audience for a dark romantasy inspired… Read more ⇢
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Fangs, Claws, and Consent: How Monster Romance Rewrote the Rules
Walk into any bookstore today and you’ll find them lurking in the fantasy section: books with covers featuring impossibly muscled, horned, scaled, or fanged love interests embracing human women. Welcome… Read more ⇢
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Examining Tamlin and Rhysand as Narrative Foils in ACOTAR
Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy presents two of romantasy literature’s most divisive characters: Tamlin and Rhysand—two High Lords whose contrasting approaches to love, power, and… Read more ⇢
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