My Favorite Romantasy Books From 2024 Ranked 🚨 Spoiler Free Reviews 🚨

[@marloca2407]

Love seeing you 💞

[@jadeperiman627]

Started my book journey this year. I’ve watched you for years through the house plant era. Love seeing you post. ❤

[@PlantingAshley]

Thanks for still sticking around :)

[@heidifritz1033]

ONYX STORM!! So close I cannot wait💜

[@Myra_lolaa]

I was wondering if once the moon hatched is really worth it bcz people say it's full of unnecessary stuff and they didn't care about the characters much and all that stuff.... I was doubting reading it. But now I will. Thankyou! I also love the blood and ash series so I'll definitely be checking out the house of beating wings series ^^

[@PlantingAshley]

I think people dont like when the moon hatched because its a new magic system that definitely requires some of the built in dictionary’s use, its multiple pov, and it is a looot of world building. I read all 700 pages in under 24 hours because it was so addicting, its by far one of my only 5 stars of the entire year, and if you like high fantasy youll LOVE it. Ill say, if you loved throne of glass youll LOVE it lol. I think its very worth it And house of beating wings is like a punishing acotar, like plated prisoner. Very very good!

[@Myra_lolaa]

@PlantingAshley I'll be reading when the moon hatched after my current reading and I'll let you know my thoughts! I haven't read TOG yet, dk why. Maybe bcz I didn't like ACOTAR as much as everyone hyped it upto. I really like it. I do. But just not as much as I expected. And since TOG is also so freakin hyped up, I'm kinda hesitant to get in. Thanks once again for your recommendations though ❤️

[@PlantingAshley]

@ i actually dont think throne of glass is hyped in the way acotar is at all. Acotar and iron flame are soooo hyped, and deliver good reading but not lifechanging. Throne of glass literally set my precedent for all future books and it is stilllll my all time favorite series ever, and the books i love are very representative of how tog is. Acotar is 100% romantasy, whereas tog is high fantasy, with some romance elements. Its nothing like acotar in that reguard, idk i cant explain it bc its complicated. The romance in tog is some of my favorite because its truly, actoss everyone, the slowest of burns and you have no idea whos ending up with who. Yes please tell me how its going as youre reading it! You can message me as ur reading it on instagram and ill respond while ur going thru it and we can scream and gush together 🥺👹

[@morganc337]

Have you read Fireborne? I hear such good things about it but ended up DNF-ing halfway thru the first book. I just could nooooot w the authors writing and the characters were so poorly developed 😅 I also attempted to read it directly after TOG, so that definitely could've set me up for disappointment since it was so good and the writing style was different. Curious to know your thoughts!

[@PlantingAshley]

OMG i read fourth right directly after tog. Maybe its not the books maybe its literally that no one else can be celaena

[@writewithjoy]

ooo, I personally loved Fireborne, but I will admit that the first was definitely the “worst” of the trilogy. The next two books were masterpieces 🤌🏼

[@PlantingAshley]

@@writewithjoy ill take note of this too! What did you like about it? Without spoilers 🚨🚔🚨🚔

[@writewithjoy]

I do love dragons as a general rule, so that’s one thing! I actually read it immediately after Fourth Wing and Eragon (I was on a dragon kick), so I had to get used to the dragons in Fireborne being more like beasts than speaking characters, but I ultimately thought it was a good choice. I appreciated the complex moral quandaries that the characters have to grapple with, especially since each of our main characters comes from a different socioeconomic background and therefore have really different perspectives, but the right/wrong thing to do isn’t always clear, and the love and care that these characters have for each other also complicates matters. The author also plays around with different languages and political scheming and does a great job with world building, but even with all of that, it’s very action packed and well-paced. There’s lots of pining and sweet moments between characters (as well as some dramatic irony that made me want to SCREAM but like in a good way haha). I had some pretty intense emotional reactions (of both excitement and weeping), especially with the last book. The first book was enjoyable and solid, but the second book is what got me hooked (there are new POVs introduced that I loved 😭🫶), and the third book solidified it as one of my favorite series I read this year. I personally loved all of the characters, even if I’d get mad at them for their choices sometimes lol. I’ve seen some people critique it for being “dry” in terms of prose, which I can understand, but it’s one of those books where you get more engaged with the plot than the language, if that makes sense. It’s perfectly serviceable and straightforward writing from what I remember (but it does improve after book one, which I believe was Munda’s debut).

[@morganc337]

@@PlantingAshley wow so true....we're always keeping an eye out for Selener

[@writewithjoy]

I also actually preferred Iron Flame to Fourth Wing, and I often feel so alone in that! It could be because I was already attached to the characters going into the second book, but I think that the lore and the world got expanded upon in ways that I really appreciated. I’m also a girlie that enjoys romance, but LIVES for more complex plots and fantasy worlds 🫶

[@PlantingAshley]

Omg we are totally the same then. What other books do you like? We probably like the same ones 🗣️🚨

[@writewithjoy]

@@PlantingAshley oo man, from this year specifically in the fantasy-with-a-little-romance category, I loved Emily Wilde, Starling House, Sorcery of Thorns, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and A Deadly Education. Divine Rivals was maybe more romance-forward, but I'm a sucker for Rebecca Ross's prose 🤌🏼 I did read ACOTAR with the exception of ACOSF (which I intend to get to eventually), but I never felt like it fully satisfied me and tbh I cannot stand Feyre, so that didn't help lol. I haven't read any of SJM's other stuff though. I've heard TOG is good, so I may get around to it someday. I'm currently reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, which is just straight up fantasy.

[@PlantingAshley]

@ ill check all those books out! Divine rivals i did read! My first experience with rebecca ross. Ive heard a lot of great thinks about emily wilde!!