Sir, please stop fondling the pomegranates | THE EMPRESS by Kristin Cast

[@MsDuckiebee]

An excellent title! I find the magically transported to another world genre of fantasy (in anime its called isekai but I don't know if the term is more common) can either be really good or not at all interesting for me. I think it depends on how well the author builds the world and how the protagonist interacts with it but that's just me. Heat warnings and trigger warnings are getting more common now which I appreciate immensely but they have to be considerate of the whole work which might be a new question for sample readers: what level of heat and what needs to be trigger warned. Always enjoy hearing your opinion and, yes, I find it does make me more aware in my own writing.

[@rachaellawrites]

@MsDuckiebee It’s called portal fantasy! Yeah, I think there's an unfortunate tendency in a certain portion of this genre to go "well you have the Icky Boring Real World and then the Cool Wishfulfillment Fantasy Land." And that's as deep as any of the worldbuilding goes lol. I think it can be hard to know how to accurately rate heat in a book, because what one person considers wildly graphic another might think is very run-of-the-mill. Not sure what a rubric for that would look like 🤔