It’s a good time to be a romantasy fan. For those who prefer their magical worlds served with a side of spice, the genre — a handy portmanteau of romance and fantasy — runneth over with swoon-worthy escapades set against a backdrop of grand castles, mystical forests, and dragon-filled skies.

Oh, and faeries — lots of handsome faeries. One particularly viral example of this subgenre is Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses . The 2015 novel follows 19-year-old Feyre, a human hunter who is sentenced to live the rest of her life in the faerie realm of Prythian. Though she’s reluctant to leave home at first, her world expands as she forges a Beauty and the Beast- esque connection with her captor, a faerie named Tamlin.

Of course, that’s just the first book. ACOTAR spawned a serie

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