✍️ Desk of Amy Suto: What is the Romantasy Genre Doing to Women’s Lit?

When romance meets fantasy, sparks fly on the bestseller lists.

Happy Wednesday! Today, ✍️ From the Desk of Amy Suto paid subscribers will get an exclusive issue about…

✨ My love/hate relationship with the romantasy genre in the book world

🧪 Literature vs. popular fiction

📚 What are books meant for? Escapism, or expansion?

📖 The Hunt for a True Pageturner

I decided to stay up late reading a book…

…and knew I was in trouble when the birds started chirping.

It’s been a long time since I couldn’t put a book down, and the second book in the mega-hit series A Court of Thornes and Roses by Sarah J. Maas earned its rare 5/5 Goodreads rating from me.

However, I know that some people — including a past version of myself! — rolled my eyes at “airport books” like these.

I’m here to say that I was wrong, and I have some thoughts about our culture’s disdain for the romantasy genre, why it gets a bad wrap, and why “it’s popular” shouldn’t be a reason why we avoid media.