A friend and beta reader suggested to me that the tone of some of one of my books was similar to Megan Bannen's The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy . After seventeen weeks on the library wait list, I finally had the opportunity to give it a read and see for myself! While I understand the similarities they highlighted (wacky world-building, people just trying to do their jobs), the tone of this book was way more adorable than anything I could hope to recreate. This book is not what I expect most people would consider to be 'romantasy', but it does follow primary romance beats in a fantasy world. I've been recommending it to all of my non-fantasy reading romance friends as an easy gateway into a new section of the romance market, without the complex world-building and intrigue that more "traditional" (to the extent that such a new phenomenon can have a tradition yet) romantasy requires. I loved it! The world, the characters, the plot--it all really worked for me...
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