I like fantasy. I like romance. But I am not a young adult. I am not interested in one more teenage girl with dead parents going to magic school, faerie court or dragon training. Of the 20 “Romantasy” nominees on the Goodreads Choice Awards, I’ve read “A Dawn of Onyx” and “The Hanging City,” the only grown-up books on that list. I Dnf’d “Fourth Wing,” because FOMO, but not my jam.
What possible distinction is there between “Romantasy” and “YA Fantasy?” Who is writing for us olds?
Sarah J. Maas would fit into what you’re looking for. She has several series out right now and while most of them are about young women with dead parents doing xyz (faerie court, investigating a murder by a demon, being the king’s assassin) they’re smutty af so definitely not YA.