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Oh wow that sounds AMAZING??? Will definitely have to look into earl gray syrup!

I'm just saying that she could probably wipe the floor with him, and he'd let her 😌

YES PLEASE 👏👏👏

Yesss the bi panic 😈

Fionamara “Fi” Kolbeck
- Smuggles contraband between parallel worlds
- Horse girl (but it’s a scaled Void horse from liminal space)
- Accidentally blew up an immortal’s capitol (oops)
- About to unlock a fang fetish she never knew she had
- 113 “fucks” in this book, and they’re almost all hers

Antal
- Carnivorous immortal woven from the depthless Void beyond reality
- The monster from your childhood folktales
- But also a wet cat sulking in your bathtub
- Thinks he’s in charge of this snarling human woman (is very wrong)
- Knows how to use those claws

Truly! A good romantasy has the romance and world and plot all strengthening each other, the romance as a driving force that shapes how the plot progresses. I'm always disappointed when the romance gets all the focus, and the world and character arcs are left flimsy.

These are the ones that make me stop and think: WOULD I sell feet pics?

No, no, of course not.

Unless...

Anyway, VOIDWALKER is a single-POV romantasy, but you can bet your ass that the scary monster LI is actually just a baker's dozen worth of traumas hiding in a trench coat, each progressively unraveled when the MC so much as breaths softly in his direction.

Give me an MC and LI whose character arcs mirror, intertwine, build off of each other in such an inseparable way, that by the time their bodies finally come together, it's like they're desperately weaving their sinews into a single beating heart.

Give me those raw character moments! Give me a love interest who is lethal and cold, so it slices even deeper when they crack into a million pieces for the person they love! Give me those viciously soft moments of vulnerability that are so much more terrifying than any antagonist!

To be clear, I love romantasy! It's hands down my favorite genre! But it's frustrating when the hot, mysterious love interest ends up being just hot and a little too mysterious, without a solid character arc to stand alongside the MC's own. There's SO MUCH potential to be seized here!