I'm going to recommend a couple offbeat choices. First, in the fantasy genre I like the Poison Study series by Mindy Klasky. I have only read the original trilogy and I believe she continued it,...
I'm going to recommend a couple offbeat choices. First, in the fantasy genre I like the Poison Study series by Mindy Klasky. I have only read the original trilogy and I believe she continued it, but I quite enjoyed those first three.
Next, the first three books in the Kushiel's Legacy series (Kushiel's Dart/Kushiel's Chosen/Kushiel's Avatar) are excellent. I would read some Goodreads reviews on them as the romantic scenes are varied and get pretty intense, but I loved the sex positive, enthusiastic consent world Carey built.
Lastly, you didn't mention mystery, but my favorite romantic mystery series is the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. If you heard of the movie "One For The Money"...well please don't judge it on that. That's the title of the first book and it's my favorite beach read type of romance featuring hot mess express "bounty hunter" Stephanie Plum. (A bounty hunter who prefers to get her subjects back to jail with talk, keeps her gun in her cookie jar because she hates to carry it, and has a pet hamster.)
Enjoy! It's a really wide genre that gets a lot of unfair grief.
I'm going to recommend a couple offbeat choices. First, in the fantasy genre I like the Poison Study series by Mindy Klasky. I have only read the original trilogy and I believe she continued it, but I quite enjoyed those first three.
Next, the first three books in the Kushiel's Legacy series (Kushiel's Dart/Kushiel's Chosen/Kushiel's Avatar) are excellent. I would read some Goodreads reviews on them as the romantic scenes are varied and get pretty intense, but I loved the sex positive, enthusiastic consent world Carey built.
Lastly, you didn't mention mystery, but my favorite romantic mystery series is the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. If you heard of the movie "One For The Money"...well please don't judge it on that. That's the title of the first book and it's my favorite beach read type of romance featuring hot mess express "bounty hunter" Stephanie Plum. (A bounty hunter who prefers to get her subjects back to jail with talk, keeps her gun in her cookie jar because she hates to carry it, and has a pet hamster.)
Enjoy! It's a really wide genre that gets a lot of unfair grief.