Romantic Fantasy & Romantasy with PROPER Slow Burn Romance

📚 6 book romantasy series
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: King Midas can turn things into gold, and Auren herself is gold. After 10 years together, Midas has acquired all the power and shared none of it with her. In a bid for more political gains, she finds herself away from him for the first time in a decade, and realized that a gilded cage is still a cage.

This series has: human magic & fae lore, political maneuvering, King Midas retelling, emotional turmoil, more POVs over time, top tier book husband, hell of a female main character arc

📚 4 book romantasy series
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Dual-narrated audiobook

Plot: She’s been imprisoned since she was a child, scraping by every day to survive. When one day she gets pulled from the prison and entered into trials to become the wife of the king. But the trials aren’t what they seem, and she continues to wonder why SHE of all people was pulled out to participate in this.

This series has: deadly trials, stabby FMC, secret twists and turns, fae, MMC with a mouth

📚 Romantasy trilogy
❤️‍🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: Maddy is the hidden princess of the ice fae kingdom with a fainting illness slated to kill her eventually. The only person who watches after her — her sister — is about to leave for Valkyrie training when something happens & she is sent instead.

This trilogy has: Valkyrie and norsk mythology inspiration, fae courts and elements, FMC with health issues, broody MMC with a mysterious past, trainer/trainee

📚 Romantasy trilogy
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Both solo-narrated audiobook & a Graphic Audio

Plot: Nia has saved up for years to escape her life in LA – where she works at a bookstore & cares for her addict, gold digging mother – to spend her birthday in France. While there she sees Fey & the veil to their world for the first time in real life in an area of post-fey-vs-human-war France where humans and fey co-mingle (to an extent). While dining she sees a group of people & Demi-fey put themselves in danger & saves them. Doing so brings her face to face with the resistance against the Fey but also with Raphael, the Demi-fey who she kissed a few years back. He needs her to join their effort & enroll in the spy academy where she’ll be in constant danger before potentially graduating, & she needs him to tell her why he broke her heart. 

This trilogy has: fey vs. human wars, academia setting, King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table inspiration, spies and espionage, trainer/trainee, fake dating

📚 Romantasy trilogy
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Dual-narrated audiobook

Plot: Finn was enslaved when one day, she was deemed to have magic, which is forbidden. & she’s never had it so safe to say she’s confused when she’s taken from her slave role for having magic. She’s given to the Destroyer, the Mad Queen’s evil general, as a token of appreciation but she escapes his grasp & finds herself alongside a sassy assassin who teaches her all the ways of revenge. 

This trilogy has: female rage, trigger warnings, training and escape, rebellion, assassins, snarky women

📚 Romantasy trilogy
❤️‍🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Dual-narrated audiobook

Plot: She’s a half-fae scientist keeping her heritage a secret from a world that doesn’t know magic exists. All the sudden, monsters started dropping into her planet through a rift out of nowhere, and she’s been tasked to stop them. She finds herself in the hands of some fae who claim to be able to help her and they strike a deal. But will the deal pan out for her, or will she get stuck with a trickster.

This trilogy has: great found family, fae and humans, family drama, bonds and fate

📚 Romantic fantasy trilogy
🐣 YA
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: Kiva has been in the realm’s worst prison since she was 7 years old & was brought with her dad after he was arrested for treason against the crown. Now, 10 years later, she is a talented healer treating everyone fairly despite the hateful treatment she gets from everyone. She keeps herself closed off to everyone, but a new inmate gets brought in that piques her interest.

This trilogy has: snarky and smart FMC, the most wholesome found family, solid twists and turns, royal magic, deadly trials, unique prison setting

📚 Queer romantic fantasy duology
❤️‍🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Dual-narrated audiobook

Plot: The humans betrayed dragons long ago and banishing them from the world, and the dragons have remained pissed. The last male dragon returns with a plan to take over the planet, when he accidentally ties himself to a thief. The two then have to work together, the dragon fully planning on killing them in the end, when a relationship develops and motivations change.

This duology has: dragons, reluctant allies, mysterious histories

📚 Sapphic romantic fantasy duology
🐣 YA
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: She was turned into a Reaper years ago; she lost her family, her future, and her life when her best friend betrayed her. Her best friend happens to be the daughter to an organized crime family. Reapers may be plaguing 1920s Harlem, but they’re predictable… until they’re not. And then our two girls must join forces – and face their pasts – in order to figure out what’s going on.

This duology has: vampires (Reapers), second chances, friends to enemies to lovers, jazz-age Harlem setting

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 2 of 5 books out
🏳️‍🌈 Multiple romances, 1 queer

Plot: This follows 3 women on the continent struggling with power over their own lives.
– Nova’s first memory was crawling out of a grave. Since then she’s been the weapon of choice for the royals, tortured into submission. They offer her a continent-shifting task & she barters for her freedom.
– Elaia is a princess who has lost most of her family & watched her father disappear into nothingness in grief. She has taken on the burden of ruling, of everything, & is tired.
– Syrena takes over after the sudden & tragic death of her brother & was unprepared to lead.

This series has: feminine rate galore, mages/witches and human magic, political maneuvering like crazy, dark themes, slowwwwww burn romances

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 3 books out
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: Ellie is an independent, brilliant woman in 1890s London, which doesn’t want her to be either of those things. One day she ends up with a treasure map to a lost city, but others want it & will stop at nothing to get it back. So, she heads to British Honduras to go find what’s on this map & ends up with the improper & slightly indecent American Adam as her best hope of finding the lost city in the map.

This series has: The Mummy/Indiana Jones vibes, treasure hunting and quests, themes of patriarchy/ colonization/ prejudices, low fantasy, smart AF FMC, himbo MMC with a heart of gold

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 2 of 3 books out
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: Elyria — famed war hero of the fae & war criminal to the humans — is no longer fighting the war of 250 years ago that shaped the realm. These days she fights her mental battle, dealing with her trauma with all the good stuff like sex, drinking, & general avoidance. This doesn’t go great for her in a few ways, but things take a turn for the worse when her dead ex boyfriend’s sister decides to enter herself into the deadly trials of the Crucible, which is the reason she has a dead ex boyfriend in the first place.

This trilogy has: WELL DONE deadly trials, humans, fae, dwarves, & more magical creatures, found family, gods/prophecies/lore, SLOWWW burn, he’s the human and she’s the old fae, YEARNNNNNNING

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 2 of 3 books out
❤️‍🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: All she has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. She’s an orphan who is deeply involved in the rebels, fighting the Empire from taking over more and more land. But she also has a secret, hidden magic. He is the Emperor’s son and is a weapon built for conquest. They meet during battle and discover something about one another, that maybe just maybe their magic is complementary and maybe just maybe fighting on the battlefield isn’t the best way to solve the political problems comign to a head.

This trilogy has: ENEMIES! to lovers, for the ReyLo (Kylo Ren + Rey from Star Wars) lovers, unique, Filipino mythology/world-inspired, lost princess, colonization

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 2 of 3 books out
❤️‍🔥 YA-ish so steamy vs spicy
🎧 Solo-narrated to full cast audiobook

Plot: Kidan’s twin sister was taken by a mysterious vampire & she’s been trying to find her ever since. When an opportunity arises to attend university in a community where vampires & humans live together, she takes it. Not because her family has a legacy there, or because she necessarily wants to live with monsters. But because the only lead to the vampire who took her sister is there, & he’s devoted to her family.

This trilogy has: aaaactul enemies to lovers, vampires, humans, and sages, interesting African lore, magical houses, female rage, academia setting

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 2 of 3 books out
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: Maevyth is ostracized from her extremely religious village for being an orphan, & they all basically think she’s some sort of witch or abomination. Everyone but her adopted sister who she is extremely close to despite not being blood related. They live on the edge of the Eating Woods, where people are sent for punishment & never return due to the infamous monster(s) who live there. Zevander is a cursed king’s assassin in another realm whose life changes when Maevyth ends up crossing paths with him. 

This trilogy has: DARKNESS please check triggers, gothic atmosphere, tortured MMC, smart/clever FMC, great side characters, big/elaborate world, themes of religious weaponization

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 1 book out
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook (very good narration)

Plot: Maggie falls into the world of her favorite fantasy series but there are a few problems. 1. The series is incomplete, so she doesn’t know the full outcome of stories, 2. She doesn’t exist in this world, & 3. She keeps dying. But her knowledge is a blessing & a curse because she can trade secrets & her series knowledge for information & favors. Which she does in order to hopefully prevent catastrophic events from happening.

This trilogy has: portal epic fantasy, very funny FMC, not notch found family and extremely likable characters, super interesting politics/lore, delicious romance

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 1 book out
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook (very good narration)

Plot: She has made a deal with the Saint of Silence — a powerful & scary keeper of secrets — in order to save her brother. The deal? Revealing to him that she can see ghosts. & upon acquiring this knowledge, she becomes an imperative part of his plan to find a specific ghost. If she fails, she loses her freedom & is indebted to the saint forever.

This trilogy has: gothic setting, ghosts and demons, interesting politics, slowwwwwww burn and no spice yet

📖 Romantic fantasy trilogy – 1 book out

Plot: Syn is part fey living & hiding out in London when, because of anti-fey sentiment she plans to portal to the fey realm with her best friend, sister, & boyfriend. But things take an oopsy poopsy turn when she sort of accidentally kills a fey noble & must take her place at the Veiled Court & compete for the crown.

This trilogy has: fun games and trials, love triangle-ish, rivals/enemies to lovers maybe?, Camelot lore

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 1 book out
❤️‍🔥 An introduction of spice

Plot: Merena was sacrificed to the seas by parents she can’t remember from a life she doesn’t know. However, the sea deemed her worthy & she began her training as a Raider sans memories. During her years of training at school she is often treated as dirt under one’s shoe & subjected to unique punishments & challenges. But over the years she has scrapped, fought, & outsmarted her way to the prestigious position of Captain, as appointed by her crew of 7 fellow women who adore her. But this year, crews from all over the isles are coming to visit to participate in some deadly trials which will reward the winner with the Raider position of their dreams. When the foreign crews arrive, some of them seem to know more about her than she understands possible, & they really hate her for whatever reason.

This series has: vikings/pirates, badass/smart FMC, ENEMIES to lovers, enemies who speak a different language, deadly trials, academia setting, femal friendship

📖 Romantic fantasy/dystopian series – 5 of 7 books out
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook (very good narration)

Plot: Paige is a member of a magical gang in future London where having magic ends in execution. England, now a part of ever-expanding Scion, is ridding magic-wielders from Europe slowly & deliberately. Until one day Paige gets taken to the long-presumed destroyed Oxford, where turns out an otherworldly race of people rule with a heavy hand. 

This trilogy has: urban fantasy/dystopian, themes of globalism and colonialism, romantic subplot, unique magic and spirit realm, magical training

📖 Romantic fantasy duology
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: After escaping the silence having saved the Prince but leaving with with one less sense, years later she’s forced into it again. But this time with all her friends in tow. They’re sent to a military academy of sorts where they must bond with monsters or die. & honestly still probably die even after. But after her binding happens, the Prince she previously saved — now Commander — takes an interest in her. & he’s not the only one.

This series has: enemies to ??, political maneuvering, very funny and blind FMC, mute MMC, solid found family

📖 Romantic dystopian series – 1 of 5 books out

Plot: Your blood is your worth, your skill, your status, your everything in public society. Lore has been a politician’s daughter & private citizen until now, sheltered from experiencing the true brutality of this world even while she watches public executions on TV. She’s headed to school where her battleground will now be being a low-class citizen in a world that punishes them — even with death — for the same slights high-class citizens walk away from. She’s got a secret that will make this even harder & put her life in constant danger.

This series has: futuristic dystopian, societal caste system, politics galore, 1920s Flapper era x Blade Runner vibes, forbidden romance

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 1 of 5 books out
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: Ary has lost everything; her memories 6 months ago, her father & brother to senseless murder, & her mom disappeared on her.
When she’s near starving, the 1 friend she does have shows up with 3 random men & news of a prophecy she’s integral to. She must help save the people, marry the prince, & eliminate the enemy. But 1 of these men… well he seems particularly invested in her safety & she’s not sure why.

This series has: YEARNINGGGGGG, bodyguard MMC, memory loss trope, found family, prophecies, forbidden romance

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 1 of 5 books out
🎧 Solo-narrated to full cast audiobook

Plot: She’s an orphan who has put all of her focus into climbing up the ranks to become a sorceress. She also wants to join a prestigious group she’s been dreaming of her whole life, & to do so she must complete some deadly trials. But while there she finds help in places she didn’t expect it as well as tension. & that’s in the form of a charming man & his friends from a neighboring country as well as the guy she’s been secretly obsessed with most of her adult life

This series has: love triangle, sorcerers/sorceresses, magical creatures, deadly trials, found family, slow burn and no spice yet

📖 Romantic fantasy series – 3 of 4 books out
❤️‍🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook

Plot: The Descended govern the humans with an iron fist, keeping them impoverished and without knowledge. After Diem’s mother disappears, she takes an unexpected opportunity as a healer for the Descended royalty at the castle. Only to be watched like a hawk by the heir to the throne for reasons she doesn’t know. Mysteries unfold around her mother, around the politics at play, and about her own future.

This series has: very solid found family, stubborn/defiant FMC, broody MMC, interesting magic, oppression, twists and turns

Note: I will note that I don’t like this FMC at all, but everything else about this series is very good so if an exceedingly stubburn FMC doesn’t bother you, definitely give this a go!

📕 Romantic dystopian
❤️‍🔥 Spicy
🎧 Duet-narrated audiobook

Plot: Shadera is the top assassin in the guild & she has accepted a contract to take down the President’s Executioner. She despises them both, the president & the Executioner, his son turned weapon because they built & maintain a world where only the masked elite prosper in the inter rings of society. The poor barely scrape by under the immeasurable weight of constant surveillance, resource hoarding, & criminalization of every little thing in the outer rings, & Shadera wants to end it. But when she takes the job, something goes wrong & she discovers the players on the board aren’t all as she once thought. 

This book has: themes of patriarchy, class warfare, rebellion, and propaganda, multiple romances (ENEMIES to lovers, second chance, love triangle, slow burns)