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Swordcrossed, Freya Marske, 2024 novel. This is a classic sweaterboy/absolute nightmare romance novel set in a vaguely-early-modern secondary universe (or maybe I mean late medieval?) with a plot centered around rivalries between merchant families in the wool industry. Is that romantasy, or does romantasy specifically have to have magical elements, or even more specifically nonhuman love interests? Anyways, if you wanted Swordspoint to be cozier, this is the book for you. "High Heat. Low Stakes. Crossed Steel." as it says on the cover. (I really liked it but I am pretty much exactly who this book was catering to. People on goodreads were like "too many wool facts" and here I am delighted by a book where I can read dudes banging and falling in love and also learn some wool facts. I would read one of these a year set in a different late medieval industry until the end of time, or until running out of industries forced the introduction of the industrial revolution and the world got less fun.)

Date: 2025-03-10 02:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rachelmanija
Romantasy does not need to have non-human love interests. It does have to have magic or nonhumans, or it misses the "fantasy" part.

Wool facts is a plus to me. Does the sweaterboy have a literal sweater?

Date: 2025-03-10 05:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oracne
WOOL facts. ZOMG I need to move this up my list.

Date: 2025-03-10 11:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elysdir
Hee! I particularly like this review.

And I was unaware of the Sweaterboy/Absolute Nightmare Dynamic, but have now looked it up and learned something new.

I’m not particularly looking for wool facts, but the line “High Heat. Low Stakes. Crossed Steel” is a very effective advertisement—I may check this out.

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