{"id":27981,"date":"2025-03-23T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27981"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:22:27","slug":"best-romance-and-fantasy-book-thats-not-overhyped-by-tiktok-thanks-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/23\/best-romance-and-fantasy-book-thats-not-overhyped-by-tiktok-thanks-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"Best romance and fantasy book that&#8217;s NOT overhyped by TikTok. Thanks \u2764\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aw5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aw5.jpg\" alt=\"Best romance and fantasy book that's NOT overhyped by TikTok. Thanks \u2764\ufe0f\" class=\"wp-image-27980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aw5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aw5-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Best romance and fantasy book that&#8217;s NOT overhyped by TikTok. Thanks \u2764\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The natural follow up to this is, series or stand-alone book? Second, follow up question: Do you want separate romance and fantasy recs or ROMANTASY recs? I&#8217;ll suggest a few to get you started. I love S. A. Chakraborty&#8217;s trilogy and standalone work. The trilogy is light romance but full political intrigue. The standalone has no romance per say, but is VERY fun. There&#8217;s some great Arthurian retellings recently published: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn and Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken. Both series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The natural follow up to this is, series or stand-alone book? Second, follow up question: Do you want separate romance and fantasy recs or ROMANTASY recs? I&#8217;ll suggest a few to get you started. I love S. A. Chakraborty&#8217;s trilogy and standalone work. The trilogy is light romance but full political intrigue. The standalone has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/23\/best-romance-and-fantasy-book-thats-not-overhyped-by-tiktok-thanks-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best romance and fantasy book that&#8217;s NOT overhyped by TikTok. Thanks \u2764\ufe0f&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28005,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27981\/revisions\/28005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}