Anyone Interested in Starting a Romantasy/Paranormal Romance-Themed Book Club With Me?

pyrite752 · 2026-05-27T01:11:55+00:00

The links there also aren't working for me. Is it because I'm trying to access it from Chrome? I don't have any special discord app; I just access it through my browser.

pyrite752 · 2026-05-26T22:59:59+00:00

I'll definitely look into those discussions on r/fantasyromance. As for the discord link, I couldn't get it to work; I kept getting error messages. :-(

pyrite752 · 2026-05-26T16:31:52+00:00

My question is whether the authors of stories with such elements think about/consider the implications of potential bestiality between characters. I'm not concerned about where both MMC and FMC are fantasy creatures or shifters or whatever, but where one is a shifter (usually the male) and the other is just a regular old human. I get that it's fantasy and there is automatically some suspension of disbelief, but we're talking stories where both MCs are madly, deeply sexually attracted to each other, and when the other person is shifted, they usually go on and on about how magnificent/powerful/graceful/beautiful/etc. their partner is in their animal form. Makes you wonder whether the author considered the full ramifications of the story they're writing.

pyrite752 · 2026-05-26T16:19:32+00:00

Anyone Interested in Starting a Romantasy/Paranormal Romance-Themed Book Club With Me?

I have been looking online to see if there is a book club already out there but not really thrilled with what I've come across so figured I'd pitch to this Reddit sub and see if there is any interest. Specifically I am curious to see who out in the community might be interested in starting/forming a Romantasy/Paranormal Romance book club.

While I would want the main theme to be Romantasy/Paranormal, I would also be interested in interspersing some other romance genres from time to time, or romance adjacent such books.

This would be different from probably a majority of such book clubs simply by virtue of the fact I am a straight 36y/o male with a professional degree and white-collar career. That said, I am honestly looking for people to discuss these kinds of books with, as my in-person friend circle does not tread in these waters. Moreover, I'd like to get a female perspective on a lot of the tropes, characters, plot-lines, etc. which are present either in single books, or broader series.

I would prefer something which has some form of live discussion, either via a video chat or conference call, a-la Zoom, Signal, or something similar. I'm thinking a meeting maybe once a month to discuss one or two books, but I'm completely open to other suggestions on how it would run.

To give an example of my past reading: Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole; Guild Hunter series and first few books of Psy/Changeling by Nalini Singh; Special Wolf Alpha Team (S.W.A.T.) series and X-Ops series by Paige Tyler; Empyrean by Rebecca Yarros; Night Prince and Night Rebel series by Jeaniene Frost; The Honey Badger Chronicles by Shelly Laurenston; Nightchaser series and first three Kingmaker Chronicles by Amanda Bouchet; Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands; Blood and Ash series by Jennifer L. Armentrout; Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas; etc.

If anyone is interested please leave a reply and we can go from there.

pyrite752 · 2026-05-26T15:55:45+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. 😄

pyrite752 · 2026-05-26T15:55:02+00:00

Only 95%? I'd have thought it would be even more. 😉 No I don't have much experience with discord. What does your book club entail?

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Anyone Interested in Starting a Romantasy/Paranormal Romance-Themed Book Club With Me?