Jenny Jaybles reviewed Goldenhand by Garth Nix
This is the best Romantasy that no one refers to as Romantasy
5 stars
Content warning Spoilers about the romance parts
I have figured out that I Iike vanilla romance and that Romantasy books don't have vanilla romance in them. So in Garth Nix's books, which no one refers to as Romantasy, he has wonderful action adventure fantasy but also each book has a very cute love story of two young people who are awkward shy and nerdy who slowly fall in love. It is sometimes comedic with the young man frequently embarrassing himself and the young woman finding him endearing. There is only some hand holding and a few kisses. Everything is so "vanilla." There are no love triangles. There are no people trying to have sex with as many people as possible. It is just love. And it is the best thing in the whole world. Why on earth is Garth Nix not heralded as a great romance writer? I don't understand. I guess I will never understand how other people view sexuality and what is "sexy." Too me two people forming a strong emotional bond while on an adventure and then realizing they love each other is the absolute greatest love story anyone can tell. I would read this same story in as many incantations of it as I could if only more writers would write romance like this.