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Romantasy island: ‘I picked up the book, and I became feral! I read the first book in a day, then the second in a day, which is 700 pages. It was intense'

Romantasy island: ‘I picked up the book, and I became feral! I read the first book in a day, then the second in a day, which is 700 pages. It was intense'

As the clock ticked towards midnight on January 21, crowds gathered outside bookstores around the world in fevered anticipation of the release of Onyx Storm, the third instalment in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a military academy for dragon riders. The American author is at the forefront of the booming 'romantasy' genre, which combines elements of romance and fantasy, and has exploded in popularity in the past year thanks to BookTok, TikTok's reader community.
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