Forward
A Romantasy for Guys and Men (titled A Romantasy but for a Guy when Ch1 was first posted) is a (bad) serial satirical fantasy romance. It is poorly written by me, an amateur who cannot spell and does not understand how to use commas. I am not as funny as I try to be (if at all). There is a 99% chance I will never finish this story. It started as a satirical shit post on reddit (which is still is I guess). I enjoyed writing chapter 1 enough that I decided to write chapter 2. I will keep writing chapters until I am bored of it. I wanted to write this forward to explain to folks who are not a 'sloopy' like I am what inspired this little project.
In romance circles online (reddit, Goodreads, romance.io, and my book review blog) I use the pseudonym “Romance Book Dad” or “Dad Reads Romance”. I am a huge fan of romance books. I started reading them around 2019, I think. Shortly after, I became a father and started to review some of the books I liked. As a joke I titled them “Romance Book Reviews by Dad” because in a lot of romance books fathers are either the antagonist, dead, or deadbeats. I digress.
Over the last couple of years thanks to Book-tok and the success of Fourth Wing the Fantasy Romance subgenre (often called 'Romantasy') has become a bigger part of the larger pulp culture zeitgeist. This has led to an influx of posts asking for “Romance Books but for a guy/man” or something similar. Some of these posts are sincere and polite (but still a bit naïve) but the majority, in my experience, are either insincere and/or misogynistic. In any case, it is a dumb thing to think that in the 21st century a book needs to be specifically for your gender or sexual orientation for you to enjoy reading it. Further, many of these requests say things akin to “I want fantasy action and sex scenes but no emotional lovey-dovey stuff because I do not understand what a romance story is.” I find this sad but also funny. A Romantasy for Guys and Men is my attempt to parody the general idea behind this specific concept along with the modern “dude-bro misogynistic mind set” and general romance book tropes.
**If you do read it, I hope you enjoy. If you want recommendations for romance books that are worth reading, I keep a top list on my blog. **
- Romance Book Dad, January 24, 2026
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