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The ‘Taylor Swift of romantasy’ has a new book. Why are people mad? – Full Story podcast

With midnight book launches, record-breaking sales and billions of TikTok views, romantasy has turned into one of the biggest commercial juggernauts propping up modern publishing. But why are stories combining high fantasy and female-centric erotic romance still dismissed by mainstream culture? Guardian Australia’s lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, joins Taylah Strano to unpack the global phenomenon of romantasy and the divisive release of Sarah J Maas’s latest novel

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