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Originally Posted by InNeed
Hey guys!
I'm looking for a fantasy adventure novel with a clean side romance...
If there is another thing that both of those series share, it's the somewhat dense male lead. I really enjoy seeing the mc get confused about how the whole thing works, miss some hints along the way, get fought over without realizing it, and just come out of the story mature enough to understand that he's not as unpopular as he thought he was. Love triangles and the like are fine as long as they don't feel forced.
Thank you.
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There's many books that fit your brief, but for now, the one that fit it to a T is The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...e-cerulean-sea. It is laugh out loud funny, whimsical, fantastical, heartwarming and full of meaning all at the same time, with a subtle romance plot running in the background. And absolutely no love triangles.
It's a story with a mature MC, and two other adult characters and six
highly unusual kids that are all central to the plot - and is like a big hug in book form. It is a rare book written for adults that can just as equally be read by kids due to the lack of any graphic content.
TJ Klune is one of my favourite authors who was written some of my favourite books in a variety of different genres/sub-genres and also has a YA debut due out next week called The Extraordinaires. Those two (and Olive Juice which is an excellent but hard hitting contemporary) are probably the only ones that are
totally free of any sexual content though!