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Originally Posted by hildea
If a romance has fantasy or SF elements it belongs in both SFF/fantasy and romance. Just like if it is a crime mystery, a romance, and a historical novel, it belongs in all those categories.
But I do think online bookshops are really, really bad at helping people find books. A filter that let's you exclude things seems like a no-brainer (show me books tagged with SFF but not romance), but I haven't seen it anywhere. It would also help if a book could have a primary category, so you'd know if it was a romance in an SFF setting, or an SFF book with a romantic subplot.
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The problem is that there are proper SFF/Fantasy with some romance. But the romance is not the main focus of the story. If bookstores were to allow filtering out based on sub-genre, then tacky romance is a good once. The type of book with the cover that has the bare chested male who just happens to be green is what I want gone. Those types of books are truly awful.