Enemies-to-lovers? Don’t mind if I do. Everything in Eve Lockwood’s life is grey—and not in a fun, morally ambiguous kind of way. No matter how much soggy takeout she orders or how many Friends reruns she binges, the only place she can truly escape is between the pages of her beloved romantasy novels. So, when an advertisement for a romantasy-lovers retreat crosses her path, Eve jumps at the chance to play out her favorite bookish fantasies with likeminded readers. What could go wrong?
Quite a lot, as it turns out. Namely, that while doing a retreat activity in the middle of the woods, she somehow trips and falls through a portal into a real-life fantasy world—and straight into the arms of a (ridiculously attractive) grumpy, woodland fae prince. Just her luck, honestly. At first, Eve is convinced it’s all part of the retreat, until she survives a monster attack, unlocks forgotten magic that apparently makes her The Chosen One™, and is shipped off on a quest to break an ancient curse all before lunchtime. Wonderful.
Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t take long for her quest to go off the rails, and Eve soon finds this storyline isn’t as perfect as her novels. With her newfound magic wildly out of control, her enemies-to-lovers arc with the prince staying firmly in the enemies stage, and a hot mysterious, shadowy figure lurking in her dreams, the curse seems more likely to break Eve than the other way around. Armed with only her knowledge of book tropes and a misguided belief that the main character can’t die, Eve must rise to become The Chosen One she was (probably not) destined to be, save the world, and get home . . . if she even wants to?
A romantasy reader accidentally enters a fantasy world, only to realize that some tropes are better in fiction, in this satirical, hijinks-filled meta-romantasy.
Everything in Eve Lockwood’s life is grey—and not in a fun, morally ambiguous kind of way. No matter how much soggy takeout she orders or how many Friends re-runs she binges, the only place she can truly escape is between the pages of her beloved romantasy novels. So, when an advertisement for a romantasy-lovers retreat crosses her path, Eve jumps at the chance to immerse herself in her favorite genre—until she unknowingly stumbles through a portal during a retreat activity and finds herself thrust into a real-life fantasy world.
Just like her beloved books, everyone she encounters is otherworldly attractive, from the brooding prince to his regal aunt, and even the mysterious spirit haunting her dreams. Unfortunately, the fantasy ends there. Despite being spectacularly unqualified for the position, Eve has been declared The Chosen OneTM, and is promptly saddled with a life-and-death mission to save the kingdom from a centuries-old curse. Apparently, this job comes with zero training and excellent odds of death.
Eve quickly realizes that reading countless fantasy novels is no match for living one, not when she can barely swing a sword to save her life. What’s worse, her fae prince love interest seems perfectly content staying in the enemies stage of their relationship arc. It’ll take everything in her to navigate court politics and battle ancient forces to return home, but everything will work out. After all, main characters can’t die… right?
Romantasyland is a funny, steamy, and wickedly self-aware romp for anyone who knows exactly how the story goes—and loves to fall for it anyway.
