Why are Gen Z obsessed with MONSTER romances? Young readers claim steamy novels about 'hot demonic wolves' help them 'put things into perspective'
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When travelling around a store looking for a good read, one would think that books including vampires, aliens, werewolves and shape shifters would be in the horror section. But for Gen Z, it is simply another dark novel where they can escape their mundane lives and live in a world where they can fantasise about forbidden love.
![[Luna, 25, is another monster love fan who posts regularly about which dark romance books she has been getting into]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/11/93641575-14241187-image-a-12_1735730191342.jpg)
Some of the top books listed on literary review platform Goodreads and TikTok featured ultra-raunchy, escapist stories that have gone viral throughout 2024. Some of these include C.M. Nascosta’s Morning Glory Milking Farm, about a woman who has a 'one-sided crush on an out-of-her-league minotaur,' and Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians series, which focuses on a seven foot tall blue alien with horns and a tail.
And although the genre was nicknamed 'Romantasy,' in 2008, it has recently caught on for the younger generation in their teenage years and early twenties. Brit Toria Hutchinson, from Bracknell, has a TikTok account where she recommends books to other readers and one of her favourite categories is 'spicy fantasy romance books'.
In a clip posted in November, the content creator recommended a bunch of books which she described as 'pure escapism'. This included Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen, which follows a woman named Rosalina O’Connell whose father has been imprisoned.
Toria Hutchinson, from Bracknell, has a TikTok account where she recommends books to other readers and one of her favourite categories is 'spicy fantasy romance books'. She is left 'no choice' but to make a deal with four princes to take his place, but she discovers they have been cursed and turn into 'demonic wolves every night'.
![[Luna's clip racked up almost 90 thousand views and many comments from other monster love story fans]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/11/93641577-14241187-image-a-5_1735729920575.jpg)
