Cat_Hoarder0 t1_iu3tf5m wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:41 AM

Can't answer your question, but can offer a series suggestion.

Look at the October Daye series. No SA, full of romance, has a lot of fantasy stuff in it. Hell, the last book had me squalling like a baby cause of the romance in it.

KitKatAttackBack t1_iu4wvwb wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM

Seannan McGuire does not write SA. At all. In her Incryptid series a female character is kidnapped and stripped naked. And she still isn't SAd.

You also won't get explicit sex scenes. She doesn't really write those. But the romance in her series are so good, sweet and so believable.

If you want fantasy with explicit sex scenes, T. Kingfisher's Saint of Steel series is awesome for that. No SA, and all the romance.

dame_shadowblade t1_iu6jdma wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:46 PM

While I enjoy the series, I disagree that there's no sa or attempted sa in it - in a Local Habitation >!Alex tries to magically whammy Toby so that she would sleep with him so he could steal her life force and her whole relationship with Devin is arguably grooming, although I don't think she realises that in the first book.!<

Cat_Hoarder0 t1_iu6k8ad wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:53 PM

Oop. You're right.

I'd forgotten about Alex and Devin, since both of them are in the series for such short times.

dame_shadowblade t1_iu83kk9 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 8:06 AM

No worries! I remember I'd also heard that there saw no sa in the October Daye books so when I read a Local Habitation, I wasn't ready for that scene and had to take a breather, esp because >!Toby gets angry and the characters around her all just go 'that's just what he is, silly of you to not have recognised what he is earlier'!<

Prior-Ad5197 t1_iu6xxf1 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:44 AM

Oh I love that series. It's sooo good! To the OP another series recommendation are the Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega by Patricia Biggs. Both series are full of action and romance and fantasy. I think in the Mercy Thompson series there is implied SA in one book but it doesn't "show" anything and in the Alpha & Omega series it's alluded to but again it's not graphic, just mentions it.