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If you've been in a bookstore lately or even just walked by a newsstand or airport book display, you might have seen a sudden increase in a certain type of book.

Maybe it has dragons on the cover or those fancy colored edges or a portrait of a gorgeous fairy on the cover.

That's F-A-E-R-I-E, fairy, if you're spelling it by the way.

Dragons and fairies.

You might think these books contain some classic fantasy epic a la Lord of the Rings.

Well, you would be wrong.

Books like A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, or Akatar if you're in the know, are being billed as romanticy, a blend of romance and fantasy.

And this new genre is taking the publishing industry by storm.