If you could only read from one genre ever again in your life, what would it be?

Bonus if you rec a book in that genre.

For anyone interested:

Classics - 1 Domestic/Literary Fiction - 3 Fantasy - 15 History - 2 Horror - 8 Magical realism - 1 Mystery - 2 Nonfiction - 3 Romance - 3 Romantasy - 1 Sci-fi - 1 Speculative fiction - 6 YA - 1

this person (his name is too long, sorry not sorry) appears to be a gentleman but i sense an obnoxious and opportunistic personality.

Six dates and spending Xmas together is psychotic.

I love scandalous Gwendolyn, why did we have to wait until the last fifth of the book for this

who was the first shadow daddy? who started it all? is this a more recent phenomenon or is it something that’s been happening for a long time now?

these are the questions that are currently plaguing me now that i have finished reading shadow and bone. this book was published in 2012, making it one of the earliest instances of a shadow daddy i’ve encountered.

so now im on a quest to find the Original Shadow Daddy™️

i’ll put a timeline here:

Tall Dark and Brooding™️ era (the predecessors): lord byron (the guy) (1788) pride and prejudice (1813) by jane austen jane eyre (1847) by charlotte bronte batman (1939) by bill finger and bob kane divergent (2011) by veronica roth

Heathcliff™️: wuthering heights (1847) by emily bronte

Powers™️ era (with powers but not shadow powers): dracula (1897) by bram stoker elric of melnibone (1792) by michael moorcock interview with a vampire (1976) by anne rice the darkangel (1982) by meredith ann pierce the awakening (1991) by lj smith dark visions (1994) by lj smith twilight (2005) by stephanie meyer

Shadow Daddy™️ era (with the shadow powers): hades, thanatos, erebus (8th century bce) first mentioned in the iliad and the odyssey? nine princes in amber (1997) by roger zelazny daughter of the blood (1998) by anne bishop cassandra clare and her black leather pants draco (c. 2000s?) city of bones (2007) by cassandra clare the hundred thousand kingdoms (2010) by nk jemisin the red pyramid (2010) by rick riordan shadow and bone (2012) by leigh bardugo acotar (2015) by sjm fourth wing (2023) by rebecca yarros

and if you know of an earlier occurrence please let me know im so curious 🙏🙏