Although plenty of quarantine romances have already been written, and plenty where some sort of pandemic has decimated the world, I find it extremely difficult to read them.
What you won’t find are any which explicitly reimagine the post-COVID world. The books below range from the famous to the obscure, YA to adult. The books below make the most of the opportunity to throw off ‘civilised’ constraints provided by the dystopian setting, producing a rich exploration of power and moral codes.
I tend to find morally ambiguous characters much more interesting than those with fixed parameters (though of course, a good/bad opposites pairing has its own awesomeness). What sort of sacrifices will a couple have to make? What will that do to a fledgling relationship? And so on.Īs well as giving us ready-made action and drama, this kind of setting shapes some of my favourite protagonists to read about: antiheroes and antiheroines. This gets amped up when we focus on dystopian romance novels, specifically. One of the most interesting things dystopian novels have always tried to show us is how humanity develops in the face of the worst.
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