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I'm Even More Excited About This Upcoming 2025 Romantasy Book After Paramount's Movie News
After this great movie news from Paramount, I am even more excited about this upcoming 2025 romantasy book’s release. With the growing popularity of BookTok’s many romantasy titles, it is no surprise that several hit romantasy series have been picked up by studios to be adapted to screen in some way, two major examples being Amazon’s upcoming Fourth Wing TV show and Netflix’s Quicksilver series. However, the type of romantasy series being selected all share certain traits that showcase what the studios are looking for in these projects.
These various romantasy book series are all heavily action-based, with several of them having magic creatures and gripping political intrigue to drive the plot forward alongside of their steamy moments between the main couple. While focusing on these makes perfect sense for studios, it also means that other fantasy books that would make great movies that do not necessarily have these traits get left behind. Fortunately, that trend seems to be ending thanks to Paramount, which is set to adapt a duology that already has an exciting new addition on its way: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.
Divine Rivals’ Spinoff, Wild Reverence, Is More Exciting After Paramount’s Movie News
Paramount’s Film Can Create Even More Awareness Around The Duology
The upcoming release of the spinoff to Ross’s romantasy duology, Wild Reverence, is even more exciting now that Paramount is set to adapt the series. Paramount acquired the rights to Ross’s duology in June 2025 after winning a multi-studio bidding war for the books, highlighting the high popularity of Ross’s work even after it left BookTok’s spotlight. Sofia Alvarez, who penned the adaptation of Netflix’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, is set to write the script with Ross assisting on the project as an executive producer.
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Divine Rivals, which was a completed duology, was already set to be reinvigorated in the romantasy space through its spinoff novel, so to have this announcement only adds to the excitement of seeing more of Ross’s story unfold. Audiences who did not know about Ross’s work now have a bigger incentive to pick it up, especially as the two-book series makes the narrative easy to read before Wild Reverence debuts. Reading the spinoff would also create a large amount of excitement for Paramount’s adaptation, as it reveals so much more of the world of Divine Rivals.
How Wild Reverence Will Connect To Rebecca Ross’ 2023 BookTok Hit
Wild Reverence Is Set Years Before The Main Series
Ross’s romantasy spinoff elaborates on the world of gods and men that has long since passed in Divine Rivals, telling its own story while still being connected to the 2023 BookTok hit. Divine Rivals’ new book is set years before the war between the gods and men of Ross’ world took place, giving us a look at the land in its magical heyday. The story follows Matilda, a young messenger goddess born in the Under realms who is trying to survive her cutthroat world of power and alliances while harboring a dire secret.
Wild Reverence is set to be published on September 2, 2025.
Matilda has become connected to a mortal boy named Vincent, who wrote her a letter years ago that she never received, but they meet all the same, forever shifting their world through their love. Wild Reverence does seem to copy key aspects from the main romantasy duology, but is largely separate from it, with no characters from the main series set to appear as it takes place long before the primary storyline. Even so, the addition of this spinoff is a great sign for the duology’s adaptation, as it gives more content for the future franchise to build on.
Wild Reverence Gives The Divine Rivals Adaptation Franchise Potential
Divine Rivals’ Adaptations Will Have More Story To Work With
Divine Rivals’ adaptation now has a lot more franchise potential as the romantasy duology will simply have more story to tell through Wild Reverence. While Divine Rivals was big on BookTok at publication and after the release of its sequel Ruthless Vows, the fact that Ross’ story was completed after two books caused audiences to set it aside in favor of other ongoing romantasy series, though it is still lightly discussed in book spaces today. With Wild Reverence, though, its larger popularity can reemerge and help this and future adaptations of the series.
Much like Suzanne Collins’ prequel books for The Hunger Games, Wild Reverence can get audiences further invested in the story and, if it is adapted later on, introduce audiences who still have not picked it up through its more conventional fantasy tone.
Though Wild Reverence is meant to be a prequel book, it still allows Ross’ works to be marketed as a trilogy, which studios have begun to heavily invest in due to past successes in other book spaces. Much like Suzanne Collins’ prequel books for The Hunger Games, Wild Reverence can get audiences further invested in the story and, if it is adapted later on, introduce audiences who still have not picked it up through its more conventional fantasy tone. As a result, this romantasy duology can become a thriving franchise, giving the books their long-awaited moment to truly shine.
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