Interspecies Romance - Christchurch City Libraries
If you like your romance reads slightly out of the ordinary, then these interesting pairings are worth a try. Interspecies romance involves humans who fall in love with anything from aliens to Merpeople, Demons, and Robots. This genre generally focuses on the love story but can also include themes like sexuality, mental health, family relationships, and cross genres into sci-fi adventure, paranormal fantasy, and erotica.
In an alternative version of the 1980s- where Britain has lost the Falklands war and Alan Turing has created AI intelligence- Charlie floats around unattached to anything, but Miranda. When Charlie comes into a bit of money, he invests in a…
A twisted love story of obsession, anxiety, connection, and addiction. 'The Pisces' follows protagonist Lucy, who decamps to the LA coast in the wake of the demise of a long-term relationship, and in the middle of a breakdown. Lucy is trying to…
This novel was written in parallel with the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, in which a cleaner at a government facility becomes entranced by a sentient and sensitive water creature. As their love deepens, protagonist Elisa finds herself with…
In this light-hearted take on a space opera, a motley crew roams the cosmos in a patched-together ship. Alongside the twists and turns of space-adventuring, various romances between unlikely partners develop, including the union of the protagonist…
What happens when a witch and a vampire break an ancient taboo and become lovers? Diana has kept the world of the paranormal away, as facing the truth means she has to remember the death of her parents. When she accidently encounters a magical…
If you like danger, bad-ass women, paranormal creatures, and a good ol' adventure story, this series is a must read! 'Rat Queens' is like a cross between Buffy the Vampire slayer and a Dungeons and Dragons game. This series follows a group of women…
Get ready for an epic, tear-jerking human and robot romance! Cat Novak is a lonely girl who lives in an isolated town. Her father is a bewildered scientist, while her mother is harsh and opinionated. At age five, Cat is introduced to Finn. Finn…
A paranormal adventure/romance/vampire story with a twist, in which a race of vampires known as The Carpathians must find romantic life partners to prevent their transformation into true beasts. With over 30 books in the series so far, this may be…
This book is a collection of three novels in the Xenogenesis series. Lilith is a human who has been plucked from planet Earth by an alien species called the Oankali; though they believe that humans will ultimately destroy themselves, they…
Tanith Lee weaves a tragic and beautiful tale in this coming-of-age novel about love between a human and AI set in a dystopian far-future. On a world ravaged by environmental disaster and pollution, robots have supplanted human employment, resulting…
This novella tells the story of an unhappily married housewife who finds solace in a love affair with a well-muscled humanoid amphibian, who is on the run from the experimental horrors of a government scientific lab. In clear incisive prose,…
Stardust' tells the thrillingly magical tale of a young man named Tristan Thorn. Tristian lives in the Victorian era town named Wall, named that way because next to the village is a large wall that separates the land of Faerie from human. In Wall,…
Winner of the Costa Prize for Best Book and for Best Novel but this is an enchanting read but it's definitely no fairy-tale. David is singing and strumming his guitar when he attracts the attention of a centuries-old mermaid called Aycayia, who was…
