@Lexa_Hunt I don't read romance that often because I don't like it either, especially the super sappy, cliche and unrealistic stuff. I only read a few select books I've found to be good, or ones my friends write. I have a lot of friends and family who love romance lol. The only romance I do sometimes enjoy reading is historical, Christian inspirational, or if it's a well-written, non-sappy subplot in a story from another genre.
One of my favorite authors, Melanie Dickerson, has a whole series of books based off of fairytales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, etc, but rewrites them to be wayyyy better and the setting is medieval fantasy. If you don't mind reading Christian novels then I think you might, maybe, possibly like that series. Other than that I can't think of any others that sound like something you'd be interested in.