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Running On Romance
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Dedicated to Reading, Writing, and Reviewing Romantic Fiction. I post about #romance #fiction #books #bookcovers #bookreviews #romancelandia #romanticsubplots #booksky
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What is 3 months… forever and no time at all? I just finished The Summer War, a novella, by Naomi Novik. A quick read that packs a punch. Nobility, Knights, Magic, Middle children and choosing love. #fantasy #bookcovers Verdict: Delightful. #bookreview
A pale green book cover with a lute made from a sword hilt surrounded by flowers.
October 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Hello. I’m back! I finished A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen. This is book 2 of The Saga of the Unfated. Book 1 is A Fate Inked in Blood. I enjoyed this duology, a #romantasy grounded in Norse mythology. #bookcovers #bookreview Verdit: Entertaining.
A beautiful blonde woman in a teal dress, book cover. The title, A Fate Inked in Blood, is in teal. A beautiful blond woman in armor, the book title, A Curse Carved in Bone, is in red. Book cover.
July 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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My June TBR:
1. Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler
2. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
3. A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L Jensen
4. The Iliad Homer translated by Emily Wilson
5. The Odyssey Homer translated by Emily Wilson #books #tbr
A stack of books on an outside patio table.
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I read The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, fantasy with some romantic relationships, lesbian couple, straight couple but one is a monster. 🐺 Set in an alternative Ancient Europe with magic. A lost princess must reclaim her throne. The #bookcover isn’t special. Review: Would Recommend !
A black book cover with a red skull with flaming horns. Title is The Devils in yellowish cream font.
June 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I finished The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton, Book 2 in the Love’s Academic Series. Good if you like clumsy, manic pixie dream girls and brooding, reserved love interests and MAGIC. #bookcovers #romancelandia
Green book cover with gold embossing with a compass rising over a mountain range.
May 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I finished the Emily Wilde Series by Heather Fawcett and I loved it. Two scholars of folklore, Emily Wilde and Wendell Bambleby, are studying faeries and their dangerous realms, but what secrets are our protagonists hiding? #fantasy #romance #bookcovers #romancelandia #bookreviews
A dark green book cover with a floral design along the edges with bones at the corners. Mushrooms are at the bottom edge. A green book cover with two red foxes, one on each side of a group of mushrooms. Delicate floral vines line the edges of the book. A bluish green book cover with trees with eyes lining the edges, a group of mushrooms sit at the bottom center of the book.
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I read Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis. A fun start to a series, The Queens of Villainy. A young witch reclaims her throne from her wicked uncle and creates a magical safe haven but not everyone is happy. Enter a mysterious dark wizard with his won secrets. #fantasyromance #bookcovers
A beautiful dark haired witch queen with a crown of thorns in a teal dress looking over her shoulder at a handsome young man in a black robe. Her hand is on his cheek. They are standing in a library and a fat crow is looking at them from a nearby table. #romancelandia #bookteviews
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I finished The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake. A young adult fantasy romance about a young forest princess and the lonely boy who gives who a gift which sparks a war. Friends to Enemies to Lovers. #romancelandia #bookcovers Verdict: Reads Young.
A burnished red book cover with a young woman with bronze hair sitting in an autumn apple tree with an owl and a fox seated on either side of her.
February 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I just read and enjoyed When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein! Congratulations. A fun romp between a cute ghostwriter and an ex-footballer blessed with stamina. #bookcovers #bookreviews #romance #romancelandia #romanticcomedy I also previously posted about How to Help a Hungry Werewolf!
A book cover with a lavender background. A cream couch with a large brunette man dressed in black pants and gray shirt sitting back to back with a brown haired lady dressed in a pink dress with her feet propped up on the couch arm. There’s a large leafy potted plant in one corner, a shelf full of pictures and whatnots behind the couple and an abstract painting on the wall.
February 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Valentine’s Day display in Barnes & Noble. #bookcovers #romance
A bookshelf display filled with romance novels in various shades of pink and purple.
February 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I read a historical romance set in the Gilded Age on a train!!! I read The Tycoon part of The Knickerbocker Club Series by Joanna Shupe. A fun novella about a perfume counter girl on the room and a wealthy banker. #historicalromance #bookcovers Verdict: Fun! #romancelandia
A handsome, stronge jawed man in a golden vest with black stripes on a train station background.
February 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I read The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard, a romantic fantasy with an illegitimate prince and a shadow daddy lurking in the background. This is book 1 in a series and ends with a happily for now resolution. #bookcovers #romancelandia Verdict: Entertaining.
A book cover with an iridescent mythical creature that looks like a wolf with wings and a feathered tail.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I read Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan, a stand-alone romantic fantasy about a young ruler and the God of War. Filled with intrigue, deceit, and maybe a timeless love. #bookcovers #romancelandia #fantasyromance Verdict: Entertaining.
A very colorful book cover predominately pink and purple with pink lotus framing a woman wearing elaborate red robes offering a man wearing purple robes a pink and red lotus.
January 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Something different! I read This Cursed House by Del Sandeen. Southern Black Gothic Fiction and a haunted house in New Orleans and the true horrors of colorism. #bookcovers #horror #fiction #blackbooksky #booksky #blackauthor Verdict: Good.
A dark gray background with a shadowed mansion with lights shining through the windows. A beautiful brown skinned woman is framed by the moon in the sky. The title is in red font reading: This Cursed House.
January 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Look at this title!!! I read Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London. A vampire romance featuring a grad school drop out dealing with trauma. #bookcovers #supernaturalromance #vampires #romancelandia
A green novel with white script reading Fang Fiction with a pink girl with wavy black hair in the foreground reading a book. She has a black bandage on her neck dripping blood.
January 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Really enjoyed this paranormal (or is it supernatural?) romance, How to Help a Hungry Werewolf by Charlotte Stein, featuring a plus sized witch reconnecting with her childhood friend turned enemy who is also somehow a werewolf?? #bookcovers #romancelandia #bookreviews Very entertaining!
A plus sized witch with curly brown hair wearing blue jean overalls stirring a bubbling caldron. Behind her stands a brown haired man wearing flannel standing in profile with claw tipped fingers. A cute raccoon is peeking into the caldron.
January 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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For something different…I started reading Jujutsu Kaisen. Very late to this party. Volume 0. #JJK #manga
A black haired boy with a sword pointed at the viewer protectively hugs a young black haired girl to his chest on red background.
January 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I finished The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson. A fantasy romance in which a second daughter agrees to go to a mysterious land searching for her presumed dead father. She finds more than she bargained for including an angry elf!king holding a grudge. #bookcovers #romancelandia
A door framed with purple keys leading to a mysterious and beautiful land. A snake is wound around the purple keys, black background.
December 21, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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I just finished reading Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson. Really unique monster!romance set in Scotland where a descendant of a kelpie falls in love with a man cursed to turn into the Loch Ness Monster. #fantasymonster #bookcovers #romancelandia
A beautiful red haired lady in pink rain boots is standing across from a dark haired man in a kilt kissing her hand standing in a loch. His shadow reflected on the water is shaped like the Loch Ness monster.
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Watched Red One this afternoon. Very entertaining.
The movie poster for the action packed Christmas movie, Red One.
December 15, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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I did not finish The Nanny by Lana Ferguson. Could not connect with the leads. Single Dad romance, secret OnlyFans accounts, truly absurd amount of awkwardness.

I did enjoy The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson. An Omegaverse, fake dating romance between 2 werewolf doctors! #bookcovers #romancelandia
A light blue cover with a man dressed in a gray tshirt and black jeans drinking coffee smiling at a young woman dressed in pink leggings and a white camisol also drinking coffee. The book title, The Nanny, is in pink. A light purple cover with a blonde woman doctor listening to the heart of a black haired man doctor. The floor of the exam room they are standing in has paw prints on the floor because they are werewolves.
December 7, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Hello! I finished A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney. Plot: A young hedge witch, Hecate Goodwin, has to deal with secrets, sisters, and a handsome practitioner of dark magic, Matthew Cypher, leading up to Halloween and her birthday. #fantasyromance #bookcovers #booksky #books
A dark green book cover with pumpkin vines creeping up the lateral edges. A black crow and a black cat stare at each other across the cover. The title says A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney.
December 2, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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I finished reading a fantasy duology The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters by Genoveva Dimova. #bookcovers #fantasy #monsters #bookreviews Book 1, Foul Days, starts off slow, but Book 2, Monstrous Nights, is a quick, entertaining read. #booksky
A cool purple toned book with a lone girl standing surrounded by shadows. The title Of the book Foul Days is in gold. A gold and purple book with the shadow of a wolf on a golden wall. The title Monstrous Nights is in white font.
November 30, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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I finished reading If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens. Two rival Native American authors find themselves at a writing retreat in a haunted castle…in Scotland. Enemies to lovers. Ghost sex. #bookreviews #bookcovers #romancelandia #reading
Beautiful purple cover with an attractive Native American couple about to kiss in the foreground. In the background is a haunted portrait of a young woman. #fantasyromance
November 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Saturday Morning. #reading #coffee #bookcover
Picture of a romance book and a small cup of Starbucks coffee. The coffee was over roasted and I added Baileys.
November 23, 2024 at 8:05 PM