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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Finished - The Devils, A Curse Carved in Bone, The Knight and the Moth (wasn’t on June TBR) Started - Everyone Wants to Rule the World Except Me (did not finish, not the right mood, unfortunately) Next Month - (July) The Iliad and The Odyssey 🙏🏾 #reading #tbrupdate #June #books

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m on a good reading stretch, will hopefully be posting more covers and brief reviews soon. Hope you guys are doing well. #love #readers #reading #books

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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.

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Tamara Amsdt @tamaraamsdt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

seems like a good time to share some new romance book art💕 🖌acrylic on wood

Four rectangle shaped wooden ornaments with romance book covers painted on each of them. The books are Fires of Winter by Johanna Lindsey, Jewel by Beverly Jenkins, Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins, and Holiday with the Wongs by Jackie Lau.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

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Jill Minor @jillsreads.com · 06/02/2025

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who can flip the creepiest Snow White of all? If you said @tkingfisher.com you win the poisoned apple. HEMLOCK & SILVER is scary and full of shivery surprises. Love the main character so much. 10 of 10 stars, August 19 release. Thanks to @macmillanlib.bsky.social. #ewgc

Image of a snake made of flower stems and grass wrapped around a red apple. Text: 'HEMLOCK & SILVER T. Kingfisher New York Times Bestselling Author of A Sorceress Comes to Call'

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Can’t wait for contemporary romance novels in which the heroine dies of consumption. #tuberculosis #publichealth #contemporaryromance #romance

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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.

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Anna Moshak @aizelkonart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

These illustrations actually started my career as a book cover artist, haha 😄

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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!

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Agree, Can’t wait for the third book!

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Welcome, new followers! I love you. Will be posting more beautiful book covers and micro reviews soon. #romancelandia #bookreviews #books

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

RIP to USMC Cpl. John Kinsel Sr. He passed away at the age of 107. He was one of the last 3 remaining Navajo Code Talkers and served with the 9th Marine Regiment & 3rd Marine Division during the taking of Iwo Jima. Thank you for your service, sir. May the Great Spirit guide your way home.

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Linda McConeghy Watson @thelindashow.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

My first 2025 read was a new to me historical author that @melonreads.bsky.social recommended, Aydra Richards. 5 stars! The GROVELING y'all. Chef's kiss.

Cover of Exit, Pursued by a Baron by Aydra Richards.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Watched Red One this afternoon. Very entertaining.

The movie poster for the action packed Christmas movie, Red One.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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.

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collectingromance.bsky.social @collectingromance.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I've shared this cover before on Twitter, but I just now found this copy in the wild (at a Salvation Army thrift store) & am celebrating by sharing it again. The Three-armed Lady on the cover of Castles In The Air, by Christina Dodd Harper, 1993 Illustrated by Robert McGuire

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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.

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Powell’s Books | The World’s Largest Independent Bookstore #bookstore #books #Portland

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When the socially inept hero turns into a secret sex!god, do you roll your eyes? #romance #romancelandia #books #tropes

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Charlotte Ingham @writesalotte.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Reading my romantasy through for copyedits and the spicy scenes sure hit different when you realise this is the version your irl friends and family are going to see 😅 it's fine everything is fine no need to panic

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a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words " chuckling nervously " below him

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Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Powell’s Books at Portland International Airport (PDX). #books #bookstores

Powell’s Books inside Portland International Airport (PDX). Portland, Oregon

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