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Romantasy - Extreme Reader 2025

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2025 challenge! Additional Category Information: • Genre mashup of Romance and Fantasy • World-building, epic quests, and/or magical systems with character-driven stories with romantic relationship/s

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  • Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a fiery passion, the threats…
    Book, 2015New York : Bloomsbury, 2015. — YF MAAS-S
  • Raised to be my father's weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. My duty forces me to the secret town of Crystal Hollow and the…
    Book, 2024New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — F WOODS-H
  • Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — YF BLACK-H
  • Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest.
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — YF SKYE-J
  • Soothsayer Mona Arnett's life changes when the young leader of the royal magicians calls upon her skill in naming soulmates to help in providing the dying king with an heir, except, according to Mona's reading, she is the king's soulmate and…
    Book, 2024Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2024. — YF HELAN-A
  • Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian--a royal who feed on mortal pleasure. Born with an intuition…
    Book, 2023New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — F ARMEN-J
  • After discovering that she is a shield maiden who can repel any attack, a fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath to protect Skaland"-- Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — F JENSE-D
  • In a kingdom where magic has been lost, Fia is a rare changeling, left behind by the wicked Fair Folk when they stole the High Queen's daughter and retreated behind the locked gates of Tír na nÓg. Most despise Fia's fae blood. But the queen raises…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Orbit, 2024. — F SELEN-L
  • Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she's returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes…
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, 2021. — F BODAR-A
  • Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates…
    Book, 2023Shrewsbury, PA : Red Tower Books, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2023. — F YARRO-R
  • In this contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god-turned-detective to track down a wrathful demon before it can destroy the mortal world.
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — F KIM-S
  • Lark, on the run from her abusive father, finds refuge in Cagmar, the troll city that hangs beneath a bridge. Lark has been cursed with the power to thrust fear into others, and the hostile trolls believe she will be a valuable weapon against the…
    Book, 2023Seatle, Washington : 47North, [2023] — F HOLMB-C
  • Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to…
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, 2023. — F GONG-C
  • Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a…
    Book, 2021[New York, New York] : Orbit, 2021. — F SURI-T
  • A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in. A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.
    Book, 2024New York : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — F SBRAN-A
  • A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the…
    Book, 2024Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2024. — YG MARBL
  • In a kingdom divided by extraordinary powers and a strict caste system, Paedyn Gray, a young girl with no abilities, must hide her ordinary nature as she navigates a forbidden romance with a powerful prince and must participate in the perilous…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2023. — YF ROBER-L
  • Intrigued by the beautiful, too properly dressed woman in her library who has appeared as if out of nowhere, librarian Ellie finds the pull between them undeniable, but unbeknownst to Ellie, the woman, a powerful witch, has come to awaken Ellie's…
    Book, 2024New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — F MARR-M
  • With Prohibition threatening their livelihood, Luxe Revelle, the star of her family's fantastical show, agrees to pose as the girlfriend of the son of Charmant's wealthiest family and finds herself playing a dangerous game when she meets the boy who…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — YF SMITH-L
  • In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city…
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — YF BOWLE-D