#Romantic Fantasy

[judgeitbyitscover]

The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman

Cover art by Ted CoConis

Ballantine Books, July 1974 First Paperback Edition

As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini—the criminal philosopher who'll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik—the gentle giant; Inigo—the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge; and Count Rugen—the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercup’s one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate.

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🌙 What to Read After Watching Agatha All Along 🌙

❓ Who is your favorite fictional witch?

🦇 Enjoying Agatha All Along on Disney? Check out these books featuring witches, covens, chaotic queers, & everything in between, perfect for fans of Agatha All Along! List below!

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✨ Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🌑 How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno 🌒 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🌓 This Spells Disaster - Tori Martin 🌔 The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🌕 Beetle & the Hollowbones - Aliza Layne 🌕 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 🌖 In Charm's Way - Lana Harper 🌗 Brewed with Love - Shelly Page 🌘 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🌑 So This Is Ever After - F. T. Lukens ✨ Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy

✨ Basics of Spellcraft - L.C. Mawson 🌑 How To Succeed in Witchcraft - Aislinn Brophy 🌒 Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🌓 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌔 Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🌕 The Shattered Lands - Brenna Nation 🌕 Otherworldly - F. T. Lukens 🌖 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🌗 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🌘 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌑 Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May

✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🌑 The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🌒 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri 🌓 The Sun and the Star - Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro 🌔 The Witch and His Crow - Ben Alderson 🌕 Lord of Eternal Night - Ben Alderson 🌕 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter 🌖 Tonight, I Burn - Katharine J. Adams 🌗 Witches of Ash and Ruin - E. Latimer 🌘 The Severed Thread - Leslie Vedder 🌑 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist - Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison ✨ Love and Other Wicked Things -Philline Harms

✨ Off With Their Heads - Zoe Hana Mikuta 🌑 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🌒 Two Broke Witches - Kate Starling 🌓 Bitterthorn - Kat Dunn 🌔 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 🌕 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores 🌕 Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth, Megan Levens, Marissa Louise 🌖 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🌗 The Hummingbird Coven - Augusta Owens 🌘 Children of the Night - Cara Malone 🌑 The Hex Next Door - Lou Wilham ✨ Malice - Heather Walter

✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall 🌑 The Balance of Fates - Raquel Raelynn 🌒 Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🌓 Doughnuts and Doom - Balazs Lorinczi 🌔 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeve 🌕 Evocation - S.T. Gibson 🌕 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🌖 An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson 🌗 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 🌘 Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌑 A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollowell ✨ Netherford Hall - Natania Barron

✨ The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 🌑 This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron 🌒 Over My Dead Body - Boo Sweeney 🌓 Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌔 The Bewitching Hour - Ashley Poston 🌕 Pushing Daisy - Isla Winter 🌕 Daughter of the Bone Forest - Jasmine Skye 🌖 Keep Your Witches Close - Colette Rivera 🌗 Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu 🌘 Snapdragon - Kat Leyh 🌑 Runaways - Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka ✨ Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega

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[imaginal-ai]

"A Mighty Love" (0004)

(More of The Courtship of Hercules and Iolaus)

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[albertvictoria-art]

"A Particular Picnic"

Last november I shared the picnic stories of four characters of the Romantic era that I had created. Unfortunately, my computer had a problem and I lost some original high quality files, so I decided to create a complete illustration with all the characters!

[nine-frames]

"Beautiful. Very visually dynamic."

Twilight, 2008.

Dir. Catherine Hardwicke | Writ. Melissa Rosenberg | DOP Elliot Davis

[caitsbooks]

✨COVER REVEAL✨

I’m so excited to be revealing the cover of my debut romantic fantasy novel, MEDIEVALLY BLONDE, which will be coming out summer 2025!!!

I still can't believe this is real.⁠ I'm so grateful to my agent, Josh Adams, to the amazing people at Harper Voyager US and UK, to @elithien for making this STUNNING cover and really bringing Clía and Ronan to life, and to all of you guys for making this possible.⁠ Its because of you that my dream is coming true, and I will be forever grateful💖

MEDIEVALLY BLONDE is available for preorder now!!

About MEDIEVALLY BLONDE:

A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom’s prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous, in this romantic debut fantasy loosely inspired by Legally Blonde.

Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or so everyone says. They are prince and princess of neighboring kingdoms. An alliance the gods will smile on. Until Domhnall ruins everything by refusing to propose.

Heartbroken but determined, Clía makes the perfect plan: Follow Domhnall to Caisleán Cósta, the military academy he’s attending. Show she can protect her kingdom. Secure the betrothal. Sure, the castle has a brutal reputation. But how hard can dueling really be?

Warrior Ronan promised himself he’d never lose his focus. He fought and sacrificed for his place at Caisleán Cósta, and he has no time for blonde princesses who waltz into arenas like they’re attending a ball. Even if she and her otter-like pet are… well, cute.

He doesn’t want to be intrigued by Clía. But her hunger to prove herself is something he understands. He tells himself there’s no harm training her. Even if his heart does race around her. Even if Domhnall is his best friend.

But as they say, love is a battlefield—and unfortunately for them all, a very real war is looming on the horizon. It’s a fight that will threaten all their kingdoms… and test all their hearts.

Other fun facts: It takes place in a queernormative world, there’s disability rep, there’s forbidden love, and it’s loosely inspired by Irish folklore!

Preorder now!

[necronatural]

concept: romantic fantasy otome heroine gets the most insane bad end imaginable where she must kill and scavenge to survive, only to go back in time 7 years to the beginning of her romantic fantasy story and figures surely she can just kill her way out of church/state politics and her reverse harem of useless dipshits

(a few years ago i used to binge-read litrpg fantasy isekai (they were all bad) and think of how i'd spin the genre and recently ive been binge-reading so many noble lady webtoons i felt The Hunger)

[bannedfrombookclub]

I really liked Where the Dark Stands Still so here is everything else it immediately reminded me of:

Edit: Also Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Where the Dark Stands Still:

A romantic fantasy set in a world of Slavik Folklore monsters and with a similar basic plot line to Howl's Moving Castle (a girl goes to a magical MMC for help with her magic problem but he has his own magic problems eating him up also she has to clean his magic house wherein lives a hearth spirit etc). There are some really strong sort of forest-horror elements that play on rot, decay, branches under the skin and stuff.

A few squishy bits in the plot/pacing but a really strong debut.

[pistachiozombie]

[The Hobbit - Bofur x Leanna] Warm Hearts Preview #2 - 2 WIP & 1 Finalized🌿 ♥ First Preview | Rough Draft ♥ Phew... Halfway done. ♥ Imagine tidbit below. Shares always appreciated !

🌿Imagine Context: Falling deeply in love on an adventure you thought you'd never have, pining and romantic tension fluttering through the air every time you shared space, only to eventually part ways - unwillingly - several times. During your separation, you are critically injured and taken to an unknown place. You wake up from a realistic fever dream that you were together, and wipe away the tears of frustration that dampened your pillow. Confused, sick, alone. Then, the sound of someone urgently coming towards your closed door echoed through your chilly room.

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Tradewinds Launch - A Fae Tales Novel - Jan 31st

FULL NOVEL RELEASE on JANUARY 31st - EXCLUSIVE to REAM & PATREON ONLY

In the dangerous, ethereal realm of the fae, alliances between the Seelie and Unseelie fae merchants are few. Some say impossible. Matan, a Seelie fae and peacock pheasant shifter with a talent for trade, must keep his Seelie alignment a secret as he embarks on a perilous journey to gather wealth and save a loved one from a terrible curse. He joins an Unseelie merchant caravan of fae who would surely eat him if they learned of his alignment. The enigmatic Udir, a paranoid Unseelie master of poisons and bearded vulture shifter, discovers Matan’s secret and threatens to blackmail him in exchange for vile favours. But Udir’s bravado and bluster hides a painful past and Matan isn’t as innocent or as naïve as he seems. Amid bustling markets, savvy clients, and travelling to new lands Matan has never seen before, Tradewinds is a story of love, found family, trust, betrayal, and the healing that can grow in the shadows of the vibrant, perilous southern fae lands.

Foxhall @ Ream (available on the Gary+Efnisien tiers or higher) Foxhall @ Patreon (available on the Gary+Efnisien tiers of higher)

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We’re advertising a book for readers of adult romance and fantasy: Fall of Ruin and Wrath by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, Jennifer L. Armentrout.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

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—royalty who feed on mortal pleasure.

Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information.

When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning—and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he’ll be her doom.

When the Baron takes an interest in the traveling prince and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the prince’s temporary companion. But the city simmers with rebellion, and with knights and monsters at her city gates and a hungry prince in her bed, intuition may not be enough to keep her safe.

Calista must choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.

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💜 Queer Fairytale Retellings

🌙 Good afternoon, my beloved bookish bats. For many of us, fairytales were our first introduction to the fantasy & romantasy genres. Here are a few queer fairytale retellings filled with magic, mischief, & mayhem that are bound to enchant your heart.

✨ The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 🌙 The Nightmare Verse Series - LL McKinney ✨ Icarus - K. Ancrum 🌙 A Clash of Steel - CB Lee ✨ Cinderella is Dead - Kalynn Bayron 🌙 The Fox Maidens - Robin Ha ✨ Briar Girls - Rebecca Kim Wells 🌙 Beast - Brie Spangler ✨ Malice - Heather Walter

🌙 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores ✨ Gwen & Art Are Not in Love - Lex Croucher 🌙 The Magic Fix - Trung Le Nguyen ✨ Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌙 Relit - Various ✨ Tink and Wendy - Kelly Ann Jacobso 🌙 Hunting Monsters - S.L. Huang ✨ Burning Roses - S.L. Huang 🌙 Caged Bird Rising - Nino Delia

✨ Summer in the City of Roses - Michelle Ruiz Keil 🌙 A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams - Dax Murray ✨ Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌙 Winterglass - Benjanun Sriduangkaew ✨ Robber Girl - S.T. Gibson 🌙 Ash - Malinda Lo ✨ Sword In The Stars - Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy 🌙 Darling - K. Ancrum ✨ Girls Made of Snow and Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

🌙 Dark And Deepest Red - Anna-Marie McLemore ✨ Ghost Wood Song - Erica Waters 🌙 His Hideous Heart - Various ✨ The Bone Spindle - Leslie Vedder 🌙 Legendborn By Tracey Deonn ✨ The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌙 Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao ✨ The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 🌙 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

[nine-frames]

"You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness monster?!"

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, 2012.

Dir. Bill Condon | Writ. Melissa Rosenberg | DOP Guillermo Navarro

[princeruby]

She's a softie. I swear. 😶

- Prince of Erosia -

[albertvictoria-art]

✨A Particular Picnic: A Short Swipe Story✨

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I made this story for TikTok and I though it could be nice if I share it here too! I designed every character inspired by the Romantic era (one of my favourites). Their outfits are based on some fashion plates from 1830s.

I hope you enjoy it! Let me know who do choose and how did your picnic day turn out!

[acmoorereadsandwrites]

Because I'm seeing so much discourse around this and have my own opinions: W