#rr2025

Hey romance readers! 💕

It's time for ROUND FOUR of the Romance Readathon! I can't believe this has been going on for four years and we can celebrate the romance genre every February! For the entire month of February (1st-28th) I will read as many romance books as I can so join me in swooning over some fictional characters 🥺

If anyone wants a challenge, here are this year's reading prompts:

read a romance that's been on your tbr the longest

read a romance with blue or purple on the cover

read someone's 5 star favorite romance (you could ask a mutual or stalk someone's goodreads/storygraph 👀)

read a romance that features a wedding

post a book poll on tumblr and read the romance book that wins!

Please feel free to double up on prompts, no problem!

Use the hashtag #rr2025 for all posts related to the readathon. This can be your TBR, a book review, rant, reading update, absolutely anything you want.

I really liked this one! Leo was just looking for a fresh start in college and Junpei kind of was too. When they met they somehow figured out they went to the same high school without ever really knowing each other outside of the rumors about Leo being a gang leader. I loved that they had this reluctant friendship (at least on Leo’s side) that grew into feelings and wanting to spend more time together. And a little bit of a sexuality crisis on Junpei’s part. It was sweet and fun and it’s getting four out of five stars!

2025 reading challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: a number in the title

Read More Queer: a graphic novel

Romance readathon book 4

Currently Listening: Happy Place by Emily Henry

Y'all...my heart is wrenched right now. I feel like this is going to end up with the break-up being due to miscommunication, which will piss me off, but I'm having fun with this so far.

In February, I'm joining a romance readathon hosted by @princessofbookaholics, and one of the prompts is to let a Tumblr poll choose a book! I decided to let the poll choose which Robin Hood-themed historical romance I read for the challenge.

"The Baron" by Juliana Garnett (1999). This one features Robin's niece as the FMC and a (different?) Sheriff of Nottingham as the MMC. I think the implication is that this man is the replacement for whoever the book is casting as Robin's original enemy, but there's still political animosity because he's been tasked with hunting down outlaws.

"Damsel in Distress" by Shannon Drake (1992). Looking between the back cover of my copy and the synopsis online, I can't figure out which way this goes. Either the FMC or the MMC is leading a secret double life as an outlaw working with Robin, and that causes at least some of the relationship issues. Classic trope of the two of them being pushed into a forced marriage, and then falling in love after they're already married. Potentially a slow-burn?

This book had me in a little puddle of happy tears the entire time I was reading it! I loved how Landon and Casey were so sweet together, they way they made each other laugh and giggle like little kids, the way they listened to each other, the way that they just wanted to be in the others orbit all the time. It was so sweet! I also loved that Casey didn’t judge Landon for not wanting to have sex and that he gave Landon the space he needed to explore his sexuality (the on page demisexual rep you didn’t know you needed 😭❤️). And I loved that Landon was just down to listen to Casey yap about everything under the sun. Basically what I’m saying, is that I melted into a little puddle of goo with heart eyes for this whole book. It’s getting five stars and I would highly recommend this one!

2025 Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

Alphabet Challenge: T

Read More Queer: Asexual/Aromantic