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We love big books

Welcome to Romanceopoly, the yearly reading challenge. You’ve landed at the Gym where your challenge is to read the longest book on your TBR. Alternatively, if you want to take it easy, read any historical romance book of your choosing.

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THE GYM

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I love a big book when I’m in the mood for something juicy and epic…or when I need a paperweight. But, it’s a big commitment, so I don’t read the big behemoth books very often. This challenge is to get you looking at you TBR and finally pick up that hefty book you’ve been eyeing up, but haven’t quite got around to.

In the recommendations, you’ll see the big books on my TBR that I’ll be picking from.

Genre only challenge

If you’re doing the genre only version of the challenge, pick any historical romance book of your choosing! For more historical romance book recommendations take a look at our historical romance page on Under the Covers book blog.

My big books

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The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon

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Publisher’s synopsis

A world divided.
A queendom without an heir.
An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction–but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

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Publisher’s synopsis

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord…1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

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