Someone asked: “Romantasy books like A Court of Thorns and Roses.”
Books like ACOTAR.
Romantasy: fantasy worlds, high stakes and a love story at the centre. If you finished Sarah J. Maas and feel empty, start here.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2013
The starting point. If you haven't read it yet, this is why everyone is talking about faeries.
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Dragons, a deadly academy and a brooding rival. The closest thing to ACOTAR's intensity, with more action.
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
A chosen maiden, a guard with secrets and a world of vampires and gods. Long, steamy and very bingeable.
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
Less steam, more scheming. A mortal girl climbs the politics of a faerie court. Brilliant heroine.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Maas's other series: an assassin competes to become the king's champion. Starts YA and grows up fast.
Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
A girl is taken by a wizard to his tower as the forest grows darker. Fairy tale, slow-burn romance, beautiful writing.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor · 2001
An art student in Prague who runs errands for monsters meets an angel. Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
A witch historian finds a bewitched manuscript and a vampire scientist who wants it. Oxford, libraries and forbidden love.
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