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Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti · 2019 · UK · fantasy · romance
★ 4.03 Goodreads · 128,286 ratings

Elise Callisto enrols at Aurora Academy to find out who killed her brother, and four of the most dangerous boys at the school stand in her way.

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12 books for readers of Dark Fae

Zodiac Academy: The Awakening

Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti · 2019 · UK 96% match
Book 1 of 9 in Zodiac Academy
shares: fae, boarding school, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

On their eighteenth birthday, twin sisters Darcy and Tory Vega, scraping by in the human world, learn that they are the lost heirs to the Fae throne of Solaria and are taken to Zodiac Academy, where four Celestial Heirs mean to drive them out.

Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 2024 · UK 94% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 1,028,034 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Fae & Alchemy
shares: fae, erotic, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Saeris Fane, a thief who steals water in a desert city ruled by an immortal queen, wakes an ancient quicksilver portal by accident and is carried through it into Yvelia, a frozen fae realm, by a warrior called Kingfisher.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
shares: fae, magic, romance · easy read, earnest

Nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf to feed her starving family, and a beastlike faerie comes to claim her life in payment, carrying her across the wall to his court in Prythian, where a blight is spreading through the fae lands.

The Coven

Harper L. Woods and Adelaide Forrest · 2023 · US 93% match ★ 3.50 Hardcover · 107 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Coven of Bones
shares: dark academia, revenge, romance · easy read, romance-driven

Willow Madizza, raised to be a weapon against the Coven that governs Hollow's Grove, enrols at its secret university for witches to find the bones of her ancestors and reclaim her magic, and finds herself at war with its ruthless headmaster, Alaric Thorne.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 93% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: erotic, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 93% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: fae, series starter, magic, romance · earnest, speculative

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

A Fate Inked in Blood

Danielle L. Jensen · 2024 · Canada 93% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 209,318 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Saga of the Unfated
shares: erotic, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Freya, trapped in an unwanted marriage in a Norse-inspired land, is revealed to carry a goddess's blood, and the ambitious jarl who binds her with an oath orders his son Bjorn to train and protect her, the one man she cannot have.

A Shadow in the Ember

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2021 · US 92% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 266,960 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Flesh and Fire
shares: erotic, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Princess Seraphena of Lasania was promised before her birth as consort to the Primal of Death, then refused, and she has trained her whole life to make him fall in love with her so that she can kill him and save her dying kingdom.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 92% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: fae, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.

House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas · 2020 · US 91% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 1,370,342 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Crescent City
shares: fae, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Bryce Quinlan, a half-fae party girl working at an antiquities gallery in the modern city of Lunathion, is pulled into the hunt for the demon that killed her best friend, alongside Hunt Athalar, an enslaved fallen angel.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 91% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: fae, magic, series starter · easy read, speculative

Just as she turns sixteen, Meghan Chase learns that her little brother has been taken and replaced with a changeling, and that she is the half-human daughter of a faery king, and she follows her best friend Robbie into the Nevernever to bring him home.

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · US 91% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 11,551 ratings
shares: magic, series starter, romance · speculative, easy read

In a city where dragons have been gone for centuries, Arcady, a young thief, crosses paths with Sorin, the last dragon, who has come into the human world in human form to bring his kind back.