Books like Girls of Paper and Fire
Lei, a girl of the lowest, fully human Paper caste, is taken from her village to the palace of the Demon King to serve as one of his Paper Girls, and finds herself falling for another of the chosen girls, Wren.
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We Set the Dark on Fire
On the island of Medio, divided by a wall, Daniela Vargas graduates top of a school that trains girls to be a powerful man's first wife, hiding that her papers are forged, until a resistance movement offers her a choice.
Spark of the Everflame
Diem Bellator, a healer in Emarion, where cruel demigods called the Descended rule over mortals, goes looking for her missing mother and uncovers a secret that ties her family to the Descended, while the heir of the dying king takes an unwelcome interest in her.
Once Upon a Broken Heart
When the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister, Evangeline Fox strikes a bargain with Jacks, the immortal Prince of Hearts, and must pay for his help with three kisses of his choosing, in a kingdom where fairy tales hold dangerous power.
The Belles
In Orléans, where people are born grey and must pay for beauty, Camellia Beauregard is one of the Belles who can make them beautiful, and she wants nothing more than to be named the queen's favourite.
Red Queen
In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.
An Enchantment of Ravens
Isobel paints portraits for the fair folk, who pay her in enchantments, and when she paints the autumn prince Rook with human sorrow in his eyes, he carries her off to stand trial at his court for the insult.
Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
The Jasmine Throne
Malini, a princess exiled by her brother the emperor to a ruined temple to repent, is waited on by Priya, a maidservant hiding the powers she was born with, as a rot spreads through the land.
The Black Tides of Heaven
Mokoya and Akeha, twins given as children to the Grand Monastery to settle their mother the Protector's debt, grow up apart, one with the gift of prophecy and the other drawn to the rebels against her.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Karou, a blue-haired art student in Prague, runs errands across the world for Brimstone, the chimaera who raised her, collecting teeth for purposes he will not explain, until a seraph named Akiva starts hunting his kind.
Witchmark
Miles Singer, a war veteran working as a psychiatric doctor under a false name to hide his magic, is asked by a dying man to find his killer, alongside a beautiful stranger named Tristan Hunter.
We Hunt the Flame
Zafira, who disguises herself as a man to hunt in the cursed Arz forest, and Nasir, the Prince of Death and the sultan's assassin, are sent after the same lost relic that could bring magic back to their kingdom.