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Sarah J. Maas · 2020 · US · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 3 in Crescent City
★ 4.45 Goodreads · 1,370,342 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of House of Earth and Blood

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US 98% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
shares: fae, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, speculative

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.

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · US 98% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 2,728,581 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Throne of Glass
shares: propulsive, magic, romance, romantasy · easy read, speculative

An eighteen-year-old assassin pulled from a salt mine competes to become the king's champion, while something in the glass castle kills the other contestants one by one.

Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 2024 · UK 97% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 1,028,034 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Fae & Alchemy
shares: fae, romantasy, sensual, 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.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: fae, romantasy, secondary world, 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.

Faebound

Saara El-Arifi · 2024 · UK 96% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 32,146 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Faebound
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, fae · easy read, speculative

Yeeran, a soldier in the elven army who has known nothing but war, is exiled after a fatal mistake along with her sister Lettle, a diviner, and in the wilderness beyond the borders they find the fae court, unseen for a thousand years.

The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines 96% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
shares: romantasy, sensual, secondary world, romance · speculative, story-driven

Talasyn, an orphaned soldier who can weave light, has spent ten years fighting the Night Empire, whose heir Alaric commands shadow. After a defeat on the battlefield, a political marriage binds the two enemies together.

Throne of the Fallen

Kerri Maniscalco · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 123,740 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Prince of Sin
shares: demonic, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, speculative

Prince Envy of hell, whose court is being wasted by a slow malady, enters a dangerous magical game with a prize that could save his people, and crosses paths with Camilla Antonius, a gifted painter struggling to keep her late father's gallery open while a local lord blackmails her over a secret.

A Deal with the Elf King

Elise Kova · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 122,684 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Married to Magic
shares: fae, romantasy, sensual, romance · easy read, speculative

Luella, the only healer in her village, is chosen by the Elf King, Eldas, to be his human queen and taken into the Midscape, a land of wild magic that is slowly dying and that only she, it seems, can keep alive.

The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 2018 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 256,364 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Bridge Kingdom
shares: romantasy, sensual, propulsive, romance · easy read, earnest

Lara, a princess raised in a desert compound and trained as a spy, is sent to marry the king of Ithicana, the island nation that controls the only bridge between two continents, with orders to find its weaknesses and bring it down.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, sensual, secondary world, 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.

Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 165,194 ratings
shares: demonic, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Elisabeth Scrivener, an orphan raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, where grimoires can turn into monsters, is blamed for a deadly act of sabotage and must trust the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon servant to clear her name.

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 339,805 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Kindred's Curse
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

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.