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Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of The Hurricane Wars

The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 2018 · Canada 98% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 256,364 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Bridge Kingdom
shares: marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, romantasy, court · romance-driven, easy read

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 98% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, sensual, secondary world, romance · speculative, romance-driven

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.

Rose in Chains

Julie Soto · 2025 · US 98% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 98,447 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · speculative, romance-driven

The war is lost and the hero who was meant to save them is dead, and Briony Rosewood, princess of Evermore, stripped of her magic, is sold at auction to Toven Hearst, heir to a family known for its cruelty.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 98% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, court · speculative, easy read

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.

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · US 98% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 11,551 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, sensual, romance · speculative, romance-driven

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.

Fear the Flames

Olivia Rose Darling · 2024 · US 97% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 47,345 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, dual perspective, romance · speculative, romance-driven

Exiled princess Elowen Atarah, torn from her dragons as a child and imprisoned by her father, King Garrick of Imirath, allies with Cayden Veles, the feared commander of Vareveth, to break into her father's castle, take her dragons back and have her revenge.

Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin · 2019 · US 97% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 355,266 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Serpent & Dove
shares: marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · romance-driven, story-driven

Lou, a witch hiding on the streets of Cesarine, is forced by a public scandal into marriage with Reid Diggory, a devout captain of the Church's witch hunters, and must hide what she is from a man sworn to burn her kind.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, sensual, romance · speculative, romance-driven

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.

A Fate Inked in Blood

Danielle L. Jensen · 2024 · Canada 97% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 209,318 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Saga of the Unfated
shares: romantasy, dual perspective, secondary world, romance · speculative, romance-driven

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.

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 339,805 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Kindred's Curse
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, court · speculative, easy read

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.

Radiance

Grace Draven · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 70,825 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Wraith Kings
shares: marriage of convenience, romantasy, dual perspective, romance · romance-driven, easy read

Ildiko, a plain noblewoman of the human Gauri court, is married off to seal an alliance with Brishen Khaskem, a prince of the Kai, a people as monstrous to her as she is to them, and the two make the best of it with wit and growing tenderness.

Faebound

Saara El-Arifi · 2024 · UK 97% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 32,146 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Faebound
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, romance · speculative, easy read

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.