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Rachel Gillig · 2025 · US · fantasy · romance
★ 4.22 Goodreads · 315,961 ratings

Sybil Delling is one of six Diviners raised in the cathedral of Aisling to prophesy for the kingdom, and when her sisters begin to disappear, she sets out with a surly knight, Rodrick Rook, to find them.

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12 books for readers of The Knight and the Moth

One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · 2022 · US 98% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 785,659 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Shepherd King
shares: dark fantasy, gothic, quest, romance · speculative, easy read

In Blunder, a kingdom shut in by a magic-sickened mist, Elspeth Spindle hides an ancient spirit in her head that she calls the Nightmare, and joins a treasonous highwayman, the king's own nephew, on a quest to gather the twelve Providence Cards that could cure the land before Solstice.

Sabriel

Garth Nix · 1995 · Australia 96% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 222,436 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Old Kingdom
shares: dark fantasy, quest, series starter · speculative, earnest

Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 96% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: prophecy, mysterious, quest · speculative, earnest

Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.

For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 2021 · US 95% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 68,900 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Wilderwood
shares: dark fantasy, gothic, romantic, romance · speculative, earnest

Red, the second daughter of the Queen of Valleyda, has known all her life that she will be sent into the Wilderwood as a sacrifice to the Wolf, and she goes almost gladly, to keep her dangerous power away from everyone she loves.

Rites of the Starling

Devney Perry · 2026 · US 95% match ★ 4.42 Goodreads · 225,154 ratings
shares: dark fantasy, quest, religious, romance · speculative, easy read

The second Shield of Sparrows novel: as the Crux migration descends on the five kingdoms of Calandra, Odessa, running through a cursed realm with a young girl in her care, must decide what she is willing to become to survive.

Faebound

Saara El-Arifi · 2024 · UK 94% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 32,146 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Faebound
shares: prophecy, romance, romantasy · 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.

We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · 2019 · US 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 112,102 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Sands of Arawiya
shares: quest, series starter, romance · speculative, easy read

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.

Phantasma

Kaylie Smith · 2024 · US 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 376,691 ratings
shares: dark fantasy, gothic, romance, romantasy · speculative, easy read

Ophelia Grimm's sister has disappeared into Phantasma, a deadly game played in a haunted mansion with nine levels whose single winner is granted a wish, and to get through it she accepts the help of a mysterious stranger, Blackwell, at the price of ten years of her life.

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 370 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Between Earth and Sky
shares: prophecy, series starter, religious · speculative, earnest

In the holy city of Tova, as the winter solstice nears, Naranpa, a sun priest of humble birth, faces enemies within her own order, while the ship captain Xiala carries Serapio, a blind young man with a terrible purpose, across the sea towards the city.

Enchantra

Kaylie Smith · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 161,065 ratings
shares: dark fantasy, gothic, romance, romantasy · speculative, easy read

After her mother's death, Genevieve Grimm accepts an invitation to Enchantra, a cursed palace in Italy frozen in time, where Rowin Silver and his six immortal siblings play a deadly game of hide and seek for a devil's audience, and her only chance is to compete as Rowin's wife.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 94% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: dark fantasy, mysterious, series starter, romance · speculative, earnest

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.

Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 2012 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 90,148 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Seraphina
shares: mysterious, series starter, romantic · speculative, easy read

In the kingdom of Goredd, where humans and dragons in human form keep an uneasy forty-year peace, Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides the truth about her mother, and a prince is murdered in a way that looks like a dragon's work.