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Holly Black · 2019 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 2 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
★ 4.27 Goodreads · 1,170,680 ratings

The second Folk of the Air novel: Jude is playing a long and dangerous game at the High Court of Elfhame, where she must keep her grip on power, hold off the plots against the throne and hide what she feels for Cardan.

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12 books for readers of The Wicked King

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · US 99% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 4,653,884 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
shares: fae, enemies to lovers, romantasy, 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.

The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 2018 · Canada 99% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 256,364 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Bridge Kingdom
shares: enemies to lovers, betrayal, romantasy, court · 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.

Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 2024 · UK 99% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 1,028,034 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Fae & Alchemy
shares: fae, enemies to lovers, romantasy, 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 Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent · 2022 · US 99% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 828,575 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.

The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines 99% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, court · speculative, easy read

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.

Lightlark

Alex Aster · 2022 · US 99% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 382,388 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Lightlark
shares: betrayal, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears for the Centennial, a deadly game in which the rulers of six cursed realms compete to break their curses, and Isla Crown, young ruler of the Wildlings, arrives with secrets of her own.

A Court This Cruel and Lovely

Stacia Stark · 2022 · US 99% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 111,556 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kingdom of Lies
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

In a kingdom where the gods strip humans of their power soon after birth and burn anyone who keeps it, Prisca's power surfaces in her tiny village, and to survive she flees and makes a bargain with a ruthless mercenary who is hiding secrets of his own.

An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 2017 · US 99% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 111,724 ratings
shares: fae, romantasy, fairytale, romance · easy read, speculative

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.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 99% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, secondary world, 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.

Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin · 2019 · US 99% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 355,266 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Serpent & Dove
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

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.

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · 2023 · US 99% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 339,805 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Kindred's Curse
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, court · 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.

Rose in Chains

Julie Soto · 2025 · US 99% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 98,447 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

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.