Books like “A Deal with the Elf King”

What to read after “A Deal with the Elf King” by Elise Kova: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
From the same world: “Romantasy”
Catalia works as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, hiding the power that once made her a pawn of the gods. Griffin, a warlord desperate to save his people, recognises her magic and carries her off to his kingdom. On the long road there, loathing turns into a bond neither of them wanted and neither can deny.
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
From the same world: “Romantasy”
Hart is a lonely marshal who hunts the undead; Mercy runs her family's funeral home and finds Hart insufferable. After a bitter week, each writes an anonymous letter to a stranger, and a warm correspondence begins without either knowing who is on the other end. Meanwhile, real life keeps forcing them together.
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The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon · 2023
From the same world: “Romantasy”
Talasyn has known nothing but the Hurricane Wars: raised as an orphan in a nation under siege by the Night Empire, she hides her light magic and fights alongside its soldiers. Alaric is the empire's crown prince and her sworn enemy on the battlefield. When a greater threat and a royal marriage alliance force them together, the two must work side by side, and their powers answer to each other in ways no one can explain.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
Jude now controls the throne from behind the scenes, holding Prince Cardan bound to her for a year and a day. Court politics, undersea enemies and her own divided heart threaten the plan. She must keep her grip on power while denying the feelings growing between her and the wicked king she came to despise.
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
Jude was born mortal but was raised in the High Court of Faerie after her parents were killed. Mocked by the fae and drawn to the cruel prince Cardan, she schemes her way into the court's politics, trading secrets and taking dangerous risks to win a place among those who despise her.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
From the same world: “Fae”
Feyre kills a wolf in the winter woods and is taken to a magical realm as payment. In the Spring Court she learns the land is cursed, and her loathing for its high lord slowly turns into something she never expects.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber · 2021
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Evangeline Fox believes in true love until she learns that the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister. Desperate, she makes a bargain with Jacks, a charming, dangerous young man known as a Fate. Their deal pulls her into a world of magic and curses, where every promise has a price and every wish can go wrong.
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Gild
Raven Kennedy · 2020
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Auren has been King Midas's gilded favourite for years, kept in a golden cage and told she is safe there. Cruelty and control shape every part of her life, and she believes she has no other choice. Then a new king arrives at the castle, and the cracks in her golden world begin to widen.
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Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder · 2005
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Yelena is given a choice: die for her crime, or become the Commander's food taster and risk poison at every meal. Her trainer is the assassin Valek, guarded and dangerous, and working beside him builds a trust neither expected. Then she learns her own past may be more deadly than any poison.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Isobel paints portraits for the fae, whose kind cannot create art themselves. When she paints mortal sorrow into the face of the autumn prince, she commits a crime that could cost her life. He carries her to his court for judgment, and their mutual distrust slowly turns into something forbidden.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Shared in the plot: husband, raised
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
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This Woven Kingdom
Tahereh Mafi · 2022
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Alizeh hides in plain sight as a servant, keeping the secret that she is heir to a lost magical kingdom and the subject of a prophecy she wants no part of. Kamran is the crown prince, bound to protect his grandfather's throne. He does not know who she truly is, and the truth could destroy them both.