Books like “A Promise of Fire”

What to read after “A Promise of Fire” by Amanda Bouchet: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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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.
2
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.
3
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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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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Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder · 2005
From the same world: “Romantasy”
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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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
From the same world: “Romantasy”
Luella was raised to be an ordinary healer, not the human bride the Elf King demands. When he comes to claim her, she is taken to Midscape, where her touch can wake the sleeping land. Trapped with a cold, distant husband, she must find a way home or accept a destiny she never wanted.
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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.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantasy”
Violet Sorrengail expected a quiet life among books, not the deadly rider quadrant where cadets die and dragons choose their own riders. Thin and untrained, she survives on wit alone. Her greatest threat is Xaden Riorson, a ruthless wing leader whose attention she never wanted.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantic fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Évike is the only woman in her pagan village with no magic, and her people treat her as an outcast. When the kingdom's holy warriors demand a sacrifice, she is handed to their one-eyed captain, a monster-hunter her village hates. To survive the winter forest, the two must rely on each other despite everything between them.
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Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat · 2013
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Damen, prince of Akielos, is betrayed by his half-brother and sent to Vere as a slave and a gift to Prince Laurent, the heir he once fought. Kept in the dark about the other's plans, the two enemies have to survive a court of shifting alliances and old hatred.