Books like “A River Enchanted”

What to read after “A River Enchanted” by Rebecca Ross: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
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A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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 Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Same genre: “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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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Fae fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy”
With the gods at war, two young journalists compete for the same columnist post at a dying newspaper. Iris hides her family's troubles, and Roman, her rival, seems to have everything. When anonymous letters begin to pass between them, neither suspects who is writing on the other side.
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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
Same genre: “Fae fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Every ten years the wizard known as the Dragon takes one girl from Agnieszka's valley. When he chooses her instead of her best friend, she is carried to his tower, where she discovers a talent for magic, a growing bond with her cold teacher and the corrupted Wood that threatens them all.
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We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2014
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
Every summer Cadence joins her wealthy family on their private island, where she and three cousins form an unbreakable group. The summer she is fifteen something goes wrong, and Cadence returns two years later with gaps in her memory that she is desperate to fill.
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
10
The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Alessandra will do anything to gain power, including marry the young king and then kill him. The Shadow King, feared and rumoured to have killed his own family, is the perfect target. But court intrigue and unexpected feelings complicate her cold plan, and someone is hunting them both.
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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.