Books like “A Touch of Darkness”

What to read after “A Touch of Darkness” by Scarlett St. Clair: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Darkest Night
Gena Showalter · 2008
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Cursed to carry the demon of Violence, the immortal warrior Maddox has spent lifetimes in torment. Every night he dies at the hands of the gods, and every dawn he wakes. Rescuing a mortal woman named Ashlyn from his enemies throws them both into a conflict that could free or destroy him.
2
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Xingyin grows up alone on the moon, hidden from the emperor who exiled her mother for stealing an elixir of immortality. When her magic is discovered she flees, conceals her identity at the celestial court and trains as a warrior to win her mother's freedom.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Forbidden Love
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Enemies to Lovers
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old who keeps getting expelled, learns he is a demigod and is accused of stealing Zeus's master bolt. With Annabeth and Grover he crosses America to return it, facing monsters and gods to stop a war on Olympus.
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Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Fat Charlie Nancy learns that the father he barely knew was the spider god Anansi, and that he has a brother he never met. Spider is charming, magical and trouble, and he turns Charlie's careful life upside down while Charlie tries to bury a past that will not stay buried.
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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
- Enemies to Lovers
Each dawn the young caliph marries a bride, and each dawn she is dead. When Shahrzad volunteers to marry him, she survives the first night by telling stories and begins to look for the truth behind his cruelty.
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh · 2022
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Mina takes her brother's place as the sacrifice meant to calm the Sea God, and wakes in the realm of spirits. There she searches for the god, hoping to save her village and the boy who has waited for her.
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American Gods
Neil Gaiman · 2001
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Fresh out of prison, Shadow Moon takes a job with the smooth-talking Mr. Wednesday. Their road trip across America draws him into a quiet war between the old gods brought by immigrants and the new gods of media and technology, with Shadow caught in the middle.
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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.