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What to read after “Angelfall” by Susan Ee: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
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.
2
Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
Eelyn is a warrior of the Aska clan, raised to fight the rival Riki in a war older than anyone remembers. Captured and forced to live among her enemies, she begins to see them as people, and finds herself drawn to a young man she was always taught to kill.
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The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
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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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
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.
5
To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo · 2018
Shared in the plot: neither, something
Lira is a siren who takes the heart of a prince each year. When she is punished and turned human, the only way back is to deliver the heart of Prince Elian, a siren hunter who has no idea who she really is. Their journey across the sea turns enemies into something neither of them planned.
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
A public spat between the US president's son Alex and Britain's Prince Henry forces their handlers to stage a friendship for the cameras. What starts as reluctant damage control turns into late-night texts and a secret romance that neither man can keep hidden for long.
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Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick · 2009
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- Forbidden Love
Nora Grey keeps her head down until her biology partner, the aloof Patch, starts appearing wherever she goes. He knows too much, says too little, and seems to want her for reasons he will not name. Falling for him means choosing a side in a fallen angel's ancient struggle.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love” and “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 Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
On her sixteenth birthday Meghan learns that her little brother has been swapped for a changeling and that the fey are real. To get him back she enters the Nevernever, a dangerous world divided between Summer and Winter courts, where she is drawn to a prince she was raised to fear.
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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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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
Poppy was born the Maiden, chosen and set apart, forbidden from friends, love or any life of her own. When a new guard, Hawke, enters her world, duty and desire collide for the first time. As attacks close in on the kingdom, she begins to doubt everything she was taught about the gods and her own fate.