Books like “Blood & Honey”

What to read after “Blood & Honey” by Shelby Mahurin: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
Lou is a witch hiding in a city where the church hunts her kind. Reid is a captain of the witch hunters and a devoted servant of that church. When a reckless act binds them in a union neither wanted, both must choose between faith, duty and a feeling they were raised to despise.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Yadriel, a trans boy, wants his traditional family to accept him as a brujo. When his initiation goes wrong he raises the ghost of a murdered classmate, and together they search for answers while Yadriel hides the truth from everyone he loves.
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Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2024
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Rune is the last of her kind, hiding her magic while playing the flirtatious socialite. By day she courts the witch hunters; by night she works against them. Then she sets her sights on Gideon, a loyal hunter with a secret of his own, and the lies between them grow harder to keep.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- 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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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec · 2021
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Angrboda is a witch burned three times for refusing to reveal the future. She hides in a forest and builds a quiet life until Loki finds her, and their children draw the eyes of the gods. A prophecy turns every small happiness into a countdown.
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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
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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The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Juno Dawson · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Betrayal
Four friends once swore an oath to Her Majesty's Royal Coven, the secret department of witches protecting Britain. Decades on, one runs the coven and one has left it, and whispers of a prophecy and a young warlock of frightening power force them to choose between tradition and what is right.
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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Found Family
Marra, a shy convent-raised princess, learns that no one will save her sister from a cruel prince -- so she decides to do it herself. Three impossible tasks, a gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother and a demon-possessed chicken later, she sets out to stop a king.
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The White Queen
Philippa Gregory · 2009
From the same world: “Witches”
Elizabeth Woodville, a widowed commoner, secretly marries King Edward IV and is crowned in a court that dislikes her family. Through the wars between Lancaster and York she and her relatives rise, scheme and lose ground to rivals who will not accept a commoner as queen.