Books like “Dark Lover”

What to read after “Dark Lover” by J. R. Ward: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
2
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
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.
3
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
4
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
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.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
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A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
7
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires”
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.
8
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick · 2009
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
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.
9
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice · 1985
From the same world: “Vampires”
Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampire who once narrated Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story: a boy of the Auvergne who fled to Paris for the stage, was taken by an ancient vampire, and rose to become a rock star, awakening forces older than any of his kind.
10
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, trained to guard her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. After two years on the run, they are returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where Rose falls for her instructor and the school's wards hide dangerous secrets.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- 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.