Books like “Daughter of Smoke & Bone”

What to read after “Daughter of Smoke & Bone” by Laini Taylor: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick · 2009
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- 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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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Young adult fiction”
- Portal Fantasy
- 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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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
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.
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Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
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 Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
- 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.
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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Dark fantasy”
- 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.
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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Young adult fiction”
- Forbidden Love
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Mare lives in a world split by blood: silver elites with powers and powerless reds. When a dangerous ability of her own is exposed, the royal family hides her in their palace, where she becomes a pawn in two secret wars.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Dark fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
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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Delirium
Lauren Oliver · 2011
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
In a world where love is treated as a disease, Lena counts down the days to the cure that will keep her safe. Weeks before her treatment she falls in love, and must choose between the orderly life promised to her and the risk of feeling.
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Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love”
- Forbidden Love
Angels have destroyed the modern world, and seventeen-year-old Penryn is trying to keep her mother and sister alive. When soldiers take her sister, Penryn captures a wounded angel and offers to help him in exchange for a rescue, an alliance that grows into something neither expected.