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

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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
3
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Same genre: “Historical fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Enemies to Lovers
In 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to rival gangs and former lovers sworn to hate each other. When a madness spreads through the city and people tear themselves apart, the two must work together to find its cause, even as their families demand blood.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Jude now controls the throne from behind the scenes, holding Prince Cardan bound to her for a year and a day. Court politics, undersea enemies and her own divided heart threaten the plan. She must keep her grip on power while denying the feelings growing between her and the wicked king she came to despise.
5
The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- 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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The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons · 2000
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
In Leningrad in 1941, as the German army tightens its siege, Tatiana meets Alexander, a young officer with a secret. Their love is forbidden by her family and by the war, but through hunger, loss and the frozen winter they hold on to each other and to the hope of survival.
7
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- 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.
8
Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
9
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Historical fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
10
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Jude was born mortal but was raised in the High Court of Faerie after her parents were killed. Mocked by the fae and drawn to the cruel prince Cardan, she schemes her way into the court's politics, trading secrets and taking dangerous risks to win a place among those who despise her.
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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
12
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Same genre: “Historical fantasy”
Patroclus, a prince in disgrace, is sent to train under Achilles, the golden boy destined for glory. Their friendship deepens into love as the Trojan War calls them both toward a fate only one of them will regret.