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What to read after “From Blood and Ash” by Jennifer L. Armentrout: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
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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Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat · 2013
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Dark fantasy”
Damen, prince of Akielos, is betrayed by his half-brother and sent to Vere as a slave and a gift to Prince Laurent, the heir he once fought. Kept in the dark about the other's plans, the two enemies have to survive a court of shifting alliances and old hatred.
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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.
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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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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.
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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Dark fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- 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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The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
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A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Vampires”
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.
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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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.