Books like “Halfway to the Grave”

What to read after “Halfway to the Grave” by Jeaniene Frost: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
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.
2
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
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.
3
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”
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 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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Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
MacKayla Lane travels to Ireland after her sister is murdered and finds she can see the fae, a power that makes her a target. To find the killer and stay alive she turns to Jericho Barrons, a secretive man whose help comes at a price and whose motives she cannot read.
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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Enemies to Lovers
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
8
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.
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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.
10
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2016
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
In a Mexico City policed against vampires, street kid Domingo meets Atl, a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers running from a rival clan. He is drawn to her despite the danger, and together they try to leave the city before the vampires hunting her catch up.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
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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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.