Books like “Hush, Hush”

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

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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
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
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- 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.
3
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
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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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Karou studies art in Prague and fills her sketchbooks with monsters, the same strange creatures who raised her. Running errands for her guardian, she does not know she stands between two warring peoples. When an angel named Akiva scorches the doors she travels through, her hidden life begins to fall apart.
5
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
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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Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- 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.
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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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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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The Idea of You
Robinne Lee · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Los Angeles gallery owner Solène, thirty-nine, takes her daughter to a boy band meet-and-greet and catches the attention of Hayes, the band's twenty-year-old singer. Their secret relationship soon grows serious, but his fame and the age gap turn their private happiness into a public storm.
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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
With the gods at war, two young journalists compete for the same columnist post at a dying newspaper. Iris hides her family's troubles, and Roman, her rival, seems to have everything. When anonymous letters begin to pass between them, neither suspects who is writing on the other side.
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Delirium
Lauren Oliver · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- 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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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love”
- 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.