Books like “Kingdom of the Wicked”

What to read after “Kingdom of the Wicked” by Kerri Maniscalco: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
From the same world: “Witches”
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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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
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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Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2024
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Enemies to Lovers
Rune is the last of her kind, hiding her magic while playing the flirtatious socialite. By day she courts the witch hunters; by night she works against them. Then she sets her sights on Gideon, a loyal hunter with a secret of his own, and the lies between them grow harder to keep.
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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Yadriel, a trans boy, wants his traditional family to accept him as a brujo. When his initiation goes wrong he raises the ghost of a murdered classmate, and together they search for answers while Yadriel hides the truth from everyone he loves.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
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.
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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- 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”
- Enemies to Lovers
- 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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Uprooted
Naomi Novik · 2015
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Enemies to Lovers
Every ten years the wizard known as the Dragon takes one girl from Agnieszka's valley. When he chooses her instead of her best friend, she is carried to his tower, where she discovers a talent for magic, a growing bond with her cold teacher and the corrupted Wood that threatens them all.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Marra, a shy convent-raised princess, learns that no one will save her sister from a cruel prince -- so she decides to do it herself. Three impossible tasks, a gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother and a demon-possessed chicken later, she sets out to stop a king.
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Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Enemies to Lovers
- 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.