Books like “Rosemary and Rue”

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

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Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Fae” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Fae
- 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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Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
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Storm Front
Jim Butcher · 2000
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard, listed in the phone book and usually broke. When the police consult him on a double murder, he finds a sorcerer using black magic in a city where vampires and crime bosses all want a piece of the investigation.
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr · 2007
From the same world: “Fae” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Fae
- Urban Fantasy
Aislinn has always followed the rules for surviving the hidden world of faeries: never draw their attention, never let them know she can see them. Then the Summer King begins to court her, sure she is the queen he has been searching for, while her human friend Seth refuses to let her face the fae alone.
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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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Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Peter Grant, a London police officer, discovers that magic is real when he interviews a ghost about a headless corpse. He is assigned to a small, secret unit of the Metropolitan Police that deals with supernatural crime, and takes on a case that stirs up the city's old spirits.
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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Reluctant Hero
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.
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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
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.
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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.
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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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.