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What to read after “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” by Holly Black: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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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.
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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.
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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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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
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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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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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- 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.
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The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice · 1985
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampire who once narrated Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story: a boy of the Auvergne who fled to Paris for the stage, was taken by an ancient vampire, and rose to become a rock star, awakening forces older than any of his kind.
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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
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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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- 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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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
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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Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- 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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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forced Proximity
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.