Books like “The Darkest Night”

What to read after “The Darkest Night” by Gena Showalter: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Persephone is a young journalist who wants an ordinary life, away from her mother Demeter's plans. At a nightclub she meets Hades, the god of the dead, and loses a wager that binds her to his realm. She must learn to grow life in the underworld, or surrender to a love she was warned against.
2
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Morally Grey Character
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.
3
Gild
Raven Kennedy · 2020
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
Auren has been King Midas's gilded favourite for years, kept in a golden cage and told she is safe there. Cruelty and control shape every part of her life, and she believes she has no other choice. Then a new king arrives at the castle, and the cracks in her golden world begin to widen.
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Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- Dark Romance
- Morally Grey Character
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.
5
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old who keeps getting expelled, learns he is a demigod and is accused of stealing Zeus's master bolt. With Annabeth and Grover he crosses America to return it, facing monsters and gods to stop a war on Olympus.
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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
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.
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.
8
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Morally Grey Character
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.
9
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Morally Grey Character
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.
10
American Gods
Neil Gaiman · 2001
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Fresh out of prison, Shadow Moon takes a job with the smooth-talking Mr. Wednesday. Their road trip across America draws him into a quiet war between the old gods brought by immigrants and the new gods of media and technology, with Shadow caught in the middle.
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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling”
- Mythology Retelling
Each dawn the young caliph marries a bride, and each dawn she is dead. When Shahrzad volunteers to marry him, she survives the first night by telling stories and begins to look for the truth behind his cruelty.
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Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman · 2005
From the same world: “Mythology Retelling” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Mythology Retelling
- Urban Fantasy
Fat Charlie Nancy learns that the father he barely knew was the spider god Anansi, and that he has a brother he never met. Spider is charming, magical and trouble, and he turns Charlie's careful life upside down while Charlie tries to bury a past that will not stay buried.