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What to read after “The Iron King” by Julie Kagawa: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Enemies to Lovers
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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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Enemies to Lovers
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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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
From the same world: “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.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
From the same world: “Fae”
Feyre kills a wolf in the winter woods and is taken to a magical realm as payment. In the Spring Court she learns the land is cursed, and her loathing for its high lord slowly turns into something she never expects.
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr · 2007
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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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Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
Miryem restores her family's moneylending business with a clever tongue, and her boast that she can spin silver into gold reaches the frozen Staryk king. Bound to his winter court, she must use her wits to protect both kingdoms from a bargain that could destroy them.
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor · 2011
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Young adult fiction”
- Portal Fantasy
- 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.
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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”
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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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Enemies to Lovers
Luella was raised to be an ordinary healer, not the human bride the Elf King demands. When he comes to claim her, she is taken to Midscape, where her touch can wake the sleeping land. Trapped with a cold, distant husband, she must find a way home or accept a destiny she never wanted.
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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany · 1924
From the same world: “Fae”
When the people of Erl ask to be ruled by a magic lord, their lord sends his son Alveric into Elfland to win the hand of Lirazel, the King's daughter. Their marriage cannot hold against the pull of Elfland, so Alveric sets out on a long, hopeless quest to bring her home while centuries pass in the mortal world.