Books like “The Shadows Between Us”

What to read after “The Shadows Between Us” by Tricia Levenseller: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
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.
2
To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo · 2018
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Fantasy romance”
Lira is a siren who takes the heart of a prince each year. When she is punished and turned human, the only way back is to deliver the heart of Prince Elian, a siren hunter who has no idea who she really is. Their journey across the sea turns enemies into something neither of them planned.
3
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
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 Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
With the gods at war, two young journalists compete for the same columnist post at a dying newspaper. Iris hides her family's troubles, and Roman, her rival, seems to have everything. When anonymous letters begin to pass between them, neither suspects who is writing on the other side.
7
Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young · 2018
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Eelyn is a warrior of the Aska clan, raised to fight the rival Riki in a war older than anyone remembers. Captured and forced to live among her enemies, she begins to see them as people, and finds herself drawn to a young man she was always taught to kill.
8
Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2024
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Fantasy romance”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
9
Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
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.
10
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Fantasy romance”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Morally Grey Character
In 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to rival gangs and former lovers sworn to hate each other. When a madness spreads through the city and people tear themselves apart, the two must work together to find its cause, even as their families demand blood.
11
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
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.
12
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Shared in the plot: anything, court
- Slow Burn
- Morally Grey Character
Celaena Sardothien, the kingdom's most notorious assassin, is dragged from a salt mine to compete in a contest for the king. Victory would buy her freedom, but the court is full of plots and her rivals will do anything. Between a prince and a guardsman, she searches for who she can trust.