Books like “The Wolf and the Woodsman”

What to read after “The Wolf and the Woodsman” by Ava Reid: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantic fantasy”
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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Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young · 2018
Same genre: “Fantasy”
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.
3
Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
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.
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
A public spat between the US president's son Alex and Britain's Prince Henry forces their handlers to stage a friendship for the cameras. What starts as reluctant damage control turns into late-night texts and a secret romance that neither man can keep hidden for long.
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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 Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantic fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Catalia works as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, hiding the power that once made her a pawn of the gods. Griffin, a warlord desperate to save his people, recognises her magic and carries her off to his kingdom. On the long road there, loathing turns into a bond neither of them wanted and neither can deny.
7
Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat · 2013
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Damen, prince of Akielos, is betrayed by his half-brother and sent to Vere as a slave and a gift to Prince Laurent, the heir he once fought. Kept in the dark about the other's plans, the two enemies have to survive a court of shifting alliances and old hatred.
8
The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantic fantasy”
Asha is the Iskari, a dragon slayer raised by a harsh king to atone for the night her mother died. Feared by her own people, she takes comfort in forbidden old stories and in a kind slave named Torwin. When the dragons offer her another way, everything she was raised to believe starts to break apart.
9
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Same genre: “Historical fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forbidden Love
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.
10
A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross · 2022
Same genre: “Fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Jack is summoned home to Cadence, an island of two peoples, to find girls who have vanished without trace. He must work with Adaira, the laird's daughter, and call on the spirits he abandoned. On an island steeped in old magic, old grudges and new feelings refuse to stay buried.
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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Historical 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.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
Similar plot moves: “Enemies to Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
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.