Books like “This Woven Kingdom”

What to read after “This Woven Kingdom” by Tahereh Mafi: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber · 2021
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Evangeline Fox believes in true love until she learns that the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister. Desperate, she makes a bargain with Jacks, a charming, dangerous young man known as a Fate. Their deal pulls her into a world of magic and curses, where every promise has a price and every wish can go wrong.
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A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- 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.
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Gild
Raven Kennedy · 2020
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
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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The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon · 2023
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
Talasyn has known nothing but the Hurricane Wars: raised as an orphan in a nation under siege by the Night Empire, she hides her light magic and fights alongside its soldiers. Alaric is the empire's crown prince and her sworn enemy on the battlefield. When a greater threat and a royal marriage alliance force them together, the two must work side by side, and their powers answer to each other in ways no one can explain.
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Hart is a lonely marshal who hunts the undead; Mercy runs her family's funeral home and finds Hart insufferable. After a bitter week, each writes an anonymous letter to a stranger, and a warm correspondence begins without either knowing who is on the other end. Meanwhile, real life keeps forcing them together.
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Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder · 2005
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
Yelena is given a choice: die for her crime, or become the Commander's food taster and risk poison at every meal. Her trainer is the assassin Valek, guarded and dangerous, and working beside him builds a trust neither expected. Then she learns her own past may be more deadly than any poison.
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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
From the same world: “Romantasy”
- Romantasy
- Slow Burn
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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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
- 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 False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Hidden Heir
In the kingdom of Carthya, a nobleman gathers orphan boys and tells them that one must learn to pass as the lost prince Jaron, or die. Sage is quick, defiant and unwilling to play the part, but the game he is forced into has rules no one has told him, and a prize worse than a crown.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Slow Burn
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
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
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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The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
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.