Books like “To Kill a Kingdom”

What to read after “To Kill a Kingdom” by Alexandra Christo: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Fantasy romance”
Alessandra will do anything to gain power, including marry the young king and then kill him. The Shadow King, feared and rumoured to have killed his own family, is the perfect target. But court intrigue and unexpected feelings complicate her cold plan, and someone is hunting them both.
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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.
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Angelfall
Susan Ee · 2011
Shared in the plot: neither, something
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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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.
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Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat · 2013
Shared in the plot: prince, enemy
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.
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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 Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
On her sixteenth birthday Meghan learns that her little brother has been swapped for a changeling and that the fey are real. To get him back she enters the Nevernever, a dangerous world divided between Summer and Winter courts, where she is drawn to a prince she was raised to fear.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
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Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Slow Burn”
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.
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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.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Slow Burn
- Quest
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.