Books like “Wicked Lovely”

What to read after “Wicked Lovely” by Melissa Marr: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
From the same world: “Fae”
- 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.
3
Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa · 2016
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Fated Mates
Years ago, Callie, a siren, made a bargain with the King of the Night and racked up hundreds of favours she has never repaid. Now he has returned to collect, and he needs her help to find fae warriors who are disappearing from the Otherworld. Their old bargain binds them together, and the feelings Callie buried long ago refuse to stay hidden.
4
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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.
5
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Love Triangle
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
6
The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
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.
7
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Fae” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Fae
- Urban Fantasy
MacKayla Lane travels to Ireland after her sister is murdered and finds she can see the fae, a power that makes her a target. To find the killer and stay alive she turns to Jericho Barrons, a secretive man whose help comes at a price and whose motives she cannot read.
8
Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire · 2009
From the same world: “Fae” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Fae
- Urban Fantasy
Half-fae changeling October 'Toby' Daye wants nothing to do with Faerie after fourteen years away from it. When a fae noble is murdered and binds Toby with a dying curse to find the killer, she is pulled back into the dangerous politics of the local faerie court.
9
Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Fated Mates
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
10
Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Love Triangle
After her mother's death, Kennedy Waters is pulled into a world of ghosts and demons when she learns her family belonged to the Legion, a secret society sworn to fight them. With three brothers as her allies, she must help close a threat that killed her mother and is still hunting her.
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh · 2022
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Fated Mates
Mina takes her brother's place as the sacrifice meant to calm the Sea God, and wakes in the realm of spirits. There she searches for the god, hoping to save her village and the boy who has waited for her.
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Love Triangle
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.