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Books like Fourth Wing
You've finished Onyx Storm and you want that feeling back: the training yard, the bond you'd die for, the man who tells you to get up. These ten get closest. Some lean harder on the romance, some on the war; the spice and warnings are listed for each so you can pick your next one by what you actually want tonight.
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1. The Serpent & the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
SteamyAdultOraya is the human adopted daughter of a vampire king, and to survive she enters a deadly tournament where everyone wants her blood. Her only ally is a rival vampire who is definitely hiding something. Vicious, beautifully written, medium spice, cliffhanger.
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2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
SteamyAdultThe gateway drug for half the romantasy readers you know. Feyre kills a wolf in the woods to feed her family, and a fae lord comes to collect the debt by dragging her across the wall to his cursed court. A Beauty and the Beast retelling with medium spice that gets far better in book two, so don't stop here.
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3. Blood of Hercules
Jasmine Mas · 2024
ExplicitAdultAlexis is a scarred, stammering foster kid until a blood test says she's one of the immortal elite, and she's shipped off to a war academy that will either make her a god or kill her. Snarky narrator, terrifying mentors, Greek myth turned war academy. High spice and a cliffhanger.
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4. Powerless
Lauren Roberts · 2023
SweetYoung adultPaedyn is an Ordinary pretending to have powers in a kingdom that kills people like her, and saving the prince lands her in the deadly trials. Enemies to lovers with the man trained to hunt her kind, no spice, fast, and a cliffhanger.
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5. When the Moon Hatched
Sarah A. Parker · 2024
ExplicitAdultRaeve is a rebel assassin until a job goes wrong and she lands in the hands of the fae nobles she's been fighting. Then she meets Kaan, a grieving fae king who should be her enemy. Huge world, fated mates, high spice, cliffhanger.
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6. Quicksilver
Callie Hart · 2024
ExplicitAdultSaeris steals the wrong thing and gets dragged into a fae court that wants her dead or useful. What follows is enemies to lovers with real bite, a love interest who insults her more than he explains anything, and a slow burn that pays off. High spice, lots of snark, a cliffhanger you'll forgive.
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7. The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2018
ExplicitAdultLara was raised to marry the king of Ithicana, learn his kingdom's secrets and destroy it from within. Then she falls in love with him. Political, slow-burning, high spice once it gets there, and it ends on a cliffhanger.
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8. A Fate Inked in Blood
Danielle L. Jensen · 2024
SteamyAdultFreya guts fish for a living and dreams of putting an axe in her husband's back. Then she's forced to reveal she carries a goddess's blood, the jarl claims her as the weapon that will unite his kingdom, and his son is assigned to keep her alive. Norse, brutal, a slow burn you can feel, and medium spice.
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9. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
SweetYoung adultCelaena, the most notorious assassin in the kingdom, is pulled out of a death camp to fight for the title of the king's champion. A competition with bodies piling up, a captain and a prince, and the start of an eight-book saga. No spice yet, all the build.
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10. From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
SteamyAdultPoppy is the Maiden, veiled, untouchable and chosen by the gods, and Hawke is the new guard who looks at her like she's a person. Then the world she was raised in starts to come apart. Slow to start, impossible to put down once it twists, medium spice, cliffhanger.