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Books like The Shadows Between Us: 9 series to read next

The Shadows Between Us is fantasy and romantasy, about enemies to lovers, set in secondary world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Shadows Between Us is 2 books, 2020–2024.

“No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power.”
from the catalogue description

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Grishaverse
World of Ice and Fire
Witches Steeped in Gold
The Young Elites
An Ember in the Ashes
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Red Queen
The Prison Healer
Shattered Sea

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue description

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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue description

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Witches Steeped in GoldSeries

seriesCiannon Smart2 books2021

Dark fantasy, about witches.

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The Young ElitesSeries

seriesMarie Lu3 books2014

Fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about revenge and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“The second book is called The Rose Society and was released on October 13, 2015.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Young Elites →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

seriesSabaa Tahir4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

A Court of Thorns and RosesSeries

seriesSarah J. Maas6 books2015

Emotional in tone, about fae.

“There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Court of Thorns and Roses →

Red QueenSeries

seriesVictoria Aveyard14 books2015

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Queen Song →

The Prison HealerSeries

seriesLynette Noni3 books2021

Epic fantasy.

“Lynette Noni's YA trilogy follows Kiva Meridan, a teenage healer imprisoned in the brutal death camp of Zalindov, who is forced to stand trial by combat in another prisoner's place when a mysterious rebel movement upends the prison's order.”
from the catalogue description

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Shattered SeaSeries

seriesJoe Abercrombie4 books2014

Epic fantasy, about coming of age.

“Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre».”
from the catalogue description of Half a King
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Why these

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after The Shadows Between Us?: Grishaverse — the closest match to The Shadows Between Us on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is The Shadows Between Us?: The Shadows Between Us is 2 books, 2020–2024.

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