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- A Court of Thorns and Roses
series6 books2015
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A Court of Thorns and Roses is a fantasy romance series by American author Sarah J. Maas, which follows the journey of 19-year-old Feyre Archeron after she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian. The first book of the series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, was published in May 2015. The series centers on Feyre's adventures across Prythian and the faerie courts, following the epic love story and fierce struggle that ensues after she enters the fae lands. The series has sold over 13 million copies. 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. An eighth installment is set to conclude the continuous story told across books six, seven and eight.
- The Powerless Trilogy
series5 books2023
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The Powerless Trilogy is set in a kingdom where people without magical abilities are treated as outcasts, following Paedyn Gray, a powerless girl disguising herself as a magic-wielder, who is drawn into the royal court and a survival competition after crossing paths with the crown prince. Lauren Roberts' trilogy, beginning with Powerless, was later expanded with a further Fearless duology set in the same world.
- The Immortal Brothers
series4 books2015
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Jacquelyn Frank's The Immortal Brothers is a paranormal romance quartet -- Cursed by Fire, Cursed by Ice, Bound by Sin, and Bound in Darkness -- all published by Ballantine Books in 2015, following different brothers across linked romantic storylines.
- Serpent & Dove
series5 books2019
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Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove trilogy is set in the city of Cesarine, where witches live in hiding from a Church that hunts and burns them. It follows Louise Le Blanc, a witch concealing her identity, and Reid Diggory, a Church huntsman sworn to destroy witches, after the two are forced into marriage and must navigate duty against their growing feelings for each other. The story continues across Blood & Honey and Gods & Monsters.
- An Ember in the Ashes
series4 books2015
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An Ember in the Ashes, set in a fantasy world modeled on ancient Rome, alternates between Laia, who spies on a brutal military academy for rebels in exchange for help freeing her imprisoned brother, and Elias, one of that academy's most skilled soldiers trying to break free of the empire he's been raised to serve. 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.
- The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
series11 books1995
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The Old Kingdom, or Abhorsen in North America and the UK, is a fantasy series written by Australian author Garth Nix. It originated in 1995 with the novel Sabriel and has continued in the novels Lirael (2001), Abhorsen (2003), Goldenhand (2016), and Terciel & Elinor (2021), as well as a prequel novel titled Clariel (2014). The Old Kingdom also consists of the novella The Creature in the Case (2005) and various other short fiction.
- Castle Auburn
series2 books2001
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Sharon Shinn's Summers at Castle Auburn follows Coriel, a girl who spends her summers at her half-sister's royal household and only gradually recognizes the human cost behind the kingdom's practice of enslaving the aliora, a fae-like people, for entertainment and service. Gold continues years later as an adult Coriel confronts the consequences of choices made in the first book. Shinn uses the fantasy trappings as a vehicle for a coming-of-age reckoning with inherited privilege.
- Book of the Isle
series7 books1977
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Nancy Springer's Book of Isle sequence is set in a kingdom ruled by Sun Kings who draw their authority from the Book of Suns, following blood brothers Hal and Alan as they're sent to hunt down the many forms an ancient evil takes across the land. Later volumes widen the cast and the kingdom's history while keeping the same mythic, quest-driven register. It's 1970s heroic fantasy built on chosen champions and inherited destiny.
- Belladonna
series4 books2022
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Belladonna is Adalyn Grace's gothic YA fantasy series opening with Belladonna (2022), followed by Foxglove and Wisteria, plus the companion novella Holly. Set in a haunted, death-adjacent version of the era, it follows an orphaned heiress entangled with Death itself as she investigates the murders and mysteries surrounding her inherited estate. It blends romance, ghost story and whodunit within one continuing story.
- Wars of Vis
series3 books1976
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Tanith Lee's Wars of Vis trilogy is set on a world of feuding city-states, following the warlord Raldnor Am Anackire's rise as long-buried tensions between the pale-skinned Vis and darker-skinned Lowlanders erupt into open war and the revelation of hidden power. The Storm Lord opens the trilogy, continued by Anackire and The White Serpent.
- Forgotten Gods
series2 books2020
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Marie Rutkoski's The Midnight Lie is set in the world of her Winner's Trilogy: Nirrim lives in the Ward, a district of the city ruled by a harsh tribunal that reserves every pleasure and privilege for the High Kith, until a rakish traveler named Sid arrives with rumors that magic could be hers if she's willing to give up the life she knows. The Hollow Heart continues Nirrim and Sid's story.
- Nytefall Trilogy
series3 books2023
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Chloe C. Peñaranda's Nytefall trilogy continues the star-maiden Astraea's story after she wins her freedom, following her as she tries to hold onto it while recovering memories and coming into dangerous new powers. Her arc runs alongside Nyte, a vampire whose brother is scheming against him from within their own ranks. The series leans into gothic romance stakes as loyalties and identities keep shifting between the two leads.
- Master of Crows
Grace Dravenstandalone novel2009
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What would you do to win your freedom? This is the question that sets bondwoman, Martise of Asher, on a dangerous path. In exchange for her freedom, she bargains with her masters, the mage-priests of Conclave, to spy on the renegade sorcerer, Silhara of Neith. The priests want Martise to expose the sorcerer's treachery and turn him over to Conclave justice. A risky endeavor, but one she accepts without hesitation--until she falls in love with her intended target. Silhara of Neith, Master of Crows, is a desperate man. The god called Corruption invades his mind, seducing him with promises of limitless power if he will help it gain dominion over the world. Silhara struggles against Corruption's influence and searches for ways to destroy the god. When Conclave sends Martise as an apprentice to help him, he knows she's a spy. Now he fights a war on two fronts--against the god who would possess him and the apprentice who would betray him. Mage and spy search together for a ritual that will annihilate Corruption, but in doing so, they discover secrets about each other that may damn them both. Silhara must decide if his fate, and the fate of nations, is worth the soul of the woman he has come to love, and Martise must choose continued enslavement or freedom at the cost of a man's life. And love...
