The resetting of Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore. A Court of Thorns and Roses follows the hero, Feyre who discovers herself tangled with faeries after mistakenly killing one.
After being dragged to a dangerous magical land she has only heard about in tales, Feyre learns that her abductor is not an animal, but a High Lord of the faeries called Tamlin. As her emotions toward Tamlin change, the danger grows versus the faerie lands. Feyre must find a means to break an archaic curse that threatens to expose all secrets and bring forth dangerous consequences.
If you’ve devoured Sarah J. Maas‘s bestselling series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, you probably know what I’m talking about.You’re looking for new similar novels to get over this Sarah Mass hangover? We have a list for you!
Here are the top 10 books similar to A Court of Thorns and Roses –
1. The Cruel Prince – Holly Black
The Cruel Prince is a tale of the fanciful old–the ones who desire for blood and have their means with humans, playing deceptions, expressing riddles, convincing, and ordering and thieving their way to power.
Written by Holly Black, the book pursues Jude, who has spent most of her time in Faerie but is not acknowledged by the magical residents of the country. Jude wants a rank in the High Court, but her every step toward that end is prevented by Prince Cardan and his treacherously annoying otherworldly friends.
When Jude is employed as a spy for one of the highest candidates for the crown, she’s put on a clash ride with Cardan — one that could prove lethal. Nothing, but, primes either of them for a dramatic act of treachery that changes all in the Royal Court.
The Cruel Prince is Jude’s story–she is the one who discovers the top-secret plans that would end or protect faeries and plans on how to win the competition. Eventually, Jude is much more motivated by her grasp of power and not by the power itself. Her openness and stubbornness are the features that describe her story.
2. The Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
In Victoria Aveyard’s introduction to the fantasy-fiction book Red Queen, Mare is a 17-year-old thief in a world where the class is regulated by blood color; she and other citizens are Reds, and the governing class is Silvers. She faces an ugly future without an internship or a job. When she turns 18, her only choice as a Red will be to enlist a military at war.
When her best friend Kilorn loses his internship and faces recruitment, Mare tries a plan that crashes fabulously. The night her plan goes wrong, she meets a good-looking young man who finds her thieving and asks her about her life.
The next day, Mare is strangely employed as a royal domestic to the Silvers, who’s collected at a palace event to decide which noble girl will be engaged to the two suitable princes — one of whom is the enigmatic stranger Mare met the earlier night. During the spirited show of rich girls’ authorities, Mare learns that she has supernatural powers that have never been heard of in a Red.
To conceal the being of Red with “Silver” skills, the King makes her act like she’s a forgotten Silver grown up by Reds. She’s also engaged to a prince, but not the elder one she sees and likes. As Mare understands how to act as a Silver when she’s, in reality, a Red, she’s enticed to the secretive uprising that tries to defeat the Silver rule.
3. The City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
City of Bones is an urban fiction/adventure novel, composed by Cassandra Clare in 2007. It is the first in the arrangement The Mortal Instruments. The City of Bones utilizes a few topics, including many variations of the real world, vengeance, religion, bias, desire, love, looks, obligation, and craftsmanship and culture. Runes, arms, tools, and angels versus devils all seem to give figurative importance.
City of Bones follows fifteen-year-old Clary Fray on a mission through New York City and the enchanted universes that lay inside it. Like each great young quest, she meets new friends, begins to slowly fall in love, and fights wicked demons directly from the guts of hellfire.
The plot is set in the present time New York and centers on the life of Clarissa Fray as she found that her life isn’t what she thought it to be and that there is a secret world occupied by devils and downworlders. The book composed by Cassandra Clare was converted into many languages and modified into a film and another T.V show on FreeForm.
4. The Selection – Kiera Cass
The Selection is the initial book in a sequence of youthful books by Kiera Cass that has often been portrayed as a cross between Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and TV’s The Bachelor. The Selection was published in 2012 and was followed by four additional books—The Elite, The One, The Heir, and The Crown—somewhere in the range of 2013 and 2016. The sequence also integrates four novellas.
35 young ladies are picked “random” to be taken up in a universe of comforts and the opportunity to wed Prince Maxon Schreaves and become monarch. America Singer is stressed by her top-secret partner, Aspen Leger, to enter. He breaks up with her days after this. At the point when she is picked, she is unhappily pushed into a world full of ball gowns, sparkling gems, and tasty food.
America is resolute not to like Prince Maxon, however, they before long build up a unique bond. She realizes that maybe…just perhaps, the life she normally longed for may not come near to the future she not ever foresaw.
5. Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi is an Iranian American writer recognized for composing youthful fantasy novels. Shatter Me is her primary novel, and the sequence is followed by an added trilogy set in the same universe and with the same company of people.
Shatter Me follows the story of Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old girl with a paralyzing and destroying tap. She can take any living beings’ power. Exploring the subjects of physical and emotional loneliness, opposition to dictatorship, and optimism, and toughness, the book has become a best-seller in the young adult fantasy. Shatter me is a part of a trilogy, where the other two books are Unravel Me and Ignite Me, and the sequence also has two e-novellas, Destroy Me and Fracture Me.
6. Graceling – Kristin Cashore
This enormously pleasing fiction fantasy tale comes from a new writer, but you would never know it unless you read the panic version. Kristin Cashore pens like an experienced veteran and dodges beginner mistakes and drawbacks.
Her smooth and effortless style takes the reader along from the excellent opening-hook chapter, with complex, fully- understood characters, a unique and well-paced storyline, and a carefully planned world in which it is set.
She even achieves to make the booklover want the sequel, not by turning to the usual trick of a conclusive cliffhanger, but simply by making you choose to spend more time with these captivating characters in this fascinating world.
In the realm of the Seven Kingdoms, a few individuals are born with Graces – skills outside the ordinary. At age 8, Katsa learns what hers is: killing.
Taught by her uncle, the king, to be his right-hand woman, Katsa also covertly forms The Council, a group devoted to helping the weak. But when she saves an old man who has been abducted by a close king, Katsa meets a man who is almost her equal in combat and finds secrecy that threatens all of the domains.
7. The Iron King – Julie Kagawa
In the Iron King, which is the first book in a five-book sequence that also generated bonus stories, the otherworldly abduct Meghan Chase’s young brother, Ethan. Meghan, who’s constantly felt strange in the human world, ventures out into the Nevernever to protect her brother.
There she meets friends and foes, including a treacherous, sensual Prince. When she understands why Ethan’s been kidnapped and what it has to do with her, Meghan’s life flips around, and she has more decisions to make.
Enchanted and genuine, The Iron King is an exciting story told in lovely language. Once Meghan ventures into the universe of the Nevernever, book lovers won’t have any desire to leave.
Fanatics of Harry Potter and other thrilling fantasy stories will completely adore this book, wherein characters are well created, with their one of kind traits. Meghan’s a spectacular hero the reader will cheer for till the cliff-hanging conclusion. They’ll also make the most of Puck’s cleverness and behaviors, Prince Ash’s elegance and dreamy appeal, and Meghan’s dealings with bizarre enemies.
8. The Wrath and the Dawn – Renée Ahdieh
In the Wrath and The Dawn, against the desires of her family and her first love, Tariq, Shahrzad slips away to wed the caliph and get her payback against him. He’s a beast who killed her closest friend and many more young ladies the day after they wed him. While Shahrzad works out the caliph’s flaws, she needs a strategy to remain alive.
She chooses to tell him a non-stop series of stories that will keep the caliph connected through the wedding night and for some more. As she planned, the caliph was intrigued by her stories, yet not as much as Shahrzad’s self-assured and emphatic nature. He commands the sentries to stand down and lets her live one more day, and afterward another.
Her new spouse is a talented fighter and more brilliant and shrewder than she anticipated. He’s also more exposed and more pleasant than she expected, and he’s brimming with mysteries that Shahrzad needs to uncover just to know him rather than for vengeance. As Shahrzad starts to bend in her lethal feelings, Tariq shows up at the royal residence in a company of emirs resolved to help Shahrzad defeat the caliph.
First-time writer Renee Ahdieh has a talent for good story pacing and well-paced character reflection. It’s quite difficult to take a character from fuming hate to affection in a couple of hundred pages without the readers getting confused or bored. Ahdieh handles this task well. With “1001 Nights” as the muse, this enchanting story just had to be a little overdramatic and relaxing to attract the romantic fans.
9. The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys is a difficult book to preview. It follows a 16-year-old named Blue Sargeant – the daughter and niece of clairvoyants. Blue’s been told her entire life that her kiss will cause her true love to die.
On the St. Mark’s Eve night, when those who will die during the next year file through a cemetery in a yearly traditional ceremony, Blue notices a ghost of a young man, something that can happen to a non-seer only if “you’re his true love … or you killed him.” The boy’s name is Gansey. He’s an Old Money Virginian attending Aglionby Academy, the town’s posh boarding school.
The mysterious world of Gansey and his three best friends: quiet Noah, broken Ronan, and ambitious scholarship kid Adam, draws Blue towards it, even though she has stayed away from boys her whole life. To help Gansey with his obsession of finding the final resting place of an enigmatic medieval Welsh king, Blue and the Raven Boys help him.
Which leads the five of them to make life-changing discoveries about the paranormal world. This is a unique series that both teens and adults will find riveting with it’s beautifully written and compellingly paced story.
Some authors’ writing is so extravagant it appears childish; Stiefvater is one of very few YA authors who knows how to marry stunning turns of phrase with character and plot development. Every symbol, subject, or lavish image has a certain goal in the tale. Like Australian YA writer Melina Marchetta, Stiefvater’s novels are full of complex personalities and many plots that are all vital to discover.
10. An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
An Ember in the Ashes is a double-narrative fantasy novel. It follows two characters, Laia and Elias, in the Martial Empire, an alternate universe with a strict caste system. Laia is a Scholar whose brother has been arrested for treason, and Elias is a precocious soldier in Blackcliff – the Empire’s elite military academy.
In exchange for the help of the underground in getting her brother out of harm’s way, Laia joins them trying to overthrow the Empire. But her mission to work as a slave for Blackcliff’s ruthless Commandant is dangerous.
Elias is the Commandant’s estranged son and must compete in a series of rituals to be the Empire’s next ruler, but he secretly wishes he could leave it all behind and run away, especially after meeting his mother’s beautiful, intelligent new slave.
An Ember in the Ashes has a compelling storyline and fascinating, well-rounded supporting characters despite having some derivative aspects and a slow start. But the author Sabaa Tahir’s novel is bound to remind readers of The Hunger Games, Red Rising, and aspects of Divergent.
The novel is written on the importance of standing up to oppression and has perceived the difference that one can make when they work together toward a better future. Unanswered questions leave readers wanting more, which they’ll find in the next book – A Torch Against the Night.
Conclusion
Featuring gripping fantasy books like A Court of Thorns and Roses, these novels have kickass warriors, faeries, witches, wizards, and so much more.
So, why wait? Go on and read! Let us know which you like the most:)