Books like The Cruel Prince
If you liked The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Wicked King
Because same series (The Folk of the Air #2); also by Holly Black; shares tags: fantasy, young adult, romance.
Jude must hold Cardan on the Elfhame throne while the Undersea plots.
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The Queen of Nothing
Because same series (The Folk of the Air #3); also by Holly Black; shares tags: fantasy, faeries, romance.
Exiled Jude returns to Faerie to save Taryn and break a deadly curse.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Because shares tags: fantasy, romance, young adult.
Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses retold: Feyre, Tamlin's Spring Court, the curse, and the trials Under the Mountain.
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A Court of Mist and Fury
Because shares tags: fantasy, romance, faeries.
ACOTAR book 2 retold: Feyre in the Spring Court, the bargain with Rhysand, Velaris, and war with Hybern.
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Shadow Kiss
Because shares tags: young adult, fantasy, romance.
Rose trains for field trials as Strigoi threaten and Mason dies haunting her.
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Frostbite
Because shares tags: young adult, fantasy, romance.
Rose guards royals at ski lodge as Strigoi hunt Moroi during break.
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, romance.
Art student Karou with blue hair runs errands for chimera Brimstone until war finds her.
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City of Heavenly Fire
Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, romance.
Clary and Jace face Sebastian's dark army while Emma and Julian's story begins in Los Angeles.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Because shares tags: fantasy, young adult, romance.
Evangeline trades three kisses with the Prince of Hearts to stop a wedding and dooms herself instead.
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Shiver
Because shares tags: young adult, fantasy, romance.
Grace Brisbane loves yellow eyed wolf Sam, human in summer, as winter cold threatens to take him back for good in small town Mercy Falls.
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Powerless
Because shares tags: young adult, fantasy, romance.
Ordinary Paedyn hides in Ilya, saves Kai, and enters the Purging Trials while pretending an ability.
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Graceling
Because shares tags: young adult, fantasy, romance.
Katsa, Graced with killing, breaks from her uncle's use of her and follows a kidnapped prince toward a hidden king.
