Read-alikes

Books Like A Darker Shade of Magic

A Darker Shade of Magic is hidden world / portal, dark magic & enemies to allies — sweet (1/5), multi-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Kell is one of the last Antari — rare magicians who can walk between four parallel Londons, each with a different relationship to magic. When a smuggling exchange goes catastrophically wrong, he finds himself in possession of a deadly relic from the long-destroyed Black London and is forced into an unlikely alliance with Lila Bard, a sharp-tongued Grey London thief who has no intention of staying in her own world. Together they must prevent the relic's dark power from consuming everything.