
Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo · Alex Stern #2
Shares quest, dark magic, hidden world / portal & enemies to allies.
Read-alikes
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.
Share the most of what makes A Darker Shade of Magic work.

Leigh Bardugo · Alex Stern #2
Shares quest, dark magic, hidden world / portal & enemies to allies.

V.E. Schwab · Shades of Magic #3
Shares enemies to allies, dark magic & quest. Same author, too.

Shares hidden world / portal, fierce heroine & dark magic.

Leigh Bardugo · Alex Stern #1
Shares hidden world / portal, dark magic & fierce heroine.

Shares enemies to allies, dark magic & fierce heroine.

Kristin Cashore · Graceling Realm #1
Shares fierce heroine, enemies to allies & quest.

Susan Dennard · The Witchlands #1
Shares fierce heroine, enemies to allies & quest.

Holly Black · Book of Night #1
Shares hidden world / portal, dark magic & fierce heroine.

V.E. Schwab · Shades of Magic #2
Shares fierce heroine & dark magic. Same author, too.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #3
Shares enemies to allies & fierce heroine.

Rachel Gillig · The Shepherd King #2
Shares dark magic & quest.

Tracy Deonn · The Legendborn Cycle #1
Shares hidden world / portal & dark magic.