
The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #2
Shares grumpy / sunshine, forced proximity, slow burn & enemies to allies.
Read-alikes
A Marvellous Light is grumpy / sunshine, enemies to allies & forced proximity — steamy (3/5), dual-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.
Robin Blyth, a cheerful young baronet, is accidentally assigned as parliamentary liaison to a secret magical society he knew nothing about. Cursed by unknown attackers on his first day, he is forced to work with Edwin Courcey — a prickly, undermagicked civil servant — to uncover a conspiracy that could destroy every magician in Edwardian England.
Share the most of what makes A Marvellous Light work.

Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #2
Shares grumpy / sunshine, forced proximity, slow burn & enemies to allies.

Carissa Broadbent · The War of Lost Hearts #1
Shares slow burn, grumpy / sunshine, forced proximity & enemies to allies.

Shares grumpy / sunshine, slow burn, forced proximity & enemies to allies.

Lauren Roberts · The Powerless Trilogy #2
Shares grumpy / sunshine, forced proximity & enemies to allies.

Sarah J. Maas · Crescent City #1
Shares slow burn & forced proximity.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #6
Shares forced proximity & slow burn.

Callie Hart · Fae & Alchemy #1
Shares slow burn & forced proximity.

Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #1
Shares slow burn & forced proximity.

Sarah J. Maas · Crescent City #3
Shares enemies to allies & slow burn.

Saara El-Arifi · The Ending Fire #1
Shares enemies to allies & slow burn.

Laura Thalassa · The Four Horsemen #3
Shares forced proximity & grumpy / sunshine.

Carissa Broadbent · The War of Lost Hearts #2
Shares grumpy / sunshine & enemies to allies.