Read-alikes

Books Like A Sorceress Comes to Call

A Sorceress Comes to Call is dark magic, found family & fierce heroine — closed door, 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.

Fourteen-year-old Cordelia has grown up under the thumb of her sorceress mother Evangeline, who uses magic to seize control of Cordelia's body as punishment. When Evangeline sets her sights on a wealthy squire, his sharp-eyed spinster sister Hester recognises the danger — and the two form an unlikely alliance to survive the sorceress before she can destroy them all. A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Goose Girl,' blending Regency gothic atmosphere with creeping horror.