Read-alikes

Books Like A Soul of Ash and Blood

A Soul of Ash and Blood is enemies to lovers, forbidden love & fated mates — spicy (4/5), first-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.

When Poppy — now the Primal of Blood and Bone — falls into magical stasis, Casteel (Hawke) sits at her side and recounts the full story of how they met, speaking directly to her sleeping form. Told almost entirely from Casteel's perspective, the fifth Blood and Ash novel revisits events of the first book while weaving in present-day scenes of gods awakening and war closing in, revealing what Hawke truly thought, felt, and hid during every deception and tender moment Poppy never saw.