
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, slow burn & morally grey. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
A Study in Drowning is enemies to lovers, slow burn & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), 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.
Effy Sayre, haunted since childhood by visions of the Fairy King, wins a contest to redesign the crumbling seaside estate of her beloved author Emrys Myrddin. At Hiraeth Manor she clashes with Preston Héloury, a literature scholar bent on proving Myrddin is a fraud, and together they unravel a legacy tangled with dark magic, buried secrets, and the question of whose stories get to be told.
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Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, slow burn & morally grey. Same author, too.

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Leigh Bardugo · King of Scars Duology #2
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & morally grey.

Rachel Gillig · The Shepherd King #1
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Shares slow burn, morally grey & forbidden love.

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Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love & morally grey.

Leigh Bardugo · King of Scars Duology #1
Shares dark magic, slow burn & morally grey.