Read-alikes

Books Like A Torch Against the Night

A Torch Against the Night is quest, enemies to allies & morally grey — 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.

Fugitives Laia (a Scholar) and Elias (a deserter soldier slowly dying from poison) race across a brutal Rome-inspired empire to break Laia's brother out of the empire's most dreaded prison, Kauf, before time runs out. Simultaneously, Helene — newly appointed Blood Shrike — is ordered by the savage new Emperor to hunt her former best friend, forcing her to choose between duty and loyalty at every turn. Three interlocking POVs converge at a devastating climax that reshapes the series' entire playing field.