
The Winner's Crime
Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #2
Shares forbidden love, enemies to lovers, slow burn & court intrigue.
Read-alikes
Air Awakens is enemies to lovers, forbidden love & chosen one — 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.
Seventeen-year-old Vhalla Yarl is a library apprentice in the Solaris Empire who discovers she possesses rare elemental air magic after inadvertently saving the life of the reclusive Crown Prince Aldrik. Pulled into the secretive Tower of Sorcerers and entangled with a prince who is both her greatest ally and a dangerous unknown, Vhalla must decide whether to embrace her power or erase it — before the empire's wars make the choice for her.
Share the most of what makes Air Awakens work.

Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #2
Shares forbidden love, enemies to lovers, slow burn & court intrigue.

Amanda Joy · A River of Royal Blood #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, court intrigue & chosen one.

Elise Kova · Air Awakens #2
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & chosen one. Same author, too.

Elise Kova · Married to Magic #1
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & chosen one. Same author, too.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #6
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & court intrigue.

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

Shares forbidden love, slow burn & court intrigue.

Penn Cole · Kindred's Curse #2
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & court intrigue.

Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #3
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love & court intrigue.
Stacia Stark · Kingdom of Lies #2
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & court intrigue.

Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & forbidden love.

Penn Cole · Kindred's Curse #1
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & forbidden love.