
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri · The Burning Kingdoms #1
Shares slow burn, forbidden love, morally grey & rebellion.
Read-alikes
An Ember in the Ashes is trials & tournaments, rebellion & slow burn — sweet (1/5), 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.
In a brutal empire modeled on ancient Rome, Scholar girl Laia agrees to spy inside the empire's most feared military academy — Blackcliff, a place built on cruelty and obedience — in exchange for the Resistance's help freeing her arrested brother. There she crosses paths with Elias Veturius, the academy's most gifted soldier who is secretly desperate to escape the violence he has been groomed to enforce. As a deadly imperial succession Trial begins, both must navigate impossible loyalties and a forbidden attraction that could cost them everything.
Share the most of what makes An Ember in the Ashes work.

Tasha Suri · The Burning Kingdoms #1
Shares slow burn, forbidden love, morally grey & rebellion.

Jay Kristoff · Empire of the Vampire #1
Shares morally grey, forbidden love & slow burn.

S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #2
Shares morally grey, rebellion & forbidden love.

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

Maggie Stiefvater · The Raven Cycle #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & slow burn.

Laini Taylor · Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & rebellion.

Marissa Meyer · The Lunar Chronicles #2
Shares morally grey, forbidden love & rebellion.

Saara El-Arifi · The Ending Fire #1
Shares rebellion, trials & tournaments & slow burn.

Tasha Suri · The Burning Kingdoms #2
Shares forbidden love, rebellion & morally grey.

Shares slow burn, forbidden love & trials & tournaments.

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

Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #2
Shares forbidden love, slow burn & morally grey.