Read-alikes

Books Like City of Bones

City of Bones is hidden world / portal, love triangle & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), third-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.

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a murder at a New York nightclub — committed by tattooed teenagers she soon learns are Shadowhunters, half-angel demon hunters invisible to ordinary humans. When her mother vanishes and a demon attacks her home, Clary is plunged into a hidden world of warlocks, vampires, and fae, forced to uncover dark secrets about her own origins.