
The Heart Forger
Rin Chupeco · The Bone Witch #2
Shares enemies to lovers, dark magic, found family & morally grey.
Read-alikes
For the Throne is enemies to lovers, morally grey & villain love interest — mild (2/5), 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.
Red's sister Neve is lost in the Shadowlands — an inverted, god-haunted realm where the imprisoned deities of legend are slowly being consumed by the malevolent Old Kings. To survive and find her way back, Neve forms a reluctant alliance with Solmir, a rogue king with a dark past, as they journey across a treacherous landscape toward a mysterious Heart Tree whose power may be the only way to destroy the Shadowlands from within.
Share the most of what makes For the Throne work.

Rin Chupeco · The Bone Witch #2
Shares enemies to lovers, dark magic, found family & morally grey.

Hafsah Faizal · Sands of Arawiya #2
Shares enemies to lovers, found family, morally grey & dark magic.

Rin Chupeco · The Bone Witch #1
Shares dark magic, enemies to lovers, found family & morally grey.

Stephanie Garber · Once Upon a Broken Heart #2
Shares enemies to lovers, villain love interest & morally grey.

Laini Taylor · Strange the Dreamer #2
Shares morally grey, found family & dark magic.

Laini Taylor · Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey & found family.

Lynette Noni · The Prison Healer #2
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey & found family.

Margaret Owen · Little Thieves #1
Shares morally grey, enemies to lovers & found family.

Hannah Nicole Maehrer · Assistant to the Villain #2
Shares villain love interest, morally grey & found family.

Andrea Stewart · The Drowning Empire #1
Shares dark magic, morally grey & found family.

Shares enemies to lovers, dark magic & found family.

Carissa Broadbent · The War of Lost Hearts #2
Shares morally grey, found family & dark magic.