Read-alikes

Books Like Graceling

Graceling is fierce heroine, assassin & enemies to allies — mild (2/5), 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.

In a world where rare individuals called Gracelings are born with uncanny talents — betrayed by mismatched eyes — Katsa has been forced to serve as her uncle King Randa's brutal enforcer since childhood, her Grace for killing making her both feared and isolated. When she encounters Prince Po, a Graceling fighter from a neighbouring kingdom, an unlikely alliance draws her into a conspiracy centred on the sinister King Leck of Monsea, whose Grace for manipulation may be the most dangerous in the seven kingdoms. The novel is as much a story of Katsa learning to claim her own identity as it is a high-fantasy adventure.