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Books Like Juniper & Thorn

Juniper & Thorn is captive / captor, forbidden love & dark magic — steamy (3/5), 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.

Marlinchen, the youngest witch-daughter of Oblya's last wizard, is kept prisoner by her tyrannical, hunger-cursed father who profits from her magical abilities. When she sneaks into the city and falls for a ballet dancer named Sevas, desire for freedom collides with dark family secrets and a murderous monster stalking the streets. A gothic horror retelling of the Grimm fairy tale 'The Juniper Tree,' set in an Eastern European-inspired world at the edge of industrialisation.