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Books Like King of Scars

King of Scars is dark magic, court intrigue & slow burn — sweet (1/5), multi-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.

King Nikolai Lantsov struggles to hold war-ravaged Ravka together while concealing a dark, monstrous force growing inside him — a remnant of the Darkling's corruption. Accompanied by the fierce Grisha general Zoya Nazyalensky, he races to find a cure before the darkness consumes him and destabilises his kingdom, while spy Nina Zenik runs a parallel mission in Fjerda, using her transformed Grisha powers to liberate persecuted innocents and process her own catastrophic grief.