
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · Alex Stern #1
Shares hidden world / portal, morally grey & fierce heroine.
Read-alikes
Magic Bites is fierce heroine, enemies to lovers & hidden world / portal — sweet (1/5), 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.
In a post-magical-apocalypse Atlanta where waves of magic and technology alternately dominate, mercenary Kate Daniels makes a gritty living cleaning up supernatural messes. When her guardian and mentor is murdered, Kate is pulled into a deadly power struggle between the city's three dominant factions — the Pack (shapeshifters), the People (vampire handlers), and the Order of Merciful Aid. Hunting a killer with abilities that shouldn't exist, Kate must navigate lethal politics while keeping her own dangerous secret buried.
Share the most of what makes Magic Bites work.

Leigh Bardugo · Alex Stern #1
Shares hidden world / portal, morally grey & fierce heroine.

C.S. Pacat · Dark Rise #1
Shares enemies to lovers, hidden world / portal & morally grey.

Xiran Jay Zhao · Iron Widow #1
Shares fierce heroine, morally grey & enemies to lovers.

Renee Ahdieh · The Wrath and the Dawn #2
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey & fierce heroine.

Renee Ahdieh · Flame in the Mist #1
Shares enemies to lovers, fierce heroine & morally grey.

Holly Black · Book of Night #1
Shares morally grey, hidden world / portal & fierce heroine.

Olivie Blake · The Atlas #1
Shares morally grey, enemies to lovers & hidden world / portal.

Sarah J. Maas · Crescent City #1
Shares enemies to lovers, fierce heroine & morally grey.

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

Shares enemies to lovers & fierce heroine.

Holly Black · The Folk of the Air #2
Shares enemies to lovers & morally grey.

Sabaa Tahir · An Ember in the Ashes #4
Shares fierce heroine & morally grey.