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Heather Walter · Malice Duology #2
Shares villain love interest, forbidden love & dark magic. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
Malice is villain love interest, forbidden love & slow burn — 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.
Alyce is the Dark Grace—half-Vila, despised and exploited by the kingdom of Briar for her dark magic while the pure Graces are celebrated. When she meets Princess Aurora, whose curse will kill her before the year is out, an unlikely bond forms that threatens to upend everything Alyce believes about good, evil, and herself. A sapphic Sleeping Beauty retelling told from the villain's point of view.
Share the most of what makes Malice work.

Heather Walter · Malice Duology #2
Shares villain love interest, forbidden love & dark magic. Same author, too.

Maggie Stiefvater · The Raven Cycle #2
Shares forbidden love, dark magic & slow burn.

Elise Kova · Air Awakens #2
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & chosen one.

Adalyn Grace · Belladonna #1
Shares villain love interest, slow burn & forbidden love.

Elise Kova · Air Awakens #1
Shares forbidden love, chosen one & slow burn.

Shares slow burn, forbidden love & dark magic.

Leigh Bardugo · Shadow and Bone #1
Shares chosen one, villain love interest & dark magic.

Hannah Whitten · Wilderwood #1
Shares forbidden love, slow burn & dark magic.

Shares slow burn & forbidden love.

Jay Kristoff · Empire of the Vampire #1
Shares forbidden love & slow burn.

Rachel Gillig · The Shepherd King #2
Shares dark magic & slow burn.

Tracy Deonn · The Legendborn Cycle #1
Shares chosen one & dark magic.