Read-alikes

Books Like Malice

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.