Read-alikes

Books Like Scarlet

Scarlet is fierce heroine, morally grey & forbidden love — 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.

Scarlet Benoit, a fiery red-hooded farm girl in rural France, teams up with Wolf — a genetically engineered street fighter with dangerous secrets — to track down her missing grandmother. Simultaneously, newly escaped cyborg fugitive Cinder flees across the galaxy with the roguish Captain Thorne, their path converging with Scarlet's as Queen Levana's forces close in on them all. A sci-fi retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that transforms the Big Bad Wolf into a conflicted bioengineered soldier and raises the stakes of the entire Lunar Chronicles universe.