
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas · Crescent City #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.
Read-alikes
Shield of Sparrows is enemies to lovers, arranged marriage & forced proximity — mild (2/5), 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.
Princess Odessa, long overlooked in favour of her accomplished sister, is unexpectedly chosen as bride to a foreign prince and sent across cursed, monster-haunted lands with only a brooding Guardian warrior as her escort. Surrounded by court intrigue, spreading illness, and ancient monsters that threaten five kingdoms, Odessa must discover a strength no one — including herself — ever believed she possessed.
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Sarah J. Maas · Crescent City #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #6
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & court intrigue.

Brigid Kemmerer · Cursebreakers #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.

Mary E. Pearson · Dance of Thieves #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.

Brigid Kemmerer · Defy the Night #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & court intrigue.

Kerri Maniscalco · Kingdom of the Wicked #2
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & court intrigue.

Amanda Joy · A River of Royal Blood #1
Shares enemies to lovers, court intrigue & fierce heroine.

Danielle L. Jensen · The Bridge Kingdom #1
Shares enemies to lovers, arranged marriage & forced proximity.

Lauren Roberts · The Powerless Trilogy #3
Shares enemies to lovers, court intrigue & forced proximity.

Tessonja Odette · Entangled with Fae #1
Shares enemies to lovers, arranged marriage & forced proximity.

Nisha J. Tuli · Artefacts of Ouranos #1
Shares enemies to lovers, court intrigue & fierce heroine.

Amanda Bouchet · Kingmaker Chronicles #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.