Read-alikes

Books Like The Assassin's Blade

The Assassin's Blade is assassin, friends to lovers & morally grey — sweet (1/5), third-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.

A collection of five prequel novellas following Celaena Sardothien, Adarlan's most feared assassin, through the missions and betrayals that define her before the events of Throne of Glass. Sent across deserts, pirate islands, and the treacherous underworld by her manipulative master Arobynn Hamel, Celaena begins to question her loyalties and discovers a capacity for love with fellow assassin Sam Cortland — a bond whose devastating end explains everything the main series only hints at.