Read-alikes

Books Like The Bear and the Nightingale

The Bear and the Nightingale is fierce heroine, gods & immortals & demons & devils — 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.

In 14th-century medieval Russia, Vasya is a motherless girl with the rare gift of seeing the old spirits — domovoi, rusalka, leshy — that protect her remote village. When a zealous Christian priest arrives and convinces villagers to abandon their offerings to these creatures, a chained demon called the Bear begins to break free, and only Vasya, aided by the enigmatic frost demon Morozko, can stop the darkness consuming the land.