Read-alikes

Books Like The Beautiful

The Beautiful is forbidden love, slow burn & morally grey — 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.

In 1872 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau flees Paris and a dark secret to take refuge at an Ursuline convent. She is quickly drawn into La Cour des Lions, a dangerous underground society led by the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain — even as young women from the convent turn up murdered. Celine must untangle her attraction to Sébastien from her suspicion that he may be the killer, all while the supernatural truth of New Orleans begins to surface.