Read-alikes

Books Like The City of Brass

The City of Brass is captive / captor, court intrigue & hidden world / portal — 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.

In 18th-century Cairo, Nahri is a gifted con woman who accidentally summons Dara, an ancient and dangerous djinn warrior, during one of her schemes. He whisks her to Daevabad, a hidden city of magical beings sealed behind walls of brass, where Nahri discovers she is the last heir of the Nahids — a legendary healing dynasty — and a pawn in a centuries-old blood feud. Politics, prejudice, and treachery close in on all sides as she struggles to survive a world that both needs and fears what she is.