
The Beautiful
Renee Ahdieh · The Beautiful #1
Shares forbidden love, slow burn, morally grey & vampire. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
The Damned is forbidden love, vampire & love triangle — 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.
Sébastien Saint Germain wakes as a vampire after a treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood is shattered, cursed into the very immortality he dreaded. Celine recovers from injuries she can barely remember, haunted by fragmented dreams and unaware that she has set dangerous forces in motion. As war between immortals looms over historical New Orleans, the lovers must navigate their transformed identities — and a world that wants to keep them apart.
Share the most of what makes The Damned work.

Renee Ahdieh · The Beautiful #1
Shares forbidden love, slow burn, morally grey & vampire. Same author, too.

Jay Kristoff · Empire of the Vampire #1
Shares vampire, morally grey, forbidden love & slow burn.

Richelle Mead · Vampire Academy #3
Shares forbidden love, vampire, love triangle & slow burn.

Renee Ahdieh · The Wrath and the Dawn #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & love triangle. Same author, too.

Leigh Bardugo · King of Scars Duology #2
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & morally grey.

Maggie Stiefvater · The Raven Cycle #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & slow burn.

Sabaa Tahir · An Ember in the Ashes #1
Shares slow burn, morally grey & forbidden love.

Sabaa Tahir · An Ember in the Ashes #2
Shares morally grey, slow burn & love triangle.

Tasha Suri · The Burning Kingdoms #1
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & morally grey.

Richelle Mead · Vampire Academy #2
Shares forbidden love, love triangle & vampire.

Mary E. Pearson · The Remnant Chronicles #2
Shares love triangle, forbidden love & morally grey.

Elise Kova · Air Awakens #2
Shares slow burn, forbidden love & love triangle.