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Marissa Meyer · The Lunar Chronicles #4
Shares found family, fierce heroine & forbidden love.
Read-alikes
The Darkest Part of the Forest is fae, hidden world / portal & forbidden love — 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.
Hazel and her brother Ben grew up in Fairfold, a small town where the fae roam freely and locals know to wear protective charms. For years a beautiful horned boy has slept untouched in a glass coffin deep in the woods — until the coffin shatters and he wakes, pulling Hazel into the dangerous politics of the faerie world she has secretly been fighting since childhood.
Share the most of what makes The Darkest Part of the Forest work.

Marissa Meyer · The Lunar Chronicles #4
Shares found family, fierce heroine & forbidden love.

Cassandra Clare · The Last Hours #1
Shares forbidden love, found family & hidden world / portal.

Cassandra Clare · The Dark Artifices #1
Shares forbidden love, found family & hidden world / portal.

Cassandra Clare · The Mortal Instruments #1
Shares hidden world / portal, forbidden love & found family.

Carissa Broadbent · The War of Lost Hearts #3
Shares forbidden love, found family & fae.

Holly Black · Book of Night #1
Shares hidden world / portal & fierce heroine. Same author, too.

Holly Black · Modern Faerie Tales #1
Shares hidden world / portal & forbidden love. Same author, too.

Shares found family & forbidden love.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #3
Shares fae & fierce heroine.

S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #3
Shares found family & forbidden love.

Laini Taylor · Strange the Dreamer #2
Shares forbidden love & found family.

Laini Taylor · Strange the Dreamer #1
Shares forbidden love & hidden world / portal.