Read-alikes

Books Like The Kingdom of Copper

The Kingdom of Copper is arranged marriage, court intrigue & morally grey — 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.

Five years after the events of The City of Brass, Nahri is trapped in a political marriage within Daevabad's brass walls, channelling her gifts into building a hospital for the city's oppressed half-blood shafit. Meanwhile, the exiled Prince Ali discovers dangerous water-spirit abilities in the desert, and the resurrected warrior Dara is being remade as a weapon for a catastrophic strike against the city. When the century-spanning Navastatem celebrations arrive, the powder-keg ignites in ways none of them can survive unchanged.