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Books Like The Sunbearer Trials

The Sunbearer Trials is trials & tournaments, enemies to lovers & found family — 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.

In the Mexican-mythology-inspired kingdom of Reino del Sol, ten semidioses aged thirteen to eighteen are chosen by the sun god Sol to compete in the Sunbearer Trials: the winner replenishes the sun's power, and the loser is sacrificed. Teo, a seventeen-year-old trans Jade semidiós and son of Quetzal, is unexpectedly selected alongside thirteen-year-old Xio — the first non-Gold competitors in over a century — and must face opponents who are stronger, better trained, and favored by the gods.