Read-alikes

Books Like War

War is captive / captor, enemies to lovers & forced proximity — spicy (4/5), first-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.

When War, the second of the Four Horsemen, rides into Jerusalem and the city burns, Miriam Elmahdy survives only to be claimed as his wife and dragged back to his vast army camp. Determined to resist the immortal destroyer who is reshaping the world through slaughter, she must decide whether love can coexist with — or even redeem — a being whose entire purpose is annihilation. The novel asks whether the embodiment of violence can be changed by one human woman who refuses to be broken.