Books like 'Not Quite the Fairy Tale'
Readers who enjoyed Not Quite the Fairy Tale by May Sage also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Tiger's Curse Preview by Colleen Houck
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPassion. Fate. Loyalty.Would you risk it all to change your destiny?The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that's exactly what happened... -
A Kingdom of Ruin by K.F. Breene
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNever sell your soul to the Demon King.Too late.In an effort to save all that I love, I have to finish the job Nyfain started… and ruin myself.I've made a trade with the most cunning creature alive.Me for them.The dungeons will be my new home. Dolion's destruction will be my new goal.I just have to get out of here and back to my golden dragon. Preferably alive... -
An Iron Fey Valentine by Julie Kagawa
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAN IRON FEY VALENTINE is a story of pure, unfiltered fluff that Julie Kagawa wrote just for fun, but also a thank you to her readers and fans for all their support and encouragement over the years... -
Fate Undone by Linsey Hall
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA god in disguise No one in the Prison for Magical Deviants knows that prisoner Logan Laufeyson has a secret identity. He is the ancient trickster god Loki, in magical disguise on a mission of his own... -
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Of Thieves and Shadows: A Dark Fairy Tale Retelling by Elle Madison, Robin D. Mahle
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAika's story continues in the fourth installment of the Twisted Pages series.Note: This is book 4 of 6 in the series. There are two books that focus on each sister, so Aika's primary plot line will wrap up with this book. Books 5 & 6 will focus on Melodi... -
Rumpel's Prize by Marie Hall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImp, deceiver, villainous mastermind… Rumpelstiltskin’s been called all these names and more, and for the most part, they’re entirely true. But there is more to the brooding, blond haired Adonis than brokering deals for the devil. He’s hiding a terrible, hideous secret. One that threatens to fray the already delicate strands of his sanity and reason... -
The Hob by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobin Goodfellow has met his match.The Gray Court, Book 4When the Black Queen kidnaps one of the White Queen's nephews, Robin Goodfellow is sent to ensure that the young prince safely returns to the bosom of his family. True to his role as Oberon’s Hobgoblin, he is ready for anything…except meeting his truebond, the very delicious, very human Michaela Exton... -
Spirit Bear by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe never thought she would love again…and then he appeared in her life. Rescued alive, but not whole… Laura is a white wolf shifter far from home and out of her element. She’s been held prisoner for years by those who would use her power for their evil purposes, but she’s held strong against them and lived to tell the tale... -
The Stone Queen by Jovee Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMedusa. We all know the myth. A man-hating gorgon with snakes for hair and one nasty attitude. But is that really true? Did you know that once she was a beautiful maiden with wings of white and gold? That once she knew how to laugh, how to smile, that once she even knew the love of a man. A god the world knew as War, but that she simply knew as hers... -
The Death King by Jovee Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHades is the Dark King of Legend, the god of the Underworld and the master of death itself. Calypso is a wild, capricious, and ancient goddess more powerful than all the gods of Olympus combined. Theirs was a legendary love until a curse came and tore through Kingdom and with it the end of all they'd once been. Without her he is lost and without him, she's lost her way... -
A Fey's Wolf by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling Author Elle Boon brings the story of second chance love. Buckle up...it's gonna be a wild ride. When a wolf catches the scent of his mate, he’ll do anything to claim and protect her, even if that means protecting the little Fey from himself... -
Dark Side by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world... -
Glamor by Charlene Hartnady, B.E. Brouillard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy fairytale has turned into an absolute nightmare, and I can’t wake up.Glamor is the second, and last, book in a duet. It follows Gina and Nightfall’s story. This steam-filled duet can be read as standalone but would be best enjoyed after reading Becoming the Demon Queen trilogy... -
A Dangerous Demon King by J.S. Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final book in The Sentinel Demon series by New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author J.S. Scott. Please NOTE: The Sentinel Demon books don't stand alone well. Although each Sentinel gets a HEA in their book, there is so much of the overlying story arch that would be missed if you haven't read the other three books... -
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Succubus Blessed by Heather Long
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf I told you, that would be spoiling the last book. I know, I know. Not everyone likes secrets, but that's half of the fun of telling my story. I'll tell you when the time is right. Promise.The following blurb might contain spoilers for Succubus Unchained. Be warned before you scroll down.There might be something to this new life of mine.Being mated to Maddox and bonded to Alfred isn’t so bad... -
Jett's Wild Wolf by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTWO WILD WOLVES LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO BELONG A WILD WOLF Taryn yearned for freedom and a place where she was loved for herself. For years she looked for that special somewhere that she would be safe to find love. The first time she saw Jett, her heart and mind knew he was the one for her. A SEXY AS SIN SHIFTER Jett nearly lost his place in the Mystic wolves because of one wild wolf... -
Moon's Flower by Marie Hall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnce upon a time, long, long ago a flower fairy looked up to the sky and dared to fall in love with the Man in the Moon…This is a very special and hidden story of Kingdom. WARNING: May contain treachery, happily ever afters, betrayals, and laughter… though not necessarily in that order... -
Siren's Song by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA crescendo of evil could destroy their perfect harmony.The Gray Court, Book 5Oberon is well and truly lost, with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or where he’s going. One woman makes his palms sweat and his heart race, a woman with turquoise eyes and a beautiful voice. Instinct tells him she’s the only one who can save him... -
Song of the Sea King by Alessa Thorn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe seas of Faerie and Albion need to be healed in order for magic to flow again, and it's up to one surly fae king and a lighthouse keeper with a strange gift to get the job done.Mananan has to fix the oceans between Faerie and the human world to stop them both from dying... -
The Unseelie King by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Unseelie King, by Heather Killough-Walden For thousands of years, two realms of unspeakable magic and mystery have existed in peace side by side. One is a land of light, of kindness, of dreams, and of color. The other is rendered in the gray lines of wickedness and seeped in the unbearable beauty of all that is forbidden. The first is ruled by the Seelie King... -
Touching Eternity by Airicka Phoenix
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore Fallon was created to destroy. Before love became the ultimate weapon of destruction. There was Amalie and the horror that started a revolution that tore the fabric of humanity, of everything standing in the balance between power, hope and survival.Amalie has one wish, one gnawing desire — she wants to die. She wants to leave this world behind with its pain and darkness... -
A Curse of Gems: A Retelling of Toads and Diamonds by Brittany Fichter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan she risk trusting a man if it means saving her sister? And what will she do when that reluctant trust begins changing into something more? Jaelle knows better than to trust men. Every girl in Terrefantome knows that. But when her plan to escape her oppressive kingdom with her sister goes awry, she finds herself with an unwanted gift and her sister in peril... -
Sunburn by Rosanna Leo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatience O’Conner is a travel blogger who lives for her work. Her dedication to her readers brings her to the famed Helios Resort in Mexico, a locale that stuns her with its beauty but at which she suffers from some very strange accidents.Luckily, hunky resort bartender Apollo Delos is always there in the nick of time, a malcontent guardian angel... -
Wing by Tara Maya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUMBRAL SERVES THE DEATHSWORN. He exists for one purpose only: to hunt down the last girl with rainbow magic and kill her. Now he has Dindi at his mercy. But he discoverers that the Raptor Riders of Orange Canyon have played with dark magic that threatens all Faeath, and he needs Dindi’s help to stop them.DINDI BARGINS FOR HER LIFE... -
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Blood by Tara Maya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Amazon:Dindi and Umbral have an uneasy truce, forced to work together to defeat a greater enemy: the Bone Whistler. The Bone Whistler’s scheme to sacrifice humanity and resurrect the Aelfae will culminate during an eclipse on the spring equinox…in three days.Their fragile alliance may not withstand the terrors they face... -
Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaki has lived and tried to love, over and over again. As a griffin, she is privy to the memories of all the griffins who have come before. Every moment of their lives until they died in defense of others. The story is always the same. When she is called back to the Crossroads for the third time, she has only a flicker of hope that this will be the charm... -
Lost Girl by Dee Garcia
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWendyI was just a normal girl in a normal human world. I’d loved. I’d lost. I’d grieved, and after some time, I moved on.Then, and quite suddenly, he returned.He—Peter Pan, my first love; a monster in disguise.In the end, he paid the ultimate price, but his demise wasn’t enough... -
Flipped Off by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mermaid with no interest in a mate is pursued by a dolphin shifter who won’t be flipped off.Lorai needs humans to live. Her particular magic feeds off joy and goodwill. Human laughter fills her with power. It works with shifters, too... -
Immortal Craving by Magen McMinimy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKale, the youngest of the elite Light Fae Warriors chosen to protect the Human World from the dark creatures that lurk in the shadows, has had a life that’s been hard fought and racked with betrayal, loss and heartache... -
Compel by Rachel Van Dyken, Patti Stanger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken and bestselling author Patti Stanger comes a gripping love story of cursed soulmates who are forced to relive tragedy over and over again until their curse is broken…Compelled to seduce, designed to kill... -
Missing the Night by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne night, ten years ago, they satisfied her hunger, and she ran as fast as she could. Now, they are back in her life, and they want more.Nessa has stayed away from home for ten years, but a plea from estranged family brings her home. Nessa is half faerie, half human, and drains sexual energy from the people around her... -
Guilt by Charlene Hartnady, B.E. Brouillard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI never believed in fairytales until I met him…Then I found out that he isn’t human, which is fine with me. And that he’s the biggest jerk alive, which is unacceptable. I can’t believe I fell for his lies. It’s not like me at all!Just when I need him the most, he shows me his true colors. Turns out that my handsome king is actually a pointy-eared toad, and that fairytales are a load of nonsense... -
Saving Scarlett by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScarlett Jamison, the daughter of a powerful alpha wolf, knows her freedom is slowly slipping away. As a Breeding Queen, her hereditary destiny is to be given away to a male of her father’s choosing. She’ll have no say in the choice of her mate; her only duty will be to give her future mate as many pups as he wants... -
Enchanting the Fae Prince by Alisha Klapheke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn outcast maiden. A fae prince. A match bound by fate.When outcast cobbler Rhianne braves the enchanted wood to find her fated love, absolutely everything that could go wrong does. The Matchweaver witch’s magical loom reveals Rhianne is fated for the most powerful fae prince in history... -
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Destined by Hazel Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan their love survive the battle? As Kayla tries to come to grips with her true nature, the Dark Fae attack. In an all out bid for supremacy, the sadistic enemies unleash new evil. If she and the warriors of Forever Faire are to survive, she must find a way to master her powers. Ryan would do anything to protect his brave band of outcasts, but placing Kayla in danger is something he won’t do... -
Hot as Sin: Monster Between the Sheets: Season 2 by Elle Christensen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRandomly bursting into flames and regenerating on a regular basis made Ash Howell feel like an outsider in a town full of monsters. Afraid of the damage he could do, the phoenix turned into a recluse…until Izzy Riley showed up in town. The beautiful half-fae/half-demon imp knew what it felt like not to belong anywhere. That was why she left Hell, even though she was the King’s sister... -
Storm Warned by Dani Harper, Justine Eyre
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Caris’s unearthly musical talent attracts the attention of the Wild Hunt, the Welsh farm girl is stolen away to serve as a faery grim, a herald of death. Two centuries later, she’s finally escaped back to the human world—and into the present-day life of a reclusive and heartbroken American musician... -
The Magic Queen: Dark Queens Book 4 by Jovee Winters
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBaba Yaga is probably the darkest of all the queens. An unrepentant bad girl, she has no time for men, or something as pedestrian as love. Too bad Calypso and Aphrodite never got that memo. They've decided to make the witch their pet project. Baba's choice is simple, fall in love with the male they found her, or die. She'd laugh, except for the little fact that they're totally serious... -
Controlling the King of Floods by Lola Glass
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm in a city full of fae who despise me because of my magic, with a mate who doesn't have time to see me.Yeah, it's been great .I've about decided to move to the earth fae lands when someone wakes the Mother of All Monsters, and Flood decides I have to go with him into the Aboa to put her back to sleep... -
Huntsman's Prey by Marie Hall
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe long anticipated spinoff to the Bad boys series if finally here, the Dark Princess Saga begins with Hatter and Alice's daughter... Rumors abound in Wonderland, of a dark princess named Chrysalis who bears the Moon's curse. Her beauty is beyond compare, and her madness… even greater than her father’s, The Hatter... -
The Seelie King by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTuath Stories remembered the fates of the Wishers well. Thousands of years ago, the sovereigns of the Fae lands issued a decree: The Wishers would die. Powerful magics were called forth, and in an act never before or since accomplished, both light and dark, both Seelie and Unseelie gathered together in their courts and combined their powers. The Wishers were annihilated.However.. -
Bronx's Wounded Wolf by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBronx’s Wounded Wolf Blurb A WOUNDED WOLF…A FIERCE PROTECTOR…AN UNSHAKABLE BOND…Will Bronx and Taya be able to create that mystical bond without her inner wolf, or will their love be enough? A WOUNDED WOLF… Having suffered at the hands of a rogue pack, Taya’s wolf retreat’s deep inside her. She learns to rely on her humanity as she seeks sanctuary from the pack she’d been taken from as a child... -
Enslave by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHis determination to succeed in business has left no room in his life for love. Now, a beautiful and deadly succubus has teleported into his dark, decadent world and is in danger of enslaving his heart... -
Wolf Down by Novalee Swan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I can't pay." She took another step forward. It brought her level with his outstretched legs. One more tiny step brought her between them. "But I have a proposition."LUCAS LEBRAY is the biggest, baddest wolf in town. A sexy shifter who likes to pretend there isn't much more to him than fun and games... -
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Fur Ever Yours by Melanie James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legends and sagas of the Norse tell tales of mystic warriors, the Berserkers. Heroes with hearts so fierce, loyal and courageous the Gods endowed them with a supernatural gift—the spirit of the wolf. As the time of the Gods faded into the shadows of yesterday, the wolf warriors held fast to their old ways, becoming outlaws in their ancestral lands... -
Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSaving shifters has been her life, but locking eyes with a fey in a crowded room wakes her beast in all the best ways.Yval has been living to save other shifters from the clutches of the fey. She has had her body modified to make her job easier, but the magic used cut her off from her beast... -
Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo beasts that won’t show their faces in one body built entirely of curves, Hayley is ambushed to the Crossroads where she meets the elf she never dreamed of.Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life... -
Beauty Beheld by Brittany Fichter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKing Everard and Queen Isabelle have no heir. Two children have no family. But what happens when Isa and Ever find out that these children might be the greatest threat the kingdom has seen in 500 years? In this retelling of Hansel and Gretel, Henri and his little sister, Genny, find themselves abandoned in the forest when something dark beckons to them. Something sweet... -
Cupid's Heart by Nicole Garcia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCupid, God of Love, has not used his bow and arrow to create love in twenty-five years. Being solely responsible for producing love amongst the humans, had proven to be too much for him to handle. His only disastrous mistake made him feel guilty, and thought he deserved to be alone for the rest of eternity. Valentina Hart, a human, has a few problems of her own... -
Her Warriors by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove triangles are always more interesting when they come equipped with claws…and flippers? Beau has anger issues, but not when he’s around Jacki. The fierce tiger shifter has been following her around like a puppy, but she hasn’t taken notice of him…until now. No matter how long Geir has lived in the States, he’s still the odd man out...
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