The Five Penalties: Similar romance series

The Dark Tower

by Stephen King

4.18 · 653 ratings

western · post-apocalyptic · dystopia · audiobook · paranormal · fiction · fantasy · action-adventure · industrial-era · horror · epic · dark · apocalyptic · dark-fantasy · supernatural · mystery · futuristic · book · contemporary · suspense

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The Broken Earth

by N.K. Jemisin

4.30 · 287 ratings

audiobook · dystopia · fiction · fantasy · young-adult · post-apocalyptic · poc-author · lgbtq · female-author · magic · book · contemporary · 21st-century · feminism · paranormal · poc-mc · action-adventure · afrofuturism · futuristic · dark-fantasy

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The Nevernight Chronicle

by Jay Kristoff

4.29 · 182 ratings

fiction · fantasy · wlw · young-adult · romance · book · female-mc · action-adventure · high-fantasy · lgbtq · grim-dark · dark-fantasy · horror · magic · epic · dark · new-adult · assassins · supernatural · revenge

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The Age of Madness

by Joe Abercrombie

4.51 · 119 ratings

epic · dark · adult · magic · violent-conflict · horror · dark-fantasy · contemporary · audiobook · military · lgbtq · war · book · grim-dark · high-fantasy · fiction · fantasy · action-adventure · medieval · heroic-fantasy

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New Crobuzon

by China Miéville

4.00 · 194 ratings

paranormal · dystopia · audiobook · book · urban-fantasy · dark · horror · dark-fantasy · steampunk · industrial-era · fantasy · action-adventure · fiction · 21st-century · magic · contemporary · young-adult · biopunk · epic · male-author

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Three Dark Crowns

by Kendare Blake

3.92 · 263 ratings

audiobook · paranormal · young-adult · royalty · romance · poc-author · book · magic · epic · dark · fiction · fantasy · high-fantasy · siblings · family · supernatural · witches-wizards · dystopia · dark-fantasy · horror

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The Red Queen's War

by Mark Lawrence

4.21 · 110 ratings

europe · high-fantasy · grim-dark · fiction · action-adventure · humor · demons · epic · dark · fantasy · retellings · dark-fantasy · adult · magic · male-mc · post-apocalyptic · book · scandinavia · supernatural · paranormal

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Phèdre's Trilogy

by Jacqueline Carey

4.16 · 169 ratings

romance · fiction · fantasy · epic · supernatural · book · myths · audiobook · paranormal · action-adventure · high-fantasy · lgbtq · historical-fiction · adult · historical · magic · steamy · political-intrigue · politics · alternate-history

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Dreamblood

by N.K. Jemisin

4.20 · 128 ratings

magic · female-author · afrofuturism · fiction · poc-mc · fantasy · lgbtq · paranormal · poc-author · historical-fiction · epic · action-adventure · high-fantasy · audiobook · contemporary · 21st-century · supernatural · book · adult · dark-fantasy

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The Divine Cities

by Robert Jackson Bennett

4.23 · 125 ratings

suspense · urban-fantasy · book · epic · fiction · fantasy · dystopia · gods · myths · audiobook · politics · paranormal · religion · supernatural · historical · magic · male-author · violent-conflict · retellings · spirituality

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Something Dark and Holy

by Emily A. Duncan

3.62 · 93 ratings

enemies-to-lovers · paranormal · audiobook · multi-pov · myths · book · gothic · romance · young-adult · supernatural · dark · violent-conflict · magic · dark-fantasy · horror · lgbtq · war · gods · high-fantasy · fiction

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The Locked Tomb

by Tamsyn Muir

4.26 · 213 ratings

mystery · fiction · fantasy · lgbtq · horror · book · wlw · high-fantasy · magic · space-opera · necromancy · lesbian-mc · paranormal · action-adventure · young-adult · gothic · space · dark-fantasy · female-author · dark

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Craft Sequence – internal chronology

by Max Gladstone

4.07 · 164 ratings

supernatural · urban-fantasy · magic · adult · male-author · lgbtq · industrial-era · steampunk · gods · fiction · action-adventure · mystery · fantasy · urban · paranormal · dystopia · contemporary · book · epic · horror

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The Draconis Memoria

by Anthony Ryan

4.11 · 101 ratings

paranormal · dragons · book · epic · historical · industrial-era · steampunk · fiction · fantasy · action-adventure · heroic-fantasy · audiobook · flintlock · sword-sorcery · dark · horror · dark-fantasy · military · magic · violent-conflict

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Book of the Ancestor

by Mark Lawrence

4.24 · 172 ratings

epic · fiction · fantasy · book · grim-dark · dark-fantasy · dark · dystopia · audiobook · high-fantasy · magic · young-adult · coming-of-age · lesbian-mc · political-intrigue · paranormal · action-adventure · female-mc · lgbtq · wlw

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Craft Sequence

by Max Gladstone

4.08 · 172 ratings

contemporary · urban-fantasy · book · adult · action-adventure · fiction · fantasy · lgbtq · dystopia · audiobook · paranormal · supernatural · male-author · magic · mystery · urban · steampunk · industrial-era · gods · myths

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The Book of the New Sun

by Gene Wolfe

4.04 · 206 ratings

book · fiction · literary · classics · adult · action-adventure · dystopia · literary-fiction · dying-earth · post-apocalyptic · dark-fantasy · earth · epic · dark · 20th-century · fantasy · apocalyptic · high-fantasy · audiobook · unreliable-narrator

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Noble Dead Saga: Series 2

by Barb Hendee

3.98 · 57 ratings

urban · fantasy · fiction · action-adventure · dark · epic · horror · dark-fantasy · adult · book · supernatural · vampires · paranormal · audiobook · high-fantasy · mystery · magic · fae · steampunk · industrial-era

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Worldbreaker Saga

by Kameron Hurley

3.70 · 52 ratings

action-adventure · fantasy · fiction · family · lgbtq · high-fantasy · war · violent-conflict · adult · dark-fantasy · female-author · horror · dark · epic · book · dystopia · feminism · female-mc · apocalyptic · grim-dark

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Rook & Rose

by M.A. Carrick

4.13 · 42 ratings

book · found-family · fiction · fantasy · action-adventure · high-fantasy · lgbtq · wlw · adult · epic · dark · audiobook · paranormal · mystery · magic · horror · romance · political-intrigue · politics · lesbian-mc

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The Chaos Born

by Drew Karpyshyn

3.76 · 30 ratings

high-fantasy · book · fiction · fantasy · mystery · action-adventure · epic · dark · horror · audiobook · adult · dark-fantasy · magic · male-author · medieval · paranormal · suspense · sword-sorcery · dragons · retellings

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The Saga of the Nothing Mage

by J.P. Valentine

4.13 · 30 ratings

fiction · action-adventure · mystery · high-fantasy · fantasy · lgbtq · magic · romantic-love · sword-sorcery · epic · mlm · book · audiobook · litrpg · heroic-fantasy · paranormal · mythical-creatures · humor · horror · dark-fantasy

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The Riddle in Stone

by Robert Evert

3.95 · 22 ratings

grim-dark · dark-fantasy · audiobook · adult · historical · magic · book · sword-sorcery · epic · dark · paranormal · mythical-creatures · fiction · fantasy · action-adventure · high-fantasy · horror · mystery · heroic-fantasy

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