Swoon-Worthy Romantasy Recommendations

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’re in the mood for fantasy with romance, yearning, and maybe a little spice! 🌹🌶️ Do you want to be swept off your feet with a heart-fluttering love story steeped in legend and lore, or do you want to devour an intense slow-burn filled with passion and peril? Our fairies have some swoon-worthy romantasy recommendations for you that promise equal parts magic and tension — a match made in heaven! 💘

The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle

Are Sera’s strange and secret abilities a match for the dark-haired boy whose quicksilver eyes follow her around the city? In the dark underbelly of Fantome, two assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love.

Iron & Embers by Helen Scheuerer

In a place where peace is fragile, trust is scarce, and enemies lurk around every corner, will love heal all wounds or will it be the most lethal poison of all? Torj has hated Wren since she assassinated his last charge, and their shared history ignites a simmering tension that threatens to consume them both during a gruelling series of deadly trials.

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

After centuries of sleep, the Gods are warring again. And with a brother missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’ best bet at keeping her family together is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. But when the letters she’s writing to her brother fall into the hands of her rival at the paper, an unlikely magical connection forms.

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Two graduate students studying Magick must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies.

Red City by Marie Lu

Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor’s edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city and the paths of their lives will be irrevocably transformed.

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters. When Alina’s regiment is attached and her best friend is brutally injured, she reveals a dormant power that not only saves his life, but could also be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Alina has to confront the secrets of the magic elite and her own heart.

Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

Clara has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. That is, until she is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards. Wanting to use her rare powers for his own gain, Prince Kaelis offers her an escape for a price. In order to conceal her identity he brings her to the elite Arcana Academy, and introduces her not only as their newest student, but also his bride-to-be.

Seven Deadly Thorns by Amber Hamilton

In the Kingdom of Aragoa, the punishment for magic is death. When Viola’s deadly shadow magic is discovered, the queen gives Roze, her assassin, a new assignment and a new cursed tattoo: a seven-thorned rose for the seven days he has to hunt Viola down and kill her. But Roze desperately needs something from her, and he’s willing to spare her life and fake an engagement to get it.

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days dreaming of becoming a warrior… and putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. But after being forced to reveal her deepest secret, the jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders Bjorn to protect her from their enemies instead.

To Cage A Wild Bird by Brooke Fast

Raven is Dividium’s most notorious bounty hunter, living on the edge of society. But when her younger brother, Jed, is sentenced to Endlock, Raven will do anything to save him — even if it means getting herself arrested. Now trapped in a prison where danger lurks around every corner, Raven must use all her cunning and strength to protect Jed. But there’s one obstacle she never expected: the prison guard she should hate starts to stir something deep inside her.

For She Is Wrath by Emily Varga

Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on Mazin — the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved, and the boy she still can’t forget.

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Nine years ago, Vivienne nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. She knew she shouldn’t use her magic that way, but she didn’t think it would cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. That is, until he returns to their town looking just as gorgeous as he used to, and Vivienne soon learns that her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all.

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