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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at FIU chapter.
Fair warning – All the books I’m recommending below have loads of sugar and spice and sometimes (most of the time) not everything nice (HEA guaranteed though).
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Katherine Ann Kingsley (I have a thing for villains)
- The Masks of Under
- Want to read a dark fantasy horror romance series that takes place in another world, ruled by Kings, Queens, and ancient evil sentient Gods who seek to turn you into creatures like them? This series holds a level of uniqueness unlike any other. Full of plot, action, secrets, monsters, remarkable world-building, and spice between our heroine Lydia and our paramount madman for a villain the King of the House of Shadows Aon, this series is the one you’re looking for.
- “I have decided after long effort…this world is no longer worth saving. And if it is to be destroyed, then I shall not see it wither into indignancy. I shall see it burn.” (Katherine Ann Kingsley, King of Shadows)
- Want to read a dark fantasy horror romance series that takes place in another world, ruled by Kings, Queens, and ancient evil sentient Gods who seek to turn you into creatures like them? This series holds a level of uniqueness unlike any other. Full of plot, action, secrets, monsters, remarkable world-building, and spice between our heroine Lydia and our paramount madman for a villain the King of the House of Shadows Aon, this series is the one you’re looking for.
- Harrow Faire
- Harrow Faire, a fun-loving romance book at the circus that is sure to leave you with butterflies and all things light inside – NOT – this series is actually full of gore, magic, madness, secrets, betrayal, and a dark spicy romance between Cora our main girl aka The Contortionist and The Puppeteer Simon our sadistic psychopathic villain. All while bunched into a disappearing carnival that is more alive than you’ll realize, collecting bits of humanity and memories from all its visitors to feed its inhabitants and the Faire.
- “COME ONE, come all, to Harrow Faire, to greet your sweetest nightmare. Rejoin your dreams and memories, of carnivals and reveries. Seek the truth in mirrored lanes, that show you all the hidden planes. Enjoy the sights, see what we’ve made, let all Life’s sorrows wilt and fade. For like all things, we’ll call away, to all the gloom and shaded gray. Join us now, my friends, be brave – Laugh now. Laugh long. Soon comes the grave.” (Katherine Ann Kingsley, The Contortionist)
- “COME ONE, come all, to Harrow Faire, to greet your sweetest nightmare. Rejoin your dreams and memories, of carnivals and reveries. Seek the truth in mirrored lanes, that show you all the hidden planes. Enjoy the sights, see what we’ve made, let all Life’s sorrows wilt and fade. For like all things, we’ll call away, to all the gloom and shaded gray. Join us now, my friends, be brave – Laugh now. Laugh long. Soon comes the grave.” (Katherine Ann Kingsley, The Contortionist)
- Harrow Faire, a fun-loving romance book at the circus that is sure to leave you with butterflies and all things light inside – NOT – this series is actually full of gore, magic, madness, secrets, betrayal, and a dark spicy romance between Cora our main girl aka The Contortionist and The Puppeteer Simon our sadistic psychopathic villain. All while bunched into a disappearing carnival that is more alive than you’ll realize, collecting bits of humanity and memories from all its visitors to feed its inhabitants and the Faire.
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- The Four Horsemen – Pestilence, War, Famine, Death
- This four-book series full of happiness, sorrow, death, pleasure, and pain will have you crying, a lot. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are sent down to earth, and given the task to end all of humanity by God as there seems to be no hope left for saving humankind from their inner and outer destructive natures. In each book, all four horsemen learn what it means to feel love and loss, as the human women who’ve become their companions try with all their might to show them and God that humanity is worth saving.
- “From the darkest reaches of the universe, my form was forged. I am death, an end to all beginnings, a beginning to all ends…I have unto me, all the powers of my forbears and that which ties the threads of creation fast…I am the last of my kind, and I bring with me every manner of malady to plague humankind… All shall be as it once was. For I am the heart of God, and I will carry out Her will. I am the last judgment of humankind.” (Laura Thalassa, Death)
- This four-book series full of happiness, sorrow, death, pleasure, and pain will have you crying, a lot. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are sent down to earth, and given the task to end all of humanity by God as there seems to be no hope left for saving humankind from their inner and outer destructive natures. In each book, all four horsemen learn what it means to feel love and loss, as the human women who’ve become their companions try with all their might to show them and God that humanity is worth saving.
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- Breath of Chaos
- Space alien dragons living under the sea? Helena is tasked by entropic collision (chaos and order colliding to restore balance to the cosmos) to save an ancient alien dragon civilization that got trapped and is struggling to survive on earth. With little hope of finding their way back home and the possibility of humanity being blasted into the dark ages, Helena has her work cut out for her, especially with her troubling consorts Auryn, Akoni, and Keon adding to the cosmic-emotional-rollercoaster wheelbarrow ride. Magic, politics, engineering, adventure, and romance. If you want to read a series from an author whose writing has a distinctive personality, heavy plot, and imperfect characters, in an amazing world of chaos and order this one is for you.
- “Oh, little human. I’ve looked at the souls of my own kind and seen a thousand nightmares smile back at me.” (Merry Ravenell, Breath of Chaos)
- Space alien dragons living under the sea? Helena is tasked by entropic collision (chaos and order colliding to restore balance to the cosmos) to save an ancient alien dragon civilization that got trapped and is struggling to survive on earth. With little hope of finding their way back home and the possibility of humanity being blasted into the dark ages, Helena has her work cut out for her, especially with her troubling consorts Auryn, Akoni, and Keon adding to the cosmic-emotional-rollercoaster wheelbarrow ride. Magic, politics, engineering, adventure, and romance. If you want to read a series from an author whose writing has a distinctive personality, heavy plot, and imperfect characters, in an amazing world of chaos and order this one is for you.
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- The Guild Codex: Demonized
- Sorcery, supernatural creatures, two worlds, amulets, ancient books, and a non-magic practicing human who happens to be tied to a demon to save both their lives, are in a world of trouble. Robin and her demon partner Zylas try to right the wrongs bestowed on them and both their worlds, by attempting to end the slavery of demon-kind and send Zylas back home. Brimming with action, magic, bloodshed, humor, and shaky alliances this urban fantasy slow-burn romance is sure to leave you as it did me with a full heart.
- “He protects me in exchange for baked goods. That’s…that’s the whole contract.” (Annette Marie, Taming Demons for Beginners)
- Sorcery, supernatural creatures, two worlds, amulets, ancient books, and a non-magic practicing human who happens to be tied to a demon to save both their lives, are in a world of trouble. Robin and her demon partner Zylas try to right the wrongs bestowed on them and both their worlds, by attempting to end the slavery of demon-kind and send Zylas back home. Brimming with action, magic, bloodshed, humor, and shaky alliances this urban fantasy slow-burn romance is sure to leave you as it did me with a full heart.