Fantasy, Urban Fantasy + Paranormal Romance Recommendations
“Because, you need to know I’ll kill anyone who hurts you little monster.”
-Kate King, Lords of the Hunt
Once he drove back the darkness.
Once he loved with such passion his name was legend.
The Tairen Soul series is magically lovely in every way. The romance, the characters, the story, and the world building are unlike anything I’ve read before or since. This is one of my most consistent re-reads.
I’m so excited that the series is getting a second life with glow-up covers and rereleases!!
“Ver reisa ku’chae. Kem surah, shei’tani. (Your soul calls out. Mine answers, beloved.)”
― C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands
Radiance is one of those OG romantasies (before romantasy became what it is now) that hit our Kindle’s in 2015 and has stayed as a beautiful romantasy to be re-read again and again. I loved this wonderfully written and perfectly plotted gorgeous novel. Can be read as a standalone or you can continue with the series, which has three novels and some novellas.
“She made him strong; she made him weak, and in that moment, she nearly put him on his knees.”
― Grace Draven, Radiance
This series. This is god-tier six-star perfection. Every single entry and we’re three deep with a novella and two more to go. The writing, pacing, world-building, relationships, sisterhood, magic. . .it’s everything and it’s perfect.
The Ashen Series, ongoing
“It is a man’s world in which we live, Skraeda. Let them think us lambs, when truly, we are wolves.”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones
I was screaming out loud when I was approved for an ARC of this gloriously perfect novel. I highlighted sooooo much, I cried, I kicked my feet and I completly fell in love with this new world that Elizabeth May has created. The writing is sublime, the romance is bloody epic and the end is perfection. I can’t wait for more.
Onging Series | My Review
“Blood is my war paint. I don’t accept the cleansing after the ceremony. This body needs a reminder. It needs to know that it’s not a drowning set of lungs; it belongs to a woman, and that woman is me.”
― Elizabeth May, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood
I was kicking my feet during this slow burn awesomeness. An arranged marriage between two opposites that are perfect for each other. I highly reccomend this incredibly fun first outing in the Wrath and Weeping series. sooooo good.
“A third, more confusing part of her, squalled in protest every time his kissed ended. That third part demanded to know if he would make love the way he kissed—like she was fire, and he desperately wished to burn.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Tears of the Wolf
“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night
There is something about this old school romantasy from 2006 that still slaps. I reread it in 2025 and still loved it.
It’s books like this that walked so that the genre that has exploded could run, in my opinion.
A warlord and his prize. . .
“You have only to hear my heartbeat to know that each beat is for you.”
― Elizabeth Vaughan, Warprize
Chronic Ever After 