Books Like Flock
If you finished Flock and want more love triangle, slow burn, morally gray, start here. Each pick shares at least two tropes with it, and we've rated every one for spice and darkness so you know what you're getting into.
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The picks
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1. Punk 57
Shares: slow burn, forbidden love
Misha and Ryen wrote letters for years without meeting. When he shows up at her school under a fake name, he finds out his sweet pen pal is the mean queen bee. Bullying and angst more than real darkness.
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
- Revenge
- Forbidden Love
Content warnings
Physical or emotional abuse, Death of a loved one
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2. Twisted Love
Shares: forbidden love, slow burn
Her brother's ice-cold best friend agrees to keep an eye on her, which turns into moving her into his place. More dark-ish than dark, which makes it a good warm-up before heavier books.
- Forbidden Love
- Possessive Hero
- Touch Her and Die
- Slow Burn
Content warnings
Murder, Stalking, Death of a loved one
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3. Priest
Shares: forbidden love, slow burn
Father Tyler Bell hears Poppy Danforth's confession and falls apart. Religious guilt, BDSM and a lot of heat. Darkness is low on violence, but it deals with grief and abuse in the church. Midnight Mass finishes their story.
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
- Possessive Hero
Content warnings
Suicide or suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault
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4. Ravenous
Shares: forbidden love, morally gray
Cole kicks off a new arc set in her Immortals After Dark world, with rival supernatural factions in the Skein and enemies who absolutely should not be sleeping together. It's a fresh starting point, so you don't need twenty backlist books first.
- Forbidden Love
- Enemies to Lovers
- Morally Gray
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Murder
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5. Voidwalker
Shares: forbidden love, morally gray
Fi is a smuggler who can walk the Void between worlds, and a job gone wrong drops her in front of Antal, an antlered daeyari lord whose species eats humans. He'll spare her if she helps him find whoever attacked his city. Predator and prey, with claws and tails and a lot of heat.
- Deals and Bargains
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forbidden Love
- Morally Gray
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Gore, Murder
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6. Deviant
Shares: morally gray, forbidden love
Dr. Sloane Romera goes looking for her missing best friend and ends up needing Zeth Mayfair, a Seattle criminal with very particular tastes. Readers who came from Quicksilver are often shocked by how dark it is. Collected now as Blood & Roses Volume 1.
- Morally Gray
- Possessive Hero
- Forbidden Love
Content warnings
Human trafficking, Graphic violence, Murder, Physical or emotional abuse, Drug or alcohol abuse
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7. It Ain't Me, Babe
Shares: forbidden love, morally gray
Salome escapes a religious cult and lands in the compound of the Hades Hangmen, whose mute president Styx has never forgotten her. Biker romance with some of the heaviest backstory in the genre. The cult material is hard going.
- Forbidden Love
- Touch Her and Die
- Possessive Hero
- Morally Gray
Content warnings
Harm to children, Sexual assault, Physical or emotional abuse, Graphic violence
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8. This Monster of Mine
Shares: morally gray, slow burn
A legal thriller in a Rome-inspired city. Four years after someone threw Sarai from a tower, she's back as a Petitor who can hear lies, assigned to Tetrarch Kadra, the feared judge whose voice sounds exactly like her attacker's. She works with him by day and plots against him by night.
- Enemies to Lovers
- Revenge
- Morally Gray
- Court Intrigue
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Torture, Murder, Physical or emotional abuse
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