Books Like Lore
If you finished Lore and want more gods and mythology, deadly trials, revenge, 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. Gods of Jade and Shadow
Shares: gods and mythology, forced proximity
Casiopea scrubs floors for her awful grandfather in 1920s Mexico until she opens an old chest and frees Hun-Kamé, the Maya god of death. They road-trip to get his throne back. More fable than romance, with a bittersweet ending.
- Gods and Mythology
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
- Forced Proximity
Content warnings
Physical or emotional abuse, Graphic violence
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2. Grave Mercy
Shares: forced proximity, gods and mythology
Ismae escapes a brutal marriage into a convent whose nuns serve the god of death, mostly with poison and knives. Then she's sent to the Breton court posing as Duval's mistress. More politics than stabbing, and the slow trust between them really works.
- Assassins
- Court Intrigue
- Forced Proximity
- Gods and Mythology
Content warnings
Physical or emotional abuse, Murder, Graphic violence
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3. Fourth Wing
Shares: forced proximity, deadly trials
Violet is fragile and was supposed to be a scribe. Instead she's at a war college where cadets push each other off parapets and the dragons pick who lives. Fast, bingeable and meaner than the cover suggests.
- Dragons
- Academies and War Colleges
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forced Proximity
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Murder, War, Death of a loved one
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4. Blood of Hercules
Shares: gods and mythology, deadly trials
Alexis Hert takes a blood test and lands in a Spartan war academy built inside a Coliseum, where her mentors are gladiators Achilles and Patro and her professors are heirs to the underworld. Everyone is cruel to her. Unhinged, funny in a bleak way, and much meaner than the cover.
- Gods and Mythology
- Why Choose
- Academies and War Colleges
- Deadly Trials
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Physical or emotional abuse, Self-harm, Death of a loved one
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5. The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Shares: deadly trials, gods and mythology
A human girl raised by the vampire king enters a deadly tournament where the prize is a goddess's favor. Hunger Games energy, gorgeous writing and a rival who's very hard not to like.
- Vampires
- Deadly Trials
- Enemies to Lovers
- Gods and Mythology
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Gore, Physical or emotional abuse, Death of a loved one
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6. A Promise of Fire
Shares: gods and mythology, forced proximity
Cat is a soothsayer hiding in a traveling circus until Griffin, a warlord, figures out what she can do and carries her off. The Greek gods meddle constantly. Banter-heavy and steamy, and Griffin is an alpha who actually listens.
- Gods and Mythology
- Captor and Captive
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forced Proximity
Content warnings
Kidnapping, Graphic violence, Physical or emotional abuse
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7. The Book of Azrael
Shares: gods and mythology, forced proximity
Dianna is a shape-shifting monster who does terrible things for her maker. Liam is a god-king forced to work with her. The main characters really aren't nice people, and it's dark and very horny.
- Enemies to Lovers
- Morally Gray
- Gods and Mythology
- Forced Proximity
Content warnings
Graphic violence, Gore, Torture, Murder
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