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Books Like Voidwalker

If you finished Voidwalker and want more deals and bargains, enemies to lovers, forbidden love, 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.

For reference, Voidwalker is:

Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

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The picks

  1. 1. Ravenous

    Kresley Cole · Immortals Untold #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: forbidden love, enemies to lovers, 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

  2. 2. From Blood and Ash

    Jennifer L. Armentrout · Blood and Ash #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, forbidden love, morally gray

    Poppy is the Maiden, veiled and untouchable, and her new guard Hawke is far too interested in her. Very talky, very horny, and the twist lands if you don't see it coming.

    • Vampires
    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Forbidden Love
    • Morally Gray
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Murder, Physical or emotional abuse, Kidnapping

  3. 3. A Touch of Darkness

    Scarlett St. Clair · Hades x Persephone Saga #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 2/5

    Shares: deals and bargains, forbidden love

    Persephone bets with the god of the dead and loses. Hades and Persephone in modern day, with all the jealousy that comes with it. A comfort read for a lot of fans.

    • Gods and Mythology
    • Deals and Bargains
    • Possessive Hero
    • Forbidden Love
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Murder

  4. 4. Neon Gods

    Katee Robert · Dark Olympus #1

    Spice 5/5 Darkness 2/5

    Shares: deals and bargains, forbidden love

    Hades and Persephone in a modern city run by the Thirteen. She runs away from a forced engagement to Zeus and makes a deal with the one man nobody crosses. Quick and very steamy.

    • Gods and Mythology
    • Deals and Bargains
    • Forbidden Love
    • Possessive Hero
    Content warnings

    Physical or emotional abuse, Graphic violence

  5. 5. This Monster of Mine

    Shalini Abeysekara · This Monster of Mine #1 · complete series

    Spice 3/5 Darkness 4/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray

    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

  6. 6. Fortuna Sworn

    K.J. Sutton · Fortuna Sworn #1 · complete series

    Spice 3/5 Darkness 4/5

    Shares: deals and bargains, morally gray, enemies to lovers

    Fortuna is a Nightmare who can see the fears of anyone she touches, and when her brother goes missing she ends up a prisoner of the Unseelie Court. Getting out costs her something very fae. Bleak, messy, and the love interest debate is half the fun.

    • Fae
    • Captor and Captive
    • Deals and Bargains
    • Morally Gray
    Content warnings

    Physical or emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Human trafficking, Graphic violence

  7. 7. Quicksilver

    Callie Hart · Fae & Alchemy #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray

    Saeris is a thief who touches the wrong thing and gets hauled into the fae realm by a very rude fae warrior. Long, crude in a fun way and properly spicy once it gets there.

    • Fae
    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Forced Proximity
    • Morally Gray
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Gore, Murder

  8. 8. A Cursed Kiss

    Jenny Hickman · Myths of Airren #1 · complete series

    Spice 2/5 Darkness 2/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray, forbidden love

    Keelynn's sister died from a Gancanagh's cursed kiss, so she teams up with a witch and the half-fae Tadhg to bring her back. Irish folklore all the way down. There's a lot of miscommunication, but Tadhg carries it.

    • Fae
    • Curses
    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Morally Gray
    Content warnings

    Death of a loved one, Murder, Graphic violence

  9. 9. A Shadow in the Ember

    Jennifer L. Armentrout · Flesh and Fire #1 · complete series

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray

    Sera was raised to seduce and kill the Primal of Death, who was promised her as a bride and then never came to collect. When Nyktos finally shows up, the plan gets messy fast. Long and repetitive in the middle, and a prequel world for Blood and Ash readers.

    • Gods and Mythology
    • Arranged Marriage
    • Assassins
    • Enemies to Lovers
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Physical or emotional abuse, Murder

  10. 10. Deviant King

    Rina Kent · Royal Elite #1 · complete series

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray

    Aiden King decides Elsa is his target at their elite British prep school, and he is relentless about it. A bully romance with a buried childhood mystery underneath. Early Rina Kent, so tamer than her college books but still dub-con heavy.

    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Possessive Hero
    • Revenge
    • Morally Gray
    Content warnings

    Dubious or non-consent, Harm to children, Physical or emotional abuse

  11. 11. Fall of Ruin and Wrath

    Jennifer L. Armentrout · Awakening #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: forbidden love, morally gray

    Lis is an orphan with a knack for seeing things she shouldn't, and she uses it doing jobs for dangerous people, until she crosses paths with Thorne, a very powerful immortal. Classic Armentrout: banter, heat and a lot of internal monologue. The sequel is a long time coming.

    • Forbidden Love
    • Possessive Hero
    • Morally Gray
    • Court Intrigue
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Murder, Physical or emotional abuse

  12. 12. Phantasma

    Kaylie Smith · Wicked Games #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: deals and bargains, forbidden love

    Ophelia Grimm is a necromancer with a cruel voice in her head who enters the Prince of the Devils' deadly game, where only one player wins a wish. Caraval meets a haunted manor, with a lot more heat. The cover did plenty of the selling on BookTok.

    • Deadly Trials
    • Deals and Bargains
    • Demons
    • Forbidden Love
    Content warnings

    Death of a loved one, Suicide or suicidal thoughts, Graphic violence

  13. 13. The Sweetest Fiend

    Raven Kennedy · Played by the Piper #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: deals and bargains, morally gray

    Pied Piper retelling. The Piper clears a plague from her city and takes 130 people as payment, her included. The first half is plague and survival, the back half gets very explicit, and it ends mid-fall.

    • Fairy Tale Retellings
    • Fae
    • Captor and Captive
    • Deals and Bargains
    Content warnings

    Kidnapping, Graphic violence

  14. 14. The Sweetest Oblivion

    Danielle Lori · Made #1 · complete series

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, forbidden love

    Elena's sister is engaged to Nico Russo, and Elena is the one he can't stop looking at. Sharp and funny. Lighter on darkness than most mafia books.

    • Mafia
    • Arranged Marriage
    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Forbidden Love
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Murder

  15. 15. The Wren in the Holly Library

    K.A. Linde · The Oak and Holly Cycle #1

    Spice 4/5 Darkness 3/5

    Shares: enemies to lovers, morally gray

    Kierse is a thief in a New York still scarred by a war with monsters, and she gets caught breaking into the house of Graves, a centuries-old something who offers her a job instead of killing her. Beauty and the Beast bones and plenty of heat. The first act is slow.

    • Enemies to Lovers
    • Fairy Tale Retellings
    • Morally Gray
    • Forced Proximity
    Content warnings

    Graphic violence, Murder, Death of a loved one

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