18 must-read romance books like Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier

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Year of the Reaper

By: Makiia Lucier

4.04

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

The past never forgets... Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer's appr…

"We are not promised a long life, Cassia. Just a life. Take what happiness you can. Hold tight to it."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

"We are not promised a long life, Cassia. Just a life. Take what happiness you can. Hold tight to it."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

"Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

"Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

If you liked the romance plot in Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Jade Fire Gold

By: June C.L. Tan

3.70

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In an empire on the brink of war... Ahn is no one, with no past and no family. Altan is a lo… read more

Similar categories in June C.L. Tan's Jade Fire Gold book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

By: Axie Oh

4.11

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, whil… read more

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  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, only through a story can a truth be heard."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"Sometimes I can be thoughtless. And I like to tease. But you can depend upon me."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"I don't think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given."

-Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

3. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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4. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

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5. Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

By: Vanessa Len

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in Lon… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Len's Only a Monster (Monsters, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What am I?"

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"Don't look at them. Look at me." -Aaron Oliver"

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"A Hunt and an Oliver together? How very Romeo and Juliet."

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"You're a hero and I'm a monster. There's only one way that story ever ends."

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

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6. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

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7. The Coldest Touch

By: Isabel Sterling

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Elise Beaumont is cursed. With every touch, she experiences exactly how her loved ones will die. An… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Sterling's The Coldest Touch book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1) by Deborah Falaye

8. Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

By: Deborah Falaye

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This is what they deserve. They wanted me to be a monster. I will be the worst monster they ever cr… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Falaye's Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Treat something like a monster and it will certainly learn to become a monster. (pg. 325)"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

"You people- you treat us like we are not human. You replace our smiles with blood, our hearts with bullets. You destroy our innocence and our beings. And when you no longer have any use for us, you f…"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

"I know what it feels like to be robbed of something so precious to you. To feel helpless, broken, like you are not in control of your own body. These people- they thrive on taking power. Over our min…"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

Cover of Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier

9. Year of the Reaper

By: Makiia Lucier

4.04

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

The past never forgets... Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer's appr… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We are not promised a long life, Cassia. Just a life. Take what happiness you can. Hold tight to it."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

"Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary."

-Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

Cover of Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) by Nicki Pau Preto

10. Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.21

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a d… read more

Similar categories in Nicki Pau Preto's Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"He wasn’t disappointed or hurt. He was livid. Let him be. She’d take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

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11. Cruel Illusions

By: Margie Fuston

3.54

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“The perfect sinisterly magical escape…full of longing, desperation, and betrayal.” —Stephanie Garb… read more

Similar categories in Margie Fuston's Cruel Illusions book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world still needs a little bit of wonder, I think. I’d like to give it that."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Fairy tales weren’t made for me. But I can handle real and messy, and I want this."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Being immortal doesn't let you grow. All it does it let you lose pieces of yourself."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Being immortal doesn’t let you grow. All it does is let you lose pieces of yourself."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

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12. The Drowned Woods

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

3.87

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Me… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Drowned Woods book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

By: Sunya Mara

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught … read more

Similar categories in Sunya Mara's The Darkening (The Darkening, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To do the one good thing that I must do, I find myself caught in a thousand small evils." I squeeze his hand until he looks at me. "I hope that one thing is worth it." "It is the only thing that matt…"

-Sunya Mara, The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

Cover of This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1) by Emily Thiede

14. This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1)

By: Emily Thiede

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa’s gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner’s magi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Thiede's This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"the thing that scares men with power most is a woman with more of it."

-Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1)

"A través de la ventana divina, la luz reduce a los demonios a cenizas."

-Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1)

"It's a lot easier to blame someone else when things go wrong than it is when your decisions have terrible consequences."

-Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1)

"Cry. Rage. You deserve to. You’re angry, and you should be, but you get to choose whether it will make you bitter or make you better."

-Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace (The Last Finestra, #1)

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15. Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

By: Margaret Owen

4.26

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given,… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"- Sometimes you just have to throw spatzle at the wall and see what sticks. - You absolutely do not. That is how you get ruined spatzle."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"-I cannot tell you how many principles of knife safety you are violating right now. -Where's your sense of adventure? -When it comes to stab wounds? On indefinite sabbatical."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"There’s just so much I could be stealing right now if I didn’t have social obligations with the man who tried to poison me earlier in the week. And if it weren’t for the curse. And, I suppose, the la…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"I see myself for what I am: a scared girl, alone in a cruel world, abandoned by family and friend, who would rather turn herself to bloodstained stone than let anyone get close enough to leave anothe…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

Cover of City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1) by Rebecca Schaeffer

16. City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

By: Rebecca Schaeffer

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who fi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you." "A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left. I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your a…"

-Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

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17. Violet Made of Thorns

By: Gina Chen

3.54

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly enchanting fantasy debut about a morally gray witch, a cursed prince, and a prophecy that … read more

Similar categories in Gina Chen's Violet Made of Thorns book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don’t look at me like that."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"Sometimes you hate someone so much, you fall in love."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"If I must be a villain, I will be one of my own making."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"A prince without the fixings, after all, is just a boy."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

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18. Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

By: H.M. Long

3.86

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling J… read more

Similar categories in H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What I wanted to do was speak—I was dying to, with the wind curling in my lungs. I wanted to sing, to soothe the ache of it."

-H.M. Long, Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

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19. An Arrow to the Moon

By: Emily X.R. Pan

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of… read more

Similar categories in Emily X.R. Pan's An Arrow to the Moon book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Her face was so earnest, so sweet. When she shined her light on him, he felt safe and protected. He felt loved."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown ."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"The surface gleamed like hard candy that would dissolve on the tongue. What was that silvery garden scent, so faint and tantalizing? She held the stone up to the moonlight, and then brightness explod…"

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

Cover of Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1) by M.K. Lobb

20. Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1)

By: M.K. Lobb

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing … read more

Similar categories in M.K. Lobb's Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1) book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That was what it meant to have power, wasn't it? You could simply destroy that which didn't serve you."

-M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1)

"Aren’t you going to tell me my rights? Oh, wait - you’re controlled by a broken system, and I don’t have any. I nearly forgot."

-M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1)

"Once you have known true grief, you don’t get better. You don’t recover – you only grow stronger. You learn to bear the things that seem unbearable. You find a way to rebuild yourself, even with cruc…"

-M.K. Lobb, Seven Faceless Saints (Seven Faceless Saints, #1)

Cover of Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria

21. Fire with Fire

By: Destiny Soria

3.78

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn’t be more different. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Destiny Soria's Fire with Fire book and Makiia Lucier's Year of the Reaper

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"A few hours ago, the prospect of disappointing someone, especially Calla Thorn, would have sent her into a spiral of panic and self-loathing. She knew that about herself. Her therapist had pointed it…"

-Destiny Soria, Fire with Fire

"Once they were safely ensconced, Dani released his arm and turned to face him, but drew up short when she saw how close he actually was, with only inches between them. He was staring down at her with…"

-Destiny Soria, Fire with Fire

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