20 must-read fantasy books like An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5) by S.T. Gibson

If you liked the fantasy plot in An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5) by S.T. Gibson , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• gothic
• lgbt
• vampires
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy

"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• adult
• fantasy
• fiction

"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Bride book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• vampires
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy

"Ana has been visiting,"

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"My smell. Do I smell like…?"

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"I was trying to check my email."

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

"That was a badass speech, Misery."

-Ali Hazelwood, Bride

Similar categories in Alexis Henderson's House of Hunger book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• gothic
• lgbt
• vampires
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction

"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)

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction

"Careful,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"Perhaps,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"But death did not need to be seen; he was to be felt."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"With him, Signa no longer wanted to wonder. She wanted to know."

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Foxglove (Belladonna, #2) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction

"Look at me."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"You are mine."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"For as long as you’ll have me, you are mine, Signa Farrow. I will burn this world to cinders before I let anyone take you from me"

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

"After all she’d overcome, boiling her choices down to Fate made her success feel unearned. Like he somehow had a hand in all her hardest decisions and her biggest triumphs."

-Adalyn Grace, Foxglove (Belladonna, #2)

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• vampires
• fantasy
• fiction

"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)

Similar categories in Danielle L. Jensen's A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• adult
• fantasy
• fiction

"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"You don't attack the strong when you're weak, Freya. You bide your time."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"I will be at your back until I cross the threshold to Valhalla, Born-in-Fire, whether you want me there or not."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"Letting go of my hand, he reached up to touch my face, thumb brushing across the line Vragi’s knife had left on my cheek. “Where is your husband?" What makes you think I’m wed?"

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

Similar categories in Roshani Chokshi's The Last Tale of the Flower Bride book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"Whatever you have let me know of you, I have loved, and still love."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"We looked less like two distinct beings and more like a torn reflection."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"Look how I will carve myself to fit into your life. Who will not do less?"

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"I was left with everything and nothing. I was free and forever trapped. I was a multitude of blues."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in know…"

-Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5) book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• lgbt
• short stories
• vampires
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Juniper & Thorn book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction

"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's Masters of Death book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• lgbt
• vampires
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"It is to win against your demons, he said, and therefore gain mastery of yourself"

-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

"Brandt Solberg had never been a good man, but what did that matter? Fox hadn't fallen in love with his goodness."

-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

"Wait a minute. Did you just offer me a bite of an immortal apple?" "I did." "Why?" "Seemed rude not to." "That's an insane thing to say." "Well, we all have our flaws."

-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

"I don't care if it's love between them or not," one says, "that shouldn't change anything." "You care about nothing," the second chides the first. "I'm not built to care," the first says, "only to la…"

-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and S.T. Gibson's An Encore of Roses (A Dowry of Blood, #1.5)

• romance
• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth