6 Top retellings books like The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1) by Jessica Rubinkowski

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The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

By: Jessica Rubinkowski

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magical hold Knnot Mo…

"Fear the mountain, my dear. Fear the dark depths and the cold halls. Fear the call. For when the mountain sinks its teeth into you, it will never let you go."

-Jessica Rubinkowski, The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

If you liked the retellings plot in The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1) by Jessica Rubinkowski , here is a list of 6 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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2. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • 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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3. Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

By: Kika Hatzopoulou

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates mus… read more

Similar categories in Kika Hatzopoulou's Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1) book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Three bodies, one soul. You go when your sisters need you. No questions asked."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Tolerating wickedness can ensure your survival - but also cause a feeling of slow death."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Because what is art, what is inspiration, if not the deepest, darkest secrets of the artist?"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Io you need to go now," he breathed, eyes large and fearful. "And I promise, the moment I'm better. I'll come find you" "How?" she asked, the word breaking into a sob. How would he ever find her in t…"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

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4. Song of the Six Realms

By: Judy I. Lin

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy got… read more

Similar categories in Judy I. Lin's Song of the Six Realms book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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5. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • 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)

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6. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high 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

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7. Cage of Dreams (City of Nightmares Duology, 2)

By: Rebecca Schaeffer

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling sequel and conclusion to the City of Nightmares duology, Ness is forced to make a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's Cage of Dreams (City of Nightmares Duology, 2) book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • 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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9. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • 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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10. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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11. The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

By: Jessica Rubinkowski

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magical hold Knnot Mo… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1) book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Fear the mountain, my dear. Fear the dark depths and the cold halls. Fear the call. For when the mountain sinks its teeth into you, it will never let you go."

-Jessica Rubinkowski, The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

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12. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • 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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13. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
  • 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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14. If I Have to Be Haunted

By: Miranda Sun

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn in this thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fanta… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Sun's If I Have to Be Haunted book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1)

By: Kathryn Purdie

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists... "Tell me again, Grandmère, the story … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Purdie's The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1) book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • 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

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17. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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)

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18. Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)

By: Ciannon Smart

3.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Divided by their order. United by their vengeance. Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every… read more

Similar categories in Ciannon Smart's Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1) book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"For power, acceptance, sometimes we do what we never thought we would"

-Ciannon Smart, Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)

"Though the night is flush with stars, the sky still seems like a lid of earth closing atop a grave."

-Ciannon Smart, Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)

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19. 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 Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • 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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20. This Golden Flame

By: Emily Victoria

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphaned and forced to serve her country’s ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing more than t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Victoria's This Golden Flame book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
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21. A Rush of Wings

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rowenna Winthrop has always known there’s magic within her. But though she hears voices on the wind… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Weymouth's A Rush of Wings book and Jessica Rubinkowski's The Bright & the Pale (The Bright & the Pale Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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Transform Your Habits

Jade Fire Gold

June C.L. Tan

3.70

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Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

Vanessa Len

3.87

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Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

Kika Hatzopoulou

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Song of the Six Realms

Judy I. Lin

3.58

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June C.L. Tan

3.70

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh

4.11

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The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

Susan Dennard

3.68

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Ava Reid

3.78

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