21 best-selling fantasy books like Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

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Down Comes the Night

By: Allison Saft

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"A YA fantasy classic in the making." - Charlie Lynn Herman, author of The Devouring Gray "Fans …

"Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform"

-Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

"You understand you've made a serious commitment, yes?" She wound her arms around his neck. "I might not let you go." "A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner." When he kissed her again, she couldn't help smiling against hit mouth."

-Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

If you liked the fantasy plot in Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

2. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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3. The Night Hunt

By: Alexandra Christo

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom, comes The Night Hunt, a dark fantasy roman… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Christo's The Night Hunt book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
"In the darkest nights, hope shines the brightest"

-Alexandra Christo, The Night Hunt

"Home is not a place, but the people who make you feel safe."

-Alexandra Christo, The Night Hunt

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4. 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 Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"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)

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

5. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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

6. 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 Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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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7. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

By: Olivia Atwater

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea wh… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A faerie told me that true love's kiss could wake Miss Buckley," Effie told him. "I cannot think of any truer or more unconditional love than that of a dog."

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

"Lady Panovar made mention of her French maid about a dozen times last night," Mrs Sedgewick informed the staff tiredly. "Lady Culver ended the night in a fury. She has insisted that I should find her…"

-Olivia Atwater, Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

8. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5) by Margaret  Rogerson

9. Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5)

By: Margaret Rogerson

4.08

Format: 192 pages, ebook

In this sequel novella to Sorcery of Thorns, Elisabeth, Nathaniel, and Silas must unravel the magic… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Rogerson's Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Not every story has a happy ending, but most do if you are brave enough to keep reading to the end."

-Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5)

"Mercy squared her shoulders. “Silas had a talk with me this morning about how he isn’t going to murder me and bury me in the back garden. He gave me his world as a gentleman."

-Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5)

"Not many. Male heirs nearly always inherit the family demon, which is ridiculous, I know. Given my mother’s skill at tricking Maximilian into eating his vegetables, I suspect she would have been far …"

-Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5)

"No wonder the escaped grimoires were squabbling with each other. The older ones would disagree with the changes written down in the younger ones; the younger ones would chafe against antiquated opini…"

-Margaret Rogerson, Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Sorcery of Thorns, #1.5)

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10. The Wolf and the Woodsman

By: Ava Reid

3.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast cl… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's The Wolf and the Woodsman book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"It’s not about cruelty."

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"I’m tired of this honorable Woodsman pretense,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"A dragon is a beast." "If girls can be wolves, can't men be beasts?"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

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11. Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.09

Format: 304 pages, ebook

It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul.… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Atwater's Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There is such a thing as evil in this world,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"It may be true that you have only half a soul, Dora,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join m…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"I think that Elias has been angry now for so long that he is scared to let it go - I think he is scared that if would make him too complacent, and he might become all of those things which he so desp…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

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12. Juniper & Thorn

By: Ava Reid

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Juniper & Thorn book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

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13. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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

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14. Flowerheart

By: Catherine Bakewell

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poiso… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Bakewell's Flowerheart book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The goal was not to subdue one's anger or shame, but rather to embrace it. Control was not the objective; freedom was. (Chapter 16, page 220)"

-Catherine Bakewell, Flowerheart

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15. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

Cover of Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

16. Your Blood, My Bones

By: Kelly Andrew

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's Your Blood, My Bones book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Dreams Lie Beneath by Rebecca   Ross

17. Dreams Lie Beneath

By: Rebecca Ross

4.08

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about magic and the captivating power of dreams. A curse plagues the realm of Azenor—dur… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Dreams Lie Beneath book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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18. Down Comes the Night

By: Allison Saft

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"A YA fantasy classic in the making." - Charlie Lynn Herman, author of The Devouring Gray "Fans … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform"

-Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

"You understand you've made a serious commitment, yes?" She wound her arms around his neck. "I might not let you go." "A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner." When he kissed her again, she coul…"

-Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

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19. The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

3.73

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bright's The Hedgewitch of Foxhall book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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20. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

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21. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

By: India Holton

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more

Similar categories in India Holton's The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) book and Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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3.78

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