5 must-read high fantasy books like Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

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Into the Bloodred Woods

By: Martha Brockenbrough

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is Martha Brockenbrough's feminist twisting of the Brother Grimms' stories, Game of Thrones-st…

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. When the Moon Was Ours

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.89

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's When the Moon Was Ours book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"She wanted you to have the life you wanted,' Aracely said. 'So figure out what kind of life you want."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"He wanted to be a girl who wanted to be a girl, or a boy who was, in a way no one could question, a boy."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

Cover of Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

2. Damsel

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.31

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king comes of … read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's Damsel book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Without you," Ama said, "I would be free."

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

"Secrets, like memories, do not disappear just because they are buried by snow or time or distance."

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

"And that is the way it has always been," the queen mother said again. "And if something is the way it has always been, who are we to wish it otherwise? Who are we to want anything at all? Who are we …"

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

Cover of Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves (Edge Worlds, #1) by Meg  Long

3. Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves (Edge Worlds, #1)

By: Meg Long

3.87

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

A lone girl determined to survive. The feral wolf she must learn to trust. Only one chance to escap… read more

Similar categories in Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves (Edge Worlds, #1) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Immortal Games, The by Annaliese Avery

4. Immortal Games, The

By: Annaliese Avery

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Blood Moon marks the start of the Immortal Games. The Gods of Olympus randomly select humans as… read more

Similar categories in Annaliese Avery's Immortal Games, The book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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5. My Fine Fellow

By: Jennieke Cohen

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in … read more

Similar categories in Jennieke Cohen's My Fine Fellow book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • young adult
"He still believed more people existed in the world who didn’t ask questions—and not because they didn’t know to ask them. No, they didn’t ask because they only wanted the answers they’d created in th…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Elijah had spiced them with thyme, cumin, and mustard seeds in clever proportions so that no one spice overpowered the others. Toasted hazelnuts brought a crunch she hadn't expected, and the dried, t…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Remember that the first thing anyone does is eat with their eyes. Before the diner even takes a single bite, what they see, hear, and smell is what will often entice them to eat---or to partake of so…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

"Princess Adelaide hadn't shown him any particular favor, but she had seemed to enjoy his freshly made pasta colored with squid ink and peppered throughout with clams, mussels, more squid, and roasted…"

-Jennieke Cohen, My Fine Fellow

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6. Greymist Fair

By: Francesca Zappia

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The people of Greymist Fair know that the woods are a dangerous and magical place, and that they sh… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Zappia's Greymist Fair book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1) by Rin Chupeco

7. The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1)

By: Rin Chupeco

3.80

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Frozen meets Mad Max in this epic teen fantasy duology bursting with star-crossed romance, immortal… read more

Similar categories in Rin Chupeco's The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
"Please,"

-Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1)

"For every radiance, a sacrifice."

-Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1)

"Stop trying to make me your friend,"

-Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1)

"It was clearly his fault I'd punched him in the face."

-Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World (The Never Tilting World, #1)

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8. Hood

By: Jenny Elder Moke

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

You have the blood of kings and rebels within you, love. Let it rise to meet the call. Isabelle … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Elder Moke's Hood book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Find the place that calls your heart."

-Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

"The wind, my good friend, the wind calls and I am but her slave to answer."

-Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

"We go on not because we have to, but because we want to. We live the life we would have wanted for them."

-Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

"My mother once said a man should measure his worth not by the women he has tamed, but by the ones he has let run free."

-Jenny Elder Moke, Hood

Cover of Spider in the Well by Jess Hannigan

9. Spider in the Well

By: Jess Hannigan

4.09

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

This cheeky picture book debut from author-illustrator Jess Hannigan tells the darkly dry and utter… read more

Similar categories in Jess Hannigan's Spider in the Well book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1) by Daniel José Older

10. Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

By: Daniel José Older

3.75

Format: 359 pages, ebook

A YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other while fighting for their diaspora commun… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
"One lie will bring the whole house of lies crashing down."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

"They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

Cover of Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

11. Into the Bloodred Woods

By: Martha Brockenbrough

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is Martha Brockenbrough's feminist twisting of the Brother Grimms' stories, Game of Thrones-st… read more

Similar categories in Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fairy tale retellings
  • shapeshifters
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Soulswift by Megan Bannen

12. Soulswift

By: Megan Bannen

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with t… read more

Similar categories in Megan Bannen's Soulswift book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
"I pull him closer anyway, and we cling to each other, two bodies knotted together, a pinprick of something good and right in a place that is horrible and wrong."

-Megan Bannen, Soulswift

Cover of Curses by Lish McBride

13. Curses

By: Lish McBride

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curs… read more

Similar categories in Lish McBride's Curses book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Court of the Undying Seasons by A.M.  Strickland

14. Court of the Undying Seasons

By: A.M. Strickland

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sarah J. Maas meets A Deadly Education in A.M. Strickland's lush, queer YA dark fantasy novel. In … read more

Similar categories in A.M. Strickland's Court of the Undying Seasons book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of The Women's War (Women's War #1) by Jenna Glass

15. The Women's War (Women's War #1)

By: Jenna Glass

3.89

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In a high fantasy feminist epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Glass's The Women's War (Women's War #1) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1) by Brianna Joy Crump

16. Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1)

By: Brianna Joy Crump

4.27

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Destined to compete for the throne, Monroe Benson must fight nine girls for the right to rule. If s… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Joy Crump's Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
"Everyone has the ability to kill. What scares me is knowing that I’ll do it —I’ll kill nine other girls if it means I get to stay alive."

-Brianna Joy Crump, Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1)

"No, it wouldn’t. Being queen isn’t freedom. Becoming a murderer isn’t freedom. Marrying a stranger and sharing a bed with him isn’t freedom. It’s a damn prison. At the end of the day, it’s my life an…"

-Brianna Joy Crump, Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1)

"I felt like I’d signed my death warrant. As if the tiny ring on my finger was somehow a cage that was keeping me here— trapped in this place until the day I died. Whether that day would come sooner o…"

-Brianna Joy Crump, Of Cages and Crowns (The Culled Crown, #1)

Cover of Steel Tide (Seafire, #2) by Natalie C. Parker

17. Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

By: Natalie C. Parker

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship intent o… read more

Similar categories in Natalie C. Parker's Steel Tide (Seafire, #2) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"You will always fail to lose me."

-Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

"She wanted it so keenly that a spark of hope wedged between her ribs like one of those stars, glimmering against all reason."

-Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

Cover of Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra: A Novel by Amy Noelle Parks

18. Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra: A Novel

By: Amy Noelle Parks

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A star-crossed YA rom-com that has the charm of Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes and the … read more

Similar categories in Amy Noelle Parks's Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra: A Novel book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 3 (3) by Kenjirō Hata

19. Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 3 (3)

By: Kenjirō Hata

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nasa has been introduced to Tsukasa’s family…sort of. Now it’s time for Tsukasa to meet her in-laws… read more

Similar categories in Kenjirō Hata's Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 3 (3) book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber

20. Castle of the Cursed

By: Romina Garber

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A delicious and dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber! THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS H… read more

Similar categories in Romina Garber's Castle of the Cursed book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Sources Say by Lori  Goldstein

21. Sources Say

By: Lori Goldstein

3.59

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Two exes. One election. All the drama. For fans of Becky Albertalli and Morgan Matson comes a fu… read more

Similar categories in Lori Goldstein's Sources Say book and Martha Brockenbrough's Into the Bloodred Woods

  • fiction
  • young adult

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