11 Top high fantasy books like Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2) by Emily A. Duncan

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Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

By: Emily A. Duncan

3.77

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Darkness never works alone... Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a v…

"You’ll play,"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"You’ll play,"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"You’ll play,"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"What do you want?"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2) by Emily A. Duncan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Queen of Chaos (The Fourth Element, #3) by Kat Ross

1. Queen of Chaos (The Fourth Element, #3)

By: Kat Ross

4.17

Format: 78 pages,

Persepolae has fallen. Karnopolis has burned. As the dark forces of the Undead sweep across what re… read more

Similar categories in Kat Ross's Queen of Chaos (The Fourth Element, #3) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Stargazer's Sister by Carrie Brown

2. The Stargazer's Sister

By: Carrie Brown

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day:a beautiful new period novel--a nineteenth-century … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Brown's The Stargazer's Sister book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • fiction
Cover of The Crown's Game (The Crown's Game, #1) by Evelyn Skye

3. The Crown's Game (The Crown's Game, #1)

By: Evelyn Skye

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls an… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Skye's The Crown's Game (The Crown's Game, #1) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy

4. Seeker (Riders, #2)

By: Veronica Rossi

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

When Daryn claimed she was seeing visions during her sophomore year of high school, no one believed… read more

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5. City of Bastards (Royal Bastards, #2)

By: Andrew Shvarts

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Tilla, bastard of House Kent, has it made. Safe from her murderous father in the dazzling capital o… read more

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6. Retribution Rails (Vengeance Road, #2)

By: Erin Bowman

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

REDEMPTION IS NEVER FREE When Reece Murphy is forcibly dragged into the Rose Riders gang because of… read more

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7. The Faithless Hawk (The Merciful Crow, #2)

By: Margaret Owen

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Mercifu… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's The Faithless Hawk (The Merciful Crow, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

By: Margaret Owen

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A future chieftain. Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers a… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Pa was taking too long to cut the boys' throats."

-Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

"To everyone whose mercy is demanded, and who dreams instead of teeth."

-Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

"No chief I've ever met looked down the road and wanted what they saw waiting for them."

-Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

"Pero con Fie, el problema no es su parte bruja. Es su temperamento el que te dejará una marca."

-Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (The Merciful Crow, #1)

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9. Never a Hero (Monsters, #2)

By: Vanessa Len

4.06

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Len's Never a Hero (Monsters, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You were a hero,"

-Vanessa Len, Never a Hero (Monsters, #2)

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10. Deep Is the Fen

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Merry doesn’t need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fi… read more

Similar categories in Lili Wilkinson's Deep Is the Fen book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • 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 The Cold Is in Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale

12. The Cold Is in Her Bones

By: Peternelle van Arsdale

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this dark and… read more

Similar categories in Peternelle van Arsdale's The Cold Is in Her Bones book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We don't just cast our curses, girly. We become our curses."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

"It's just that if a demon wants you, a demon will get you. I don't think a little line of salt is going to keep it away."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

"There were too many secrets sending up little shoots through the floorboards and into the room, wrapping around them, ready to bear fruit."

-Peternelle van Arsdale, The Cold Is in Her Bones

Cover of Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3) by Victoria Aveyard

13. Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3)

By: Victoria Aveyard

4.19

Format: 625 pages, Hardcover

A dark fate descends. A shattered alliance must rise. The Companions are torn apart and the real… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Aveyard's Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"As in Gidastern, something came over Andry Trelland. Before he knew it, her gloved hand was at his mouth, his lips brushing over her knuckles. She did not pull away, only staring, holding his gaze. F…"

-Victoria Aveyard, Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3)

"All these months, Sigil was a wall behind her, someone to lean on, as close to a trustworthy friend as Sorasa had. After almost losing her in Gidastern, farewell felt like salt in a still-bleeding wo…"

-Victoria Aveyard, Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker, #3)

Cover of Strange Unearthly Things by Kelly Creagh

14. Strange Unearthly Things

By: Kelly Creagh

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly romantic paranormal Jane Eyre reimagining, by the author of Phantom Heart! Eighteen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Creagh's Strange Unearthly Things book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Warmaidens (Gravemaidens, #2) by Kelly Coon

15. Warmaidens (Gravemaidens, #2)

By: Kelly Coon

3.53

Format: None pages, None

Warmaidens is the dark, action-packed conclusion to the heartwrenching Gravemaidens fantasy duology… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Coon's Warmaidens (Gravemaidens, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone

16. Unholy Terrors

By: Lyndall Clipstone

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bloodstained tale of a girl torn between her vows and her heart, where falling in love may be the… read more

Similar categories in Lyndall Clipstone's Unholy Terrors book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2) by Katy Rose Pool

17. As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2)

By: Katy Rose Pool

4.13

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Six of Crows meets Graceling with a dash of Winter is Coming in this second installment of the acti… read more

Similar categories in Katy Rose Pool's As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A powerful storm raged inside him, unstoppable, undeniable. He was Jude Weatherbourne, Keeper of the Word. Captain of the Paladin Guard. A boy with a heart in his chest and a sword in his hand."

-Katy Rose Pool, As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2)

"She looked at him, smiling but sad. "But we must never give up on finding a home. Sometimes you must make one for yourself." "How?" he asked, before he could stop himself. "You find something you wan…"

-Katy Rose Pool, As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness, #2)

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18. Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

By: Emily A. Duncan

3.77

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Darkness never works alone... Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a v… read more

Similar categories in Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’ll play,"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"What do you want?"

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"They were cursed, thrown together by chance in Kalyazin, drawn together by circumstance but fated for opposite paths."

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

"He was everything; he was nothing. She was torn apart in a thousand directions but there was only one and it was forward. There was nothing else but this."

-Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

Cover of The Lightstruck (The Darkening, #2) by Sunya Mara

19. The Lightstruck (The Darkening, #2)

By: Sunya Mara

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In this epic sequel and conclusion to the Darkening duology, which has been called "enchanting and … read more

Similar categories in Sunya Mara's The Lightstruck (The Darkening, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Réquiem por la Inocencia: Leblos by Antlia Burell

20. Réquiem por la Inocencia: Leblos

By: Antlia Burell

4.26

Format: 753 pages, Kindle Edition

UN VAMPIRO, UN LICÁNTROPO... UN BRUTAL ASESINO Creado para matar, Cirdán sigue huyendo de su clan, … read more

Similar categories in Antlia Burell's Réquiem por la Inocencia: Leblos book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
Cover of The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) by K. Arsenault Rivera

21. The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

3.92

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The Phoenix Empress, the sequel to K Arsenault Rivera's wildly buzzed about The Tiger's Daughter, a… read more

Similar categories in K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gravemaidens (Gravemaidens, #1) by Kelly Coon

22. Gravemaidens (Gravemaidens, #1)

By: Kelly Coon

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The start of a fierce fantasy duology about three maidens who are chosen for their land's greatest … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Coon's Gravemaidens (Gravemaidens, #1) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Tears of Frost (Heart of Thorns, #2) by Bree Barton

23. Tears of Frost (Heart of Thorns, #2)

By: Bree Barton

3.50

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The electric second book in the Heart of Thorns trilogy explores the effects of power in a dark mag… read more

Similar categories in Bree Barton's Tears of Frost (Heart of Thorns, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber

24. 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 Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Soul of Cinder (Heart of Thorns, #3) by Bree Barton

25. Soul of Cinder (Heart of Thorns, #3)

By: Bree Barton

3.61

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The Twisted Sisters are coming home. Prince Quin has returned to the river kingdom, ready to spe… read more

Similar categories in Bree Barton's Soul of Cinder (Heart of Thorns, #3) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Role Play (Dating Games, #1.5) by Lauren Blakely

26. Role Play (Dating Games, #1.5)

By: Lauren Blakely

3.54

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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Cover of デビルズライン 13 (Devils' Line, #13) by Ryo Hanada

27. デビルズライン 13 (Devils' Line, #13)

By: Ryo Hanada

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

菊原が告げる、戦慄の真実!! クイーンの計画の全貌、そして政府の中で暗躍する者たち。オニとヒトをめぐる様々な思惑が、避けようのない悲劇を呼び込もうとしていた。菊原との対峙の中で、安斎はある決断を迫ら… read more

Similar categories in Ryo Hanada's デビルズライン 13 (Devils' Line, #13) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Tales from Briar Glenn (Leviathan Fitness) by Ashley Bennett

28. Tales from Briar Glenn (Leviathan Fitness)

By: Ashley Bennett

4.33

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Return to Briar Glenn with this collection of short stories featuring all of your favorite Leviatha… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Bennett's Tales from Briar Glenn (Leviathan Fitness) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
Cover of Right Hand Of The Reaper: A G.R.I.M Tale by Bailey Grayson

29. Right Hand Of The Reaper: A G.R.I.M Tale

By: Bailey Grayson

4.40

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the Grim Reaper goes missing? All hell breaks loose. Literally. In the wake of … read more

Similar categories in Bailey Grayson's Right Hand Of The Reaper: A G.R.I.M Tale book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • fantasy
Cover of Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods, #2) by Chloe Gong

30. Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods, #2)

By: Chloe Gong

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the thrilling sequel to Immortal Longing… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Gong's Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods, #2) book and Emily A. Duncan's Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy, #2)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Whispers In The Dark by M. Thorne

31. Whispers In The Dark

By: M. Thorne

2.94

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

None read more

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4.43

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Margaret Owen

4.31

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