20 Best fantasy books like A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) by S.T. Gibson

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

• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction
• horror

"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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• historical 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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• gothic
• fiction
• historical 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 Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• fiction
• historical fiction
• horror
• adult
• fantasy

"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Bride book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• adult
• vampires
• fantasy
• fiction

"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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• vampires
• fiction
• horror
• historical fiction
• 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 S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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

"Water your mother's flowers with their blood."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?"

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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

• 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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• gothic
• fantasy
• fiction

"Perhaps,"

-Adalyn Grace, Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)

"Careful,"

-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 Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• adult
• fantasy
• fiction
• historical 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)

Similar categories in Kristen Ciccarelli's Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• fantasy
• fiction

"I hate you, Gideon Sharpe. I hate you so much, it hurts. And if you don’t open this door, i"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1)

Similar categories in Adalyn Grace's Foxglove (Belladonna, #2) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• 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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• vampires
• fantasy
• fiction
• historical 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 A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• 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 Brynne Weaver's Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• adult
• fiction
• horror

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Juniper & Thorn book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• gothic
• fiction
• historical 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 Olivie Blake's Masters of Death book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• 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 Rin Chupeco's Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1) book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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

"Can't I just have a little bit of slaughter? I'm sure they won't notice."

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

"He was too soft, like his father had said. Must have gotten it from his mother. And then he wondered if his mother had only been soft because she'd loved his father. Like kindness had ever been a sin."

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

"[Xiaodan] '...Perhaps you're being unduly hard on yourself, milord.' 'Armiger,' Remy said, before he could stop himself. 'Not milord.' 'Armiger. That means "arm's bearer," doesn't it? But why choose …"

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

• gothic
• fiction
• historical 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