8 Books Like ACOTAR to Fulfill Your Every Fantasy

When Eva’s twin brother, Eamon, falls to his death just a few months before he is due to participate in The Testing, she agrees to take his place. Nobody expects it. After all, Eva is a Maiden. Her future is meant to be one of ladylike duties and finding a beneficial husband to birth a strong Aerie heir. But Eva insists on honoring her brother by becoming a Testor, making her the first Maiden to participate in 150 years. 

The Test is difficult, to put it mildly. Her brother trained his whole life for it. She must search icy wastelands for Relics: artifacts of the corrupt civilization that existed before The Healing drowned the world. Out in the Boundary Lands, Eva must rely on every moment of training she gleamed from her brother as well as her servant Lukas. But nothing could fully prepare her for the true nature of The Testing and what it will reveal about the land she loves.

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, gained access to the full range of her magic. It also led to her being flung head-first into the war between the kingdoms of Light and Dark. Ten years ago, King Lorcan of the Dark Kingdom Dorjhalon defeated Queen Evelayn and cut her conduit stone from her. Since then, he has kept her trapped in her swan form but this punishment has led to a devastating imbalance between Light and Dark. 

Once a year, Lorcan transforms her back to her Draíolon form and offers a truce. If she binds herself to Lorcan for eternity, she can once again remain human. Each year, Evelayn says no. But now, as an Ancient power threatens the world, she will have to rethink her alliances for the greater good.

In the kingdom of Sempera, time is the one true currency. Extracted from blood, it can be consumed to add to one's lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to early graves so that they can live for hundreds of years. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. 

A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before it's too late. But Everless is dangerous and tempting in ways she couldn't have predicted. Her decisions have the power to change her fate—and the fate of time itself.

Tenley “Ten” Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. Even among the patients, she has a reputation for being the craziest of the crazies, and she is tortured mercilessly for her supposed sins. Ten can leave, but only if she allows her parents to choose where she’ll live—after she dies. 

This is only the Firstlife, and it's a mere dress rehearsal for what happens after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten to their side, whether she likes it or not. Soon, Ten is on the run, caught in the middle of an impossible battle that leaves her stuck between her political loyalties and the boy she loves.

Britta Flannery is a teen prodigy who has been taught how to track the most impossible to find criminals in treacherous terrain by her father, the legendary bounty hunter for the King of Malam. It's a blissful existence—that is, until her father is murdered. Now alone, denied her rightful inheritance, and cast out by those her father served, Britta turns to the Ever Woods for refuge. It's the only place where she's ever felt truly safe. 

When she's caught poaching by the royal guard, instead of facing the noose she is offered a deal: her freedom in exchange for her father’s killer. However, it’s not so simple. The alleged killer is none other than Cohen McKay, her father’s former apprentice, and the only boy who she ever loved.

Long before romantasy was even called that, Jacqueline Carey’s sensuous high fantasy novels were seducing readers. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, she is bought by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman who has very special plans for her. He recognizes Phèdre for what she truly is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. 

Anafiel trains Phèdre in the politics of both the court and the bedroom, teaching her to be the most deadly and powerful of courtesans. She stumbles upon a murderous plot to tear apart her homeland of Terre d'Ange. But who can she trust in this endless war of kings, courtiers, spies, and traitors?

Violet Sorrengail expected her future to be a quiet one of scholarly study among the Scribe Quadrant. But her mother, a powerful general, nixed those plans and ordered her join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. Those who survive the intense training are given the ultimate privilege of bonding with a rare and beautiful dragon, but the vast majority of students die before they even get to the academy. And Violet, a chronically ill young woman who is smaller than her contemporaries, has it especially hard. 

Add to that the fact that a hell of a lot of fellow students want her dead because of her mother and every day is a life-or-death fight for Violet. She must fight to survive and make it to the dragons, but things are only more treacherous outside of the college, where war wages and the so-called good guys have villainous secret agendas.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya. The Elites who are granted entry are exceptional individuals with incredible abilities gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that, and left to survive at the bottom of the social ladder. When the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, being mundane and without powers suddenly became a crime. 

Paedyn Gray is a thief passing herself off as an Elite and making a scant living among the slums of the city. She poses as a Psychic, using her finely honed observation skills to blend in. When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya's princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition designed to showcase the Elites' powers. She'll have to use all of her will and lies to survive what seems like certain death for an Ordinary like her.