8 Romantasy Favorites Like the Solaris and Crello Trilogy

In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, nobody is safe from his petulant wrath. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have her dead by the morning, a silk cord wrapped around her throat. 

When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. She plans to survive and to bring his reign of terror to an end. Night after night, she regales Khalid with stories. It's enough to keep her alive, but what she doesn't expect is for Khalid to reveal himself to be so much more than a so-called monster. He's just a young man with a tormented past and a broken heart. 

Falling for him is a bad idea, but the more time Shahrzad spends in the palace, the more she realizes that all is not as it seems.

Meryn Cooper always hated the elite warriors who bonded direwolves. She certainly never intended to join their ranks. But when her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped, Meryn needs the power to save her. That means enlisting in the army and taking on the Bonding Trials, though competitors and instructors alike are out for blood. Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and The Hunger Games, the series is set to continue with The Wolves of Ruin later this year.

Speaking of Fourth Wing, no list of BookTok romantasy works would be complete without at least a mention of the phenomenon by Rebecca Yarros. In some ways, Violet Sorrengail ought to be the perfect candidate for the Dragon Riders, considering her mother, brother, and sister all followed that path. However, Violet's brittle physical condition makes the training much more grueling and dangerous. And that's before considering the presence of Xaden Riorson, the powerful and ruthless wingleader who has ever reason to want her dead…

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction, but there are assassins looking to stop her from making that happen. Ead Duryan, an outsider in the royal court, has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting. Her true loyalties lie with a hidden society of mages, but she must also keep a watchful eye on the Queen and protect her with her forbidden magic. 

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but the war between the divided East and West will throw her into an impossible situation. An ancient enemy is beginning to awaken and these three women will be drawn together to stop chaos engulfing their world.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are waking up and readying for another war. For young Iris Winnow, she just wants to keep her family together as her mother deals with substance abuse problems and her brother has gone missing from fighting on the frontline. As a journalist, it's her job to expose the truth of this rotten world. 

To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish―into the hands of Roman Kitt, her rival at the Oath Gazette. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle. Their bond will take them to the depths of hell itself, amid a battle between all-powerful gods for the fate of the entire world.

After her mother dies in an accident, 16-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. She wants to escape her grief by applying for a residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC Chapel Hill. 

But on her very first night on campus, she sees something completely unreal: a magical attack and flying demons. The college is home to the Legendborn, students who hunt down these creatures who feed on human energies, and it turns out that Bree has her own unique powers. Now, she's part of this strange world and it might have something to do with the death of her mother. 

Bree recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with a grudge against the group, to help her uncover their secrets. A magical war is on the horizon, and Bree will have to decide which side of the fight she's on.

One of the original BookTok sensations, A Court of Thorns and Roses has proven to be far more than a flash in the pan. The bestselling (and ongoing) series starts when nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre Archeron kills a wolf in the woods… only to learn that it was actually an immortal faerie. When another arrives to demand retribution for her crimes, Feyre finds herself forced into a foreign, treacherous magical land. Her only friend might just be the very man who took her from her home, Tamlin, but then again, maybe not.

Alizeh is nothing special, or at least that's what the world thinks. They see her as yet another servant, but she's actually the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom, forced to hide in plain sight for her own safety. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl in his own household, the one with the beautiful eyes he can't stop thinking about, would be the one to fulfil it. It is her destiny to uproot his father's kingdom and change the fate of the entire world, whether she likes it or not.

Soraya has lived her life hidden away from society and her family, safe only in the gardens where her curse is not deadly. She has been doomed with a poisonous touch that will kill anyone who comes into contact with her. As the day of her twin brother’s wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she’s willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. 

In the dungeons below her home, a demon lies imprisoned with knowledge that might free her from her curse. Above, in the light of day, there is a young man who isn't afraid of her. Soraya will have to make a choice and figure out who she is beyond her touch. Would it be so bad to be a monster after all?

At age 20, Selene Bowers hopes to be accepted into the Henbane Coven, a legendary academy for young witches. Since one of the requirements for entry is to connect with her powers via a quest through the wilderness, Selene books a trip to South America to fulfil her destiny. Her plans are scuppered when a strange supernatural force tries to pull the plane she's traveling on from the sky. Selene's magic awakens to save her life―at a cost. 

Using her powers devours her memories, one by one. Now stuck in the jungle with a mental timebomb ticking in her head, she finds herself awakening an ancient evil, Memnon the Cursed, who mistakes Selene for his long-dead and treacherous wife. Now, witches are being found dead across the land and Selene is the prime suspect. She must rely on Memnon to help uncover the truth, but what both of them find could change their fates—and those of everyone else.

Oraya is the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, which makes her a massive target for enemies and treachery. To the world, she is prey. Determined to prove otherwise, she enters the Kejari, a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself. Her competitors include some of the most skillful and bloodthirsty warriors from all three vampire houses. 

To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival with Raihn, a ruthless vampire who is an enemy of her father's house. She can't trust him but she needs him, and soon, their hatred turns to something far more dangerous. In this world, few things are more deadly than love.