What I’m seeking in similar text:
– Dune: idea of Messiah/Al Gaib, the politics
– Shadow and Bone: religion, idea of sainthood/martyrdom, world-building
– The Cruel Prince: obsessive romantic relationship between Cardan and Jude
– A Song of Ice and Fire: political scheming
– Caraval series: The character of Jacks and his doomed fate
Recent YA has been redundant and annoying to me, so I’d prefer something more adult-ish, but if you have any good YA, that’s alright. I don’t like characters that are seemingly perfect and don’t have real flaws. An example of something I’m not looking for is A Court of Thorn and Roses. It doesn’t have to be fantasy, but something in a historical-esque setting pls with at least some romance (not central part of story tho).
I want characters who are power hungry and manipulative but not cringe.
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