This is another trope that I’m 100% not sorry for loving. Just like the ‘touch her and you die‘ trope, it does walk a problematic tight rope but this is fictional okay? Leave me be.
So I did a little search around for people’s morally grey recommendation lists, I had a look on Tiktok, instagram and Goodreads, to make sure I got ideas from everywhere. If I’ve read it, the review will be linked.


- Six of Crows duology
(#kanej stan 4 lyfe)

- The Cruel Prince
- The Poppy War
- The Shadows Between Us
- If we were villains
- To kill a kingdom
- A Darker Shade of magic
- Shadow and Bone
- Red Queen
- The Wrath and the Dawn
- Iron Widow
- Kingdom of the wicked
- Throne of glass
- Shatter Me
- King of Scars
- Caraval
- We hunt the flame
- The Atlas Six
- Lore
- ACOTAR
- Crescent City
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Vicious (Villians series)
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
- Hunting Adeline
- From Blood and Ash
- The Shadow of what was lost
- This is how you lose the time war
- The space between worlds
- Gone
- The secret history of Donna Tart
- Night Circus
- The Bridge Kingdom
- The Witches Blade
- And I darken
- These Violent Delights
- Dance of thieves
- The Dawn of Onyx
- Court of Ravens and Ruin
- What Lies beyond the veil
Any of these that I haven’t read, it appears I already own, so that’s definitely helped me re-prioritise my tbr. Do you have any books to add to the list?