🏷️ War Setting
16 entries tagged with this trope
Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas · 2016
This is where ToG goes from great fantasy to EPIC fantasy. Alliances form, war approaches, and every ship pays off. The Rowaelin cabin scene lives rent-free in everyone's head.
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Iris and Roman are rival journalists competing for the same column. They don't know they've been writing letters to each other through a magical typewriter. The moment they figure it out? DEVASTATING.
Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross · 2024
Roman doesn't remember Iris. He's on the other side of the war now. She's writing letters he'll never read. The separation angst in this book is BRUTAL in the best way.
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
1000 pages. Three storylines. A magic system based on storms. Sanderson builds worlds like nobody else. The Sanderlanche (last 200 pages) will ruin your sleep schedule.
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang · 2018
Starts as a school story. Ends in genocide. Rin is a war orphan who discovers shamanic powers. Inspired by 20th century Chinese history. One of the most brutal and brilliant fantasy trilogies ever written.
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
Paul Atreides inherits a desert planet. It produces the most valuable substance in the universe. Everyone wants to control it. Political intrigue, ecology, religion, and destiny woven into the greatest sci-fi novel ever written.
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
Ender is six years old and the military's best hope against an alien invasion. They train children to fight wars. The twist at the end rewrites everything you just read.
Red Rising
Pierce Brown · 2014
Darrow is a miner on Mars. He discovers his whole life is a lie — he's a slave in a color-coded caste system. He infiltrates the ruling class to destroy it from within. Hunger Games for adults, but better.
Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas · 2018
The final battle for Erilea. Aelin is captive. Her court scattered. Every thread from seven books comes together in a 980-page finale that will wreck you and put you back together.
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas · 2017
Feyre returns to the Spring Court as a spy. The wall between realms has shattered. War is inevitable, alliances are fragile, and Feyre must unite the courts or watch them burn. SJM goes full epic fantasy here.
The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy
speechwriter · 2020
What if Draco joined the Order? A Deathly Hallows rewrite where Draco is on the Horcrux hunt. It reads like it could be canon. Speechwriter's characterization is so good it's scary.
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors
diasterisms · 2016
A Reylo political marriage AU set in a fantasy world inspired by Southeast Asian mythology. The worldbuilding is incredible, the prose is gorgeous, and the enemies-to-lovers tension is perfectly calibrated.
Manacled
SenLinYu · 2018
The war is lost. Hermione is a prisoner, her memories gone. Draco Malfoy is assigned as her handler. What follows is one of the most devastating, beautifully written slow burns in all of fanfiction. This fic broke an entire fandom.
The Fallout
everythursday · 2010
Hermione learns about a failed Dumbledore-sanctioned scheme that aimed to create a secondary Order spy from Draco Malfoy. The aftermath of war forces them together in ways neither expected.
The Auction
LovesBitca8 · 2018
In a dark AU where Voldemort won, Hermione is auctioned off. Draco buys her. Not out of cruelty — out of desperation to protect her. The 'touch her and die' energy in this fic is unmatched.
The Debt of Time
ShayaLonnie · 2015
Hermione is thrown back in time to the Marauders era. It's 730K words of pure epic storytelling — time travel, war, love across timelines, and consequences that ripple through decades.