Looking for the best queer fantasy books to add to your reading list? Check out these gay fantasy books with amazing LGTBQ+ representation.

Must Read Queer Fantasy Books

In the world of fantasy, for some reason, it seems like there are mainly straight romantic relationships.  That really isn’t the case at the moment though, and fantasy has really started to become a much more diverse genre. There are some fantastic gay fantasy books with excellent LGTBQ+ representation within them.  If you are looking for them, then you can find them right here in a nice little list for you. 

Now, these are not romance books. Nor are they even really “fantasy romance”. Most of these books I am going to recommend to you have queer romance as a subplot. I personally don’t tend to read books that have romance as the main plot, so make sure you keep that in mind when you are going through this list. 

These books are first and foremost, fantasy books (with a little sci-fi thrown in for fun). If you are looking for books that are more romance-heavy, these may not be for you. But if you want books that have beautiful LGBTQ romances as a subplot in a fantasy book, then these will be right up your alley.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Starting out with the lightest of the romances we have Renegades by Marissa Meyer. This YA superhero book series is super cute. not only does it have great friendships and a cute young romance, but it also has a main character with two amazing dads.

One of our main superheroes has two gay fathers, and it is beautifully done. I love how their relationship is written, and I especially love how their parenting is shown.

Something I think YA fantasy is missing, in general, is good parental figures. These fathers are shown as loving their kids and in a healthy and loving relationship with each other.

Even better, the fact that they are gay is not even a big deal in this world. It is what it is and no one even mentions it, which honestly I love.

Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Moving on from a book where the romance is a side character to an LQBT fantasy where the romance is between the two central characters, we have The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri. This is a newer YA fantasy that borders much more on adult fantasy.

We follow two women. An imprisoned sister to the emperor who is meant to be executed, and a maidservant who is in hiding due to escaping a genocidal event in her youth. This book is an Indian-inspired fantasy with a queer enemies-to-lovers trope that is so well done.

Not only do we have a slow-burn sapphic romance, but we also have forbidden magic, revolution, and a whole lot of politics! This book can be described as slower-paced, but it does an excellent job of worldbuilding and connecting you with the characters.

Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Next up we have a standalone male/male fantasy romance book. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern is a stunningly beautiful gay fantasy book. This isn’t a book for everyone though due to the unique way it is written.

This book is what I would say is very flowery. It is purple prose at its finest, almost poetic in nature. There are stories within stories and honestly, you will be confused for most of your reading experience. If that is okay with you though, it is a beautiful book where you can just enjoy the ride.

We follow Zachary, a college student who finds a story about his own childhood in a strange book in his school library. He decides to find out everything he can about this book, which leads him to a magical and mysterious secret society that will change his life forever.

House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Another one of my favorite male/male fantasy romance books, House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is another beautiful standalone. While many of the books on this list aren’t as focused on romance, I think this one would be the most romance-focused.

We follow Linus, a social worker who works with magical children. Linus is a boring man, nothing special and nothing adventurous. His world is flipped upside down when he is assigned to look into a magical orphanage filled with potentially dangerous children. He must spend a month at the home with the children and their keeper.

This book is sweet and wholesome and just overall adorable.

The Disasters by MK England

So this one isn’t a queer fantasy book. It is a queer sci-fi book. The Disasters by MK England is a gem of a YA sci-fi.

We follow a group of students as they are being sent home from a prestigious space academy… on their first day! They all wash out for one reason or another, but while they are waiting on the shuttle to leave, the school is attacked. Everyone in the school is killed but they are able to get away. Now they are on the run and have to learn to work together to save themselves and possibly the galaxy.

When we think of representation, this book has it all! We have a bi-male main character, a trans female, and a gay man. We also have some awesome anxiety representation in this book as well. Not only is it super-inclusive, but it is also just a fun space romp with a group of misfits.

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

This book is a little darker than some of the others mentioned on this list. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan is a darker YA fantasy book with a sapphic relationship between the main characters.

This isn’t a light and fluffy LGBT fantasy book. Before deciding to pick this one up, please look into the trigger warnings. In this world, there are three castes of people. There are regular humans, human-demon hybrids, and demons. Demons rule the world. Every year, the demon king picks human girls from his kingdom to serve as his concubines. This year though, one of the girls decides that enough is enough and she is determined to break the system.

If you want a good romance in a dark world with forbidden love and revolution, pick this series up.

Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler

The first book in an older-leaning YA fantasy series, Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler is a wild ride. This again has a female/female relationship between the two main characters.

In this world, magic users are conscripted by the crown. Our main character evades this for years while living as a gang enforcer and supporting her younger sister. One day she is caught and with her sister’s life being threatened, she is forced to undertake a dangerous mission to steal an unstealable ghost ship that is filled with magic users who are sent there every year as sacrifices.

Again, romance is not the main element, but it is a really lovely side plot within the story.

Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto

The Crown of Feathers series is much more romance heavy than most of the other queer fantasy books on this list. While what I consider to be the central romance is straight, one of the relationships between a secondary PoV character is a male/male relationship.

This is a world where magic is illegal. Magic users, those who can communicate with animals, are found and either killed or conscripted to work for the crown. We follow Veronyka, a magic user who longs to be a phoenix rider. She ends up disguising herself as a boy and working for a group of hidden phoenix riders.

This book is filled with romance, forbidden magic, secret heirs, and revolution!

She Who Became the Sun by Chelly Parker Chan

While I could put quite a few more books on this list (as you can see from my video up above that talks about a few more queer fantasy books), She Who Became the Sun is the last one we are going to talk about today.

This is another female/female romance in a brutal world. I won’t go into a lot of detail about the book here because I do have a full spoiler-free She Who Became the Sun review that you can check out if you want to know more.

Just know that this is a fictional ancient China where a girl takes on the persona of her dead brother in order to reach for greatness.

While this is by no means a comprehensive list of gay fantasy books, it is quite a few of my personal favorites. If you have any queer fantasy books that you would like to recommend, let me know in the comments so I can add a few more to my reading list for the year. 

These female fantasy characters are the definition of badass! Strong, beautiful, and kind these are the best fantasy book ladies!

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The Best Female Fantasy Characters

As a 30-something-year-old mom of two, there is nothing I love more when I am reading than following a badass female fantasy character. When a character is complex, well-written, flawed, but strong, I just can’t put the book down.

These ladies are some of my favorite girls of fantasy in some of my favorite books of all time. If you love strong female characters, then you are going to want to make sure you pick up all of the books on this list. 

Dodger from Middlegame

So calling Middlegame fantasy may be a bit of a stretch. It is more of a nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy, Sci-fantasy if you will. This book is really strange, a bit confusing, and kind of hard to explain. The best way I can describe it is as a mix between Frankenstein and The Wizard of Oz.

We follow a set of twins, Rodger and Dodger. They are separated at “birth” but keep coming across each other in life. What they don’t know, is that they were created by an Alchemist who made them as the embodiment of different natural forces. Rodger is language, and Dodger is math.

I love that Dodger is math. Showing a female as the embodiment of math which is technically seen as a male-dominated discipline is just something that makes me happy to see.

Dodger is a great character and we get to follow her from childhood well into adulthood. Watching her grow and change and accept who she is was one of my favorite parts of the book.

Another great aspect of this book as a whole is that there is no central romance. We get to see Dodger be who she is without a love interest. She develops her sibling relationship with her twin brother, and never needs a romantic tie in order to make her great. 

Nahri from the City of Brass

I have probably talked about Nahri from the City of Brass in so many booktube videos and blog posts lately, but I will keep on shouting her amazingness from the rooftops because she is one of the best female fantasy characters in adult epic fantasy.

City of Brass is a diverse adult fantasy book with a Middle Eastern setting. It is beautiful and lush and the characters truly stand out, especially Nahri. She is a strong female who does everything she has to do in order to survive. She can really be seen as a morally grey character as well, which makes me love her even more.

Not only is she self-sufficient and strong, but she also knows when to bend in order to help the people she cares about. She is deeply flawed and while she does love with great passion, she also knows that before she can be truly open to loving someone else, she needs to work on herself first.

This book is the perfect series with beautiful writing, my favorite tropes, and just an all-around amazing cast of characters.

January from Ten Thousand Doors of January

If you are looking for a whimsical standalone fantasy book with an amazing female protagonist, check out Ten Thousand Doors of January. I am so in love with this book, though I don’t talk about it as often as I should.

We follow January, a girl alone in the world. She loves her adventurer father, but he is always gone on trips to find rare artifacts. She is essentially raised by her father’s rich patron, but he is not a warm and fuzzy surrogate father.

January is kind, smart, and curious. She wants to adventure like her father. When she starts learning more about the hidden worlds that exist within our world though, she is thrust into a world of magic and violence and is forced to protect the people she cares about while still learning who she truly is.

The writing in this book is lyrical and beautiful, but never overly flowery or purple. If you want a great fantasy book female protagonist, then this is one you should check out right away.

Misaki from Sword of Kaigen

Ready for an amazing badass fantasy mom? Misaki from Sword of Kaigen is the epitome of the badass fantasy mom. She is complex and so much more than “just a mom”.

In Sword of Kaigen, Misaki is a mom to three boys living in a very misogynistic area, married to a husband where there is no real love in the relationship. She struggles with longing for her independent, crime-fighting past with a mom she truly cared for.  At this point in her life, she feels like she has lost herself, lost her identity, and this is something I think most moms feel at one point or another.

When the shit starts to hit the fan in their small town, Misaki must reconcile the two parts of her life and learn to merge them together in order to be the person she truly needs to be.

This book is heartbreaking and raw and filled with awesome magic and character relations. Seriously if you are a mom yourself, I think you will instantly fall in love with Misaki and this entire book!

Naelin from Queens of Renthia

Another of my favorite fantasy moms, Naelin from the Queens of Renthia series is seriously a standout female fantasy protagonist. Though she is not in the first book of the series, Queen of Blood, at all, her presence fully takes over the series from the moment she appears on-page in the second book, Reluctant Queen.

Naelin is strong, in more ways than one. She loves her kids and will burn the world to the ground in order to protect them. She is also a reluctant hero. Naelin has no desire to be a Queen or a hero, she just wants to be a mom.

Her raw magical abilities thrust her into a world she never planned to be in. She is forced to learn to control her raw abilities while still being a mother to her two small children.

This is one of my favorite series of all time, with some of the best female characters.

Vin from the Mistborn Series

Would this even be a Bookish Mom book recommendations roundup without mentioning something by Brandon Sanderson? I love everything he has written, but there is something special about the Mistborn series. It was my re-introduction to fantasy and the book that got me back into reading after about 7 years of not reading at all.

Vin is such an amazing female protagonist. She starts out as a street orphan and ends up being the most badass character in the entire series.  One thing I love is that she grows so much through the series. You can tell she is well written because she feels her age, but you see her grow and change. She is strong and kickass but also loves balls and pretty dresses. Vin loves her friends, found family, and her romantic interest with such fierce passion.

She may not be perfect, but Vin will always be special to me. If you haven’t read Mistborn yet, I recommend checking it out! You can even take a peek at the cosmere reading order to see all of the Brandon Sanderson books in this massive universe and decide which ones you want to read first.

I could probably go on and on about all of my favorite female fantasy characters, but today I will leave you with these six lovely ladies. 

A common misconception about fantasy books is that they are all Eurocentric and written by white men. This couldn’t be further from the truth! These adult and YA diverse fantasy books prove that assumption wrong in the best way possible!

My Favorite Diverse Fantasy Books

It is time to blow the lid off the misconception that fantasy books are all written by old white men. There are so many diverse fantasy books, written by women and men of color that you are missing out on if you believe this to be true. This list of books focuses on non-European-inspired fantasy books written by women.  

No matter if you are looking for adult fantasy books or YA fantasy books, I have you covered! There are some amazing non-European books in both age ranges and we are going to talk about all of my current favorites. 

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The Best Diverse YA Fantasy Books

If you are wanting diverse ya fantasy books, then make sure you check these out! There’s everything you could want! Romance, politics, and of course, strong female characters!

Six Crimson Cranes

If you want a super whimsical YA fantasy book then check out Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim. This is an adorable Asian-inspired fantasy book.

It is a quick and easy read and if you love fairytale retellings, then this is for you. Six Crimson Cranes has a very light romance element to it and a soft magic system.

If you are interested in this book but want to know more, you can check out my full Six Crimson Cranes review and decide if this is the book for you.

The Gilded Ones

If you are looking for a West-African-inspired YA fantasy book, then look no further than the Gilded Ones by Namina Forna.

The Gilded Ones is pitched as a “dark feminist tale spun with blood and gold”, and it is not wrong. This is a dark YA fantasy and borders on more adults due to the violent themes within the pages.

In this story, we follow a girl who has to undergo ritual bleeding to ensure that she is a “normal human” and not a demon. Instead of human red, her blood runs gold though and she ends up having to face a new fate that she never expected.

Sent away to join a special army-like unit with other gilded girls, she must learn how to control her new powers, form relationships with the other girls in her unit, and uncover secrets about the society at large. 

I really recommend picking this book up if you want a fast and dark fantasy. Book two in this series is one of my most anticipated May 2022 fantasy book releases too, so you won’t have to wait to see what happens next.

The Jasmine Throne

Are you looking for a sapphic Indian-inspired fantasy book? Then you are going to love The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri. While this is technically in the YA fantasy age range, it really pushes that and, I think, is much more adult in themes and tone. 

We follow two main characters. One is an imprisoned princess who longs for freedom and revenge. The second is a maid who is just trying to keep her head down since she holds quite a few secrets of her own. 

We also get some amazing side characters in this book. My favorite is a pregnant woman who has quickly become one of my favorite moms in fantasy. 

This book does have a slower pace and a lot of slow-burn build-ups, so don’t go in expecting a fast-paced ride like some of the other books on this list.  But if you want beautiful worldbuilding and well-crafted characters, then The Jasmine Throne is one you won’t want to pass on.

An Ember in the Ashes

A gritty Middle Eastern-inspired world where revolution is brewing against the colonizing upper class, An Ember in the Ashes is one of the best diverse fantasy books on the market right now. 

In this book, we follow two characters once again. One lower-class girl who has had to watch her family be murdered and her brother be taken to jail so she joins up with the rebels to spy on the top-tier military school. And the other is a boy attending the military school who hates what he is and dreams of nothing more than escape from his fate. 

This is a beautifully written four-book series, and best of all, it is a completed series! No need to wait for new books to get the full story, it is all out and ready for you to binge read. 

The Best Diverse Adult Fantasy Books

Now that we have talked about some of my favorite diverse YA fantasy books, we can move on to diverse adult fantasy books.

Sword of Kaigen

Sword of Kaigen is not only an amazing non-European fantasy book, but it is also a self-published fantasy book! One of my favorite books of all time, Sword of Kaigen is a standalone fantasy set in an Asian-inspired world.

We follow Misaki and her 14-year-old son Mamoru. Misaki is a wife and mom, but she longs for her past where she was so much more. At one point she was a warrior, but now that life is only a memory. Mamoru is a teenager who longs for greatness. He wants to be the best warrior her can be, but when he learns more about the world outside of his small, secluded town, his rose-colored view of the world starts to fade.

This is a dark and brutal book that will rip your heart out and stomp all over it.  As a mom myself, I highly recommend this one for its representation of motherhood in a fantastical setting. If you want to check this one out, you can actually read it for free on Kindle Unlimited.

City of Brass

City of Brass is a beautiful Middle Eastern-inspired fantasy trilogy. Once again, this is a completed series so no need to wait on more books to release. You can get the full story all right now!

In this series, we follow Nahri, an orphan con artist living in Cairo who accidentally summons a djinn! We also follow that djinn ( well Deva), Dara as he has to take Nahri from Egypt to the magical land of Devabad where she can learn her true heritage. Then back in Devabad, we follow Ali, a prince who doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of his people.

This is one of the few series where I actually really love the ” love triangle” element of it. One of my least favorite tropes but it is done so well and so differently here that it really works within the context of the story.

This book also very heavily features food, which made it perfect for my first reading and recipes where I made Koshari and talked all about the book!

The Poppy War

I have probably said this about all of the books on this list, but this is one of my favorite fantasy series. The Poppy War is a Chinese-inspired story that blends history and magic in the best way possible. So many scenes from this book are ripped directly from the history books with a little magic added in!

In the Poppy War, we follow Rin, a war-orphan who longs for more than an arranged marriage to a man she does not love. In order to escape her fate, she studies hard and gets accepted to a prestigious military school. Because of her low status though, she isn’t immediately accepted by her classmates.

The first half of the first book is “Ya feeling”. Following Rin in school but after that first half, we are thrust into the dark and violent war that encompasses the rest of the series.

This is, again, a completed series. So check it out and enjoy the entire series in one shot!

Black Sun

Ready for something completely different than the fantasy books you are used to? Black Sun is a pre-Columbian-inspired fantasy world that is nothing like you have ever read before.  It is so unique and beautifully written. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end! Luckily, book two in the series just came out so you can at least get most of the story without having to wait. 

In this series, we follow 3 different characters. A hidden and blinded “chosen one”, a female sailor who may be part siren, and a young girl from the lower class who has worked her way into the highest ranks of priesthood.

This one is a bit hard to describe without spoiling anything, so I advise that you go in blind and just enjoy the ride. 

The Fifth Season

The final book on this list of diverse adult fantasy books is the Fifth Season by NK Jemisin. Another completed series, this one is a little harder to recommend but I just had to because I love it so much.

It is one of those books that is very polarizing. You will either love it or hate it, there is really no in-between with this one.  Jemisin has a very unique writing style that isn’t going to vibe with everyone. Oh, and this book has an entire PoV written in the second person! I love it but it is hard for a lot of people. 

In this book, we follow 3 women of different ages. All of whom are orogens, magic-users in this world. During the story, we are in the middle of an apocalyptic event, normal in this world, but this may just be the last one that actually fully destroys the world. 

The characters in this series are so well written and the world is so perfectly built. If you want something different than the norm, the pick up the Broken Earth series. 

These books are perfect for proving the misconception about fantasy being an “old-white man genre” wrong. All of these books are very diverse and set in rich and beautiful worlds. 

Life isn’t always black & white, and neither is fantasy. These are the best fantasy books with morally grey characters!

Characters in fantasy books tend to run the gambit when it comes to personality traits. Sometimes we get the good and pure hero or heroine. Other times we get the completely evil mustache-twirling villain. I tend to find these archetypes a little on the boring side though.

Characters that are all good or all bad, just don’t make sense to me. When I read something, I want complex characters. Morally grey characters in fantasy, to me, are the epitome of complexity. There is a balance between light and darkness within them. They can be villains, heroes, or anti-heroes. Some of my favorite books are filled with grey morality, and I am going to talk about some of those books today.

So if you are interested in morally grey fantasy characters, add these books to your TBR today!

Morally Grey Fantasy Characters

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Morally grey characters can be the hero or villain. Either hero with a dark side or a villain where you can see their reasoning. This list today leans more towards the morally grey hero.  Don’t worry though, we will cover morally grey villains at a later date, I promise! 

City of Brass

City of Brass is one of my favorite female-authored adult fantasy books. It is a story about an Egyptian orphan named Nari who is conning her way through life on the streets of Cairo.

One day during a con she accidentally calls a djinn named Dara which changes her life forever. She is swept away to the magical city of Devabad. There she learns about her past, and what will become of her future. 

Nahri is mostly good but has her morally grey moments for sure, but she isn’t really who I am talking about here. The best depiction of grey morality in this whole series is Dara, the djinn with a violent past but a well-meaning heart. There were times I loved him and times I hated him. He is both a hero and a villain, sometimes simultaneously. 

It is difficult to love him but hard to hate him. Making Dara a fantastic example of a morally grey fantasy character. 

The Fifth Season

When you are looking for a book where pretty much everyone is morally grey, pick up The Fifth Season by NJ Jemisin. This book is dark but beautiful.

We are following a few female characters of different ages. One is a mother who has just discovered the murder of her son. The other is a twenty-something-year-old girl who is on a quest with her mentor. And the final is a very young girl who has just been taken from her family to live and train in a government facility. The only thing they have in common? They are orogenes. People with the power to control the earth, such as making earthquakes or quelling them.

The world of this book has what they call fifth seasons. These seasons are basically apocalyptic events, and this book takes place during one.

Every member of this cast of characters can be described as morally grey. They are neither good nor bad, but a mix of the two. This makes everyone feel very real and relatable while really pulling at your emotions.

She Who Became the Sun

While this wasn’t one of my personal favorite books, it does fulfill the morally grey aspect well. She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker Chan is a historical fantasy. Though it is light on the fantasy and more heavy on the historical fiction. 

The book is set in a “fantasy” version of ancient China. Though fantasy is very loose and this is basically Chinese historical fiction.

All of the main characters are morally grey,  leaning more towards the darker side of the spectrum.  Zhu is a girl who takes on her dead brother’s name and destiny and she will do anything to achieve this destiny. We also follow a eunuch general who is both cruel and sympathetic at the same time.

This is a good book, especially if you enjoy historical fiction with unlikeable characters.  As I said, this isn’t a favorite of mine but there were still a lot of things I did enjoy. You can check out my spoiler-free She Who Became the Sun review here if you want more information on it.

The Poppy War

So if you like the sound of She Who Became Sun but want more magic and fantastical elements, The Poppy War is my recommendation.  The Poppy War is another Chinese-inspired historical fantasy, but this one is much more fantasy with just a little history.  And of course, all of our characters are morally grey!

We mainly follow Rin, a war orphan who is determined to go to the top-tier military school in order to avoid an arranged marriage to a much older man. She gets in, but war is coming.

This book is brutal! We really see the atrocities of war and the lengths people will go to. There is also a magic system involving gods pretty much possessing the minds of humans. While they have great power, they also have a tendency to go mad.

Rin has to make some tough choices and do some pretty terrible things in order to do what she believes is best for her country and people. If you want to learn more, you can check out my spoiler-free Poppy War review video.

Winds of Strife

So this one is the only self-published fantasy book on this list. Winds of Strife by UG Gutman is a super dark adult fantasy book. Pretty much none of the characters are likable, and all of them are morally grey. 

We follow a few different perspectives, but the main one we will discuss here is Nye. Nye is a pretty terrible human but has good motivations. He is a witch hunter, but when he was a child his family was murdered by witch hunters! So he has decided to join their ranks in order to take them down from the inside!

Our main character is violent, hears voices, is abusive, and all-around just isn’t a good person, but for some reason as a reader, we root for him because he wants to take down the slightly more evil King.

As I so often do, I have a full video review for this book too. So you can see if you are interested in reading this book by watching this Winds of Strife review on my Booktube Channel.

The Mistborn Series

I won’t talk about this one too long because I could go on and on about how much I love the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. Really, I love the entire cosmere and there are so many morally grey characters in the cosmere that I could have made this whole list with just books in this world.

I decided just to talk about Mistborn era 1 though, book one being the Final Empire. In this series, we are following a rag-tag group of the underclass with forbidden magic trying to take down the evil Lord Ruler. 

Two of our main characters, Kelsier and Vin, can be seen as morally grey fantasy characters. They will do whatever it takes, and that doesn’t always correlate to what is right. As the series goes on, we see the repercussions of certain decisions and it really is such a fantastic series with complex characters. 

I wouldn’t say that any of the characters are unlikeable like some of the other books on this list, but they definitely make some questionably dark decisions. 

Vicious

The final book on this list is one that probably won’t be a surprise to anyone. Vicious by VE Schwab is the epitome of morally grey characterization. This isn’t technically a fantasy book. It is more sci-fi “superhero” in style.

We follow two friends, Victor and Eli, through college where they are researching EOs (extraordinaries), people who have powers. They find out that in order to become an EO, you need to have a near-death experience. So they decide to do what they have to in order to get some power.

This book jumps timelines a lot. We will be in their college friend days in one chapter, then the next is 10 years later and they are mortal enemies. The way this is written will really keep you on your toes. The story slowly unravels and it is so entertaining.

No one is the hero though. Victor may be our main character, but he is no hero. And Eli may think he is a hero in his own mind, but he is far from it in reality.

This is one of my favorite books, and I think VE Schwab’s best work. Go check this one out if you want to just be immersed in a really engaging and fast-paced story.

There you have it! The best books with morally grey fantasy characters! I could probably go on and on about morally grey characters, but I will leave that for another time. 

Let me know what your favorites are in the comments down below!