More sci-fi/dystopian but for me scratches that itch (all are series)— Enders game, divergent, scholomance
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The Mirror Visitor Quartet
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If you also don’t mind kind-of-ish retellings (it’s a murder mystery and people are dying in ways that fairytale characters did), Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl was also a good book.
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The wheel of time- it’s long series but good
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I’m currently reading Lore by Alexandra Bracken and I really like it. I also suggest Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte, Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins, and the Lunar Chronicles if you haven’t read them!
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I feel like YA has that whimsy and depth that “adult” fantasy just replaces with smut