Love a romance subplot. A lot of YA fantasy has it. Cruel Prince, The Mirror Visitor, the prison healer, and This woven kingdom are all some like that

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Cruel prince!!! A song to drown rivers, Emily Wilde’s encyclopedia of fairies, darker shade of magic, tress of the emerald sea, one dark window, howls moving castle, dance of thieves (this one probably has the most romance on the list- and it’s not too much imo)

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six of crows/ the grishaverse by leigh bardugo, legendborn by tracy deonn, the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi, stormlight archive (romance isn’t really until book 2) & mistborn by brandon sanderson, cemetery boys & the sunbearer trials by aiden thomas, before we dissapear by shaun david hutchinson, so this is ever after by f.t. lukens, sorcery of thorns by margaret rogerson, realm breaker by victoria aveyard, the raven boys by maggie steifvater :)

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