If you’re craving swoon-worthy romance wrapped in high-stakes fantasy, 2025 has shaped up to be a standout year for romantasy. From spellbinding worlds and dangerous magic to irresistible enemies-to-lovers tension, these releases offer epic stakes and even bigger emotions that will make you fall in love with both the world and the characters. Whether you want complex world-building, fierce heroines, or slow-burn love that sets whole realms on fire, these are the top nine books that were voted the best fantasy reads of 2025!

This year, the winner of the She Reads Best Romantasy of 2025 Award is: 

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail faces a world on the brink of war, with enemies closing in both outside and within. With time running out, she must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to forge alliances in unfamiliar lands, testing her wit, courage, and strength. Determined to protect what she loves: her dragons, her family, her home, and him, Violet carries a dangerous secret that could destroy everything. To survive the coming storm, they need an army, power, magic, and the one thing only she can uncover: the truth.

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And don’t miss out on the rest of our favorite romantasy reads from 2025!

A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

Truyan Saigas, a talented art forger who can paint the future, is forced to support her family after her father is lost at sea and her mother falls into debt with dangerous gangsters. Desperate, she enters a marriage contract with a mysterious dragon lord, gaining safety for her family and potential answers about her father. In exchange, she must live in his undersea palace and help him execute a dangerous scheme to infiltrate the Dragon King’s inner circle, using her prophetic art to alter the fate of both mortal and immortal realms.

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Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

After her mother’s unexplained death, Genevieve Grimm receives a mysterious invitation to Enchantra, a cursed Italian palace frozen in time and shrouded in strange fruit. When the sinfully handsome Rowin Silver refuses to let her in, she sneaks inside, only to discover the palace is a deadly labyrinth where he and his six siblings are trapped in a lethal game overseen by a wicked Devil and his ghastly spectators. She now must win or she dies. To stay alive, Genevieve must pretend to be Rowin’s wife, convincing their audience of their love while navigating the danger and intense desire between them. But with the first rule that Rowin taught her echoing in her mind—never, ever trust your heart—Genevieve must decide how far she’s willing to go to survive.

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Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

As heir to Tianxia, Liyen is destined to ascend the throne and uphold her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them. But when she is poisoned, her grandfather’s desperate theft of an enchanted lotus enrages the immortal queen, who commands the God of War to strike Tianxia. With her grandfather dead, Liyen takes the throne, determined to free her kingdom from its obligations, and uses a visit to the Immortal Realm as a chance to uncover their secrets and form an alliance with the one she should fear most: the ruthless God of War. As dark forces close in, Liyen is drawn into a dangerous, forbidden attraction she must resist to protect her people, but saving her kingdom may require risking everything. Even her heart.

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Our Vicious Oaths by N.E. Davenport

Kadeesha, princess of the Aether Dominion and a fierce warrior leading her squadron of winged serpent flyers, wants nothing to do with fae politics. But her arranged betrothal to the Hyperion High King forces her into a world she’s long resisted. On the night before her wedding, she seeks one last night of freedom with a dangerous stranger, only to discover he is using her to set up a trap for the High King. Malachi, the new king of the Apollyon Court, is plotting revenge for his court’s destruction, and what better way to get back than to use the High King’s future wife. When Malachi attacks on her wedding day, killing her father and wounding the High King, Kadeesha becomes his “hostage,” but the two soon form a pact: she will help lure the High King to his death, and he will spare her and her people. As they navigate the politics that she didn’t want to get involved in in the first place, deadly vengeance, and public displays meant to provoke jealousy, Kadeesha and Malachi must also face the undeniable attraction growing between them.

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Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

Princess Odessa Cross of Quentis leads a dull, overlooked life, always living in the shadow of her younger sister, Mae. Her routine is shattered when, just three hours before her sister’s wedding, Prince Zavier chooses to marry Odessa instead. Thrust into a marriage with a man she doesn’t know (and who shows no interest in her), Odessa’s world is turned upside down. To make matters worse, her father orders her to serve as a spy, tasked with uncovering the secret capital of the monster-infested kingdom of Turah. It’s a mission that she has no training for, and it’s certainly not something she expected to face on her wedding night.

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Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

Galilee Kincaid has always sensed she was different, raised by her mysterious family in the shadowy wilds of their land, with a secret about her origins that has left an ache in her chest for as long as she can remember. That hidden truth comes to light when she meets Lucifer Helel, a man posing as a security chief who’s unmistakably not human. From their first electric touch, Lucifer realizes what Gali doesn’t: she isn’t human either. Lucifer’s most trusted prince of Hell, Leviathan, sees her as a threat that must be eliminated before she brings death to everyone he loves. As unseen wars flare between Heaven, Hell, and Earth, Gali and Lucifer’s dangerous attraction threatens the fragile balance holding all realms together. With long-buried Kincaid secrets colliding with the princes of Hell, Galilee must choose whether to claim her true power, no matter the devastating consequences.

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The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gilig

Sybil Delling, a Diviner bound to a decade of service in the great cathedral, spends her nights receiving visions from six mysterious Omens—dreams that allow her to predict disaster for anyone who seeks her guidance. As she and the other Diviners near the end of their service, a heretical, sharp-tongued knight named Rodrick arrives, openly dismissive of her prophetic gifts. But when her fellow Diviners begin disappearing, Sybil must turn to him for help and venture beyond the safety of the cloister into a perilous world. With gods holding the answers she desperately needs and danger closing in, Sybil must accept that only a heretic like Rodrick may be powerful (or reckless) enough to stand against a god.

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Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross

Matilda, the youngest goddess of the under realm, wields only modest messenger magic in a world where gods kill for power and secrets mean survival, and she carries one she can’t let anyone uncover. Even more confusing is the mortal boy who once often dreamed of her: Vincent of Beckett, who begged her for help on the darkest night of his life and, after receiving no answer, grew into a hardened, irreverent lord who long forgot her. But when Matilda crashes through his window with a letter for him, their destinies collide beyond dreams. As they navigate dangerous gods, old wounds, and a fate that binds them, Matilda may have the chance to rewrite the violent order of her world. So long as she’s willing to risk the one thing she fears most: letting herself be loved.

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