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Enemies to Lovers YA Fiction

When it comes to romantic expression, it’s hard to beat an enemies-to-lovers arc. There’s just nothing like watching two people go from loathing each other, to kind of liking each other, to falling head-over-heels in love with each other. And rest assured, all of the enemies-to-lovers Young Adult books listed below use this familiar storyline to great effect.

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  • Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
  • Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. As a huntsman of the…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2019.
  • A girl destined for the stage. A prince cursed to darkness. A bond that will unleash magic caged for centuries. Centuries ago, the Isle of Light was ruled by cruel creatures with dangerous magic until a witch bound them to their underground city.…
    Book, 2020Cedarhurst, NY : Context Literary Agency, LLC, 2020, c2014.
  • "Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--
    Book, 2015New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
  • A Sky Without Stars is a dystopian science fiction book and a Les miserable retelling. It features an enemies-to-lovers romance and a love triangle. It’s set in a dystopian world called Laterre. When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon Pulse, 2019.
  • Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen…
    Book, 2018New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2018.
  • All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle…
    Book, 2019New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2019.
  • Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the second daughter of a minor nobleman, makes a plan to seduce, marry, and kill the king, then rule the world, and only love can stop her.
    Book, 2020New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020.
  • Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother's friend Fiske, she attempts to…
    Book, 2018New York : Wednesday Books, 2018.
  • In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.
  • In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020.
  • A Curse So Dark And Lonely is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Prince Rhen is the Heir of Emberfall. Emberfall is under a curse and the kingdom is enchanted into an everlasting winter. Prince Rhen needs to make a girl fall in love with him to…
    Book, 2019New York : Bloomsbury, 2019.
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    the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow : a Novel

    Rowell, Rainbow
    "Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half,…
    Book, 2015New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
  • In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
    Book, 2019New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
  • (A) dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” — -- no way His Lordship Grey Emerson is a misanthrope. Thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch, Grey knows he’s doomed once he turns eighteen. Sequestered away in…
    eBook, 2020[S.l.] : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020.
  • When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn't until eleven years later that Wendy finds out her mother might've been telling the truth. With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds…
    Book, 2012New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
  • Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice. The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order…
    Book, 2017New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2017.
  • An Ember in the Ashes features an incredible slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance with an amazingly strong heroine. An Ember in the Ashes opens with Laia. She has found an illegal sketchbook belonging to her brother. The empire comes and takes away…
    eBook, 2015[S.l.] : Penguin Young Readers Group, 2015.