§Personal Collection
Shadow Daddy Romantasy
Fantasy and romantasy titles featuring powerful, morally-grey love interests with major ‘shadow daddy’ energy: night courts, shadows, death personified, or dark magic antiheroes. Many appear on Goodreads ‘Shadow Daddy’ lists and BookTube/Reddit recommendation threads for this trope.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
Introduces Prythian and the Night Court’s High Lord, setting up the broody, winged shadow daddy everyone actually cares about in later books.
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas · 2016
Peak Rhysand: dark, ancient, devastatingly powerful Night Court ruler who wraps himself literally and figuratively in shadows and bargains.
§ About this list
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2015–2023
- Average rating
- 4.0 / 5 across 10,008 ratings
- Genres
- Fiction, Enemies To Lovers, Young Adult, Adventure
Most-rated on Shadow Daddy Romantasy
- 1Fourth Wing · Rebecca Yarros
Xaden Riorson is widely cited in ‘shadow daddy’ rec threads: broody, tattooed, commandingly lethal, and literally bonded to shadowy dragons.
- 2A Court of Thorns and Roses · Sarah J. Maas
Introduces Prythian and the Night Court’s High Lord, setting up the broody, winged shadow daddy everyone actually cares about in later books.
- 3A Court of Mist and Fury · Sarah J. Maas
Peak Rhysand: dark, ancient, devastatingly powerful Night Court ruler who wraps himself literally and figuratively in shadows and bargains.
