Don't Read Crescent City, Read These Series Instead

**Exploring Alternatives to "Crescent City": A Comprehensive Guide**

Hello and welcome back to my channel! Today, we’re diving into a discussion about some book series that I believe hold their own—or perhaps even surpass—"Crescent City." While the title of this video suggests reading these instead of "Crescent City," the recommendations here are equally valuable for those who haven’t read "Crescent City" and are on the fence, as well as for fans of the series looking for something new.

"Crescent City" is a unique deviation from Sarah J. Maas’s previous high-fantasy works, which might leave some readers searching for similar vibes or entirely different experiences. Regardless of where you stand—whether you’re disappointed by "Crescent City," curious about alternatives, or a fan eager for more—I’ve got six book series to share that I believe are worth exploring.

### 1. **The Kate Daniels Series by Alona Andrews**

First up is the *Kate Daniels* series by Alona Andrews—a 10-book journey set in a world where magic and technology clash, often leaving society in chaos. During peak magic hours, cars stop working, and magical creatures like shifters dominate the landscape. The protagonist, Kate Daniels, navigates this volatile world, dealing with vampires, necromancers, and other supernatural threats.

While "Crescent City" might have left some readers disappointed by its relationship-building (or lack thereof), *Kate Daniels* offers a slow-burn romance that avoids the pitfalls of instant attraction. The series is darker and more dystopian than "Crescent City," with a unique blend of magic, technology, and a gritty urban setting.

### 2. **The Nevada Series by Alona Andrews**

Next is another Alona Andrew series—this one being my personal favorite. Set in Houston, this series explores a world where the government has introduced a serum granting soldiers magical powers. The wealthy elite now dominate society with these enhanced abilities, leading to complex political dynamics.

Nevada, our protagonist, is a detective tasked with hunting down powerful magic users, setting her on a dangerous path filled with mystery and romance. The series emphasizes family bonds and intricate world-building, offering a fresh take on the urban fantasy genre. While it doesn’t share the gritty feel of *Kate Daniels*, it delivers a compelling story with depth and relatable characters.

### 3. **The MacLeod Series by Karen Marie Moning**

For fans of lore-driven stories like "Throne of Glass," *The MacLeod* series is a must-read. The protagonist, Mac, travels to Ireland after her sister’s mysterious death, only to discover she can see the Fay—a hidden magical race. This revelation thrusts her into danger, aided by Jericho, a神秘 bookshop owner who also sees the Fay.

The series is rich in world-building and political intrigue, with a focus on mystery and adventure. While it shares some similarities with "Crescent City" in its lore-heavy approach, it offers a unique setting and character development that feels fresh and engaging.

### 4. **The Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh**

If you’re looking for something reminiscent of "Crescent City," the *Guild Hunter* series is your ticket. Set in a world where angels rule and vampires are subservient, Elena, our protagonist, hunts down rogue vampires as a Guild Hunter. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Raphael, an archangel with his own secrets.

The series is filled with intense relationships, high-stakes politics, and a touch of romance. While the first book’s consent issues are worth noting, the overall series delivers a compelling narrative that resonates deeply with fans of Sarah J. Maas’s style.

### 5. **The War of Lost Hearts Series by Claire Legrand**

For those who enjoyed the high-fantasy elements of "Throne of Glass," *The War of Lost Hearts* is a standout choice. Tsana, enslaved and sold to a magical order, seeks freedom for herself and her friend. Her journey involves training with Max, uncovering secrets about the order, and navigating a complex society.

This series offers rich world-building and political intrigue, with a protagonist who embodies strength and vulnerability. While it’s quite different from "Crescent City," its depth and originality make it a compelling read.

### 6. **The Vryssa Series by Carissa Broadbent**

Lastly, the *Vryssa* series delivers a high-fantasy twist on vampire lore. Arah, the human daughter of a vampire king, is trained to become a warrior in a Hunger Games-style competition for vampirism. Her journey takes her from innocence to hard-won wisdom, as she discovers the true nature of the world and her place within it.

This series offers intense character development and a unique take on vampire lore, with Arah’s growth mirroring the complexities found in "Crescent City." The Hunger Games-inspired competition adds an exciting layer of tension and stakes.

### Conclusion

While these recommendations might not perfectly mirror "Crescent City," they each offer something unique and valuable for readers. Whether you’re drawn to gritty dystopian settings, high-fantasy adventures, or richly developed characters, this list has something for everyone. I hope you find a new favorite series among these recommendations! Stay tuned for more content, and thank you for joining me on this journey through books.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my Channel today we're going to have a little chat about some book series that I think are better than Crescent City now I know the title of this video says read these instead of Crescent City but I actually think that the recommendations in this video would be really great for people who haven't read Crescent City and are kind of like on the fence about starting a series that's so long and potentially disappointing people who have tried Crescent City and were disappointed and also people who love Crescent City and are actually looking for series that feel similar because Crescent City I feel like is such a different series from some of the other books that Sarah J Mass has written I feel like both of her previous series are very much in that sort of high Fantasy Realm and Crescent City is totally different so if you're kind of scratching your head and wondering like what can I pick up that feels like Crescent City I've got recommendations for you or books that also like don't feel like Crescent City but I think are may be better there's a lot of different things on this list there's six different book series all of them are finished I believe except for one so also you can go in confidently knowing that these are completed almost all of them I have like red in completion in their entirety and can say with some confidence that they don't like jump the shark at any point so without further Ado let's get into it first up I have the Kate Daniel series by Alona Andrews so this is a 10 book series set in a world that is dominated by both magic and technology and both are constantly at war with each other and by that I mean magic basically comes up into society as like a big surge at different times of day different times of the week sometimes magic stays for like days at a time sometimes it's simply for a couple of hours when magic is at its peak technology is basically non-existent we don't have working cars or working cell phones you could be on the highway and your car could just basically break down cuz magic is up and during these times when magic are up we've got shifters we've got a bunch of different like magical creatures and magical problems and our heroin Kate Daniels basically helps whenever magic kind of goes Ary and when bad things happen in regards to the magic and then obviously adversely whenever technology is up and like phones and cars and stuff are working magic doesn't work so Society is a bit chaotic and as a result I feel like the series has a sort of like darker and sort of like dystopian feel to it I want to say that this series is set in like Atlanta in like the Atlanta area but again it has that sort of like gritty dystopian sort of paranormal urban fantasy vibe to it I'm not doing a good job of describing it but I say it's like a little darker in my opinion tonally than something like Crescent City but throughout the series again Kate deals with vampires shifters necromancers a bunch of different kinds of creatures similar to Crescent City and she also finds a very powerful mate throughout the series and the relationship kind of grows over the course of this 10 book series so you don't have a sort of like insta love Insta lust situation going on Kate doesn't just like jump in bed with her mate so if you're someone who doesn't again like that insta love last thing I think you'll be quite pleased with that and again I just I love the series because it is that cool mix of like magic with a little bit of dystopian a little bit of a Sci-Fi feel and I just love a slowburn I I just feel like Crescent City's relationship building between Bryce and Hunt really wasn't what I was expecting or really enjoying it felt a little bit too install lust but then there wasn't very much on page smut which I'm not a huge fan of I don't think this is like the smuttiest series ever but it does give you a little bit of payoff for sure I also just think that this author writing Duo does a spectacular job with their World building the one drawback I have to the first book in the series is that it does feel a little bit Crescent City in the sense that you're like thrown into this world and you're kind of scratching her head and like asking questions to yourself about like wait what's going on and your questions are answered like pretty soon after a couple of chapters but it can be a little bit jarring getting thrown in but once you get past that like it's smooth sailing it's so fun and again I just think the worlds that alone Andrews create are very very inventive I just feel like I see a lot of Sarah J mask parallels with the series but I think it's definitely one worth giving a try next up we have another Alona Andrew series and of all of the series on this list this one is actually my personal favorite it doesn't share as much in common with the Crescent City series but I definitely think there are elements that would be very appealing if you do like Crescent City so this series is broken up into two separate trilogies if that makes sense we've got the first Trilogy that kind of covers the love story and or story arc of our heroine Nevada in the second Trilogy follows Catalina who is Nevada's younger sister this series is set in a sort of like magical world in a sense but it's it's really just set in sort of like a post magic or like postmodern I guess in a sense Houston I mean that definitely appeals to me as someone who really enjoys Houston and is from Houston but I think this series appealed to me more because it doesn't have the same I would say like gritty dystopian feeling that the Kate Daniel Series has so in this series the government slm military has sort of discovered a way to give soldiers certain powers to like fight against obviously like foreign powers over the years this serum kind of gets out to the general public and the richest amongst Society basically has magical powers and now they marry each other to strengthen their bloodlines and to get maybe new magical powers in The Bloodline so there are these different houses and they have power I guess in society they tend to be again very very wealthy hord power and horde resources that kind of thing and our heroin Nevada is a detective that is sort of like the family business she takes after both her grandmother and her mother who kind of started the business in the first place and at the start of the story she is charged with I guess finding one of these primes one of these like most powerful magic users and bringing him to just Justice I guess like bringing him to the police I guess the magical police in in this particular circumstance but uh this is a very dangerous Endeavor and she ends up getting caught up with some people that she wasn't anticipating getting caught up with she finds her potential love interest or her I guess uh definite love interest in this book sh gets really really crazy I think what I love about this series and what I think you will love as well if you really like Sarah J Mass's characters is the sort of like I was going to say found family there's not really a found family so much as uh Nevada is just really attached to her nuclear family we've got her grandmother we've got her mom we've got two sisters we've got her cousins and everyone really works together for the family business and we really grow to care about the characters over the course of the six books that we spend with them they all have a part to play in the family business and also in keeping Nevada as like sane as possible and I also think that the politics of the different houses is pretty fascinating as well if you liked the houses in Crescent City not the same thing at all but definitely I liked the the sort of like political Maneuvers and like power that certain people had over other people I thought was really interesting uh these books are also getting new covers this year I believe to kind of appeal to a new audience which I'm personally really here for I feel like of all of the series I'm talking about not only is this my favorite but I also think this has this like Universal appeal and could really appeal again to like younger people who are really in the Romany era so very excited to see these get new covers I feel like I feel like you got to you got to pick them up I will however say if there's one thing that I would recommend with this series is do not pick up the audio books the audiobook narrator specifically for the hero does a horrible country accent and it really kind of turns me off personally it may or may not turn you off but I just recommend steering clear if you can't all right the next series is by Karen Marie moaning and it's been a hot second since I've read these books so I'm not sure that they hold up like a th% but I remember devouring the first five books in the series and being so into the world so our heroin in this book is named Mac at the beginning of the series her sister dies we think she might have been murdered and Mac sees it as her duty to not necessarily avenge her sister's death but to find out what happened to her and her sister I believe was like studying abroad when she was ultimately killed so Mac goes to Ireland travels to Ireland and decides she's going to figure out what happened while she's there though things kind of get a little messy when she discovers that she can actually see the Fay and now that means that the Fay are kind of after her so Mac is basically in constant danger and is aided I guess in protection a little bit by this like mysterious Bookshop owner named Jericho who she comes across he I believe can also see the Fay and I feel like if you're someone who really gets a kick out of the World building or the lore of Crescent City I think you would really enjoy this series if you like answers that lie in like Dusty books shrouded mystery if like sort of like prophetic elements uh which I feel like are very present in all of Sarah J Master Series you've got like dead ladies coming back to life and kind of telling you about your family history if you like that kind of I think you'd really like the series I also think that Mac in some ways reminds me a bit of Selena she's a little bit hotheaded and kind of thinks she's a badass but she's irritating but she does kind of grow on you I think you would like her as a heroine also I feel like Ireland is just a super fun setting to read about the more I talk about these the more I feel like I need to do a reread soon because these books are just so fun and I love I love a good complete fantasy series like I've already said all the books on this list almost all the books on this list are from complete series which I really love but yeah there's something nice about five books I feel like it's enough enough time to get invested but not enough time to get bored you know what I mean definitely a staple of the urban fantasy genre and something I could just definitely see a Sarah JS lover loving all right if you're listening to me talk and you are thinking to yourself okay Chandler this is all great these sound amazing whatever but none of them really sound like they're similar enough to Crescent City to get me excited Buckle the up cuz I've got a series that is so similar it'll knock your socks off okay the guil Hunter series bolini sing is a series that shares a lot of common elements with Crescent City I wouldn't go so far as to say that I believe this is plagiarized or anything like that but I'm not the only person to make the connection between this series and Crescent City we'll leave it at that okay you've got a society in which Angels sort of rule the roost at the very top level you have archangels over I believe like countries or continents and they all are kind of a circle together they sort of like govern the world and they're just like the cream of the crop right above humans above vampires above everything and yes we do have vampires in this world the vampires are subservient to the angels and they actually have to petition the angels to be changed into vampires they don't always get a choice in the matter as in like they can apply to be a vampire and want it so bad and then you know the angels can reject them but if they do get changed into vampires they have to I guess serve under the angels for a certain length of time certain things are required of them depending on like which Angel they petition for becoming a vampire but sometimes vampires don't like to listen to the rules that the Angels lay out for them and in this case they are hunted down by Guild Hunters which I believe are pretty much always female vampire Hunters I'm not entirely sure female humans so our heroin Elena is obviously one of these Guild hunters and she's in charge of capturing and we killing vampires and at the start of the book she is hired by an archangel to do this really impossible task which gets her caught up in some and also kind of caught up in Raphael's Allure the first three books in the series follow Elena and Raphael kind of their love story and their story arc and then after that the books sort of alternate between Raphael and Elena's stories and then also books about the side characters so Raphael has sort of like a Cadre sort of like a guy group similar to you know Cassian re and azreel but like a little bit larger he has this like cast of guys who kind of work for him some are vampires some are other angels and we get their love stories with their heroins and I really like that they each get their individual book each book pretty much carries on with the greater plot of the series there is always like world saving to do they always politics at play my one word of caution I will say though with this first book Is that the consent is a little bit iffy given the powers that the archangels have they definitely can do a little bit of mind control and Raphael is not used to being told no he quickly learns though don't worry I think the series rocks for for a lot of reasons though Elena is a character that is super badass but I think is also a little bit more emotionally complex and nuanced than someone like Bryce quinland I feel like Elena's motivations make a lot of sense and I really just enjoyed her complicated relationship with her family I felt like it was a very relatable thing again I also like that the side characters get their own books and I like that there isn't one single like ridiculous battle scene there are constantly again in every single book like wild things happening there is a culmination of plot as the series kind of carries on yeah you're not getting this like one blowout fight where like no one dies so and again the series in general is just the most similar to Crescent City not only on a World building level but also on like kind of a a Vibes level all right so the next two are ones that don't necessarily fit into the fantasy paranormal romance Vibe but I wanted to include them because I know that there are some of you that read Crescent City and were kind of disappointed with the vibe of the book like you are more of a fantasy reader you want to feel fully immersed you don't want to like have some sort of like postmodern Houston or some like random ass Fay City that also has like technology like you're not into that you want that high fantasy thing okay both of these series kind of fit the bill and remind me a little bit more of some of her other works okay so the war of lost Hearts series is one that I see talked about a fair amount online but I wanted to include it here because I think it's very similar to The Throne of Glass series in a lot of different ways the main character in this book tsana is taken from her Homeland and is is enslaved I believe at the beginning of the book very similar to Selena in the first Throne of Glass book she eventually buys her freedom and she tries to seek out this magical order that she believes could potentially help her free her best friend and the other people that come from tsana's particular country or land but to join the order she has to seek the help of a guy named Max who is going to help train her up and become like an actual Fighter for the cause and when she is being trained she learns a little bit more about the order and a little bit more about Society at large that she didn't know before and it gets her kind of second guessing everything and I just think this book is super fun for the politics and also for ts's character I think if you're someone who is often irritated by the like needlessly badass characters that Sarah J mass does I think you might really like tsana she is a character who has a softness definitely a strength to her like she knows what she wants and she's definitely going to do anything she can to go after it but she also again has this softness to her that I just have never seen in a Sarah J assk character I'm not going to lie like maybe it'll exist at some point with aane I'm not entirely sure but in the meantime you definitely have this book and this series I will admit I've only read the first book in the series but I've heard that it gets better as you read and I think that if you like Throne of Glass I think this is a great series to pick up all right lastly we have another Carissa Broadbent series and what I'm thinking about it I feel like this one is maybe the most dissimilar to Sarah J Mass's other series though I am noticing some parallels the more that I think about it if you are someone who enjoys fade protagonist but you're like more of a vampire girly like myself I think this series might be one for you so the main character arah is the human daughter of a vampire King he said adopts her and trains her up in the way of the vampires vampires in the society are these like ruthless kind of Warriors and there is this competition that is coming up where a lot of the vampire Warriors of the great houses are going to compete for basically a wish from the is it goddess of death they are going to basically fight to the death in a Hunger Games style competition and arah is obviously not a vampire so she has a bit of a disadvantage in this situation but she's been trained up since birth and she has determined that she's going to get to ask the goddess of death I believe for the gift of vampirism I'm not entirely sure I can't exactly remember and I'm sure you'll find out if you decide to pick up this book but in this uh competition she ends up meeting this guy named Rain who is one of the vampires from these great houses a competing house definitely with the house that she comes from the kind of Royal house and when she kind of befriends this guy when they kind of form an alliance she realizes that the society that she thought she knew is uh maybe not as great as she thought she learns a lot about the world and maybe a lot about her dad that she didn't know and I love that about this story I think that's something Chris brought does a really good job with is having characters who thought they knew the world that they lived in they have to kind of face the truth as the series goes on I think that's a really interesting way to kind of write a book different truths definitely in the different series it's not like you're reading the same thing over and over again but I really like that element of her books I personally prefer this series over the war of lost heart series I just personally really connected with Aria more I do actually like the strong kind of badass characters without softness so maybe that's why I like the series more but honestly I just really like vampires I like the kind of hunger game style competition and I know that people know about the series it was nominated for a good re Choice Award this year but I do just generally think that it is incredibly underrated and I think definitely worth a try all right so those are the six series recommendations I have for you instead of Crescent City I hope you enjoyed this video it was all in good fun I totally understand if you are sah J Mass fan and you love Crescent City I I personally am a sah J Mass fan and I'm excited hopefully to see her return to what I think she does best which is the sort of like close character-driven High fantasy stories but we'll see what she does next I'm always always curious to see what Sarah does next and again I hope you found something new to read from this list I love you all so much thanks so much for watching this video and I will see you next timehello welcome back to my Channel today we're going to have a little chat about some book series that I think are better than Crescent City now I know the title of this video says read these instead of Crescent City but I actually think that the recommendations in this video would be really great for people who haven't read Crescent City and are kind of like on the fence about starting a series that's so long and potentially disappointing people who have tried Crescent City and were disappointed and also people who love Crescent City and are actually looking for series that feel similar because Crescent City I feel like is such a different series from some of the other books that Sarah J Mass has written I feel like both of her previous series are very much in that sort of high Fantasy Realm and Crescent City is totally different so if you're kind of scratching your head and wondering like what can I pick up that feels like Crescent City I've got recommendations for you or books that also like don't feel like Crescent City but I think are may be better there's a lot of different things on this list there's six different book series all of them are finished I believe except for one so also you can go in confidently knowing that these are completed almost all of them I have like red in completion in their entirety and can say with some confidence that they don't like jump the shark at any point so without further Ado let's get into it first up I have the Kate Daniel series by Alona Andrews so this is a 10 book series set in a world that is dominated by both magic and technology and both are constantly at war with each other and by that I mean magic basically comes up into society as like a big surge at different times of day different times of the week sometimes magic stays for like days at a time sometimes it's simply for a couple of hours when magic is at its peak technology is basically non-existent we don't have working cars or working cell phones you could be on the highway and your car could just basically break down cuz magic is up and during these times when magic are up we've got shifters we've got a bunch of different like magical creatures and magical problems and our heroin Kate Daniels basically helps whenever magic kind of goes Ary and when bad things happen in regards to the magic and then obviously adversely whenever technology is up and like phones and cars and stuff are working magic doesn't work so Society is a bit chaotic and as a result I feel like the series has a sort of like darker and sort of like dystopian feel to it I want to say that this series is set in like Atlanta in like the Atlanta area but again it has that sort of like gritty dystopian sort of paranormal urban fantasy vibe to it I'm not doing a good job of describing it but I say it's like a little darker in my opinion tonally than something like Crescent City but throughout the series again Kate deals with vampires shifters necromancers a bunch of different kinds of creatures similar to Crescent City and she also finds a very powerful mate throughout the series and the relationship kind of grows over the course of this 10 book series so you don't have a sort of like insta love Insta lust situation going on Kate doesn't just like jump in bed with her mate so if you're someone who doesn't again like that insta love last thing I think you'll be quite pleased with that and again I just I love the series because it is that cool mix of like magic with a little bit of dystopian a little bit of a Sci-Fi feel and I just love a slowburn I I just feel like Crescent City's relationship building between Bryce and Hunt really wasn't what I was expecting or really enjoying it felt a little bit too install lust but then there wasn't very much on page smut which I'm not a huge fan of I don't think this is like the smuttiest series ever but it does give you a little bit of payoff for sure I also just think that this author writing Duo does a spectacular job with their World building the one drawback I have to the first book in the series is that it does feel a little bit Crescent City in the sense that you're like thrown into this world and you're kind of scratching her head and like asking questions to yourself about like wait what's going on and your questions are answered like pretty soon after a couple of chapters but it can be a little bit jarring getting thrown in but once you get past that like it's smooth sailing it's so fun and again I just think the worlds that alone Andrews create are very very inventive I just feel like I see a lot of Sarah J mask parallels with the series but I think it's definitely one worth giving a try next up we have another Alona Andrew series and of all of the series on this list this one is actually my personal favorite it doesn't share as much in common with the Crescent City series but I definitely think there are elements that would be very appealing if you do like Crescent City so this series is broken up into two separate trilogies if that makes sense we've got the first Trilogy that kind of covers the love story and or story arc of our heroine Nevada in the second Trilogy follows Catalina who is Nevada's younger sister this series is set in a sort of like magical world in a sense but it's it's really just set in sort of like a post magic or like postmodern I guess in a sense Houston I mean that definitely appeals to me as someone who really enjoys Houston and is from Houston but I think this series appealed to me more because it doesn't have the same I would say like gritty dystopian feeling that the Kate Daniel Series has so in this series the government slm military has sort of discovered a way to give soldiers certain powers to like fight against obviously like foreign powers over the years this serum kind of gets out to the general public and the richest amongst Society basically has magical powers and now they marry each other to strengthen their bloodlines and to get maybe new magical powers in The Bloodline so there are these different houses and they have power I guess in society they tend to be again very very wealthy hord power and horde resources that kind of thing and our heroin Nevada is a detective that is sort of like the family business she takes after both her grandmother and her mother who kind of started the business in the first place and at the start of the story she is charged with I guess finding one of these primes one of these like most powerful magic users and bringing him to just Justice I guess like bringing him to the police I guess the magical police in in this particular circumstance but uh this is a very dangerous Endeavor and she ends up getting caught up with some people that she wasn't anticipating getting caught up with she finds her potential love interest or her I guess uh definite love interest in this book sh gets really really crazy I think what I love about this series and what I think you will love as well if you really like Sarah J Mass's characters is the sort of like I was going to say found family there's not really a found family so much as uh Nevada is just really attached to her nuclear family we've got her grandmother we've got her mom we've got two sisters we've got her cousins and everyone really works together for the family business and we really grow to care about the characters over the course of the six books that we spend with them they all have a part to play in the family business and also in keeping Nevada as like sane as possible and I also think that the politics of the different houses is pretty fascinating as well if you liked the houses in Crescent City not the same thing at all but definitely I liked the the sort of like political Maneuvers and like power that certain people had over other people I thought was really interesting uh these books are also getting new covers this year I believe to kind of appeal to a new audience which I'm personally really here for I feel like of all of the series I'm talking about not only is this my favorite but I also think this has this like Universal appeal and could really appeal again to like younger people who are really in the Romany era so very excited to see these get new covers I feel like I feel like you got to you got to pick them up I will however say if there's one thing that I would recommend with this series is do not pick up the audio books the audiobook narrator specifically for the hero does a horrible country accent and it really kind of turns me off personally it may or may not turn you off but I just recommend steering clear if you can't all right the next series is by Karen Marie moaning and it's been a hot second since I've read these books so I'm not sure that they hold up like a th% but I remember devouring the first five books in the series and being so into the world so our heroin in this book is named Mac at the beginning of the series her sister dies we think she might have been murdered and Mac sees it as her duty to not necessarily avenge her sister's death but to find out what happened to her and her sister I believe was like studying abroad when she was ultimately killed so Mac goes to Ireland travels to Ireland and decides she's going to figure out what happened while she's there though things kind of get a little messy when she discovers that she can actually see the Fay and now that means that the Fay are kind of after her so Mac is basically in constant danger and is aided I guess in protection a little bit by this like mysterious Bookshop owner named Jericho who she comes across he I believe can also see the Fay and I feel like if you're someone who really gets a kick out of the World building or the lore of Crescent City I think you would really enjoy this series if you like answers that lie in like Dusty books shrouded mystery if like sort of like prophetic elements uh which I feel like are very present in all of Sarah J Master Series you've got like dead ladies coming back to life and kind of telling you about your family history if you like that kind of I think you'd really like the series I also think that Mac in some ways reminds me a bit of Selena she's a little bit hotheaded and kind of thinks she's a badass but she's irritating but she does kind of grow on you I think you would like her as a heroine also I feel like Ireland is just a super fun setting to read about the more I talk about these the more I feel like I need to do a reread soon because these books are just so fun and I love I love a good complete fantasy series like I've already said all the books on this list almost all the books on this list are from complete series which I really love but yeah there's something nice about five books I feel like it's enough enough time to get invested but not enough time to get bored you know what I mean definitely a staple of the urban fantasy genre and something I could just definitely see a Sarah JS lover loving all right if you're listening to me talk and you are thinking to yourself okay Chandler this is all great these sound amazing whatever but none of them really sound like they're similar enough to Crescent City to get me excited Buckle the up cuz I've got a series that is so similar it'll knock your socks off okay the guil Hunter series bolini sing is a series that shares a lot of common elements with Crescent City I wouldn't go so far as to say that I believe this is plagiarized or anything like that but I'm not the only person to make the connection between this series and Crescent City we'll leave it at that okay you've got a society in which Angels sort of rule the roost at the very top level you have archangels over I believe like countries or continents and they all are kind of a circle together they sort of like govern the world and they're just like the cream of the crop right above humans above vampires above everything and yes we do have vampires in this world the vampires are subservient to the angels and they actually have to petition the angels to be changed into vampires they don't always get a choice in the matter as in like they can apply to be a vampire and want it so bad and then you know the angels can reject them but if they do get changed into vampires they have to I guess serve under the angels for a certain length of time certain things are required of them depending on like which Angel they petition for becoming a vampire but sometimes vampires don't like to listen to the rules that the Angels lay out for them and in this case they are hunted down by Guild Hunters which I believe are pretty much always female vampire Hunters I'm not entirely sure female humans so our heroin Elena is obviously one of these Guild hunters and she's in charge of capturing and we killing vampires and at the start of the book she is hired by an archangel to do this really impossible task which gets her caught up in some and also kind of caught up in Raphael's Allure the first three books in the series follow Elena and Raphael kind of their love story and their story arc and then after that the books sort of alternate between Raphael and Elena's stories and then also books about the side characters so Raphael has sort of like a Cadre sort of like a guy group similar to you know Cassian re and azreel but like a little bit larger he has this like cast of guys who kind of work for him some are vampires some are other angels and we get their love stories with their heroins and I really like that they each get their individual book each book pretty much carries on with the greater plot of the series there is always like world saving to do they always politics at play my one word of caution I will say though with this first book Is that the consent is a little bit iffy given the powers that the archangels have they definitely can do a little bit of mind control and Raphael is not used to being told no he quickly learns though don't worry I think the series rocks for for a lot of reasons though Elena is a character that is super badass but I think is also a little bit more emotionally complex and nuanced than someone like Bryce quinland I feel like Elena's motivations make a lot of sense and I really just enjoyed her complicated relationship with her family I felt like it was a very relatable thing again I also like that the side characters get their own books and I like that there isn't one single like ridiculous battle scene there are constantly again in every single book like wild things happening there is a culmination of plot as the series kind of carries on yeah you're not getting this like one blowout fight where like no one dies so and again the series in general is just the most similar to Crescent City not only on a World building level but also on like kind of a a Vibes level all right so the next two are ones that don't necessarily fit into the fantasy paranormal romance Vibe but I wanted to include them because I know that there are some of you that read Crescent City and were kind of disappointed with the vibe of the book like you are more of a fantasy reader you want to feel fully immersed you don't want to like have some sort of like postmodern Houston or some like random ass Fay City that also has like technology like you're not into that you want that high fantasy thing okay both of these series kind of fit the bill and remind me a little bit more of some of her other works okay so the war of lost Hearts series is one that I see talked about a fair amount online but I wanted to include it here because I think it's very similar to The Throne of Glass series in a lot of different ways the main character in this book tsana is taken from her Homeland and is is enslaved I believe at the beginning of the book very similar to Selena in the first Throne of Glass book she eventually buys her freedom and she tries to seek out this magical order that she believes could potentially help her free her best friend and the other people that come from tsana's particular country or land but to join the order she has to seek the help of a guy named Max who is going to help train her up and become like an actual Fighter for the cause and when she is being trained she learns a little bit more about the order and a little bit more about Society at large that she didn't know before and it gets her kind of second guessing everything and I just think this book is super fun for the politics and also for ts's character I think if you're someone who is often irritated by the like needlessly badass characters that Sarah J mass does I think you might really like tsana she is a character who has a softness definitely a strength to her like she knows what she wants and she's definitely going to do anything she can to go after it but she also again has this softness to her that I just have never seen in a Sarah J assk character I'm not going to lie like maybe it'll exist at some point with aane I'm not entirely sure but in the meantime you definitely have this book and this series I will admit I've only read the first book in the series but I've heard that it gets better as you read and I think that if you like Throne of Glass I think this is a great series to pick up all right lastly we have another Carissa Broadbent series and what I'm thinking about it I feel like this one is maybe the most dissimilar to Sarah J Mass's other series though I am noticing some parallels the more that I think about it if you are someone who enjoys fade protagonist but you're like more of a vampire girly like myself I think this series might be one for you so the main character arah is the human daughter of a vampire King he said adopts her and trains her up in the way of the vampires vampires in the society are these like ruthless kind of Warriors and there is this competition that is coming up where a lot of the vampire Warriors of the great houses are going to compete for basically a wish from the is it goddess of death they are going to basically fight to the death in a Hunger Games style competition and arah is obviously not a vampire so she has a bit of a disadvantage in this situation but she's been trained up since birth and she has determined that she's going to get to ask the goddess of death I believe for the gift of vampirism I'm not entirely sure I can't exactly remember and I'm sure you'll find out if you decide to pick up this book but in this uh competition she ends up meeting this guy named Rain who is one of the vampires from these great houses a competing house definitely with the house that she comes from the kind of Royal house and when she kind of befriends this guy when they kind of form an alliance she realizes that the society that she thought she knew is uh maybe not as great as she thought she learns a lot about the world and maybe a lot about her dad that she didn't know and I love that about this story I think that's something Chris brought does a really good job with is having characters who thought they knew the world that they lived in they have to kind of face the truth as the series goes on I think that's a really interesting way to kind of write a book different truths definitely in the different series it's not like you're reading the same thing over and over again but I really like that element of her books I personally prefer this series over the war of lost heart series I just personally really connected with Aria more I do actually like the strong kind of badass characters without softness so maybe that's why I like the series more but honestly I just really like vampires I like the kind of hunger game style competition and I know that people know about the series it was nominated for a good re Choice Award this year but I do just generally think that it is incredibly underrated and I think definitely worth a try all right so those are the six series recommendations I have for you instead of Crescent City I hope you enjoyed this video it was all in good fun I totally understand if you are sah J Mass fan and you love Crescent City I I personally am a sah J Mass fan and I'm excited hopefully to see her return to what I think she does best which is the sort of like close character-driven High fantasy stories but we'll see what she does next I'm always always curious to see what Sarah does next and again I hope you found something new to read from this list I love you all so much thanks so much for watching this video and I will see you next time\n"