Books like Phoenix rising by Pip Ballantine

Nineteen‑year‑old huntress Feyre is summoned to a dangerous faerie realm where she discovers love, magic, and an ancient threat that could destroy everything she holds dear.

A modern coming‑of‑age fantasy that follows Quentin Coldwater as he discovers a secret college of magic and the darker truth behind his beloved fictional world, Fillory.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

In eighteenth‑century Cairo, Nahri, a street‑smart con artist, discovers she is the last of a line of djinn healers and is drawn into the luxurious, politically fraught city of Daevabad, where her powers could prevent a kingdom‑wide war.

In the third Camel Club installment, ex‑Green Beret Oliver Stone and his rogue group face threats from past enemies and a lethal assassin who has targeted Stone himself.

Kyri, the last hope of her ruined homeland Evanwyl, embarks on a perilous quest across the world of Zarathan to stop a looming Chaos War, aided by the swordsman Tobimar Silverun and the diminutive hero Poplock Duckweed.

The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley, blends science‑fiction, fantasy, and paranormal elements to craft a fresh speculative narrative that invites readers into an imaginative, genre‑crossing world.

In a kingdom on the verge of a grand renaissance, where natural science has supplanted failing sorcery, someone aims to revive a savage rivalry . . . For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery’s decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life’s bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria’s last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the King of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled. As the king’s new agente confide, Portier – much to his dismay – is partnered with the popinjay Ilario de Sylvae, the laughingstock of Sabria’s court. Then the need to infiltrate a magical cabal leads Portier to Dante, a brooding, brilliant young sorcerer whose heretical ideas and penchant for violence threaten to expose the investigation before it’s even begun. But in an ever-shifting landscape of murders, betrayals, old secrets, and unholy sorcery, the three agentes will be forces to test the boundaries of magic, nature, and the divine. (from the back cover)

When a mysterious box reveals a lost Shakespearean clue, a scholar embarks on a transatlantic chase, uncovering a murderous treasure hunt that mirrors Hamlet’s tragedy.