If You Like These Books, You’ll Probably Love Renegade

Comp titles that capture the tone, grit, and heart of The Legends of Iron Spine

One of the most common questions readers ask is:

“What does your book feel like?”

Not the plot, not the page count — the feeling.

The atmosphere.

The emotional hit.

The kind of story you sink into because it scratches a very specific itch.

So here are the books that live on the same shelf as Renegade: Book One of The Legends of Iron Spine — not because they’re identical, but because they share DNA: tone, themes, emotional depth, or the kind of flawed, ferocious characters we root for even when they’re barely holding on.

📘 If you love… The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

You’ll vibe with Renegade’s willingness to stare brutality in the face — trauma, war, injustice — without romanticising it.

Chaelle and Will, like Rin, are shaped by a world that doesn’t care if they survive… so they learn to fight on their own terms.

📙 If you love… The Hunger Games (for the rebellion, not the YA label)

Renegade carries that same raw energy:

systems built on cruelty, ordinary people pushed into extraordinary choices, and the quiet moments where humanity shines through the smoke.

📕 If you love… The Witcher series

Morally grey characters, dangerous landscapes, political tension simmering under every conversation… plus a world where myth, folklore, and steel coexist.

Will’s journey especially carries those Witcher-esque undertones of destiny and burden.

📘 If you love… The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Big landscapes, big lore, big heart.

Orbis has cultures in conflict, ancient histories, shifting alliances — and characters who carry the weight of their world on their backs.

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📙 If you love… The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Complex protagonists.

Uncomfortable truths.

A narrative that refuses to flinch.

If you want fantasy that feels carved from bone rather than glitter, you’ll feel at home here.

📕 If you love… Shadow and Bone / Six of Crows

Not because of the magic system — but the vibe.

Found resistance.

Friends who become family through suffering.

And characters who would die for each other long before they ever admit they care.

So… what is Renegade at its core?

A dark fantasy about resistance, identity, and the cost of doing the right thing in a world determined to crush you.

A story about two strangers who change the fate of Orbis — and each other — because neither of them can stand to live as someone else’s pawn.

If you love:

🔥 flawed heroes

🔥 political tension

🔥 worlds with teeth

🔥 rebellion from the inside

🔥 characters who refuse to break

…then Renegade might just be your next obsession.

Launches 30th November.
Available to pre-order on Amazon now.