If The Midas Legacy swept you into a world of gods, kings, and cursed bloodlines, you’re probably craving your next fix of historical fantasy. The best books in this genre blend real-world history with myth, magic, and fate-driven characters caught in world-shifting conflicts.
Below are 10 more books I found that echo the epic tone, emotional depth, and rich setting of The Midas Legacy. If you love the underworld journeys, political betrayals, or high-stakes quests, you may want to give one or more of these a try.
1. The Gimirri Invasion by Colleen M. Story
Don’t miss it!
In case you haven’t checked it out yet!
In this gripping second installment of The Midas Legacy, the kingdom of Gordium is under siege by the brutal Gimirri warriors. King Midas, paralyzed by grief, refuses to rise to its defense.
As enemies close in, Princess Zoe must confront rising political threats, ancient prophecies, and her own buried fears to hold her crumbling world together. With its richly drawn characters, mythological undercurrents, and high-stakes drama, this novel is perfect for fans who crave historical fantasy with emotional depth and epic consequences.
Check out the universal buying link here.
2. Circe by Madeline Miller
Why it’s similar to The Midas Legacy: Like Katiah and Denisia, Circe is a powerful, misunderstood goddess navigating a world ruled by men and gods. The novel explores transformation, exile, and feminine strength through myth reimagined with emotional depth.
I read this one and enjoyed it. I know Miller has written more since, so check out her other books too!
Synopsis:
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child — not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power — the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
3. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Why it’s similar: Set in ancient Pompeii, this story follows enslaved women who fight for freedom in a brutal world. The themes of power, survival, and defiance echo Elanur’s arc and the emotional cost of rebellion in The Midas Legacy.
Synopsis:
Amara was once the beloved daughter of a doctor in Greece, until her father’s sudden death plunged her mother into destitution. Now Amara is a slave and prostitute in Pompeii’s notorious Wolf Den brothel or lupanar, owned by a cruel and ruthless man. Intelligent and resourceful, she is forced to hide her true self. But her spirit is far from broken.
Buoyed by the sisterhood she forges with the brothel’s other women, Amara finds solace in the laughter and hopes they all share. For the streets of the city are alive with opportunity—here, even the lowest-born slave can dream of a new beginning. But everything in Pompeii has a price. How much will Amara’s freedom cost her? The Wolf Den is the first in a trilogy of novels about the lives of women in ancient Pompeii.
4. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Why it’s similar to The Midas Legacy: This novel gives voice to the forgotten women of ancient epics, much like the second book in my series, The Gimirri Invasion, lifts up female perspectives. Fans of Zoe and Little Bird will resonate with the raw inner strength of Briseis as she endures and outsmarts her captors.
Synopsis:
Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis’s fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.
5. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Why it’s similar: This reimagining of the rise of the Ming Dynasty features a fiercely ambitious protagonist who steals her brother’s fate. Like Emir in The Midas Legacy, Zhu walks a blurred moral path in a world of prophecy, war, and destiny.
Synopsis:
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…
In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.
When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother’s abandoned greatness.
6. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Why it’s similar to The Midas Legacy: Though more allegorical, this novel’s mysterious setting and themes of memory, madness, and confinement evoke the underworld sequences and dreamlike imagery of The Midas Legacy, especially Khar’s realm and Katiah’s power.
Synopsis:
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
7. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Why it’s similar: Rooted in Celtic myth, this tale of a cursed family, healing magic, and forest enchantments will appeal to readers who loved the mythic tone, emotional stakes, and forest-bound beginnings of Little Bird’s story.
Synopsis:
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.
But Sorcha’s joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift–by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.
When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all…
8. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Why it’s similar to The Midas Legacy: Kay’s sweeping tale of clashing religions, love across enemy lines, and looming invasion echoes the political tension and spiritual themes of The Midas Legacy. It’s historical fantasy with a tragic, epic heart.
Synopsis:
The ruling Asharites have come from the desert sands, worshipping the stars, their warrior blood fierce and pure. But over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, that stern piety has eroded. The Asharies empire has splintered into decadent city-states lead by warring petty kinds.
King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, even though Cartada is threatened by forces both within and without. Almalik is aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan — poet, diplomat, soldier — until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever.
Meanwhile, in the north, the Jaddite’s most celebrated — and feared — military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, is driven into exile in the wake of events following the death of the king he loved. Rodrigo leads his mercenary company south, to the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan.
In the exquisite lakeside city of Ragosa, Rodrigo Belmonte and Ammar ibn Kharian meet and serve — for a time — the same master. Sharing the interwoven fate of these two men from different worlds — and increasingly torn in her feelings — is Jehane, the beautiful, accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond.
9. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Why it’s similar: Set in medieval Russia, this story blends folklore, icy forests, and family secrets. Like my series, it explores a girl’s coming-of-age in a world where ancient powers stir beneath the surface.
Synopsis:
Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.
Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village.
But Vasya’s stepmother only grows harsher, determined to remake the village to her liking and to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for marriage or a convent. As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasilisa must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed—to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
10. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Why it’s similar to The Midas Legacy: Based on Norse mythology, this novel follows Angrboda, a witch betrayed by Odin and drawn into the fate of gods and monsters. Fans of doomed love, divine entanglements, and defiant women will feel right at home.
Synopsis:
Angrboda’s story begins where most witches’ tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love.
Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin’s all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life—and possibly all of existence—is in danger.
With help from the fierce huntress Skadi, with whom she shares a growing bond, Angrboda must choose whether she’ll accept the fate that she’s foreseen for her beloved family…or rise to remake their future. From the most ancient of tales this novel forges a story of love, loss, and hope for the modern age.