Can you recommend a few of your favorite enemies to lovers books/movies?
YES! I always love talking about enemies to lovers ships!!
It’s...a long list, so I separated them into categories. (Also, the ships below are enemies that actually tried to hurt one another, not just people who don’t get along.)
Canon book enemies to lovers:
1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2. A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab
3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (enemies to lovers slow burn over the whole series)
4. Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (BUT DON’T LOOK UP SPOILERS BC IT’S WORTH ALL THE SURPRISES)
5. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (the enemies to lovers is Nina and Matthais, but literally all the romances in this book are god tier!!!)
6. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (it’s not endgame but it is tasty)
7. Game of Thrones/ASOIAF (ships: Jon/Ygritte and Jaime/Brienne)
8. The Poppy War by RF Kuang
9. Captive Prince by CS Pacat (very problematic stuff but enemies to lovers excellence)
Canon movie/show enemies to lovers:
1. The Man From Uncle (movie, ship: Illya and Gabby)
2. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (movie, ship: Brad and Angelina)
3. Killing Eve (tv show, ship: Eve and Villanelle) (LITERALLY THE BEST ENEMIES TO LOVERS EVER, NO ONE IS DOING IT LIKE THEM)
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show, ship: Spuffy)
5. American Gods (tv show, ship: Madwife)
6. Queen of the South (tv show, ship: Jeresa)
Not exactly enemies to lovers but has the complex enemy/lover relationship feel:
1. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (book, ship: Koschei x Marya)
2. A Simple Favor (movie, ship: Emily x Stephanie)
3. Gone Girl (movie, ship: Amy x Nick) (don’t kill me for this one, but I really love lovers to enemies to lovers who ARE enemies)
My favorite non-canon enemies to lovers ships:
1. Ned x Cersei, Game of Thrones/ASOIAF
2. Victor Vale x Eli Cardale in Vicious by VE Schwab
3. Bellarke in The 100 (even though they were only enemies for like. 3 episodes)
4. Zutara in atla (we were ROBBED)
This got very long. As you can see, I really love this trope.