Lies We Sing to the Sea vs Tarnished Are the Stars: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Lies We Sing to the Sea Lies We Sing to the Sea Sarah Underwood · 2023 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 432 pages · ≈ 8 h 00 m · Light

Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago. But when that fate…

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Cover of Tarnished Are the Stars Tarnished Are the Stars Rosiee Thor · 2019 ★★★★☆ 4.1 384 pages · ≈ 7 h 07 m · Light

A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the…

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Lies We Sing to the SeaTarnished Are the Stars
Goodreads 3.4 (11987) —
Hardcover 3.2 (28) 4.8 (4)
Apple Books 4.5 (13) 4.5 (6)

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Lies We Sing to the SeaTarnished Are the Stars
Ratings 11987 6
Editions 9 3
Want to read 53608 —
Reading it now 943 —
Written reviews 2429 —
Pages 432 384

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