Next Time Will Be Our Turn vs Tarnished Are the Stars: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: LGBTQ+, Lesbian, Queer, LGBT, Romance, Fiction
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
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Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her…
Tarnished Are the Stars
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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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The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Next Time Will Be Our Turn has the widest readership — 9 ratings behind its score.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Next Time Will Be Our Turn | Tarnished Are the Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.9 (9) | 4.8 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (5) | 4.5 (6) |
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Reception
| Next Time Will Be Our Turn | Tarnished Are the Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9 | 6 |
| Editions | 1 | 3 |
| Pages | 352 | 384 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Next Time Will Be Our Turn or Tarnished Are the Stars?
Tarnished Are the Stars has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Tarnished Are the Stars 4.1/5, Next Time Will Be Our Turn 3.9/5).
Which is shorter to read: Next Time Will Be Our Turn or Tarnished Are the Stars?
Next Time Will Be Our Turn is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Next Time Will Be Our Turn (352 pages, ≈ 6 h 31 m); Tarnished Are the Stars (384 pages, ≈ 7 h 07 m).
Which is harder to read: Next Time Will Be Our Turn or Tarnished Are the Stars?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Next Time Will Be Our Turn: Moderate; Tarnished Are the Stars: Light.