Our Wives Under the Sea vs Tarnished Are the Stars: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: LGBTQ+, Queer, LGBT, Fiction
Our Wives Under the Sea
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel,…
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Tarnished Are the Stars
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…
The verdict
- Readers rate Tarnished Are the Stars highest: Tarnished Are the Stars 4.1 · Our Wives Under the Sea 3.8.
- Our Wives Under the Sea is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Tarnished Are the Stars.
- Our Wives Under the Sea has the widest readership — 450 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Tarnished Are the Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.8 (450) | 4.8 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (151) | 4.5 (6) |
Reception
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Tarnished Are the Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 450 | 6 |
| Editions | 8 | 3 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3811 | — |
| Pages | 224 | 384 |