18 books like Tarnished Are the Stars

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Lies We Sing to the Sea Sarah Underwood · 2023 · ★ 3.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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 comes for Leto, death is not what she thought it would be. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island and meets a girl with green eyes and the power to command the sea. A girl named… Shares LGBTQ+, Lesbian, Queer, LGBT
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The Machine - Le Temps des Promesses · 2025 · ★ 5.0 Shares Steampunk, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy with this book.
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Light On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She's been sent by the Assassin's Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes - and she will risk everything to right the wrong she's been sent to bring about. Shares Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy
The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Desert Sarah J. Maas · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Light After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a… Shares Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy
Next Time Will Be Our Turn
Next Time Will Be Our Turn Jesse Q Sutanto · 2025 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 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 seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always… Shares LGBTQ+, Lesbian, Queer, LGBT
Girls Girls Girls
Girls Girls Girls Shoshana von Blanckensee · 2025 · ★ 4.6 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It’s the summer of ’96 and best friends (and secret girlfriends) Hannah and Sam are driving across the country from Long Beach, New York, to the fabled queer paradise of San Francisco, free from the harsh gazes of their neighbors and the stifling demands of Hannah’s devout Orthodox Jewish mother. In San Francisco, they will finally be together as a real couple, out in the open, around other queer… Shares LGBTQ+, Lesbian, Queer, LGBT
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La mémoire des sylphes tome 1 Flavie Bertrand · 2025 Dans un monde où une paix fragile règne entre la Finkadie et l’Archipel, Mathilde nourrit le rêve de devenir musicienne. Mais son destin bascule lorsque le Probatio la juge apte à recevoir un sylphe, un être mystique conférant à son porteur des pouvoirs exceptionnels. Dès lors, la jeune fille est contrainte d’embrasser une carrière militaire et devient Filleule de l’Empire. Envoyée à Impera, au… Shares Steampunk, Young Adult, Fantasy
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The Dragons of Dorcastle Jack Campbell · 2015 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Dematr is a world ruled by the diametrically opposed Mage and Mechanic Guilds. For centuries, the two Great Guilds have been bitter rivals. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind to stop the Storm. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy
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The Assassins of Altis Jack Campbell · 2015 Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers in the world of Dematr: the Great Guilds that rule the world with iron fists. Mari's Mechanics Guild and Alain's Mage Guild have always been enemies, but they are united in… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Cover of The Hidden Masters of Marandur
The Hidden Masters of Marandur Jack Campbell · 2015 Someone wants to kill Mari, a young steam mechanic in the guild that controls all technology. She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization and that mages really can alter reality for short periods. Someone also wants to kill Alain, a young mage who has learned that mechanics are not frauds, as his guild teaches, and that mechanic Mari is… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Some Desperate Glory Emily Tesh · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one… Shares Lesbian, Queer, LGBT, Science Fiction
Cover of The Court of the Dead
The Court of the Dead Rick Riordan · 2025 · ★ 4.2 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A few months after returning from the depths of Tartarus, demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace agree to join Nico's half-sister Hazel Levesque at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast. She needs their help in managing a situation that the boys inadvertently brought about: the demigods showed the monsters of the Underworld that they have options; they don’t have to be evil. Now some of those… Shares Queer, LGBT, Young Adult, Romance
All Hail the Underdogs
All Hail the Underdogs E.L. Massey · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When seventeen-year-old Patrick Roman is offered a scholarship to a top hockey preparatory school, he thinks maybe his notorious bad luck has finally ended. With a hearing for his legal emancipation on the horizon, he dreams of getting scouted and securing a place on a D1 college team. There’s only one problem: Roman has serious beef with his new winger on the team, Damien Bordeaux. They’re… Shares Queer, LGBT, Young Adult, Romance
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Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell · 1952 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Moderate STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space… Shares Young Adult, Science Fiction
Cover of Up the Line
Up the Line Robert Silverberg · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly… Shares Young Adult, Science Fiction
Cover of The Angel and the Author
The Angel and the Author Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1908 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The adventures of an author as she confronts her guardian angel.Jerome does a wonderful job of sharing the thoughts and feelings of a young writer in London during the late 19th century. Shares Young Adult, Fantasy
Cover of Immortal IV
Immortal IV Valjeanne Jeffers · 2012 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Rules were broken. Now the price must be paid. “The New World awoke to a roaring wind, light blazed from the mirror—swallowing the planet—a churning, savage vortex. Tundra's inhabitants cried out, as their flesh bled from their bones like wet clay. The world shuddered. And was still.” The Immortals broke the rules. As punishment, Karla and Joseph are transported to a steam powered realm.… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Cover of Ocean's Echo
Ocean's Echo Everina Maxwell · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 473p · ≈ 15h · Moderate When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone with coercive powers strong enough to control him. Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to… Shares Queer, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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