7 Top magic books like The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

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The Dark Tide

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, dark enemies-to-lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving…

"Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"Do you have to stare at me like that?" "Like what?" Like you're planning to eat me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"The Witch Queen comes on wings of night. The Witch Queen has your heart's delight. Hold him, hold him, hold on tight. Hide him, hide him, out of sight."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears, their spit and blood."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

If you liked the magic plot in The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

By: Audrey Coulthurst

3.76

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her fu… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Coulthurst's Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And if time was kind, I’d find something to live for besides the memory of her."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"Rock was slow to change, but it would in time. Even the most difficult things become easier to bear."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"Worse, I knew that given the chance to do everything over again, I would willingly make the same mistakes twenty times over."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"For the love of the Six, don't call me that. Just Mare. Yes, like a horse. Stupid, I know, but I can't stand Amaranthine. What a ridiculously overlong and pretentious collections of syllables."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

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2. Untitled

By: Marie Rutkoski

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

New YA fantasy project planned for 2018. read more

Similar categories in Marie Rutkoski's Untitled book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
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3. Girls of Paper and Fire

By: Natasha Ngan

3.64

Format: None pages,

"Inspired by Asian mythology, it follows Lei, a girl who is taken from her remote village to serve … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Paper and Fire book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

By: Natasha Ngan

3.77

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don't belong to them."

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"You might be human, but you're a woman, and that gives you far more strength than he'll ever be capable of. Not to mention perspective. Only women truly understand the cruelties of the world, the dep…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Being vulnerable isn't a flaw. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you were invincible, being brave would be easy. It's the fact that it isn't easy, that we have to constantly work and wo…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Girl. Such a simple title. One I've been labeled all my life. But nowhere was I called it more than at the Hidden Palace: spat from the beaked mouth of Madam Himura, hissed with contemp by Naja, thro…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

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5. Hearing Red

By: Nicole Maser

4.56

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

New Recommended for ages 18+ In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women f… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Maser's Hearing Red book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.76

Format: 384 pages, ebook

At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their … read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"If we're not all free, none of us are free."

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

"Think about all the crimes your precious government condones, not just the ones they punish. Then you can talk to me about who the real criminals are. If we're not all free, none of us are free. You …"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

"From up here, you couldn't see that people were starving. Couldn't see the ancient wall with the armed sentries stationed along it. Couldn't see the mothers' hands reaching, begging for a scrap of so…"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)

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7. Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)

By: Nina Varela

4.12

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution. … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

By: Heather Walter

3.95

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “S… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Malice (Malice Duology, #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's nothing for me here. I'm tired of being a villain." "Magic is everywhere...even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it."

-Heather Walter, Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

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9. Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3)

By: Natasha Ngan

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Girl, Serpent, Thorn

By: Melissa Bashardoust

3.65

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I have nothing else to lose now—except for you."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"What if there was a loneliness even deeper than the one she felt now?"

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"You’re my favourite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"I dreamed of you for so long. I would do anything to be with you. Even this."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

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11. Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2)

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.74

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has b… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) by Nina Varela

12. Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

By: Nina Varela

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You are newbuilt,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Cruelty was wasted on the kind."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"I told you once I’m not a book to be read,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Strength isn’t measured by the ability to cause harm."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

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13. The Dark Tide

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, dark enemies-to-lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"Do you have to stare at me like that?" "Like what?" Like you're planning to eat me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"The Witch Queen comes on wings of night. The Witch Queen has your heart's delight. Hold him, hold him, hold on tight. Hide him, hide him, out of sight."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears…"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

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14. Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

By: Heather Walter

3.77

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her sto… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Misrule (Malice Duology, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others. Sometimes we do not like what we see, but we have to look anyway. We have to know."

-Heather Walter, Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

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15. Sweet & Bitter Magic

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this debut fantasy, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, an… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sweet & Bitter Magic book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was enchanted by the witch's lips."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Now Tamsin was nothing but bitter and dark and cold—always so impossibly cold."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Never learn to love someone untouchable. They'll only disappoint you in the end."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Tamsin had quite preferred the child when he was quiet, but the mother seemed pleased."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

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16. Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2)

By: Audrey Coulthurst

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Princesses Denna and Mare are in love and together at last--only to face a new set of dangers. M… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Coulthurst's Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

Cover of Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1) by Helen Corcoran

18. Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1)

By: Helen Corcoran

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

‘She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade.’ When teenage queen Lia inherits her c… read more

Similar categories in Helen Corcoran's Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade."

-Helen Corcoran, Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1)

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19. The Valkyrie's Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1)

By: Tiana Warner

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the time she was born, Sigrid has only ever been ordinary. Being paired at birth with a plain … read more

Similar categories in Tiana Warner's The Valkyrie's Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.88

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose--and falling fo… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because I am miserable and so viciously in love with her, I eat the soup."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"The whole world can rot.' Eris whispers. 'Let's just sit here and watch it happen."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"It's not who I want to be. I want to be soft, and I don't want to take shit from any-one."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

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21. Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Godslayers--Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane sequel to Gearbreakers--is perfect for fans of Pacific Ri… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2) book and Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Me...what? Ha. I'm good. I'm all good. It's just I want to punch something, and the impulse never really passes."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

20 Top fiction books like The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

Transform Your Habits

Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

Audrey Coulthurst

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Girls of Paper and Fire

Natasha Ngan

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

Natasha Ngan

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Hearing Red

Nicole Maser

4.56

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19 Best fiction books like We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Transform Your Habits

Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

Audrey Coulthurst

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Girls of Paper and Fire

Natasha Ngan

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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