8 best-selling historical books like Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian

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Half Sick of Shadows

By: Laura Sebastian

3.71

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will b…

"One day,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"One day,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"Don’t mind me,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"Don’t mind me,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

If you liked the historical plot in Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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2. The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)

By: Chelsea Abdullah

4.01

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hun… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Abdullah's The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

3. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's Vampires of El Norte book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen

4. A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

By: Danielle L. Jensen

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also … read more

Similar categories in Danielle L. Jensen's A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"You don't attack the strong when you're weak, Freya. You bide your time."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"I will be at your back until I cross the threshold to Valhalla, Born-in-Fire, whether you want me there or not."

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

"Letting go of my hand, he reached up to touch my face, thumb brushing across the line Vragi’s knife had left on my cheek. “Where is your husband?" What makes you think I’m wed?"

-Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

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5. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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6. The Weaver and the Witch Queen

By: Genevieve Gornichec

3.88

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Gornichec's The Weaver and the Witch Queen book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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7. Thistlefoot

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Thistlefoot book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

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8. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Dragonfruit book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

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9. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

Similar categories in Vaishnavi Patel's Kaikeyi book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

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10. Darling Girl

By: Liz Michalski

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Book of The Month Club pick  In this beautiful dive into the world of J. M. Barrie’s classic, … read more

Similar categories in Liz Michalski's Darling Girl book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They stay with us, you know. The friends you lost...They're still here. ... In this moment, they are alive to her, all of them. She lets the memories in, lets them settle everywhere. In her heart, in…"

-Liz Michalski, Darling Girl

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11. The Kingdom of Sweets

By: Erika Johansen

3.24

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom i… read more

Similar categories in Erika Johansen's The Kingdom of Sweets book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peo…"

-Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

Cover of The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1) by Kylie Lee Baker

12. The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

By: Kylie Lee Baker

3.62

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the Lond… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Lee Baker's The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Everything I saw was a story that had been stolen from me"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"We don't need to fear children's tales. They should fear us."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"When you have enough souls in one place, suffering is inevitable"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"I wouldn't give her my story to add to her collection, because it wasn't over yet"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

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13. Half Sick of Shadows

By: Laura Sebastian

3.71

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will b… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • arthurian
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"One day,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"Don’t mind me,"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"You were not raised to be safe. You were raised to be heroes."

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

"Not all men, fine, but enough of them. Enough of them to drown out the few good ones. More than enough to ruin the whole damn world" - Guinevere"

-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

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14. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

By: Isabel Ibañez

3.90

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Ibañez's What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Is this it, Whit?"

-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

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15. Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

By: Mai Corland

3.84

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in th… read more

Similar categories in Mai Corland's Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"In short: I'm awake, hungry, and doomed. -Sora"

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

"I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all."

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

"When Yuri said it was a girl, I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishm…"

-Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)

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16. Ink Blood Sister Scribe

By: Emma Törzs

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Törzs's Ink Blood Sister Scribe book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."

-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

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17. A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainlan… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our hands can steal, or they can give. They can harm, or they can comfort. They can wound and kill, or they can heal and save. Which will you choose for your hands Torin?"

-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

"I am but a verse inspired by your chorus, and I will follow you until the end, when the isle takes my bones and my name is nothing more than a remembrance on a headstone, next to yours."

-Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

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18. Small Angels

By: Lauren Owen

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

SMALL ANGELS updates the classic ghost story for the 21st century: a wedding in a Suffolk village s… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Owen's Small Angels book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Wilderwomen

By: Ruth Emmie Lang

3.50

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with ext… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Emmie Lang's The Wilderwomen book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

By: Chloe Gong

3.53

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where … read more

Similar categories in Chloe Gong's Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1) book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"This is tenderness. And she is more afraid of it than anything else"

-Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

"Given Anton's childhood, a natural assumption would be that he couldn't handle bloodshed. But blood is faultless. Blood is only a consequence. Better to draw blood before it can be drawn from you; be…"

-Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)

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21. Spells for Forgetting

By: Adrienne Young

3.87

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's Spells for Forgetting book and Laura Sebastian's Half Sick of Shadows

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There are spells for breaking and spells for mending, but there are no spells for forgetting."

-Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

"There were tales that only the island knew. Ones that had never been told. I knew, because I was one of them."

-Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

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4.01

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3.90

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Rachel Gillig

4.30

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4.44

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Rebecca Ross

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