An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as possible."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playmates up with jump ropes and spriting them away to my faux castle on the playground. I wrestled my friends to the ground in bursts of emotion, or punctuated kisses on the cheek with a sharp nip. It didn't help that I had absolutely no interest in pursuing companionship with boys in the same way I did girls, no matter how many limpid first dates I went on."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
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1. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- adult
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"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
2. 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
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- romance
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"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
3. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- gothic
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4. The Invocations
By: Krystal Sutherland
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more
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- lesbian
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"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
5. A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
By: Lyra Selene
3.77
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Set in a world of perilous magic and moonlit forests, this seductive romantic fantasy tells the sto… read more
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- romance
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"The joy is in the thrill of the fight, not the promise of a kill."-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
"If your love only destroys, let it destroy me. I am already a doomed man."-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
"I was made of weeds and dark water and unbreakable ice. I was not made to loose."-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
"I was made of frost and rot and endless things. I was not made to fear the Folk."-Lyra Selene, A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)
6. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
By: Ava Reid
3.78
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more
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- gothic
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"The only enemy is the sea."-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
"No one owns the right to tell a story."-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
7. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
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- lesbian
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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
8. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
By: Hafsah Faizal
3.57
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more
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- romance
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- fiction
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
9. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)
By: Eliza Chan
3.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more
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- adult
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10. Faebound (Faebound, #1)
By: Saara El-Arifi
3.61
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more
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11. The City of Stardust
By: Georgia Summers
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more
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12. Where the Dark Stands Still
By: A.B. Poranek
4.12
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more
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"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still
"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still
"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still
13. The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young … read more
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"But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets…"-Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch
14. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice
- romance
- gothic
- lesbian
- lgbt
- vampires
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
15. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
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- adult
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"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
16. The Absinthe Underground
By: Jamie Pacton
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla… read more
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17. The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten's lush, romantic epic… read more
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18. Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1)
By: Analeigh Sbrana
3.35
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings t… read more
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19. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
20. A Dark and Drowning Tide
By: Allison Saft
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more
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