19 must-read fiction books like A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2) by Ashley Shuttleworth

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A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

By: Ashley Shuttleworth

4.28

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for i…

"For Arlo, that answer would always be yes"

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"For Arlo, that answer would always be yes"

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"Hero or villain… each is more than what it seems, and defined in different ways."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"Hero or villain… each is more than what it seems, and defined in different ways."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

If you liked the fiction plot in A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2) by Ashley Shuttleworth , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

1. Sofi and the Bone Song

By: Adrienne Tooley

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous standalone fantasy with a “sweet sapphic romance” ( Booklist ), a young musician s… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sofi and the Bone Song book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) by Tasha Suri

2. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

Cover of The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) by Tasha Suri

3. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

Cover of Aurora's Angel by Emily Noon

4. Aurora's Angel

By: Emily Noon

4.33

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody pa… read more

Similar categories in Emily Noon's Aurora's Angel book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Misrule (Malice Duology, #2) by Heather   Walter

5. 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 Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • 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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6. The Midnight Girls

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.79

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The Wicked Deep meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this new standalone YA fantasy set in a snow-clo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Midnight Girls book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You don’t notice the bars of the cage,"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"Where would you even go if you were free?"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"I’ve tasted freedom. I’ve tasted hearts and it’s changed me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"It is not a fairy tale. And monsters like us don’t get happy endings."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

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7. 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 Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) by Alexandra Overy

8. These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1)

By: Alexandra Overy

3.78

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

When twin heirs are born in Tourin, their fates are decided at a young age. While Izaveta remained … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Overy's These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1) by Zoe Hana Mikuta

9. 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 Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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)

Cover of Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2) by Zoe Hana Mikuta

10. 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 Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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)

Cover of Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) by Kacen Callender

11. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology) by Heather   Walter

12. The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology)

By: Heather Walter

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her sid… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2) by Ashley Shuttleworth

13. A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

By: Ashley Shuttleworth

4.28

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for i… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fae
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"For Arlo, that answer would always be yes"

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"Hero or villain… each is more than what it seems, and defined in different ways."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"The infamous Dark Star—beautiful, vibrant, and the brightest point in Arlo’s whole life."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

"I often can’t tell with mortal emotions. You all feel things like wildfire—immediate, fierce, and all-consuming."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

Cover of The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound, #2) by Rochelle Hassan

14. The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound, #2)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.35

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

This captivating sequel to The Buried and the Bound draws readers into the twisted and irresistible… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Summer Queen (The Buried and the Bound, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • fae
Cover of This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2) by Alexandra Overy

15. This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2)

By: Alexandra Overy

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Awakening to find herself trapped in a strange tower, Izaveta knows she must find her way back to t… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Overy's This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

16. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Ravensong by Cayla Fay

17. Ravensong

By: Cayla Fay

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the first b… read more

Similar categories in Cayla Fay's Ravensong book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Blood Jade (Phoenix Hoard, #2) by Julia Vee

18. Blood Jade (Phoenix Hoard, #2)

By: Julia Vee

4.40

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Ebony Gate , the critically acclaimed debut of Vee and Bebelle's Phoenix Hoard ser… read more

Similar categories in Julia Vee's Blood Jade (Phoenix Hoard, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

19. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1 by J.A. Vodvarka

20. Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1

By: J.A. Vodvarka

4.53

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Capture one harmless fugitive. What could go wrong? Nyssa Blacksea is eager to silence her doubt… read more

Similar categories in J.A. Vodvarka's Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1 book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Unbound: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 2 by J.A. Vodvarka

21. Unbound: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 2

By: J.A. Vodvarka

4.80

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

Two souls, forever entwined…and running for their lives. Nyssa Blacksea is a wanted woman. The E… read more

Similar categories in J.A. Vodvarka's Unbound: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 2 book and Ashley Shuttleworth's A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga, #2)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • lgbt

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4.34

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3.97

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