20 must-read queer books like Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) by C.S. Pacat

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Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.56

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have…

"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

If you liked the queer plot in Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) by C.S. Pacat , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.37

Format: 423 pages, ebook

The Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always neede… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Raven King (All for the Game, #2) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Some of the strongest people I’ve known are women."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"You can't cut down someone who's already in the gutter."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

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2. The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.58

Format: 556 pages, ebook

Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn't survive the year, but with his … read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The King's Men (All for the Game, #3) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"He wouldn’t die a lie."

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"If it means losing you, then no"

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"Is your learning curve a horizontal line?"

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"We're all going to die," Kevin said at last."

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

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3. The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.02

Format: 237 pages, ebook

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Shirt off."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Are you stupid?"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Give your back to me."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"I don’t understand suicide,"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

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4. Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.56

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

Cover of The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4) by Nora Sakavic

5. The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.59

Format: None pages, None

My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas. It is a truth Jean h… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time."

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

"Jean held onto his control with everything he had left after such a nightmarish day, but he could feel his grip slipping. Endure, he warned himself, and on its tail-end came a desperate How much must…"

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

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6. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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8. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

Cover of A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) by Freya Marske

9. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

10. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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11. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) by Foz Meadows

12. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

By: Foz Meadows

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

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13. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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14. Prince of the Sorrows (Rowan Blood, #1)

By: Kellen Graves

3.99

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Without an academic endorsement to make him valuable to the high fey, Saffron will be sent back thr… read more

Similar categories in Kellen Graves's Prince of the Sorrows (Rowan Blood, #1) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 5

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.67

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE As the day of Nangong Si and Song Qiutong’s wedding draws near, a scandalous… read more

Similar categories in Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou's The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 5 book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. The Scottish Boy

By: Alex de Campi

4.16

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

1333. Edward III is at war with Scotland. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himse… read more

Similar categories in Alex de Campi's The Scottish Boy book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Iain,’ he says softly. ‘If you’re in heaven, I cannot let you go. I keep seeing you, trying to put you back in the world by sheer force of desire. I saw you in the Black Knight, and I feel like every…"

-Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

Cover of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 3 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

17. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 3

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

THE LONELY ROAD TO HELL As Mo Ran accompanies Chu Wanning in pursuit of the mastermind behind th… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Icarus by K. Ancrum

18. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 4

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.61

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART BURN HOTTER Chu Wanning has slumbered for five years since Mo Ran rescue… read more

Similar categories in Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou's The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 4 book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The ones he despised most were those Nangong Liu. An ass-kisser who would kneel on the ground and lick another's hemorrhoid so long as there was something in it for him. Fuck. a hemorrhoid-sucker, ev…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 4

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20. Herald of the Witch's Mark (Rowan Blood #3)

By: Kellen Graves

4.50

Format: 561 pages, Kindle Edition

Saffron finally has the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to attend school. To be able to do s… read more

Similar categories in Kellen Graves's Herald of the Witch's Mark (Rowan Blood #3) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Flores (Larga vida al rey, #2) by Irene Morales

21. Flores (Larga vida al rey, #2)

By: Irene Morales

4.54

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Sasha de Corte no quiere matar al rey. Prefiere seguir escondido allí, lejos de los reinos conqu… read more

Similar categories in Irene Morales's Flores (Larga vida al rey, #2) book and C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

  • fantasy
  • lgbt

20 Best fiction books like Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) by C.S. Pacat

Transform Your Habits

The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

Nora Sakavic

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

Nora Sakavic

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

Nora Sakavic

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

C.S. Pacat

4.56

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19 must-read fiction books like Icarus by K. Ancrum

Transform Your Habits

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Nora Sakavic

4.59

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Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

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