The Dark Tide, Alicia Jasinska
The Dark Tide, Alicia Jasinska
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The Dark Tide

Author: Alicia Jasinska

Narrator: Lori Prince

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/16/2021


Synopsis

A gripping, dark LGBT YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island.

Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking.

Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen's attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice.

Queen Eva watched her sister die to save the boy she loved. Now as queen, she won't make the same mistake. She's willing to sacrifice anyone if it means saving herself and her city.

When Lina offers herself to the queen in exchange for Thomas's freedom, the two girls await the full moon together. But Lina is not at all what Eva expected, and the queen is nothing like Lina envisioned. Against their will, they find themselves falling for each other as water floods Caldella's streets and the dark tide demands its sacrifice.

About Alicia Jasinska

Alicia Jasinska works as a library technician and is an aerialist in her spare time. She hails from Sydney, Australia. The Dark Tide is her debut novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie

(This was such a thoughtful birthday gift from Pamela!) "Witches. Murderers. Queens who chained boys to stone pillars and drowned them on full-moon nights." The Dark Tide centers on an island that relies on a yearly human sacrifice by the witch queen who must fall i......more

Goodreads review by Ellie

I recently had an interview with Alicia Jasinska talking about The Dark Tide and a few other F/F-related things here! * There is nothing more exciting to me than the premise of a girl going to save a guy, except she falls in love with the 'villain' who is keeping that guy captive instead. And if that......more

Goodreads review by Boston

And I thought Crier’s War was slow burn 😭......more

Goodreads review by anna

rep: bi mc, poc sapphic mc, sapphic parents, side poc characters rtc but like, the romance sneaks up on u & then just swallows u whole at one point and it's amazing......more