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Light From Uncommon Stars
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Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.Show more
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It made me wish I could play music.
Tastes like warm donuts and Cinnabons, plum colored eggplants, and tea. Sounds like sharp applause and sorrowful silence. Feels like sticky icing and stuck zippers in an upscale dressing room.
Tastes like warm donuts and Cinnabons, plum colored eggplants, and tea. Sounds like sharp applause and sorrowful silence. Feels like sticky icing and stuck zippers in an upscale dressing room.
I loved all of the characters in this book. The combination of SciFi and Fantasy was so refreshing. This story addresses some big themes like what is “real”, being authentic and expressions of love.
Trans and queer joy amidst the heartbreak and grind, about music and food, embodying music and food, transportative
What do a demon waiting to fulfill her final soul contract, an alien donut shop owner, and a young, lost trans musician have in common? An absolutely gorgeous story of intertwining lives told in a poetic overture and connected by fate. Seriously, this book has been living in my head rent-free since I finished it. It’s so lovely!
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