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  • Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

    Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 83 ratings
    Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes...
  • The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

    The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike...
  • Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

    Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance...
  • The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war...
  • The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

    The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 88 ratings
    Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed...
  • The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson

    The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled...
  • The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks

    The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Gavin Guile is dying.He’d thought he had five years left—now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies.Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable...
  • Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher

    Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Captain's Fury and the Dresden Files novels. Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized...
  • Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

    Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick.Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country...
  • The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

    The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin's enslaved on a galley, and when he finally escapes, he finds himself in less than friendly hands. Without the ability to draft which has defined him . .
  • House of Chains by Steven Erikson

    House of Chains by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here.In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an extraordinary destiny...
  • Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

    Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home...
  • The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan

    The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The hounds at our heels will soon know we are lionsTamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements...
    Categorized as:
    epic  magic  male-mc  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks

    The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen... and only he can save it...
  • The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan

    The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The capital has fallen...Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.An army divided..
  • Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times...
  • Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

    Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago...
  • Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

    Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive. Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one...
  • Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

    Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and giving birth to legends...
  • The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way...
  • The Burning White by Brent Weeks

    The Burning White by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In this stunning conclusion to the epic New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series, kingdoms clash as Kip struggles to escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves.Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves...
  • Sea Spell by Jennifer Donnelly

    Sea Spell by Jennifer Donnelly

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    At the end of Dark Tide, Book 3 in the Waterfire Saga, Astrid leaves her mermaid friends to confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon. Orfeo possesses one of the six talismans that the merls need in order to keep the monster locked up forever...
  • Seeds of Rebellion by Brandon Mull

    Seeds of Rebellion by Brandon Mull

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The second epic installment of Brandon Mull’s #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy series! After the cliffhanger ending of A World Without Heroes, Jason is back in the world he’s always known—yet for all his efforts to get home, he finds himself itching to return to Lyrian...
  • The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

    The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not...
  • The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

    The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine...
  • Dark Tide by Jennifer Donnelly

    Dark Tide by Jennifer Donnelly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Once a lost and confused princess, Serafina is now a confident leader of the Black Fin Resistance (BFR). While she works on sabotaging her enemy and enlisting allies for battle, her friends face challenges of their own. Ling is in the hold of Rafe Mfeme's giant trawler, on her way to a prison camp...
  • A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced.In the south, hotheaded Riv is desperate to join the Ben-Elim's peacekeeping force, until she unearths a deadly secret.In the west, the giantess Sig investigates demon sightings and discovers signs of an uprising and black magic...
  • The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all...
  • The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin

    The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. A mysterious and deadly plague now haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep. Someone must show them the way...
  • Magic and Mayhem by Hannah Walker

    Magic and Mayhem by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life in Corent is exciting and challenging. As one of the main paranormal communities you never know what might be around the corner. Matt’s life has always been peaceful. He splits his time between helping at his mama’s shop and spending time with family, friends, and his coven...
  • Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon

    Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.When I went to my neighbor's apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land...and I'm stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I’m enslaved.Fun place...
  • Crimes of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Crimes of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    What do you get when you have four mates, one psychotic prince, a horde of rebels, and a cupid who just got yanked out of the realm? A big freaking problem, that’s what. I was supposed to take on my first real mission as a spy. I was supposed to go find my missing mate and discover who our real allies are for the war that’s brewing in the fae realm...
    Categorized as:
    fae  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angels
  • The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

    The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yield up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens his plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there...
  • The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson

    The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The war is over, but something is rotten in the state of Eidyn.With a ragged peace in place, demons burn farmlands, violent Reivers roam the wilds and plague has spread beyond the Black Meadows. The country is on its knees.In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first magically-skilled draoidh to be named King’s Envoy...
  • Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder brings her Poison Study series to its exhilarating conclusion.Despite the odds, Yelena and Valek have forged an irrevocable bond and a family that transcends borders. Now, when their two homelands stand on the brink of war, they must fight with magic and cunning to thwart an Ixian plot to invade Sitia...
  • King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist

    King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist’s epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga—an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world’s destiny.For centuries, the five greatest kingdoms of North and South Tembria, twin continents on the world of Garn, have coexisted in peace...
  • Bound in Blood by P.C. Hodgell

    Bound in Blood by P.C. Hodgell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Jame returned to Knorth hall to help her brother Torisen name all the fallen fighters' death banners stored there, she made the disturbing discovery that those banners splattered with their owners' blood also have trapped their owners' souls. She also found a contract proving her cousin Kindrie to be legitimate, proving that there are three full-blooded Knorth...
  • Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, Tim White

    Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, Tim White

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne...
  • The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

    The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Brian Staveley's The Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series.The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.Having learned the identity of her father's assassin, Adare flees the Dawn Palace in search of allies to challenge the coup against her family...
  • A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

    A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Find the heir, win the crown. The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Although Rhen has Harper by his side, his guardsman Grey is missing, leaving more questions than answers. Win the crown, save the kingdom...
  • M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action by Robert Lynn Asprin

    M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action by Robert Lynn Asprin

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world - but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question..
  • The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley

    The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again...The Emperor has been murdered, leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must bury their grief and prepare to unmask a conspiracy.His son Valyn, training for the empire’s deadliest fighting force, hears the news an ocean away...
  • Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

    Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins...
    Categorized as:
    classics  dragons  epic  magic  medieval  paranormal  war  20th-century
  • Shadowplay by Tad Williams

    Shadowplay by Tad Williams

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, the Eddon family held the throne, and all was right in Southmarch Castle and the north of the world. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner in a faraway land...
    Categorized as:
    epic  fae  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • Chosen by Ted Dekker

    Chosen by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Think with your heart and prepare to die for you have been chosen.The land of the Forest Dwellers has been decimated by the Horde under the watchful eye of the vilest of all creatures, Teeleh. Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, is forced to lower the recruitment age of his army from 18 to 16...
  • The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

    The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.The city has always been. The city must finally end...
  • The Grim Company by Luke Scull

    The Grim Company by Luke Scull

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The difference between a hero and a killer lies in the ability to justify dark deeds. But this is the Age of Ruin. And there are no heroes...Five hundred years ago, the world was destroyed in the celestial Godswar. Seeking to throw off the shackles of the deities who created them, a cabal of mages rose up and made war upon the Gods...
  • Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith

    Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith

    Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent novice Candle tends him at the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and wills him back to life with her music...
  • A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire

    A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death...
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