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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsThis is the way the world ends. Again.Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter... -
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Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsThe 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... -
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The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe 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... -
![Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski]()
Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsThe 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... -
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![Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie]()
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsSpringtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white... -
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Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsIn 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... -
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Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsLibrarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds... -
![The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch]()
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsWith what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure... -
![The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie]()
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsLogen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies... -
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The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsGuile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live...Categorized as:
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![The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch]()
The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsLocke Lamora, thief, con-man, pirate, political deceiver is back, and now he must become a soldier.A new chapter for Locke and Jean and finally the war that has been brewing in the Kingdom of the Marrows flares up and threatens to capture all in its flames. And all the while Locke must try to deal with the disturbing rumours about his past revealed in The Republic of Thieves... -
![Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand by Michael Moorcock]()
Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Book 8 in The Eternal Champion Series. This second volume of the Chronicles of Corum is separated from the first not just by time, but by location. Summoned by hopeful worshippers elsewhere in the Multiverse, Corum responds to their plea and finds himself in a realm of harsh and unyielding winter...Categorized as:
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The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratings*Winner of the Self Published Fantasy Blog-Off, Hosted by Mark Lawrence*Amra Thetys lives by two simple rules—take care of business, and never let it get personal. Thieves don't last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge...Categorized as:
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![Age of Assassins by R.J. Barker]()
Age of Assassins by R.J. Barker
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTo catch an assassin, use an assassin...Girton Club-foot, apprentice to the land's best assassin, still has much to learn about the art of taking lives. But his latest mission tasks him and his master with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life... -
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![The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley]()
The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe 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 ratingsThe 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... -
![I Know Not by James Daniel Ross]()
I Know Not by James Daniel Ross
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeing a bastard is sometimes a survival trait.I am not a bad man. Well, I must be honest with myself: I don’t try to be a bad man. It just seems to… happen.I woke up in a castle populated by corpses. Devoid of past or present, bereft of even a name, so I must be honest with myself.I discovered I am a wizard with a blade, silent as the wind, and as deadly as a forest fire... -
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The Black Company by Glen Cook
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsSome feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her.. -
![Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson]()
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsHe called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah... -
![A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin]()
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsFor the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO's "Game of Thrones "are together in one boxed set. An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. R. Martin--dubbed "the American Tolkien" by "Time" magazine--international acclaim and millions of loyal readers...
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