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He Who Fights with Monsters 6: A LitRPG Adventure by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsExperience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic... -
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNew Achievement! Total, Utter Failure.You failed a quest less than five minutes after you received it. Now that’s talent.A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days... -
War Hammer by Shayne Silvers
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Two old dudes want to kill me. Oh, and one of them is my ancestor…And after centuries of practice, they’re pretty good at the whole murder thing. But at least they want to kill each other just as badly.Now, I’ve taken down a Greek Goddess, worn a Horseman’s Mask, and I ride a homicidal unicorn who hates rainbows with a passion... -
Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 by Matt Dinniman
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin."The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City... -
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Wild Side by Shayne Silvers
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTo become a Godkiller you have to awaken the monster inside you… Almost a year has passed since Nate’s ex-fiancée woke up a Greek god intent on world domination and war. The problem? He doesn’t know which god. And the promised war hasn’t started yet... -
Promise of Wrath by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA powerful sorcerer. A forgotten past. Hellequin is back, and the end is near. A terrible storm is brewing in London, and Nathan Garrett, the sorcerer known as Hellequin, is the only one who can stop it.But his enemies have other plans... -
Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsZombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters— another day in the life of Nick Gautier– and those are just his friends. But now that he’s accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that’s hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter... -
Right of Retribution 2 by William D. Arand
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWarner spent his days like no one else.He got up, went to work, forced people to balance their scales— either through taking lives or forced penance— went home, spent time with his daughter, slept with one of his girlfriends, and went to sleep.Only to repeat the pattern over and over and over.Life was the furthest thing from mundane that it could ever be... -
Apocalypse Redux, Book Four by Jakob H. Greif
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHumanity is circling the abyss, to reap or to ruin. Only one man can determine its fate.Monsters that can destroy cities have appeared. The most highly leveled humans begin to abuse their power. And as levels rise, individual people start to reach the kind of power where they can rival militaries all by themselves... -
The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm’s most vicious guardian…Seth’s time is running out... -
The Land: Forging by Aleron Kong
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe second captivating installment of Aleron Kong's, Chaos Seeds series. "We are life takers and heart breakers," Richter shouted... -
A Long Spoon by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsYou may have heard of Johannes Cabal; he is a necromancer and a little infamous. He is also very sensitive to attempts on his life. When a murder of crows tries to... well, murder him, and the contents of his bath are transmuted into hot nitric acid, he suspects someone may mean him harm. The trail leads to one of the less travelled parts of Hell itself, and there Cabal will need a guide... -
The Land: Alliances by Aleron Kong
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe THIRD vivacious installment of Aleron Kong's, Chaos Seeds series. Everything is not well in The Land! Eaters, Bugbears, Evil Counts, Vicious Thieves and Carnies! (You know, circus folk... small hands... -
Shadow Rogue Ascendant by Mike Truk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe band is in trouble. Port Gloom is aflame behind them, and hundreds lie dead in their wake as Kellik and his companions are forced to flee their ancient home. But despite the chaos and carnage they've already caused, one thought remains their focus: Exacting ever greater revenge on the Family... -
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Mobius by Garon Whited
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaced with war and the end of the world, Eric--or Halar the First, King of Karvalen--must find a way to stop a godlike entity bent on his destruction. His quest will be no easy thing, not a straight line to his goal, but even he can't anticipate just how far it will lead him on this epic journey... -
Incubus Inc. III by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.)Sameerixis, or Sam for those who actually know him, isn’t what you’d call normal.He had been a door-to-door salesman, of sorts.One that peddled wares, wishes, and whims to anyone willing to pay his prices.Except that life is gone now.His old business model had been modernized... -
Mist and Magic by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAs a freelance assassin, Val Thorvald leads a dangerous life.She’s learned not to stay in the same place for long and not to get too attached to anything. For example, she would never consider adopting a pet.But when she’s searching for a missing friend, she finds an abandoned silver tiger cub.The magical feline is clearly from another realm, but Val has no idea which one or how to send it back... -
Knightfall by Garon Whited
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's not easy, being King. You can't always rule a kingdom and still do what needs to be done. Eric--or King Halar, also known as the Demon King--has more than enough problems without the crown. But quitting the job of King isn't easy, either--unless you want to be beheaded. Most people regard that as an unsatisfactory way to quit. Even vampire lords tend to be cautious about guillotines... -
Power Mage 3 by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY WERE HUMANITY’S LAST HOPE… AND HUMANITY WANTED THEM DEAD. Blamed for the Miami massacre, Brawley lays low with a Carnal biker gang, vowing to train hard and crack strands. Seven orders. Seven amazing powers. Seven beautiful teachers... -
Vigil's Justice by James A. Hunter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagic weapons. Deadly monsters. Epic quests. All just another day in the life of a Vigil.Boyd Knight found his calling when he joined the Marines and qualified for the elite Force Recon. He’d found a tribe and a family, so when a hand grenade landed near his team, he jumped on it without thought or regret... -
The Land: Swarm by Aleron Kong
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsAleron Kong's #1 Best Selling LitRPG Saga continues in "The Land: Swarm" The enemies of the Mist Village are moving, the storm clouds are gathering, what are Richter and Sion to do??? Crush the game, that's what! More of everything you love in LitRPG: Powerful items, epic battles, awesome quests and in depth world building! What happened to Elora? Where is the swarm? Did the rock giant make... -
Sea Breeze by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsRemember when dead in the water was just an expression? Not anymore. Fresh from her unplanned stay in the Otherworld, Quinn MacKenna is forced to wait in Fae’s worst Air BnB—a grotesque gingerbread house in a forest full of breadcrumbs—for the captain who will guide her ship to the fabled Atlantis.But just as idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, idle minds are the Titans’ torture chamber... -
Deception by Zoe Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Dark is angry… Jameson, the dummy, went off chasing boobs so now I’m chasing a boob too—him. Every road so far ends at a dead end or with someone dead at the end. Mostly the latter. My patience is growing short and so is the time I have to save him... -
The Land: Catacombs by Aleron Kong, Nick Podehl
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 38 ratings"What's that you say? You want more village growth? Well be careful where you stand, because the Mist Village just took a viagra-cialis sandwich and there is a stiff breeze blowing! (I can make some more references if you're still not getting the point... did you see what I did there?" Welcome back my friends! Welcome back.. -
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Brightblade by Jez Cajiao
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA realm aside from our own is the center of the realities, home to every spectrum of magic. From the beautiful to the terrible, it was all held in delicate balance by the Eternal Emperor and his children. For ten thousand years, the empire was the bastion that protected the sentient races from the darkness, but the revolution changed all that.. -
Devils Don't Lie by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing a working mom chosen to save the world is going to take practice, courage, and a whole crew of creature companions as backup.The forest whispers to Kyra. Something is coming. The creatures are restless. Ash falls on their homestead. And Montreal ward is bursting with refugees.But Kyra doesn’t need omens... -
Scholomance 3 by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Devil's Academy Cole and his enslaved coven have saved Scholomance from total destruction and proven their worth.But things don’t get easier from there... -
Elemental Storm by Phaedra Weldon
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSecrets are like our past. They always come back to screw up our future. As the French Quarter drags into the Summer heat, Elemental Witch Samantha Hawthorne makes plans for her future, which includes getting through her imposed stint as a Cleric and pinning down a date for her wedding... -
The Shadows of Dark Root by April Aasheim
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom The Wandering Witch (circa 1892) In the beginning there was only darkness. And then the Goddess, in her infinite wisdom, gave us light. But in those moments when she separated the light from the darkness, she created shadow. Formed by her divine hands, the shadow grew. And grew. Larger than our own world and without the limitations... -
Trick or Treat by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShort story published on Derek Landy's blog; fits in best between Death Bringer and Kingdom of the Wicked... -
Silver Magi 2 by D. Levesque
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrandon is something that hasn’t been around for so long. There isn’t even a name for that race anymore. But because his mother was injected with a blood sample, unwillingly, before he was even born, he has become something that was thought long dead—a progenitor. But only Brandon knows their true name. The Elveesians... -
Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s not the hero you want. He’s the monster you need. When a new strain of the deadly drug, Redrum creates UV resistant vampires, the streets of New York City are flooded with the mindless creatures searching for blood—human blood. The NYTF and Dark Council refuse to deal with menace and contact the Night Wardens expecting results. What they get is a dark mage with nothing to lose... -
The Nowhere Witch by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGetting back to Xest was the easy part. It’s staying here that seems to be the problem.I have three hags, also known as Xest Immigration, hot on my tail trying to deport me back to Salem. The wall I built in the Unsettled Lands is in jeopardy. Hawk, a man who was once my ally, can’t decide if he wants to lead the horde trying to drive me out or kiss me... -
Accidental Incubus by Deacon Frost
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJace Blackbriar just wanted to become a blacksmith and live a comfortable life in his village. He wanted to learn to make goods that paid well; so he could support himself and maybe send some money to his family. His goal was to gain the Blacksmith class and start his own forge. His family never wanted him to become an adventurer and he wasn't going to break that promise... -
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Metal Mage 2 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf you thought having magic and guns were cool while everyone else has swords, imagine having robots.5 - Build a battle robot.6 - Kill the bandits terrorizing the land.7 - Find out just how grateful the princess really is... -
Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMay Bird has always been a bit. . . different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the West Virginia woods, dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side... -
Invision by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThink your life is complicated and confusing? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world…It’s not easy being the heir of a demon overlord.But Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy foretell. No one is ever going to tell this stubborn Cajun who and what he really is. Or how to live his life... -
Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the masters of paranormal romance, three brand-new tales of seductionThe Darkest Angel by Gena ShowalterA Lords of the Underworld taleAn iron-willed demon assassin, the angel Lysander has never known lust, until he meets Bianka. Spawned from the bloodline of Lucifer, the beautiful but deadly Harpy is determined to lead the pure-hearted Lysander into temptation... -
The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them... -
Black Blood Brother by Morgan Blayde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Old Man's in Las Vegas and Caine is going to give him a bachelor party despite relentless murder attempts by a shadow sorcerer. Caine's magic is crippled, leaving him vulnerable to enemies, and at the mercy of his scheming harem. The silver dragons are after him. So are the mysterious Villagers. And then there's the nine-year-old dragon-boy from the future... -
Grave New World by John P. Logsdon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Council Gods Are Brutal. The Lesser Gods Are Worse. I'm All That Stands Between Them...You won't find me in the lore of the gods, but I'm there, hidden between the lines. Whenever the lesser gods torture humanity, creating armies of supernatural beasts to rain hell down on the innocent, it's my job to stand against the tidal wave of pain and death.I like my job... -
Savage Ascension 1 by Atlas Kane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSurvive the arena. Choose a Battle Bride. Master the lost art of cultivation.They called me a savage, then threw me into the their cruel arena.Instead of bleeding out on the sand like they hoped, I used the power of my gifted core to rise.When I learned my enemies held a cure for the spreading plight of infertility, I knew why my gods had sent me... -
Silver Crown King by Morgan Blayde
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FIRE WITH HELLFIRE, THERE’S CAINE DEATHWALKER, RAISED AS A DEMON, ARMED LIKE A GUN MERCHANT, AND FUELED BY BOOZE. NICE IS A DIRTY WORD AND KILLING IS WHAT HE DOES BEST. MAKE A CONTRACT WITH HELL, AND HE COULD BE ON YOUR SIDE—GOD HELP YOU. IN SILVER CROWN KING: CAINE’S CORONATION DATE AS A LORD OF FAIRY IS FAST APPROACHING... -
Cheyenne Magic by Aaron Crash
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGather an escort. Acquire a dragon hoard. Build an empire … Steven Drokharis knew that embracing his destiny as one of the most powerful Dragonsouls to ever live would be difficult, but he had no idea that he’d be pushed to his very limits... -
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Tombyards & Butterflies by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Missing Ferryman. An Undead Dilemma. An Immortal Detective. An emissary from the Dark Council has just materialized in the office of the Montague & Strong Detective Agency, and makes Simon Strong an offer he can’t refuse. Charon is missing. The legendary ferryman responsible for transporting sorcerer souls across the river Styx hasn’t been seen in days... -
The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsJohn Taylor is marrying the love of his life, Suzie Shooter, the Nightside’s most fearsome bounty hunter. But before he can walk down the aisle he has one more case to solve as a private eye — a case that has him on the run from friends and enemies both, with his bride-to-be looking to collect the bounty on his head.. -
Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsCassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant—and they’ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under... -
Sunset by Garon Whited
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSunset brought a hangover, a beautiful woman, and the thirst for... blood?Eric didn't ask to be a vampire.In fact, he didn't even believe in them. Then he meets a beautiful woman, wakes up with a hangover, and bites his tongue with his own fangs.Which pretty much settles the question... -
Shadows by Garon Whited
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt's not easy, being King. Especially when you've got an allergy to sunrise and sunset, a fire-goddess for a mother-in-law, demonic adversaries, random assassins, and a basement full of insecurities to cope with... -
Crack the Sky: Preternatural Chronicles Book 8 (The Preternatural Chronicles) by Hunter Blain
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the heart of darkness... do what must be done. Depweg is lost in time, unwittingly finding himself in a stream of reality that has broken off from the single river our universe safely resides upon. John has no choice but to do the impossible and retrieve his best friend or risk the two parallel timelines crashing into one another...
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