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  • Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Having learned a lesson about thwarting the will of the gods, Imriel and Sidonie publicly confess their affair, only to see the country boil over in turmoil. Younger generations, infatuated by their heart-twisting, star-cross romance, defend the couple...
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    angels  dark  epic  gods  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic  medieval
  • Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Mighty Kushiel, of rod and wealLate of the brazen portalsWith blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealedPricks the eyen of chosen mortalsThe land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.Phèdre nó Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child...
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    dark  epic  female-mc  gods  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic  myths
  • Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    My blood beat hard in my veins and hammered in my ears, like the sound of bronze wings clashing. And I understand for the first time what it meant that Kushiel, the One God's punisher, had loved his charges too well...Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Phèdre and Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions...
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    angels  dark  epic  gods  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic  medieval
  • Bright We Burn by Kiersten White

    Bright We Burn by Kiersten White

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Haunted by the sacrifices he made in Constantinople, Radu is called back to the new capital. Mehmed is building an empire, becoming the sultan his people need. But Mehmed has a secret: as emperor, he is more powerful than ever . . . and desperately lonely. Does this mean Radu can finally have more with Mehmed . .
  • Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty, and desire...
  • Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world...
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    angels  dark  epic  female-mc  gods  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic
  • Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people...
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    dark  epic  female-mc  gods  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic  medieval
  • Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn, the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts—the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow...
  • Now I Rise by Kiersten White

    Now I Rise by Kiersten White

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Lada Dracul has no allies. No throne. All she has is what she’s always had: herself. After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who dares to cross her blood-strewn path. Filled with a white-hot rage, she storms the countryside with her men, accompanied by her childhood friend Bogdan, terrorizing the land. But brute force isn’t getting Lada what she wants...
  • Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent...
  • Igniting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Igniting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times best-selling author Robin LaFevers comes the follow up to “sharp and breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) historical fantasy Courting Darkness. Set in the world of the beloved His Fair Assassin series, this is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Game of Thrones...
  • Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye...
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    angels  dark  epic  female-mc  historical-fiction  lgbtq  magic  myths
  • Courting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Courting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Death wasn’t the end, it was only the beginning…Sybella has always been the darkest of Death’s daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. But she has a new mission now...
  • And I Darken by Kiersten White

    And I Darken by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival...
  • Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian

    Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Many are called...She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.Cobweb Bride is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world...
  • The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

    The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Raised in a genteel but impoverished household, Ivy Lockwell, eldest of three daughters, is desperate to save her father, a former magician, from the madness that has overwhelmed him and finds the key to saving both him and the entire land from darkness lies in the secrets she uncovers while serving as governess to the wards of the enigmatic Mr. Quent. A first novel. 30,000 first printing...
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