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  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2HA) #1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2HA) #1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    言简意赅的文案:我本欲抱师兄归,岂料抱走了……师尊?王八攻x霸王受啰里啰嗦的文案:墨燃觉得自己拜楚晚宁为师就是个错误。他的师尊实在太像猫,而他则像一只摇头摆尾的傻狗。狗和猫是有生殖隔离的,傻狗原本并不想向那只猫伸出他毛茸茸的爪子。他原本觉得啊,狗就应该和狗在一起,比如他的师兄,漂亮温驯,像一只可爱的狐狸犬,他们俩在一起一定很般配。可是死过去又活过来,活了两辈子,他最后叼回窝里的,都是那个最初他根本瞧不上眼的,雪白的猫咪师尊。蠢到爆表哈士奇攻x傲娇暴躁大白猫受Ps.1.这是个渣攻重生之后,试图从良的故事。架空修真文,不必细考。2.从良不是那么容易的,路漫漫其修远兮,此君将上下而求索。求索过程中难免依然犯错,犯浑。请各位小姐姐包涵。3.攻受的三观不代表作者的三观,喷人物可以,不要喷作者呀~4.攻死蠢且变态,精分且人渣,重生之后,虽有改变,但过程缓慢,不能忍受的请点叉!点叉!!!!!5...
  • Wrath by John Gwynne

    Wrath by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has taken control of the fortress at Drassil and three of the Seven Treasures are in his possession. And together with Calidus and his ally Queen Rhin, Nathair will do anything to obtain the remaining Treasures. With all seven under his command, he can open a portal to the Otherworld...
  • Ruin by John Gwynne

    Ruin by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures...
  • Fury by Nicoli Gonnella

    Fury by Nicoli Gonnella

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The tower has fallen. Banners fly. War brews in the rubble.Felix Nevarre, slayer of the Ravager King and destroyer of Domains, isn't going down without a fight. The Guild Tower has fallen, and Haarwatch has been split into factions vying for supremacy, and the people despair as monsters overrun the city...
  • Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hands sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,Mere man shall end this endless night.It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness...
  • Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH...
  • City of Fallen Souls by Jez Cajiao

    City of Fallen Souls by Jez Cajiao

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jax survived the Smugglers Path, as did most of his party, but he’s suffered losses, found out just how far he’s willing to go for Oracle, and seen his own darker side… as have his followers...
  • Titan by Jez Cajiao

    Titan by Jez Cajiao

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jax and his people have raided the City of Fallen Souls, but just because you’ve grabbed the loot, doesn’t mean you’re home free…They need to escape, they need to make changes and improve on the incomplete and barely manned ships they stole, and with the city, not to mention the Dark Legion gearing for war, he has only one choice available.Landfall...
  • The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down...
  • Blood Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Blood Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    He made a deal with a dragon, getting its heart in return. He fought monsters to defeat the monster in himself. He won the war, razing one of the most powerful sects to the ground, and received the highest military rank possible.Now his path leads him to the very heart of the country — to the capital — to receive his title and well-deserved honors...
  • Iron Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Iron Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the first book, Hadjar lost it all. His body ruined, parents dead, and his title of Prince replaced by a slave collar. It seemed like Primus had deprived him of everything.But no one can take away a man's will to fight. Even if his heart turns into a bleeding stone due to endless grief and suffering, it won't matter.The most important thing was that he still had the will to go on...
  • The Forgotten Faithful by Jez Cajiao

    The Forgotten Faithful by Jez Cajiao

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Things are looking up for Jax, more or less, He’s met a cool girl (Who’s a wisp), got some new friends (Who’re Dwarves and Cat people and Elves and all sorts), and started a war… (Whoops!)That last one might not be the best idea he’s had yet, admittedly, but the guy was an ass, and he deserved it...
  • Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH...
  • Apocalypse Redux, Book One by Jakob H. Greif

    Apocalypse Redux, Book One by Jakob H. Greif

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The worst thing about the end of the world is we did it to ourselvesIsaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what if he could go back?Hurled back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all. A chance to warn humanity of their impending doom...
  • Citadel by Jez Cajiao

    Citadel by Jez Cajiao

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    With the God of Death out for his life, Jax has a choice to make, and it’s time for the brothers to face each other…Nimon, The God of Death, has named Jax and all who follow him ‘Apostate’ decreeing their death and has dispatched his Dark Legion, the Imperial Legion’s antithesis, to see the job done once and for all...
  • Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote...
  • Brightblade by Jez Cajiao

    Brightblade by Jez Cajiao

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A 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..
  • King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...
  • The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect Ciri...
  • Fulcrum of Light by C.J. Aaron

    Fulcrum of Light by C.J. Aaron

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Freedom has come at a price.Stranded on the coast of an uncharted land, Ryl will be tested as the world outside the Palisades proves darker than within.With little to no direction save the cryptic information from a mysterious stranger, Ryl must rely on his new-found skills and place his trust in his new companion. Together they forge onward into the barren wastes of the Outlands...
  • Glory to the Brave by Luke Chmilenko

    Glory to the Brave by Luke Chmilenko

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Heroes don’t stand for themselves. They stand for others who cannot.Betrayed by those they’d taken in and narrowly avoiding a disaster of untold proportions, Lyrian and his friends are once again thrust into a fight for their very survival, this time against Carver and his band of murderous adventurers...
  • A Dance of Chaos by David Dalglish

    A Dance of Chaos by David Dalglish

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FEAR COMES IN THE HANDS OF PROPHETS... The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to obtain...
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    dark  epic  magic  action-adventure  adult  assassins  audiobook  book
  • Adventure Capital by Blaise Corvin

    Adventure Capital by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    By working together, Henry Sato and Jason Booth have managed to survive their unwanted trip to Ludus, an experiment planet. However, Delvers LLC has made some enemies...if monsters, bandits, mages, criminals, bounty hunters, and even dark cults can be called, "some enemies." After their latest battle, the two have been separated and must adapt or die...
  • The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan

    The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes, there will be a contest to determine his successor. It is a contest that thin, puny Jebel has no chance of winning...
  • The Black Song by Anthony Ryan

    The Black Song by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A matchless warrior is pitted against a near-God in the second epic installment of the Raven's Blade series. It has long been our lot in life, brother, to do what others can't.Vaelin Al Sorna was known across the realm as the greatest of warriors, but he thought battles were behind him. He was wrong...
  • The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

    The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternative cover editions for this ISBN exist here and here.Beneath the dying sun the disgraced torturer, Severian, at last comes to his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms.But Severian's journey is not ended, and high in Earth's ancient mountains he draws closer to his destiny...
  • The White Rose by Glen Cook

    The White Rose by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world...
  • Shadows Linger by Glen Cook

    Shadows Linger by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine...
  • Traitors' Fate by Andy Peloquin

    Traitors' Fate by Andy Peloquin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One Death Changes Two Cities ForeverIlanna, Master of the Night Guild, has waged a war for eight years to cleanse her city of the rival criminal organization that nearly destroyed it...
  • Demonic Devourer 1 by Aaron Shih

    Demonic Devourer 1 by Aaron Shih

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Devour. Level up. Repeat.Awakening in an abandoned lab with no knowledge of the world, Evelyn is empowered by a system that grants her bloody magical powers in exchange for finishing missions and consuming her enemies. She knows one no matter the cost, she will advance. She’ll manipulate allies and spread demonic corruption with a smile if that’s what it takes to level up...
  • Eternity by Robert Blaise

    Eternity by Robert Blaise

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Despite being a young master of the Zearthorn sect, Neave is not a cultivator. And if he can have his way, he never will be. Years of daily beatings, bullying, and abuse haven’t been enough to make him change his mind, and the ultimatum from his father won’t be either. Forced to choose between an arranged marriage and a path of cultivation, Neave makes a third choice...
  • The Pariah by Anthony Ryan

    The Pariah by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and deft with a blade, Alwyn is content with the freedom of the woods and the comradeship of his fellow thieves. But an act of betrayal sets him on a new path - one of blood and vengeance, which eventually leads him to a soldier's life in the king's army...
  • The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett

    The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty. Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, it is a seat of honor and ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world, forging its isolated peoples into a unified army to rise up and end the demon war once and for all...
  • Dominion of Blades by Matt Dinniman

    Dominion of Blades by Matt Dinniman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For over thirty years, Dominion of Blades has been the hottest online role-playing game in the world. Any gamer with an immersion rig can enter the world of sword and sorcery, of goblins and dragons, and they can hack and slash their way to glory...
  • The Seven by Peter Newman

    The Seven by Peter Newman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Years have passed since the Vagrant journeyed to the Shining City, Vesper in arm and Gamma’s sword in hand.Since then the world has changed. Vesper, following the footsteps of her father, journeyed to the breach and closed the tear between worlds, protecting the last of humanity, but also trapping the infernal horde and all those that fell to its corruptions: willing or otherwise...
  • Tribute at the Gates by C.J. Aaron

    Tribute at the Gates by C.J. Aaron

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cursed from birth. Forced into slavery. It's time to fight back.The blood of the Ancients is the most coveted ingredient in all of Damaris. The fabled elixir made from it grants those who drink it life that extends far beyond natural means.There is no higher honor in the kingdom then being granted the privilege of bidding for it...
  • The True Bastards by Jonathan French

    The True Bastards by Jonathan French

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sequel to The Grey Bastards--another irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed adventure fantasy.Fetching was once the only female rider in the Lot Lands. Now she is the leader of her own hoof, a band of loyal half-orcs sworn to her command. But in the year since she took power, the True Bastards have struggled to survive...
  • A Dance of Ghosts by David Dalglish

    A Dance of Ghosts by David Dalglish

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    IN A CITY KNOWN FOR DARKNESS, THE UNDERWORLD TREMBLES AT THE RISE OF THE SUN... In book #5 of the Shadowdance series... He is known as Muzien the Darkhand, and a night of fire and blood heralds his arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, its thieves and smugglers eager to spread their criminal empire to the east...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  magic  action-adventure  adult  assassins  audiobook  book
  • When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

    When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Darkness Falls, the third book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James MalloryA great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes...
  • The Empire of Ashes by Anthony Ryan

    The Empire of Ashes by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fuelled by drake blood–and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it.A drake of unimaginable power has risen, and it commands an army of both beasts and men...
  • Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville

    Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lors de ses recherches pour l'homme-oiseau, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin a libéré des monstres volants, les Gorgones, sur Nouvelle-Crobuzon. Le gouvernement est vite dépassé par les événements et en appelle à la Fileuse, une araignée géante vivant sur plusieurs plans de réalité, pour l'aider à endiguer le péril...
  • Men and Monsters by Elena May

    Men and Monsters by Elena May

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The stakes have risen. For fifty years, Prince Vladimir has tolerated the Resistance, but now they threaten what he holds dear. The vicious vampire will no longer hold back. A plan he has been working on for decades will finally reveal itself and entangle everyone standing on the way.For the first time after the Nightfall, the Resistance holds a true bargaining chip...
  • The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan

    The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Survival is the only currency...For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood--and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed--to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood lines began to fail, a perilous expedition was mounted to secure them...
  • Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner

    Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    KANE - The Mystic Swordsman ranges Earth and Time to confront the demons of darknessWhere once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trail of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only with half-men and the waif they call their queen...
  • Shadow Games by Glen Cook

    Shadow Games by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exists only in legend...the origin of the first Free Companies.Every step of the way the Company is hounded by shadowy figured and carrion-eating crows...
  • Blood of Gods by David Dalglish, Robert J. Duperre

    Blood of Gods by David Dalglish, Robert J. Duperre

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brothers and gods, Karak and Ashhur created Dezrel to be a paradise of ageless humans. But mortal hubris aroused one god’s wrath, and forced the other to shield the young world’s rebellious denizens from his brother’s murderous retribution. Now, the bloody war between mortal nations and their immortal overlords has reached its tipping point...
  • The Desert and the Blade by S.M. Stirling

    The Desert and the Blade by S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In his novels of the Change, New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling presents “a devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF...
  • The Destroyer 2 by Michael-Scott Earle

    The Destroyer 2 by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The country of Nia has fallen to the Ancients and circumstances are grim for the humans.Kaiyer must return to the broken castle to save his friends, reconcile his past, and find a way to break the hold that the enemy agents have over the country...
    Categorized as:
    magic  epic  litrpg  dark  heroic-fantasy  fantasy  audiobook  harem
  • Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmell

    Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once the legendary knights of the Gabala defended the nine duchies. Their hearts were beautiful; their armor was beyond compare. They were greater than princes, more than men.But they were gone, disappeared through a demon-haunted gateway between worlds. Only one held back -- Manannan, whose every instinct told him to stay. Now he was the coward knight, and in torment...
  • The White-Luck Warrior: The Aspect-Emperor Book Two by R. Scott Bakker

    The White-Luck Warrior: The Aspect-Emperor Book Two by R. Scott Bakker

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Praised by fans and critics worldwide, R. Scott Bakker has become one of the most celebrated new voices in fantasy literature. Now he returns with the long awaited White Luck Warrior—the chilling second book in the epic Aspect- Emperor series...
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