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  • 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 Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

    The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield...Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

    The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    “Chaos. Fury. Destruction.The Great Change is upon us . . .Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  politics  war  action-adventure  adult
  • The Crippled God by Steven Erikson

    The Crippled God by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The Bonehunters march for Kolanse, led by Adjunct Tavore. This woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, will challenge the gods - if her own mutinous troops don't kill her first.Her enemy, the Forkrul Assail, seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate everything...
  • 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...
  • The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

    The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A mother struggling to repress her violent past,A son struggling to grasp his violent future,A father blind to the danger that threatens them all...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  magic  military  war  action-adventure  asian-mc  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson

    Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But the price of peace is a pact with a hidden power whose motives may be deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all lesser neighbors - except the Tiste Edur...
  • 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 . .
  • Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

    Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against its own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future...
  • Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint's soldiers. But escaping war is never easy, and soon the battle may find them, whether they are prepared or not.Back in the capital, Michel Bravis smuggles even more refugees out of the city. But internal forces are working against 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...
  • Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

    Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow...
  • 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...
  • 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..
  • A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

    A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  magic  military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • 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...
  • The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    This is the way the world ends... for the last time.The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy...
  • Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson

    Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world…In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies...
  • The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

    The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud...
  • Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

    Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following.Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company...
  • Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

    Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Springtime 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...
  • 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...
  • Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    An epic new fantasy series from Brian McClellan, set in the world of his wildly popular Powder Mage trilogy. A world on the cusp of a new age... The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers, and sorcerers seeking relics of the past...
  • Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in this epic fantasy tale of magic and gunpowder by acclaimed author Brian McClellan...
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

    The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    Logen 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  magic  war  action-adventure  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  female-mc  magic  military  war  action-adventure  alpha-mc
  • 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 Wolf's Call by Anthony Ryan

    The Wolf's Call by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling new story of razor-sharp action and epic adventure...
  • 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...
  • The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

    The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Guile 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...
  • Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

    Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best -- the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk - or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help...
  • Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames

    Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Live fast, die young.Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam jumps at the chance to sign on as their bard...
  • 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...
  • Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie

    Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie.Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law...
  • Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson

    Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Now is the time to tell the story of an ancient realm, a tragic tale that sets the stage for all the tales yet to come and all those already told...It's a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the realm of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to many a power. and even death is not quite eternal...
  • The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

    The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets...
  • 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...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  war  action-adventure  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Bestselling author Terry Goodkind's epic Sword of Truth series continues with the next stunning installment, PhantomOn the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end...
  • Salute the Dark by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Salute the Dark by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality. But Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire.The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must see which of his allies will stand now that the war has finally arrived...
  • Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes

    Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sam Sykes returns with a new fantasy that introduces to an unforgettable outcast magician caught between two warring empires. Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Cacophony. Once revered, now vagrant, she walks a wasteland scarred by generations of magical warfare...
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