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  • 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...
  • Stain by Neven Iliev

    Stain by Neven Iliev

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The world waits for no one. While Boxxy is off chasing shinies and delving dungeons abroad, Azurvale's shadows churn, fester, and ferment into a potent cocktail of trouble. Secret organizations maneuver behind the scenes, patiently advancing their nefarious plots. Government agencies lay in wait, ready to pounce at the first sign of trouble...
    Categorized as:
    magic  humor  litrpg  demons  steamy  dark  horror  heroic-fantasy
  • 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...
  • Teresa by Neven Iliev

    Teresa by Neven Iliev

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The war is in full swing. Following the unprecedented outcome of the siege at Fort Yimin, both the Republic and the Empire are forced to drastically reevaluate their plans for the conflict. With matters on the western front more or less settled for the moment, the warring nations turn their attention towards the eastern theatre...
    Categorized as:
    ai  crime  dark  dark-fantasy  demons  heroic-fantasy  horror  humor
  • 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...
  • Evil Overlord: The Makening by Michael McClung

    Evil Overlord: The Makening by Michael McClung

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If evil was easy, everybody would be doing it, and there would be more Dark Lords running around than you could shake a stick at. But the road to Utter Domination isn't easy, smooth or straight, as the boy who will one day become Gar the Pitiless will discover. He may one day rise to rule all he surveys - but first he'll have to survive a world that seems bent on his destruction...
  • Headpats After Dark: A cozy yandere romcom for men who like crazy vampire women by Virgil Knightley

    Headpats After Dark: A cozy yandere romcom for men who like crazy vampire women by Virgil Knightley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's the most beautiful woman he's ever met. She's also his archnemesis.It would be an understatement to call Trevon Beaumont an accomplished monster slayer. He's traversed the European countryside upholding the legacy of his clan one completed mission at a time for the whole of his adult life. Now he's on his most perilous quest slay the cruel but beautiful Countess Dracula...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  paranormal  humor  magic  horror  crime  dark  romance
  • The Hobgoblin Riot by Matt Dinniman

    The Hobgoblin Riot by Matt Dinniman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Popper, Jonah, Gretchen, and Alice are back! The Hobgoblin Riot, Dominion of Blades, Book 2. A litrpg adventure. CLUSTERF*CK clus·ter·f*ck \ ˈklə-stər-ˌfək \ vulgar slang. Noun. 1) a disastrously and utterly mishandled situation or undertaking. 2) Popper’s scouting mission to Castellane. It was supposed to be a simple scouting mission. In and out. No fighting. No new quests...
  • Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher

    Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As Vita's humanity slowly drips away, monsters fallen from an island above spread throughout her home. While she fights fellow horrors outside the city's walls, her family suffers threats from within them. Yet surely, there's no problem enough power can't solve... and if there's one thing eating souls is good for, it's power...
  • 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...
  • Dead Tired 2 by RavensDagger

    Dead Tired 2 by RavensDagger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the distant past, a time of magic and swordplay, there lived Harold, the mightiest lich of all, a master of arcane sciences, and a challenger of gods. After reaching the pinnacle of his power and finding it surprisingly bland, Harold waged a cataclysmic war against the gods, aiming to shatter the very system that confined him.He took a nap, but he is awake once more...
  • Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker

    Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all...
  • The Wurms of Blearmouth by Steven Erikson

    The Wurms of Blearmouth by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A new novella from New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Wurms of Blearmouth.Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. Tyrants abound on the verges of civilization, where disorder frays the rule of civil conduct and propriety surrenders to brutal imposition...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dark-fantasy  horror  humor  magic  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Small Chests Are Fine Too by Neven Iliev

    Small Chests Are Fine Too by Neven Iliev

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It is an undeniable fact that good things come in small packages. More often than not, it is necessary to trim the fat in order to bring what really matters to the forefront. Having extra bulk may seem like a good idea, but in reality it is merely a crutch that will one day become a hindrance, as it is no substitute for personality nor ability...
    Categorized as:
    humor  litrpg  horror  magic  monsters  steamy  dark  heroic-fantasy
  • Fire and Sword by Dylan Doose

    Fire and Sword by Dylan Doose

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Three men condemned to die: Aldous Weaver, a lonely heretic monk turned sorcerer, is imprisoned for accidentally incinerating the leader of his order. Kendrick the Cold, an infamous crusader turned fugitive, is a villain who knows he can never be a hero. Theron Ward, an aristocrat with a penchant for slaughtering monsters, is a legend in his own mind...
  • The Healthy Dead by Steven Erikson

    The Healthy Dead by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Things are going all too well in the city of Quaint. So well, in fact, that something has to be done. The zeal for goodness can be catastrophic, and no-one knows this better than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, two stalwart champions of all things bad...
  • Infernal Justice by N.P. Martin

    Infernal Justice by N.P. Martin

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a lightless world, only darkness can drive out darkness. My name is Ethan Drake and I’m a police detective…and I got plenty darkness to give. So does my partner, who’s a demon, and frankly, a royal pain in my ass. But occult investigators are in short supply in the PD, so what are you going to do? Anyway, we just caught a bodysnatching case that has the stench of occult workings all over it...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dark-fantasy  horror  humor  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings
  • The Lees of Laughter's End by Steven Erikson

    The Lees of Laughter's End by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the wake of their blissful sojourn in the city of Lamentable Moll, the intrepid sorcerors Bauchelain and Korbal Broach — along with their newly hired manservant, Emancipor Reese — have set out on the wide open seas aboard the sturdy Suncurl...
  • The Fiends of Nightmaria by Steven Erikson, David Gentry

    The Fiends of Nightmaria by Steven Erikson, David Gentry

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Fiends of Nightmaria is a new novella from New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.The king is dead, long live King Bauchelain the First, crowned by the Grand Bishop Korbal Broach. Both are, of course, ably assisted in the running of the Kingdom of Farrog by their slowly unravelling servant, Emancipor Reese...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dark-fantasy  horror  humor  magic  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Blood Follows by Steven Erikson

    Blood Follows by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    All is not well in Lamentable Moll. A sinister, diabolical killer stalks the port city's narrow, barrow-humped streets, and panic grips the citizens like a fever. Emancipor Reese is no exception, and indeed, with his legendary ill luck, it's worse for him than for most. Not only was his previous employer the unknown killer's latest victim, but Emancipor is out of work...
  • The Builders by Daniel Polansky

    The Builders by Daniel Polansky

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A missing eye.A broken wing.A stolen country.The last job didn't end well.Years go by, and scars fade, but memories only fester. For the animals of the Captain's company, survival has meant keeping a low profile, building a new life, and trying to forget the war they lost. But now the Captain's whiskers are twitching at the idea of evening the score...
  • River of Thieves by Clayton W. Snyder

    River of Thieves by Clayton W. Snyder

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We were the worst kind of people. For the best reasons.After a robbery gone horribly wrong, cursed thief Cord broadens his horizons and plans to execute the heist of a lifetime. With fellow thief and knife connoisseur Nenn in tow, the two build their ragtag crew to target the heart of the kingdom - Midian, the seat of tyrant King Anaxos Mane...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dark-fantasy  humor  action-adventure  adult  book  comedy  epic
  • The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand

    The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters...
  • Villains Pride by M.K. Gibson

    Villains Pride by M.K. Gibson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Shadowmaster is back . . . whether you wanted him to be or not! Jackson Blackwell, The Shadowmaster, is in over his head this time. After his last adventure, where he tore fantasy novels a new one, Jackson has to deal with the repercussions of angry gods, angrier conspirators, and the wrath of his pregnant girlfriend! (I know . .
  • Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson

    Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The first three tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, the famed necromancers from the Malazan Book of the Fallen, collected in one volume...
  • Villains Rule by M.K. Gibson

    Villains Rule by M.K. Gibson

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hi, how are you? Yes, I am talking to you, the reader of the this book’s description. It’s rude not to answer a person when they ask you a question. OK, I get it, 4th wall breaking is overdone. Get over it. This book, Villains Rule, is a fantasy action-comedy which you have to read. Not because it redefines the genre, far from it. But rather for what it contains. A villain’s tale...
  • Orcs by Stan Nicholls

    Orcs by Stan Nicholls

    Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Combining the acclaimed trilogy of books, Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder, and Warriors of the Tempest, plus a new short story previously only available in a small press anthology, this is the entire story of Stryke and his band of Orcs. Fantasy's bad guys finally get their own say in this fast moving, action-packed, tongue-in-cheek tale of Orc valour and human treachery...
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