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  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

    Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 99 ratings
    Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…A convict with a thirst for revenge.A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager...
  • Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

    Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 95 ratings
    Crooked Kingdom: the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope...
  • Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the first book in the wildly successful Mistborn trilogy, now in trade paperback. For a thousand years, ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible...
  • Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 97 ratings
    The Mists rule the night.The Lord Ruler owns the world.Once, a hero arose to save the world. A young man with a mysterious heritage courageously challenged the darkness that strangled the land.He failed.For a thousand years since, the world has been a wasteland of ash and mist ruled by the immortal emperor known as the Lord Ruler. Every revolt has failed miserably.Yet somehow, hope survives...
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...
  • Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

    Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise.She was wrong.In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep...
  • How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy: Miracle 3 by A.J. Sherwood

    How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy: Miracle 3 by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What’s Tan to do when he has to reclaim a holy sword he can’t touch? Call upon his White Knight to save him.What’s Devan to do when he learns the sword was stolen in order to defeat Tan? Save the poor fools from utter annihilation.Tan is not amused by this quest line. Devan can’t stop laughing...
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    epic  lgbtq  mlm  poc-mc  action-adventure  adult  asian-mc  book
  • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

    The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    This is the way the world ends. Again.Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter...
  • The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every heart is meant to break.THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves...
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    mlm  lgbtq  dark  epic  romance  fantasy  steampunk  industrial-era
  • From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 97 ratings
    A Maiden…Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods...
  • The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Trust is the thread that binds. And the rope that hangs.In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.Derossi Vargo has always known...
  • The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Missing girls. A plea for help she can’t ignore. An ancient enemy with plans of his own. Nine-year-old girls are missing from across the lands. Yvonne has promised to find them, and she always keeps her promises. Even when she doesn’t know where to start looking. There’s more trouble around. Mercenaries are disappearing...
  • A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

    A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival...
  • 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...
  • A Fae Coin Transported Me Into Another World and Now I'm the Gay Holy Maiden by A.J. Sherwood

    A Fae Coin Transported Me Into Another World and Now I'm the Gay Holy Maiden by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when you fall and hit the webtoons trope tree? You get killed by Truck-kun, get transported to a fantasy world by a sentient Fae coin, and become the first gay holy maiden.Jake Alexander is Not Happy to be sure. Fortunately in Jake’s case, part of the trope tree includes the gorgeous Duke of the North, Theon. And starting a business from scratch, which he’s always wanted to do...
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    mlm  lgbtq  found-family  dark  romance  fantasy  magic  fae
  • The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

    The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer...
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

    The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler...
  • Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  heist  lgbtq  abuse  action-adventure  audiobook  book
  • Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

    Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life...
  • Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time...
  • Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

    Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T...
  • The Holy Road by Ginn Hale

    The Holy Road by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa

    Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Master storyteller Julie Kagawa concludes the enthralling journey into the heart of the fantastical Empire of Iwagoto in the third book of the Shadow of the Fox trilogy. As darkness rises and chaos reigns, a fierce kitsune and her shadowy protector will face down the greatest evil of all. A captivating fantasy for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Sarah J. Maas and Marie Lu...
  • Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling

    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With the Leran threat laid to rest, Alec and Seregil are now able to turn their attention to the ancient evil which threatens their land. The Plenimarans, at war with Skalans, have decided to defeat their ancient enemy by raising up the Dead God, Seriamaius...
  • A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

    A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger.Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. Yet danger lurks on all sides...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  epic  poc-mc  action-adventure  audiobook  book  death
  • Grave Situation by Louisa Masters

    Grave Situation by Louisa Masters

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are you looking for......a snarky mage who’s forced to go on a quest to save the world with his twin sister (the dragon rider), and that one really hot healer who saved his life when he did something phenomenally stupid? Oh, and he's at war with his horse. She's winning.Meet Talon Silverbright. He's in a Grave Situation.He’s not the hero they deserve, but he’s the hero they’ve got. No, seriously...
  • The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only place of safety for the desperate has been destroyed.Yvonne has finally found a place to settle, where her children can grow, and she can think about her own future. Even as she celebrates, a shock rings across the world. Someone has attacked the Sisters in the Stone Walls...
  • King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

    King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    Face your demons... or feed them.The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army...
  • The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco

    The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life—and the fate of the kingdoms—hangs in the balance Tea is a bone witch with the dark magic needed to raise the dead. She has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost…and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals...
  • Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling

    Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Acclaimed author Lynn Flewelling brings her beloved Nightrunners series to a close—at least for now—with a thrilling novel of murder, mystery, and magic.  The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress have been killed inside a locked and guarded room...
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    dark  epic  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • Broken Fortress by Ginn Hale

    Broken Fortress by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Fates of Yoran by D.K. Holmberg

    The Fates of Yoran by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the Fates attack Yoran, the Chain Breaker must fight back.After establishing an uneasy truce with the constables, Gavin has settled in Yoran to offer protection to his friends and the remaining magical element in the city.When a job reveals a dangerous new threat in the city, Gavin must take action. This time the target isn’t Gavin, but the city itself...
  • Untolled by J.P. Valentine

    Untolled by J.P. Valentine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He came aboard a broken ship,To Lethis on the waves,With lies and tricks and evil spells,Their future, he would pave.Beware, oh King, the Nothing Mage,A force that pierces all,The golden bell that sings of death,‘Till lords and empires fall.In silent dark, in dead of night,He came in from the cold,And through their screams and dying gasps,The bell remained untolled...
    Categorized as:
    dark  lgbtq  mlm  epic  fantasy  magic  mystery  action-adventure
  • A Warrior's Knowledge by Davis Ashura

    A Warrior's Knowledge by Davis Ashura

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN-10: 099112765X / ISBN-13: 9780991127658."The redemption of the fallen man is neither easy nor quick. It is fraught with hardship and loss, and those who seek to aid someone traveling this twisted path might do best to journey ahead and light the way." (The Word and the Deed)Rukh Shektan has lost everything: his home, his standing, and his future...
  • Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

    Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns.Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother...
  • Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale

    Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 by Ginn Hale

    Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kiram fought his family and Cadeleonian bigots to remain in the Sagrada Academy to prove himself as a mechanist and to dispel the deadly shadow curse that threatens to destroy his upperclassman, Javier Tornesal.But when his efforts provoke retaliation, Kiram’s family and home are endangered. Both Kiram and Javier risk everything in a desperate gambit to combat the curse...
  • The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson

    Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In this sequel novella to Sorcery of Thorns, Elisabeth, Nathaniel, and Silas must unravel the magical trap keeping them inside Thorn Manor in time for their Midwinter Ball!Elisabeth Scrivener is finally settling into her new life with sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn...
  • Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book One by Ginn Hale

    Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book One by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy, Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose. But a violent death outside the ring marks Elezar as a wanted man and sends him into hiding in the far northern wilds of Labara...
  • Namesake by Adrienne Young

    Namesake by Adrienne Young

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and the rest of the crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when Fable becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme...
  • Bloodstone by David Gemmell

    Bloodstone by David Gemmell

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After 20 years, Jon Shannow, the legendary Jerusalem Man, returns for a deadly showdown with the fiendish Deacon, the vicious Jerusalem Riders, and a monstrous god that feeds on souls...
  • Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving...
  • Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard

    The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Artorin Damara is the Last Emperor of Astandalas and present Lord Magus of Zunidh. He is respected as a great mage, revered as a living god, regarded as the embodiment of power and wealth and majesty. Few have seen him in anything but the most resplendent garments; fewer still have ever looked him in the eyes...
  • Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau

    Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If your mind is the enemy, where do you run?Years after a harrowing war experience, ex-mercenary Jespar Dal'Varek has taken to drifting. It's a lonely existence, but, barring the occasional bout of melancholia, he has found the closest thing to peace a man like him deserves. Life is "all right."Or so he believes...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • Into the Dying Light by Katy Rose Pool

    Into the Dying Light by Katy Rose Pool

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Age of Darkness trilogy, hearts will shatter, cities will fall, and a god will rise. "Solidifies Katy Rose Pool's status as one of the best fantasy writers of the 21st century."—Popsugar on As the Shadow RisesFollowing the destruction of the City of Mercy, an ancient god has been resurrected and sealed inside Beru's body...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  found-family  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  audiobook  book
  • Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kahlil balances his loyalty to the Bousim house against the revelations of his past. Blood will be shed one-way or the other. While in the heights of Rathal’pesha, John adapts to the hardships of a warrior-priest’s life and secretly searches for anything that will return him and his friends back home...
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