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  • Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The final book in the trilogy.Douglas Kirk is having a bad week.Not only are groups of human hunters after him, whole werewolf packs have orders to kill him on sight, forcing him to flee Halifax without identification, money, weapons, or even his phone...
  • Breeds 2 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Breeds 2 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The jaws of winter are clamping down on the city of Halifax. As the light recedes, new terrors arise...Months after the war with Borland and his vicious were brood, Kirk and Morris are experiencing curious aftereffects. They're stronger, faster, and no longer vulnerable to the sharp sting of silver.There is one concern, however...
  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

    The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    A missing God.A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts...
  • I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain

    I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After helplessly witnessing the execution of his family, John is approached by a strange man that promises the power of revenge, for a price; his life for the ability to walk the mortal plane for eternity. Fast forward several hundred years where John finds himself with an unlikely ally, Father Thomes Philseep...
  • Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts DeadShadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex...
  • Low Town by Daniel Polansky

    Low Town by Daniel Polansky

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its cham­pion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer...
  • Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

    Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.No matter what she does she can’t save Louis...
  • Strange Magic by James A. Hunter

    Strange Magic by James A. Hunter

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Yancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there’s a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a demolition derby, and he’s been saran-wrapped to a banquet table. He never should have answered the phone. Stupid bleeding heart—helping others in his circles is a good way to get dead.Just ask the gang members ripped to pieces by some kind of demonic nightmare in LA...
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