Books like 'Spells & Chrome'
Readers who enjoyed Spells & Chrome by John Helfers, Michael A. Stackpole, J.M. Hardy, Jason Schmetzer, Steven Mohan Jr., Stephen Dedman, Steve Kenson, Phaedra Weldon, Kevin Killiany, Matt Forbeck, William H. Keith & Jean Rabe also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York... -
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Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI crave my nightmares.I crave the shadows.I don’t want the light if it doesn’t include them…The human terror organization MAM has come to our doorstep—we just don’t know what they want... -
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Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsKate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in... -
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Demon Escape by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines... -
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![Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab]()
Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsTHE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in... -
![The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross]()
The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires... -
![When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy]()
When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEverything I thought I knew about my world has been shattered.The only constant are the four Monsters keeping me and my people safe.Nothing else is certain.No path is clear. So what do we do?We forge our own.Action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance... -
![Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White]()
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPrepare to die. His kingdom is near.Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with... -
![Soul Eater by Lily Mayne]()
Soul Eater by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsM/M Fantasy Romance. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater... -
![Demon Ember by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza]()
Demon Ember by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMya’s world is falling apart. After a series of earthquakes, deadly animals with glowing red eyes begin attacking people and start the spread of a zombie-like plague. Safety is just a memory as she tries to make her way home. When a different creature attacks the people helping her reach Oklahoma City, Mya is sure she’ll never see the light of another day... -
![This Savage Song by Victoria E. Schwab]()
This Savage Song by Victoria E. Schwab
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsThere’s no such thing as safe.Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she’s finally going home to prove that she can be.August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn’t. He’s a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He’s one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father’s secret weapon... -
![Demon Ash by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza]()
Demon Ash by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe world is nothing like Mya remembers. While in Ernisi, cities have been bombed and burned in an attempt to stop the hellhounds and the plague. The survivors are doing everything they can to win back their world from the hell that was unleashed with the first quake. With Drav's help, Mya reunites with her family, but they are far from safe... -
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The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsIn his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos... -
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To Beat the Devil by M.K. Gibson, C.T. Phipps
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.175 years have passed since God quit on mankind. Without his blessing, Hell itself, along with the ancient power of The Deep, were unleashed upon the world. Two world wars and oceans of blood later, a balance was reached. Demonkind took its place as the ruling aristocracy... -
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![Alpha Wolf by Sarah Noffke]()
Alpha Wolf by Sarah Noffke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve men went missing. Six months later they awake from drug-induced stupors to find themselves locked in a lab. And on the night of a new moon, eleven of those men, possessed by new-and inhuman-powers, break out of their prison and race through the streets of Los Angeles until they disappear one by one into the night. Olento Research wants its experiments back... -
![Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse]()
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsWhile most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope... -
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Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThey came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.Monsters.Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it’s taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe... -
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Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt seventeen, Dawn Montgomery knows that monsters really do come out at night—after all, they are her job... -
![The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross]()
The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry - the British secret agency that fights supernatural threats - must team up with the police force, with one unfortunate secret agent caught in the middle.PLAYING WITH DANGERDr. Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'...Categorized as:
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Feed by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED...Categorized as:
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![Havoc of Souls by S.J. Sanders]()
Havoc of Souls by S.J. Sanders
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe world went silent when the mist came. Following a sonic blast heard around the world as the gates of Aites were thrown open, the mist clung to the mortal world, but it was not empty. Creatures dwelled within the mist, and when the mist left, they remained. Yet, with the ravagers another came forth... -
![Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton]()
Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAri can't help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can't be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is. Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run... -
![The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent]()
The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOne spark will rise.Nina Kane was born to be an exorcist. And since uncovering the horrifying truth—that the war against demons is far from over—seventeen-year-old Nina and her pregnant younger sister, Mellie, have been on the run, incinerating the remains of the demon horde as they go... -
![Zombie Island by Lori Handeland]()
Zombie Island by Lori Handeland
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the follow-up to Shakespeare Undead, vampire William Shakespeare and his Dark Ladyare stranded on a mystical island where zombies are plentiful and one man will stop at nothing to become all-powerfulFresh from a triumphant battle over the zombie horde that invaded London, vampire William Shakespeare concocts a plot to rid the love of his life from the encumbrance of her husband... -
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![Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen]()
Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.Meet Sarah and David.Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things -- the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fact that their counselor, Dr... -
![Nightfall by Ellen Connor]()
Nightfall by Ellen Connor
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFirst in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true... -
![Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder by Derek Gunn]()
Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder by Derek Gunn
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the first book in Derek Gunn's Vampire Apocalypse series.The war is over and the Vampires have won. The drying up of the world's oil resources leads to the fabled End of Days. Technology stagnates and communities grow ever more insular... -
![The Infects by Sean Beaudoin, Nick Podehl]()
The Infects by Sean Beaudoin, Nick Podehl
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLength: 9 hours / 8 CDsA feast for the brain, this gory and genuinely hilarious take on zombie culture simultaneously skewers, pays tribute to, and elevates the horror genre.Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an “Inward Trek... -
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Bloodlands by Christine Cody
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe New Badlands—a desolate area in the West forged by the terrible events that altered the entire country, where a few frightened citizens retreated underground to shelter from the brutal weather... and from a society gone deadly dangerous.Then the vampire arrived—and they started calling it the Bloodlands... -
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Deadtown by Nancy Holzner
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIf you were undead, you'd be home by now...They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human...Categorized as:
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![Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar]()
Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sensational Amazon.com Kindle Bestseller- now in paperback. #1 Science Fiction and #1 Horror on the Kindle store. Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters...Categorized as:
dystopia paranormal action-adventure alternate-history apocalyptic book dark dark-fantasy
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