Books like 'Irredeemable, Vol. 1'
Readers who enjoyed Irredeemable, Vol. 1 by Mark Waid also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Worm by Wildbow
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals... -
The Cheat Code by Misba
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter the terrible encounters with the war heroes, the Intuitionist, Kusha, is on the verge of breaking all promises she gave to her friends and family. Worse: both the war heroes might become aware of her power—her intuition, for she is their shortcut, for she is their cheat code. Both the Mesmerizer and the Monk need cheat codes to win at their games...Categorized as:
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When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who is determined to take down the black market once and for all in the conclusion to the trilogy that started with the critically acclaimed Not Even Bones.Nita finally has Fabricio, the boy who betrayed her to the black market, within her grasp... -
Court of the Shifter by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis gorgeous vampire princess hates me, but that’s probably because the prophecy foretells that she must bear my children…One day, I was just a park ranger in Idaho. I liked my job, but my life wasn’t particularly exciting.Then I fell into an underground spring and landed in another world.A fantasy world full of vampires, shifters, and monsters... -
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The Tower by J.L. Bryan, Carla Mercer-Meyer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEllie's new case takes her far out of town to a historic but crumbling 19th-century skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. The reclusive, once-prominent family living at the top of the tower are experiencing paranormal disturbances that grow more threatening by the day... -
The Duelist 4 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlex has once again increased his Duelist rank and the size of his holdings and estates.He’s also become quite enamored with one of the Asher Lord’s mage sisters, but more and more mysteries and questions keep popping up in the world of Aventoll.Alex will have to keep his wits about him to stay one step ahead of his enemies, and he might even have to leave Nata Isle to find the answers he seeks... -
Unleashed Magic: A Wizard in Bremen Part 2 by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows about them. No one is ready. The false gods are coming. In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon. That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl. What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good whisky and relax got shot to hell within hours when the police, who hate me by the way, begged for my help... -
The Escape by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRenegade Unbounded are the last line of defense between the ruthless Emporium and unsuspecting humanity, but how long can they continue the struggle alone?Three weeks of waiting to free their allies from an Emporium compound in New York City have Erin Radkey and her Renegade friends on edge...Categorized as:
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A Warrior's Knowledge by Davis Ashura
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlternate 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...Categorized as:
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Deathly Temperance by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fae queen is beautiful. Too bad it's only skin deep... Temperance is the queen of the fae. After tasting true power at the hands of an evil mage, she's bent on ruling the Netherworld. She wants it all...and she wants it now.The chief of the Netherworld PPD calls all hands on deck to fight this new threat. But there's a problem... -
Dead Man's Tide by D.J. Bodden, James Hunter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViridian Gate Online is more than just a game… and now, it's Alan Campbell’s whole world. Recently deceased and squishy as hell, Alan, a newly minted Illusionist, is forced to flee for his life. He needs time to deal with his loss, both in-game and IRL, but first he’ll have to escape his crazy ex, the treacherous Firebrand, Thalia Daceran... -
Inquisitor's Foil by D.J. Bodden, James Hunter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's a part-time Imperial hero, full-time thief. Lucky for him, she's not that kind of Inquisitor.Illusionist and novice spy Alan Campbell just got out of one relationship only to have another woman walk into his life: the Lady Camilla Favonius of the Imperial Inquisition. He's close to broke and left without orders. She wears plate armor in the field and around her heart... -
The Duelist 3 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex has defeated another one of his enemies in Archus Doler, but evil still lurks in the shadows of Nata Isle.Lord Asher Mec invites his two beautiful magical sisters to help investigate, but Alex and his family are still in danger.And he’ll stop at nothing to keep them safe... -
Night's Favor by Richard Parry
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBad hangovers don’t usually come with a pile of bodies.Valentine surfaces after a drunken night to find drug megacorp Biomne has unleashed hired guns to bring Val in: no questions, and no witnesses. A criminally insane Russian's also hungering at his heels. Could one ravening sociopath be worse than an army?Val's newfound strength and speed might not be enough to save him... -
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Ghosts of the Erlyn by C.J. Aaron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAwakened. Enlightened. The Harvest fast approaches.Ryl and his companions hasten for the annual ceremony, determined to set in motion an event certain to rock Damaris to its core. Only days remain with many miles to navigate.Armed with new knowledge and plagued by lingering doubts, the path forward has proven more complicated than anticipated. The reality and the truth are far more convoluted... -
Nomad Soul by D.J. Bodden, James A. Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you had to choose between your life and your dreams, would you ever wake up? Alan Campbell thought he’d gotten his dream job working on a revolutionary VRMMORPG with Osmark Technologies, until the project was canceled... -
Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLe esplosive rivelazioni di Defy Me hanno lasciato i lettori sconvolti e alla disperata ricerca di risposte. Grazie alla novella Reveal Me, avranno l’opportunità di tornare nell’universo di Shatter Me e di scoprire attraverso la voce di Kenji cos’è accaduto tra lui e Nazeera prima dell’incredibile finale di Imagine Me... -
Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much... -
Trading into Darkness by C.M. Simpson, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA face from the past, an attempted theft, and a death threat: Just what every girl needs to make a bad day better. Everyone has the ability to do magic, but not everyone can... Marsh knows the saying well.What she doesn’t expect is that there are some forms of magic she just can’t master... -
Storm Unbound by Leo Hull
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a washed-up recruit find himself and his way home? Tristan never wanted to be a Bolstered soldier. He wanted the easy city life.Now he is stuck in a land filled with wild women, exotic magic, and dark dangers. His beautiful commander—his only way back and the one person with any faith in him—has caught the eye of a freakish crime lord backed by shadowy powers... -
Tower of Ruin by Wolfe Locke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTell me, Daniel can you kill a god? A tower, perched on the edge of infinity.A man, doomed to wander its floors eternally.A mission, where the balance of the world is at stake.Daniel is a trapped soul. His life has one purpose - survive floor after floor of enemies determined to destroy him. But when a Dark Lord with his own agenda arrives offering a second chance at life, everything changes...Categorized as:
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The Reckoning by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly One Can Survive The Reckoning Erin Radkey has always known the day would come when she would have to personally confront the Triad leader of the power-hungry Emporium. But she never thought it would be with a snake in her head that feeds on her energy. Or that she’d be in the company of an uncertain ally who might turn on her at any moment... -
Into the Darkness by J.P. Valentine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThrough all of Linaria, no dungeon holds such a grip on the dreams of men as the Eternal Depths. Hundreds throw themselves against its trials each day. Dozens survive, walking away with power and wealth beyond their wildest dreams… until they go back for more. One way or another, they all eventually feed the Depths.Edmund Montgomery Ahab has sworn to destroy it... -
The Rose Society by Marie Lu
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsOnce upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.Adelina Amouteru’s heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she flees Kenettra with her sister to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies... -
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Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 1 by Tahereh Mafi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Destroy Me vengono narrate, dal punto di vista di Warner, le vicende che si verificano tra Shatter Me e Unravel Me. Nonostante Juliette gli abbia sparato per poter fuggire, Warner non riesce a smettere di pensarci e nulla gli impedirà di riportarla da lui. Ma con l’arrivo del comandante supremo della Restaurazione, è chiaro che quest’ultimo ha piani ben diversi per Juliette... -
Queen of the Demonweb Pits by Paul Kidd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevisiting classic adventures has been extremely successful. "Queen of the Demonweb Pits" was one of the most popular adventures ever created for the Dungeons & Dragons game. This novelization appeals to those who have played through the adventure, as well as to those who have an interest in drow elves--one of the most popular races in the game... -
The Calling by Louise G. White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the run and hiding from ‘the suits’, Carolyn’s life is far from straightforward. After her mother and brother go missing in a most extraordinary way, (through a hole to another world which appears in the kitchen wall!), she is determined to track them down and bring them home... -
TIME MAGE by Rob Nolan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you can stop time, you can do whatever you want. Rylan can slow down time, then act while the rest of the world is frozen. He can pluck arrows from the air, win any fist fight, save innocents from certain death. Then a goblin army attacked his village... -
Adamant by Emma L. Adams
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFew people know twenty-one year old Ada Fletcher is actually from another universe. After a devastating magical war tore apart her homeworld, she and her family were forced to defy the Inter-World Alliance and hide on the low-magic Earth. Stuck in a dead-end job in London, Ada has spent her life hiding her real identity and risking her safety to help others from her homeworld... -
The Devil in Green by Mark Chadbourn
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHumanity has emerged, blinking, from the Age of Misrule into a world substantially changed: cities lie devasted, communications are limited, anarchy rages across the land. Society has been thrown into a new Dark Age where superstition holds sway. The Tuatha De Danaan roam the land once more, their terrible powers dwarfing anything mortals have to offer... -
Chasm by Stephen Laws
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the ordinary town of Edmonville a tremor hits, followed by a second devastating tremor, then darkness. The next morning, the survivors discover that most of the town has disappeared into an enormous crevasse.As they struggle to survive, one by one people start to disappear without trace... -
Finding You by Lydia Albano
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaken from home and family, all they have is each other.Isla is kidnapped from a train platform in broad daylight, and thrust into a nightmare when she is sold to a sadistic aristocrat. Locked in a dungeon with a dozen other girls, Isla's only comfort is a locket and the memory of the boy she loves. But as days pass and more girls disappear, she realizes that help is not coming.. -
Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit by K.J. Parker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA talented bookbinder is tasked with creating a copy of a text so inflammatory it threatens to alter the very existence of Truth itself... -
The Gods of Vice by Devin Madson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo emperors. One empire.The war for the Crimson Throne has split Kisia. In the north Otako supporters rally around their champion, but Katashi Otako wants only vengeance. Caught in the middle, Hana must decide between her family and her heart... -
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Lord of the Trees by Philip José Farmer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath will come to me as to every man. But until that moment I will live as if I were the strongest of all living thingsHe is James Cloamby, Viscount Grandrith. The one and only. The white monkey of the jungle. Slayer of wild beasts and righter of wrongs. Last of the wild men. Lord of the trees. Pristine spirit of darkest Africa... -
All Darling Children by Katrina Monroe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll boys grow up, except one.On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Madge Darling’s grandmother suffers a heart attack. With the overbearing Grandma Wendy in the hospital, Madge runs away to Chicago, intent on tracking down a woman she believes is actually her mother... -
The Narrowing Path by David J. Normoyle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOut of over a hundred teenage boys, only six will be found worthy by the leaders of the great families; the rest will perish, one way or another.Not only is thirteen-year-old Bowe Bellanger younger and weaker than the rest, he has no family to support him. He is expected to die on the very first day of the Narrowing Path... -
Mercenaries of Gor by John Norman
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrepared to regain the favor of the Priest Kings by fighting in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot confronts the challenge of surviving the war. Having devised a war strategy, Cabot is ready to execute his plan with help from warriors, free women, and slave women... -
The House of the Stone by Amy Ewing
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn The Jewel, we followed Violet in her servitude under the Duchess of the Lake. Now we'll hear Raven's story and her time as a surrogate for the Countess of the Stone in this digital novella from Amy Ewing.When Raven is bought at the Auction, she knows immediately that things will not go well... -
Renegades of Gor by John Norman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe maritime ubarate of Cos and her allies are mounting an attack on Ar on two fronts--from the South with a major invasion force and in the North with an expeditionary force besieging Ar's Station, Ar's base of power in the vast arable basin of Gor's mightiest river, the Vosk... -
Vagabonds of Gor by John Norman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the continental war matters proceed apace, to the advantage of Cos. Cabot, and his friend, Marcus, of Ar's Station, who have been spying for Ar in the Cosian encampments, now seek the long-inert forces of Ar, to report acquired intelligence to their commander, Saphronicus, who proves to be of the treasonous party of Ar. Cabot and Marcus are placed under arrest, as spies... -
Dead Blood: Book One by Jay Bower
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEternal life comes with its own set of problems. Walking corpses wasn’t one of them.Dorian awakens and discovers the world turned a little bit more…uncivilized.The undead roam the Earth, infecting humans and turning their bodies into useless sacks of decaying flesh.For a vampire, hunting for sustenance wasn’t so literal of a term…until now... -
Reversion: The Inevitable Horror by J. Thorn
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith a noose around his neck, Samuel arrives in a forest littered with caution tape and artifacts of the deceased. He struggles to regain his memory while fending off a pack of wolves and the mysterious visitors who seem to know more about this dying world than he does... -
Masks by E.C. Blake
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMasks, the first novel in a mesmerizing new fantasy series, draws readers into a world in which cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima—the one land blessed with magical resources—cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives... -
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Amber Magic by B.V. Larson
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming...The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers...
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