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  • Winter by Marissa Meyer

    Winter by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land...
  • Cress by Marissa Meyer

    Cress by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker...
  • Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Death Stalks Them All... Kere is the second most infamous member of the shadow organization known as Sentella. An explosive engineer who strikes terror into the hearts of the League, the bounty on his head is truly staggering. No one knows his true identity.The daughter of a traitor, Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell- her family hunted to the brink of extinction...
  • Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The war is on...Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella- an organization that has declared war on the League that rules the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrifies it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one...
  • Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name.Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again.But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war...
  • Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

    Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 89 ratings
    Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing...
  • Spurn by Jaymin Eve

    Spurn by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A paranormal romance series.An epic journey.If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?Book two in the Walker Saga follows Abigail and her friends as they tame the world of Spurn.‘Go to Spurn,’ she was told.Oh, and by the way the planet is ninety-five percent water and the inhabitants are hybrid fish. Of course, no one seems to care that Abigail can’t swim...
  • Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Every Life Has A Price™One of the fiercest soldiers the Phrixians have ever produced, Maris Sulle has been an outsider from the moment he was born different from the rest of his royal military family. And once his deadly secret was exposed, it cost him everything—his birthright, his family, and his stellar military career...
  • Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

    Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic...
  • Under Different Stars by Amy A. Bartol

    Under Different Stars by Amy A. Bartol

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Winner of four 2014 UtopYA Awards, including Best Book of the Year and Best Sci-Fi Book of the YearKricket Hollowell never wished upon stars. She was too busy hiding in plain sight, eluding Chicago’s foster care system. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she now eagerly anticipates the day she’ll stop running and finally find her place in the world...
  • Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since...
  • Thirteen Rising by Romina Russell

    Thirteen Rising by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Romina Russell’s epic sci-fi fantasy series reaches its breathtaking conclusion with this fourth and final novel.The master has been unmasked. Rho’s world has been turned upside down...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Black Moon by Romina Russell

    Black Moon by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Book 3 in the breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. One final secret stands between Rho and the enemy...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  myths  action-adventure  aliens  audiobook  book  drama  epic
  • Sea of Stars by Amy A. Bartol

    Sea of Stars by Amy A. Bartol

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Eighteen-year-old Kricket Hollowell was looking for her place in the world when she discovered that the universe was bigger—and more dangerous—than she had ever dreamed. Now, whisked across space to the planet Ethar, Kricket learns that her genetic ability to see the future makes her a sought-after commodity…and the catalyst for war between her star-crossed parents’ clans...
  • Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. Orphaned, disgraced, and stripped of her title, Rho is ready to live life quietly, as an aid worker in the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn...
  • Blood Finale by Connie Suttle

    Blood Finale by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "We have won, brother. The Three are no more and those who remain have clearly reached a stalemate in combatting the General and his army. All that is left for us to do is take everything and let chaos rule. I only wait for Calhoun to return so we might continue our search for Kiarra. A promise was made to us and I will see it fulfilled."The countdown for the final battle begins...
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer

    Cinder by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 100 ratings
    Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness...
  • Primal by Laurie Roma

    Primal by Laurie Roma

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reva Golaris is a Helios shifter who has lost everything. After her mother and two of her fathers were killed in a brutal attack on New Vega, she has no time to grieve. Her need to avenge their deaths drives her into a killing rage that no one can stop. Not even the one male she has dreamed of giving her heart to…the brother of her enemy...
  • Finder by Connie Suttle

    Finder by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dead god. A dying world. A girl never meant to be sentient. Siriaa is dying. A poison is spreading throughout the planet and none know how to neutralize it. Finder, working in King Tamblin's castle kitchen most of her life, has never spoken. A child of questionable parentage, Finder is an orphan assigned to perform duties nobody else wants...
  • Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

    Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In this epic sequel to Once & Future, to save the future, Ari and her Rainbow knights pull off a heist...thousands of years in the past.Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun...
  • Queen's Ransom: The Golden Bulls of Minos by Isabel Wroth

    Queen's Ransom: The Golden Bulls of Minos by Isabel Wroth

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jalia hasn't ever played a game she can't win. The Promise of a Queen's Ransom is too much for life-long gambler Jalia to pass up. The untouched planet of Minos is rumored to be so wealthy, one can walk along the beach and pluck diamonds from the sea. According to the contract, all she has to do to win is solve a few puzzles and navigate a labyrinth or two...
    Categorized as:
    myths  action-adventure  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  epic
  • First World by Jaymin Eve, Eva Kaminsky

    First World by Jaymin Eve, Eva Kaminsky

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23...
  • COVID-128 by Marissa Meyer

    COVID-128 by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Surprise! I wrote a new Lunar Chronicles short story, inspired by the prompt from @fiercereads asking what our characters would be doing during a time of social distancing...
  • Keeper by Connie Suttle

    Keeper by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Finder—Quin—when did you find your voice?" Sofi asked. "I have had it many years," I said with a sigh. "When it came, I was too afraid to speak." "You knew too much," Wolter nodded. "Too much," I agreed. Siriaa, already in its death throes, is further damaged by a ruthless politician and a rogue wizard. Quin needs powerful help to save it...
  • Dragon's Kiss by Miranda Martin, Juno Wells

    Dragon's Kiss by Miranda Martin, Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A Dragon Hunter for me? No way. Olivia thinks it's impossible that the outrageously tall Zmaj with steely blue eyes would fall for her. A former data analyst, now she's just another human crash survivor on the harsh and alien desert planet. Smart, curvaceous Olivia doesn't feel like she measures up but that doesn't stop Ragnar from eyeing her luscious curves...
  • BlackWing by Connie Suttle

    BlackWing by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Quin: Finder, healer, student, teacher, lover, pirate— BlackWing "My life in Gungl began a moon-turn later, when I was finally able to pull myself out of bed without crushing grief slamming into me and causing me to collapse. The following day, my plan for revenge against Vardil Cayetes, the man responsible for Siriaa's destruction, began...
  • Complete Control by L.V. Lane

    Complete Control by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anna had never met an Alpha...until the day her city fell to an Uncorrupted attack. Injured, loaded with pain-suppressants, and exhausted after a night spent fleeing, it was the worst possible time to find herself plastered against a man like Hudson....And the worst possible time to reveal her Omega dynamic...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  myths  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  dark  death
  • Aberration by Cathy McCrumb

    Aberration by Cathy McCrumb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Freedom Awaits, but the Consortium is WatchingWhen rogue drones threaten citizens and the ship’s crew falls ill, the Recorder answers their call for help, once again drawing scrutiny from the Consortium...
  • The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer

    The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It is time. The boy must leave his family to serve in the Queen's army. To be chosen is an honor. To decline is impossible. The boy is modified. He is trained for several years, and learns to fight to the death. He proves to the Queen—and to himself—that he is capable of evil. He is just the kind of soldier the Queen wants: the alpha of his pack...
  • Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud

    Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two identical girls, one a princess, the other a rebel. Who will rule the empire?After being swept up into the brutal Vathek court, Amani, the ordinary girl forced to serve as the half-Vathek princess's body double, has been forced into complete isolation...
  • The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

    The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes.Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost...
  • Rion by Susan Kearney

    Rion by Susan Kearney

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    POWER IN THEIR PASSION Marisa Rourke is a beautiful, fearless telepath who tames dragonshapers on Earth. Rion is a tall, dark, and sexy space explorer whose home planet is a galaxy away. The attraction between them is undeniable, but Rion is hiding a desperate secret that will change Marisa's life forever...
  • Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

    Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Princess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown used to being cold...
  • Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn

    Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    This is a standalone sequel to Archangel, set 150 years later in proverbially interesting times. Samaria is industrialized; the Manadavvi and Jansai are wealthier; the Edori are marginalized, their roaming lifestyle disrupted; and Jovah seems to be turning a deaf ear to his angels' prayers for abatement of increasingly destructive storms...
  • Shoot the Messenger by Pippa DaCosta

    Shoot the Messenger by Pippa DaCosta

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "Lies aren't her only weapons against the fae..."In the Halow system, one of Earth’s three sister star systems, tek and magic—humans and the fae—are at war.Kesh Lasota is a ghost in the machine. Invisible to tek, she’s hired by the criminal underworld to carry illegal messages through the Halow system...
  • Jaran by Kate Elliott

    Jaran by Kate Elliott

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The first book of Kate Elliott’s epic Novels of the Jaran, set in an alien-controlled galaxy where a young woman seeks to find her own life and love, but is tied to her brother’s revolutionary fateIn the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar...
  • Fairest by Marissa Meyer

    Fairest by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power...
  • The Little Android by Marissa Meyer

    The Little Android by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Little Android is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, set in the world of The Lunar Chronicles by New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer.When android Mech6.0 saves the life of a handsome hardware engineer, her body is destroyed and her mechanics discover a glitch in her programming...
  • The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

    The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Frozen meets Mad Max in this epic teen fantasy duology bursting with star-crossed romance, immortal heroines, and elemental magic, perfect for fans of Furyborn.Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister’s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two...
  • Break Out by Nina Croft

    Break Out by Nina Croft

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Break Out by Nina Croft The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they've discovered the secret of immortality—Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon evolves. The Collective, as they're called, rule the universe...
  • The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

    The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Altin Meade is a sorcerer with a curse. Seeking to avoid a looming doom, he sets his magical sights on the stars—a quest that will likely bring about the very end he's seeking to escape.Far across the galaxy, Ensign Orli Pewter of planet Earth has a looming doom of her own—one of loneliness, depression and, worse, a race of genocidal aliens known as Hostiles seeking to destroy humanity...
  • Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

    Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power—something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  action-adventure  aliens  audiobook  book  dark  death  drama
  • Zodiac by Romina Russell

    Zodiac by Romina Russell

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    At the dawn of time, there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now only 12 remain…. Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, Rho can’t solve for ‘x’ to save her life—so instead, she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories...
  • Mirage by Somaiya Daud

    Mirage by Somaiya Daud

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon...
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