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Moth by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen I—along with my best friend and his big purple monster boyfriend—come across a fortress-like raider camp while journeying across the monster-infested Wastes, we stop to deliver a message.Somehow, that simple pit stop turns into a seemingly impossible quest to get this camp’s missing leader out of the prison where he’s being held and forced to fight monsters and other humans...Categorized as:
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Into Hell by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRiver, When I find myself face to face with Lucifer, I realize that what he wants from me could destroy Hell and the world. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for those I love, but I’m not sure I can do what is necessary to stop Lucifer’s plans… even if I’m the only one who can. Kobal, As the battle for Hell rages, the line between enemies and allies blurs... -
A Soul to Touch: Duskwalker Brides: Book Three by Opal Reyne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll Mayumi ever wanted was to hunt Demons.After being discharged from the Demonslayer guild, Mayumi chose to isolate herself within the forest. The best place to hunt and kill Demons. But, one night, she’s surprised when a different monster is lured by her baits.Just before she unleashes an arrow that’s aimed to kill, Mayumi pauses... -
Seraph by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsI’ve already mentally prepared myself to kill the screaming, murderous monster in the cage outside our camp.I’m used to it. It’s what I do here. Kill monsters and other people. And this monster, Seraph, is particularly unstable—has been since the moment he arrived from Collector Mary’s monster menagerie to the west, where the military stashed him away.He’s in pain. I can see it...Categorized as:
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Magic Strikes - Hot Tub (Curran POV #5) by Ilona Andrews, Gordan Andrews
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPublished in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV... -
Endless Knight by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this second book thrilling book of The Arcana Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, Evie struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world—or destroy it.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all...Categorized as:
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Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCritter wrangler rule #7: Some monsters just have to die.Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail…or six feet in the ground.For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about... -
Death Before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHello Diary,Not sure when I will have a chance to write again, so I’ll have to make this fast.The search for my brother has been a long one and what I have seen along the way makes me question everything I was taught to believe about people and reinforces what my father said might happen if an apocalyptic event were to occur... -
Edge of the Darkness by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBaleDreams of the darkness have haunted me since childhood. I always assumed one day I would uncover the answer to what the darkness hid... and that those answers would destroy me.However, after learning who my mate is, I know it won’t be the darkness that kills me… it will be him.No matter what happens, I plan to take Wrath with me when I die... -
Lor by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy role as Moric—ruler of a small and prosperous fiefdom in a quiet corner of the world—has always been painfully dull and stifling.Until a beautiful, otherworldly creature with pink skin and a mane of golden hair falls through a strange void that has appeared in my guestroom.And I am instantly captivated by him.I have never seen anything like him... -
A Monstrous Christmas in the Camp by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis short sees the Nebraska camp celebrating a (late) Christmas, with lots of food and gift-giving and *ahem* other stuff.Christmas novella featuring the POV of every Monstrous lad so far... -
Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsCan Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge most wicked...Categorized as:
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Carved by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRiver,As the perilous journey across a country I’d long thought destroyed begins, I don’t know who I am anymore or what I’m becoming. My abilities grow stronger with each passing day, as does the fear of what comes next. All I know is that I will do anything to avoid becoming like Lucifer, and to protect those I love, even if that means protecting them from me...Categorized as:
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Dark Fire by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAzar has taken over Fort Dallas. He rules with complete authority, and everyone bows down to him.Everyone except one woman. Melina, the fort's medic. No matter what he offers, she refuses to give in. A good man would know to stop asking. Unfortunately for Melina, Azar is not a good man...Categorized as:
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Born With a Silver Moon by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDiscover a brand new race of Alpha males ready to find their mates in a dangerous warrior planet. Sassy women traveling with Gerri Wilder are in for the journey of a lifetime and a mate that will love them through the galaxy. Are you ready? Grab the next Galaxan romance between a sexy warrior and his fiery mate... -
Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLosses mount and deadly new threats converge in this next action-packed tale of the Arcana Chronicles by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole. When the battle is done . . . The Emperor unleashes hell and annihilates an army, jeopardizing the future of mankind--but Circe strikes back...Categorized as:
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From Burning Ashes by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis war is not being played on a battlefield.Killed by the man she loves, not even death is kind to Zoey. Neither life nor her fae powers will let her go in peace. In this final installment, Zoey’s strength, determination, and trust are put to the ultimate test... -
Gloam by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him...Categorized as:
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Wyn by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsI am a monster.A ghoul. A demon. The bogeyman. I have been called all of them. Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. They are terrified of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we—the monsters from their nightmares—flooded through in our droves.There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me... -
The Rycke by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife as a raider in the Wastes, where monsters roam and the military lurks, is as easy as it sounds.I’ve been out here for a long time, and the fear that courses through my blood every time I have to step outside our camp walls to scavenge never fades. No matter how many monsters you face—and have to run for your life from—it doesn’t ever get easier...Categorized as:
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Into the Abyss: Volume 3 by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmaliaBorn behind a seal, I never experienced anything beyond those four walls until I was freed from my prison.On Earth, the other demons see the jinn as nothing but monsters; however, they don’t know the jinn as well as they think. I’m beginning to realize I don’t either... -
High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThere is no action without consequence…Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin... -
Seduce the Darkness by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSHE HAS A BODY MADE FOR TEMPTATION...AND A KISS TO DIE FOR.The war between otherworlders and humans changed Earth beyond recognition. It also saved Bride McKells's life. Before, the gorgeous vampire was a target for every fanatic with a stake and a crucifix. Now, she's free to roam the streets -- and desperate to find others of her kind. One man claims to have the answers she seeks...Categorized as:
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Death by Laura Thalassa
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThey came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.He’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then, of course, there's the one I’m all too familiar with—Death...Categorized as:
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Rising by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsInception meets War of the Worlds with a sassy female lead. My name is Kit Steele and I was ten years old when thousands of alien ships landed all over the world in the year 2020. We thought for sure that we'd be goners, about to be obliterated or terraformed out of existence. But when the ship doors opened, they were… empty. Maybe they were just communication vessels, we thought... -
Say Your Prayers by Crystal Ash, Kathryn Moon
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHell has taken over. And Earth’s last sanctuary doesn’t stand a chance.A young woman with horns was the last person Father Stavros expected to see approaching his gate, begging for sanctuary. As a man of God, he learned to never turn away someone in need, especially after Hell’s Rising. But the sinful cravings that follow him and his fellow priests are a whole new obstacle...Categorized as:
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Fire in Her Dreams by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJenny’s dreams have turned to nightmares.Every night, her thoughts are filled with evil. Something is reaching out…and she’s not so sure she wants to reach back. That is, until someone new appears in her dreams. Someone who protects her, comforts her, and thinks of Jenny as his mate. Imaginary friends aren’t real, but Jenny likes to pretend, anyhow...Categorized as:
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Magic Unchained by Meg Xuemei X
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI abandon all hope that my demigods will come for me.In Hell's Academy, it's either kill or be eaten. Demons turn violence into an art form, and they've marked me as their newest victim.A charismatic archdemon offers me a way out of the pit. His price? Spend one night with him and his three dukes. They don't want to conquer my heart, but they have every intention of riding my body...Categorized as:
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The Hunt by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLiving in the Wilds isn't any picnic, but I thought I had a handle on things: avoid the beasts and I won't get eaten, avoid the waterways and the pirates won't kill me, and stab every Dark Walker I see. That was before I found out Tiffy's friends were real and back when I’d never heard of the Skinners. Now my magic is on the fritz, and people are disappearing...Categorized as:
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The Barrier Between by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsZoey’s life has taken a dramatic turn. Only a few months ago she was a Collector working for the a secret part of the government called the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), tracking and collecting fae. Her life had been changing and improving with a partner she loved and a sister she adored...Categorized as:
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The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNew intrigues, adventures, and stunning revelations fill the penultimate installment of #1 New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole’s electrifying Arcana Chronicles.In a world teetering on the edge . . .When Evie receives life-changing—and possibly game-changing—news, she has trouble believing it...Categorized as:
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Bad Lands by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSome myths should just stay buried.Brexley’s journey has led her to the most coveted object in the world. In discovering the Nectar, Brexley finds other secrets and truths she was not ready for, ones that destroy everything she has ever known, confronting a power within herself she is not ready to face.Magic is a balance. Things come at a cost...Categorized as:
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Demon Fall by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove isn’t blind; it’s devastating.June had her future all planned out, and it never involved hiding in a bunker with her long-term boyfriend during what felt like the end of the world. In fact, surviving the zombie apocalypse never even entered the picture. Yet, that’s exactly what fate gave her.A game of survival. One horror after another. But, at least, she’s not alone... -
Blood of Eve by Pam Godwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo years into the aphid plague, there's little hope left. Food and ammo are scarce. The mutated monsters are growing faster, smarter. And the ratio of men to women is millions to one. Mankind faces imminent extinction. But Evie carries a cure for women. Fiercely protected by three men, she sets out to heal as many infected females as possible... -
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Fury's Magic by Yasmine Galenorn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"My name is Kaeleen Donovan. I'm a Theosian-a minor goddess. They call me Fury."By day, I run the Crossroads Cleaning Company, and I also read fortunes and cast hexes at Dream Wardens, a magical consulting shop. But by night, I'm oath-bound to Hecate, Goddess of the Crossroads... -
Demon Deception by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCassie Feld’s world is falling apart. Grieving from the loss of her husband and youngest child, she lives in fear of losing her remaining daughter. She knows she can't protect her alone. There’s a solution, as terrifying and as heartbreaking as she finds it, that will ensure she never has to suffer such a devastating loss again... -
Wayfarer's Keep by T.A. White
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBranded a traitor by her people, Shea and her warlord—the fiercely dangerous Fallon—travel to the Pathfinders’ seat of power at her father’s request, hoping to form an alliance despite the distrust between them. It doesn’t take long before Shea and Fallon realize something is dangerously wrong in the place she once called home... -
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... -
Blood Binds by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRyker calls it an accident. I call it another betrayal. He didn't want me to leave but didn't fight to keep me by his side. Wronged magically and devastated emotionally, I exile myself to another country, Dorley. Now I perform tricks under a tent, my mystical gifts a common sideshow. Just as I’m accepting my self-inflicted fate, Ryker makes a move that forces me back to the Valley...Categorized as:
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Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrenIt’s been fourteen years since the gateway to Hell opened and life as I knew it ended.I managed to survive the Wilds, but now I have a chance to build a better world for all Wilders. Unfortunately, it means working with the demons I’ve always considered my enemies.Joining with the demons wouldn’t be a horrible prospect, except it means dealing with Corson...Categorized as:
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The Solace of Sharp Claws by Lana Pecherczyk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSharp claws keep you safe.That's the brutal lesson Thorne learned as a young wolf-shifter. Abandoned as a child, singled out by an evil uncle, and then forced to work for the ruthless Order of the Well, Thorne's anger was a weapon as much as his claws. Now a vicious Fae Guardian, he hunts monsters, the human enemy, and anything that gets in his way...Categorized as:
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A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen famous human musician Melody wakes two thousand years after a nuclear winter, she thinks she’s landed on the right side of a war. Fae are called the Tainted. They’re warped, mutated creatures who horde the bounty of the new magical land. It’s her job in the human city to sling propaganda in the form of daily songs performed to a select tower of elite... -
Famine by Laura Thalassa
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThey came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all...Categorized as:
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Good Intentions by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRIVERThirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past.When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice. With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me...Categorized as:
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Fangs by K.L. Speer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Run, lil rabbit, 'fore Wolf tears you apart."Twelve years ago, Ember Cutler obeyed her father and ran, but the girl who disappeared into the desert was not the same girl who came out. When her oldest brother appears in her clinic at the Vault and abducts her at gunpoint, he expects to find his little sister, Ember but instead finds a grief-stricken, broken Bones...Categorized as:
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Wild Knight by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn a world of darkness where royal vampires are in charge, I spend my days working as a knight in the city formerly known as London. Instead of a lance and a horse, I rely on my trusty axe, Babe, and ride the occasional dragon. Every day new threats emerge that require a dash of magic and a dollop of attitude.Good thing I have both.Naturally danger comes with the territory...Categorized as:
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Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsKresley Cole - Untouchable (Immortals After Dark #7)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KRESLEY COLE delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time... and a Valkyrie aching for his touch.Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela - the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years... -
Blood & Ice by Ariana Nash
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn elven assassin. A dragon prince. Three days they had together. Three days was not enough. There’s a traitor among the elves. A traitor who will stop at nothing to see Eroan pay for the crime of loving a dragon, and Eroan Ilanea will pay with blood. Lysander has never been free to choose his fate. That is about to change... -
Fire In Her Eyes by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFor months, I've been chased by a red dragon. They're the females of the dragon shifter invaders, fierce and vicious and as ruthless as they are wild. She hunts me wherever I go, and I'm not safe even behind the walls of a fort. There's only one thing I can do to stop her… …And that's to take her as my mate. But to win the heart of a female dragon, I have to conquer her first... -
The Shadow Aspect by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Layla took the final step through the labyrinth, she thought she was saving the ones she loved. She couldn't have been more wrong.Layla and the other survivors find themselves caught in a war for our world, the unwitting victims of a grudge seething for eons. Surviving the zombie apocalypse has become the least of their worries as they come up against vampires, shapeshifters, and fae...Categorized as:
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