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  • Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the first book in the wildly successful Mistborn trilogy, now in trade paperback. For a thousand years, ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible...
  • Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson

    Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The ravaged continent of Genabackis is a terrifying new empire, the Pannion Domin, that devours all. An uneasy allliance resists: Onearm's army, Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners and former enemies - forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and the Rhivi people of the plains. And the Crippled God intends revenge...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  21st-century
  • Wrath by John Gwynne

    Wrath by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has taken control of the fortress at Drassil and three of the Seven Treasures are in his possession. And together with Calidus and his ally Queen Rhin, Nathair will do anything to obtain the remaining Treasures. With all seven under his command, he can open a portal to the Otherworld...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Upheaval by Auryn Hadley

    Upheaval by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    VICTORY IS AT HAND! ALL THEY NEED IS A MIRACLE…The evil Emperor is in our heroine’s sights—all she needs now is a military and cultural miracle...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Dissent by Auryn Hadley

    Dissent by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    HER MIND IS MORPHING BY THE MINUTE…PREPARE TO HAVE YOURS BLOWN! Cancel your lunch and dinner dates, and clear out your inbox at work before picking up DISSENT, the SEVENTH installment of the action-packed sci-fi fantasy series, Rise Of The Iliri! Because this is the truth: This epic series, spellbinding from the first, only becomes more powerfully enthralling with each adventure...
  • Ruin by John Gwynne

    Ruin by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures...
  • Risen by Auryn Hadley

    Risen by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the final stretch of the war, the rules are changing faster than Anglia can keep up. The Kaisae of all Iliri is gone. Her mates are holding the army together. Her dreams are changing everything—and Sal? She's not done yet. The Emperor has taken too much from her. Life, loves, and much of her happiness. All she has left is desperation—and blind trust. But she's not alone. She never has been...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Battle Mage by Peter A. Flannery

    Battle Mage by Peter A. Flannery

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An infernal army on the march. An unholy demon at its head. The one person who can stop it is a weakling nobody trusts.Falco Dante knows only guilt. The son of a traitor, the sickly young man yearns to fight like the heroes of old. Instead, he earns further shame when he interrupts a dragon summoning, allowing a demon horde to destroy his village...
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    coming-of-age  dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

    Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Second novel in the brilliant series from the bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder...
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    coming-of-age  dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  paranormal  war
  • Valor by John Gwynne

    Valor by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The Banished Lands is torn by war as High King Nathair sweeps the land challenging all who oppose him in his holy crusade. Allied with the manipulative Queen Rhin of Cambren, there are few who can stand against them. But Rhin is playing her own games and has her eyes on a far greater prize..
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    coming-of-age  dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • House of Chains by Steven Erikson

    House of Chains by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    An alternate cover edition can be found here.In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an extraordinary destiny...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure
  • Kingdoms and Chaos by Kel Kade

    Kingdoms and Chaos by Kel Kade

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The future of the Ashaiian haven, the newly founded Kingdom of Cael, is anything but secured. Rezkin must seek recognition from the King of Gendishen if his people are to maintain possession of their island home and the enchanted secret it contains. In an unexpected twist, events overtake Rezkin, and he is thrust into a frustrating adventure to seek a worthless prize...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  assassins
  • The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks

    The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen... and only he can save it...
  • The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter

    The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in the second book of this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy series from a breakout author (James Islington).Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure
  • A Practical Guide to Evil III by ErraticErrata

    A Practical Guide to Evil III by ErraticErrata

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    epic  magic  demons  dark  war  military  paranormal  fantasy
  • An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

    An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    ▶ Alternative Cover Edition #1 Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.   Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.   It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother...
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized by ErraticErrata

    The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized by ErraticErrata

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The southern half of Callow is in open rebellion against the Empire.As she had a hand in starting that fire, it’s only fitting that Catherine’s own legion is being sent into the fray. The Lone Swordsman and his posse of heroes are out for her head on a pike but her most dangerous enemy might just be on the same side: the Heiress has escalated their rivalry to a new level of deadliness...
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    magic  epic  dark  demons  dystopia  war  fantasy  fiction
  • Ruthless by Robert J. Crane

    Ruthless by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When a mission in New York City goes terribly wrong, Sienna Nealon finds herself replaced as head of the government agency in charge of policing people with powers beyond those of a normal human. Marginalized, humiliated, she ponders her place in the world now that her war is over...
  • Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Correia

    Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If it's war you want...find here the best of military epic fantasy as the best-selling Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series continues.The Great Extermination has begun.In the Capitol, Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan hatches a plot to kill every member of the untouchable caste in all of Lok, down to the last man, woman, and child...
  • The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence

    The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, the thrilling conclusion to the Red Queen’s War... Mark Lawrence’s “epic fantasy” (The Washington Post) continues as a reluctant prince returns from the bowels of Hell to engage in his greatest battle yet—among the living and the dead...
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    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • The Dread Wyrm by Miles Cameron

    The Dread Wyrm by Miles Cameron

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    SOME ARE BORN TO POWERSOME SEIZE ITAND SOME HAVE THE WISDOM NEVER TO WIELD ITThe Red Knight has stood against soldiers, against armies and against the might of an empire without flinching. He's fought on real and on magical battlefields alike, and now he's facing one of the greatest challenges yet.A tournament...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure
  • The Call of the Sylvana by Peter Wacht

    The Call of the Sylvana by Peter Wacht

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Light dances with dark, green fire burns in the night, hopes and dreams follow the wind, to fall in black or white.The prophecy spoke of Thomas Kestrel: outcast, lord, sorcerer, warrior, and perhaps savior of the Kingdoms - if he survives...
  • Сказания Меекханского пограничья. Восток - Запад by Robert M. Wegner, Роберт М. Вегнер

    Сказания Меекханского пограничья. Восток - Запад by Robert M. Wegner, Роберт М. Вегнер

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Восток Меекханской империи – край неспокойный. Здесь пролегает граница с побежденным, но не сломленным государством воинственных кочевников, здесь во множестве встречаются Урочища, проклятые места, где можно столкнуться с невероятными чудовищами...
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    dark  magic  epic  military  fantasy  fiction  audiobook  dark-fantasy
  • The Inquisition by Taran Matharu

    The Inquisition by Taran Matharu

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A year has passed since the Tournament.Fletcher and Ignatius have been locked away in Pelt’s dungeons, but now they must face a trial at the hands of the Inquisition, a powerful institution controlled by those who would delight in Fletcher’s downfall...
  • The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way...
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    coming-of-age  dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  paranormal  war
  • The Battlemage by Taran Matharu

    The Battlemage by Taran Matharu

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the New York Times–bestselling Summoner trilogy, by Taran Matharu!Fletcher and his friends fight for survival in the ether, where they pursue a mortally dangerous quest to rebuild their world and broker peace...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • Wandfasted by Laurie Forest

    Wandfasted by Laurie Forest

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Magic, romance and adventure collide in WANDFASTED, the irresistible ebook prequel to THE BLACK WITCH Twenty years before Elloren Gardner enrolled at the illustrious Verpax University, Erthia was rent asunder during the devastating Realm War. When Tessla Harrow is driven from her home by the fighting, she discovers a depth of power she never knew she had..
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    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure
  • Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rys is still shaking dust from his hair after a thousand years of sleep, and he already finds himself in a two-front war. The sorcerers of the Malus League are summoning a demon lord, while his northern neighbor marches south. Now that Rys has claimed a kingdom, he needs to keep it.Naturally, he'll expand his territory while crushing his new enemies...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult
  • The Sun Sword by Michelle West

    The Sun Sword by Michelle West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Now, at last the Sun Sword has been delivered into the hands of its rightful owner, and the armies of the Dominion and the Empire are about to rendezvous for their final battle. But no one can know how the Lord of Night's daughter Kiriel will change both the nature and the course of the war. And no one can foresee whether mortals or the demon Kialli will prove the final victors...
  • The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

    The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett

    The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A brand-new epic fantasy adventure set in the beloved world of the Demon Cycle, following a new generation of heroes, from New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett Fifteen years have passed since the end of the war with demons, creatures of darkness who have hunted the night and plagued humanity since time out of mind...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • Boundless by R.A. Salvatore

    Boundless by R.A. Salvatore

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This second book in New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore’s all-new trilogy—full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills—features one of fantasy’s most beloved and enduring characters, Drizzt Do’Urden.Split between time and two worlds, Zaknafein had always been conflicted...
  • A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced.In the south, hotheaded Riv is desperate to join the Ben-Elim's peacekeeping force, until she unearths a deadly secret.In the west, the giantess Sig investigates demon sightings and discovers signs of an uprising and black magic...
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    coming-of-age  dark  demons  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • The Final Redemption by Michael G. Manning

    The Final Redemption by Michael G. Manning

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Mordecai has made the ultimate sacrifice to keep his family safe, and now struggles to understand what he has become. Rejected by all, he must learn to master the darkness within if he is to stop Mal’goroth from destroying humanity...
  • Soldier Sworn by D.K. Holmberg

    Soldier Sworn by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destined to lead the Denraen, Endric knows he must first understand himself and his connection to teralin. They are answers he can only find learning about his ancestors, the mysterious Antrilii warriors. Finding them requires he travel north through lands the Denraen cannot safely patrol, and even accompanied by Brohmin, he might barely survive...
  • Needs of the Empire by Christopher Mitchell

    Needs of the Empire by Christopher Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the run – againBranded an enemy by the Church and Emperor, Daphne Holdfast is forced to flee the Imperial City with her young daughter Karalyn, whose own mage powers are now beginning to reveal themselves.They intend to travel to Rahain, a land in turmoil following the devastating invasion and occupation by Alliance forces...
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    dark  dystopia  epic  magic  military  action-adventure  book  classics
  • Hunter's Moon by D.A. Godwin

    Hunter's Moon by D.A. Godwin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A kingdom in peril. A prophecy set in motion... The Ceringion Reginum has invaded the Kingdom of Actondel. As armies clash in the east, Tormjere is conscripted and sent to train with the secretive King’s Rangers, but that training is cut short when he stumbles upon an attack on Kataria, Princess of Actondel...
  • Stand With My Unit by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Stand With My Unit by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DescriptionWelcome to Hellion Squadron.A new unit, new challenges and possibly new friends await Idina Moorfield as she joins other magicals in the military to train against magical monsters.The soldiers in this unit are different, yet all the same. They were in the military, had issues because they had magic and nobody to teach them, then were recruited to the unit...
  • Divided, Book Five in the Fated Saga Fantasy Series by Rachel M. Humphrey-D'aigle

    Divided, Book Five in the Fated Saga Fantasy Series by Rachel M. Humphrey-D'aigle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Divided... Truth can hurt, but secrets can kill...“His father looked down at him with greedy eyes, lunging forward, and in one fluid motion plunged the dagger deeply and directly into his son's immortal heart...
  • Fletcher by P.S. Power

    Fletcher by P.S. Power

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the one, because time is running out...***As death sought his last breath, the mind of the historian and storykeeper Farad Ibn Istel was placed in one of the very rare crystals of memory...Now, a long time later, he awakens, tasked with saving the life of a young boy. A thing that no one else can do...
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    demons  epic  magic  military  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Soldiers Live by Glen Cook

    Soldiers Live by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them...
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    dark  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Dragon Storm by Lindsay Buroker

    Dragon Storm by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Born with a secret power he must hide… Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft...
  • The Core by Peter V. Brett

    The Core by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose—men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia

    Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    #1 IN A NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES from Monster Hunter series creator and New York Times best-selling author, Larry Correia!After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. He united the tribes, gave them magic, and drove the demons into the sea...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  epic  magic  military  paranormal  war
  • Vampire Bound: Book Four by R.A. Steffan

    Vampire Bound: Book Four by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Fae enslaved my son.Now I’m their prisoner as well.This crazy rescue attempt was our one and only chance to get Jace back, not to mention stopping the Fae plot to take total control of the Earth. Some chance—it took less than an hour for our cover to be blown...
  • War by Michelle West

    War by Michelle West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The eighth and final book in the epic fantasy House War series closes this chapter in a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring.When the Sleepers wake. Once, that phrase meant: never. The Sleepers were a myth, part of a story told to children...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  epic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • Prophet of the Dead by Richard Lee Byers

    Prophet of the Dead by Richard Lee Byers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The anticipated climax to a series that has been building in popularity, Richard Lee Byers is at his best working with tales of the undead.  Prophet of the Dead fulfills on the promise of the title, giving fans a satisfying end to the current threats facing the Brotherhood of the Griffon...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  magic  paranormal  war  action-adventure  audiobook  book
  • The Severed City by Christopher Mitchell

    The Severed City by Christopher Mitchell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s time for someone to pay. Killop has escaped the dungeons of the Rahain and fled into the mountains.All he desires is to begin his search for Daphne, but his people are crying out for a leader to free them from their chains of servitude...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  epic  magic  military  action-adventure  book  classics
  • Mountains Will Crumble by Carissa Hardcastle

    Mountains Will Crumble by Carissa Hardcastle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it the corrupted who thirst for power, or does power corrupt those to whom it is given?Merriam and Mollian have survived demon attacks, heartbreak, and a complete upheaval of their lives, but their struggle is far from over. Merriam is now Sekha’s Marshal and is known throughout the kingdom as the demonslayer...
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