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  • The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

    The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    “Chaos. Fury. Destruction.The Great Change is upon us . . .Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds...
  • The God is Not Willing by Steven Erikson

    The God is Not Willing by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Many years have passed since three Teblor warriors brought carnage and chaos to the small lakeside settlement of Silver Lake. While the town has recovered, the legacy of that past horror remains, even if the Teblor tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. One of those three, Karsa Orlong, is now deemed to be a god, albeit an indifferent one...
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    epic  adult  audiobook  book  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction  grim-dark
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...
  • Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

    Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick.Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country...
  • Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hands sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,Mere man shall end this endless night.It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness...
  • Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont

    Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island named Malaz. Immediately, of course, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do so they join forces with a small band of Napans who have fled a civil war on their own home island...
  • The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan

    The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The hounds at our heels will soon know we are lionsTamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements...
  • The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan

    The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The capital has fallen...Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.An army divided..
  • Dancer's Lament by Ian C. Esslemont

    Dancer's Lament by Ian C. Esslemont

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Taking Malazan fans back to that troubled continent's turbulent early history. The opening chapter in Ian C. Esslemont's epic new fantasy sequence, the Path to Ascendancy trilogy.For ages warfare has crippled the continent as minor city states, baronies, and principalities fought in an endless round of hostilities...
  • Kings of Ash by Richard Nell

    Kings of Ash by Richard Nell

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The much anticipated continuation of the Ash and Sand trilogy...Follow the long, bloody journey of Ruka, son of Beyla through the islands of Pyu and the frozen wastes of the Ascom; see the return home of Ratama Kale Alaku, the 'Sorcerer-Prince', and the terrifying rise of his 'miracles'...
  • 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...
  • Iron Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Iron Will by Kirill Klevanski

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the first book, Hadjar lost it all. His body ruined, parents dead, and his title of Prince replaced by a slave collar. It seemed like Primus had deprived him of everything.But no one can take away a man's will to fight. Even if his heart turns into a bleeding stone due to endless grief and suffering, it won't matter.The most important thing was that he still had the will to go on...
  • 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...
  • Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

    Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life...
  • The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

    The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not...
  • Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote...
  • Wagga by Alex Kozlowski

    Wagga by Alex Kozlowski

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself.The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain...
  • 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...
  • The Warring Son by Bryce O'Connor

    The Warring Son by Bryce O'Connor

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **Book 2 in the Top 10 Bestselling Epic Fantasy series on Amazon** Raz i'Syul Arro is a hunted man. To the south, the Mahsadën of Miropa are gone. The šef lay dead, slain at Raz's own hands, their cruel will ripped from the shadows of the city...
  • King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...
  • Queen of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Queen of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her life burned to ashes. Her city under siege. She will sacrifice everything she has for bloody vengeance.Ilanna has lost everything: her friends, her home, her family, her dreams of freedom. All that remains is a burning desire to find the bastards who burned down her city and tried to kill her.But a traitor hides among the ranks of the Night Guild, poisoning her friends and allies with lies...
  • Herald by Rob J. Hayes

    Herald by Rob J. Hayes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A thousand years ago, humanity's greatest heroes killed God. Across the land of Helesia, the iron grasp of the Godless Kings is failing. Demons stalk the deep forests, monsters break free of their prisons beneath the World Vein, and terrors of the old world rise again...
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    epic  fantasy  dark  dark-fantasy  grim-dark  fiction  horror  myths
  • The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect Ciri...
  • Dawn of the Exile by Mitchell Hogan

    Dawn of the Exile by Mitchell Hogan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For the damned, redemption may be just a mad dream…Years have passed since the demon Tarrik and his master, the sorcerer Ren, destroyed the servants of Samal and suppressed the very essence of the vile lord. The cost was greater than even a demon could have imagined. But in the realms of demons and humans, no evil can be fully controlled, and no one’s true fate can be foretold. Including Tarrik’s...
  • Priest of Lies by Peter McLean

    Priest of Lies by Peter McLean

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster...and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series.People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become--until they can't take it anymore. And when they rise up...may the gods help their oppressors...
  • Fulcrum of Light by C.J. Aaron

    Fulcrum of Light by C.J. Aaron

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Freedom has come at a price.Stranded on the coast of an uncharted land, Ryl will be tested as the world outside the Palisades proves darker than within.With little to no direction save the cryptic information from a mysterious stranger, Ryl must rely on his new-found skills and place his trust in his new companion. Together they forge onward into the barren wastes of the Outlands...
  • Priest of Gallows by Peter McLean

    Priest of Gallows by Peter McLean

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gangster, soldier, priest. Queen's Man. Governor.Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he's a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and Governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he's no longer a gang lord but one of the Queen's Men, invisible and officially non-existent, working in secret to protect his country...
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    epic  adult  audiobook  book  crime  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • The Free Bastards by Jonathan French

    The Free Bastards by Jonathan French

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The long-awaited war has come in the sweeping conclusion to the Lot Lands trilogy--another irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed fantasy.The long-awaited war has come in the sweeping conclusion to the Lot Lands trilogy--another irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed fantasy...
  • God of Broken Things by Cameron Johnston

    God of Broken Things by Cameron Johnston

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An outcast magician must risk his body and mind to save the world from horrifying demons, in the heart-pounding epic fantasy sequel to The Traitor God.Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested their magical elite with mind-controlling parasites...
  • Idols Fall by Mike Shel

    Idols Fall by Mike Shel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “AT LONG LAST, EVEN GODS WILL KNOW REGRET…”Agnes Manteo now bears her father’s sentient Djao sword, along with a terrible revelation—the gods are charlatans, ancient sorcerers who draw their strength from the suffering of humanity. She and her Syraeic companions have but one duty: to track down those pretenders and end their reign of cruelty and lies, no matter the cost...
  • To Blackfyre Keep by Anthony Ryan

    To Blackfyre Keep by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GUYIME—DEMON CURSED WIELDER OF THE NAMELESS BLADE—FOLLOWS THE TRAIL OF THE FABLED SEVEN SWORDS INTO THE TROUBLED NORTHLANDS, A REALM WHERE HE WAS ONCE CALLED KING…AND RAVAGER.Magically guided to enlist in the retinue of a lovesick knight, Guyime and his companions journey to the haunted ruin of Blackfyre Keep, a castle legend tells cannot be held. But a far deadlier threat than mere ghosts awaits...
  • A Dance of Chaos by David Dalglish

    A Dance of Chaos by David Dalglish

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FEAR COMES IN THE HANDS OF PROPHETS... The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to obtain...
  • The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

    The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternative cover editions for this ISBN exist here and here.Beneath the dying sun the disgraced torturer, Severian, at last comes to his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms.But Severian's journey is not ended, and high in Earth's ancient mountains he draws closer to his destiny...
  • The White Rose by Glen Cook

    The White Rose by Glen Cook

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world...
  • Ravencry by Ed McDonald

    Ravencry by Ed McDonald

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Four years have passed since Nall’s Engine drove the Deep Kings back across the Misery, but as they hurl fire from the sky, darker forces plots against the republic.A new power is rising: a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady manifests in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power even as the city burns around them...
  • 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...
  • Crowfall by Ed McDonald

    Crowfall by Ed McDonald

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Crowfall is a gritty epic fantasy for fans of Mark Lawrence, Scott Lynch and Daniel Polansky.'Dark, twisty and excellent . . . Grimdark with heart' Mark LawrenceA sorceress cataclysm has hit the Range, the final defensive line between the Republic and the immortal Deep Kings...
  • Thief of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Thief of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The impossible becomes inevitable with the fate of her loved ones hanging in the balance…A cunning thief of unrivaled ingenuity, Ilanna is determined to secure her freedom at any cost. No price is too high to break the shackles of the Night Guild's callous cruelty.With her future on the line, nothing will stand in her way, not even the most powerful man in Praamis, Duke Phonnis...
  • Legacy of Light by Matthew Ward

    Legacy of Light by Matthew Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warfare, myth and magic collide in Legacy of Light, the spectacular conclusion to Matthew Ward's acclaimed Legacy trilogy.For the first time in many years, the Tressian Republic and the Hadari Empire are at peace. But war never sleeps.In Tregard, Empress Melanna Saranal struggles to protect a throne won at great cost...
  • Shadow of the Lantern Bearer by Chris R. Underwood

    Shadow of the Lantern Bearer by Chris R. Underwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Magic is a disease. It spreads like a plague and drives the infected mad with power.Death is the only cure.Seventeen-year-old Kole Felmen is destined for a life spent executing infected sorcerers and disposing of their tainted remains.But his first execution ends in disaster...
  • Those Brave, Foolish Souls from the City of Swords by Benedict Patrick

    Those Brave, Foolish Souls from the City of Swords by Benedict Patrick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don't draw your blade in the City of Swords, unless you're willing to kill… or ready to die.Young and filled with idealistic fervor, Arturo packs his blade and travels to the fabled City of Swords in the hopes of joining the dashing Bravadori. Yet upon arriving he discovers these masked vigilantes have more in common with brutal thugs than noble monster slayers...
  • Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

    Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years have passed since Lidan’s world was ripped apart, and time is running out to change her father’s mind about the succession before the bargain with her mother expires...
  • Vigor Mortis: Volume 1 by Natalie Maher

    Vigor Mortis: Volume 1 by Natalie Maher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Casting necromancy without ever learning how isn't supposed to be possible. A starving orphan girl named Vita is somehow managing it anyway, and she's not sure if this is going to be the solution to her life's problems or a horrifying, spiraling mess into problems she can't even conceive...
  • The Broken God by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

    The Broken God by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dark gods and dangerous magic clash in this third book of Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed epic fantasy series, The Black Iron Legacy. Enter a city of dragons and darkness... The Godswar has come to Guerdon, dividing the city between three occupying powers. A fragile armistice holds back the gods, but other dangerous forces seek to exert their influence...
  • One Man: A City of Fallen Gods Novel by Harry Connolly

    One Man: A City of Fallen Gods Novel by Harry Connolly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Cursed City. Two Dead Gods. Ten Thousand Murderers and Thieves. One Orphaned Girl.As a child, Kyrioc was groomed to be the head of one of the most powerful noble families in Koh-Salash, a city built inside the skeletons of two murdered gods. Kyrioc himself dreamed of becoming head of the High Watch, the highest political position in the land.Those dreams have turned to dust...
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    epic  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction  grim-dark  horror
  • The Fifth Empire of Man by Rob J. Hayes

    The Fifth Empire of Man by Rob J. Hayes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Pirate Isles are united under Drake Morrass’ flag, but the war has only just begun. There’s still a long way to go before he’s able to call himself King. The Five Kingdoms and Sarth have assembled a fleet of ships unlike any the world has ever seen, and they intend to purge the Pirate Isles once and for all...
  • She Dreams in Blood by Michael R. Fletcher

    She Dreams in Blood by Michael R. Fletcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Drawn by the shards of his obsidian heart, Khraen follows the path south. The islands, largely ignored by the Wizard’s Guild, have become a refuge for the unwanted of the world. Necromancers and sorcerers rule warring tribes haunted by the ghosts of savage and primal gods.With each fragment Khraen discovers more of the man he was.There was an Empire.There was a god.And she dreamed in blood...
  • Child of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Child of the Night Guild by Andy Peloquin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They killed her family. They ripped apart her home. But to repay her debts, she'll have to sacrifice her innocence. Robbed of everything she loves, Viola mourns the sudden loss of her mother. Now burdened with an impossible debt to the Night Guild, she’s forced to train as a cunning thief...
  • The Blackest Heart by Brian Lee Durfee

    The Blackest Heart by Brian Lee Durfee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gladiator. Assassin. Thief. Princess. And the Slave. The Five Warrior Angels have been revealed, one by one the mystical weapons they once wielded are being found, and an ancient prophecy is finally being fulfilled. Or is it? For when it comes to recorded history, much is intended to manipulate and deceive...
    Categorized as:
    epic  adult  audiobook  book  dark  dark-fantasy  female-mc  fiction
  • Brunner the Bounty Hunter by C.L. Werner

    Brunner the Bounty Hunter by C.L. Werner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Omnibus edition collecting all three novels in the Brunner the Bounty Hunter series. Dark and savage tales set in the world of Warhammer, by author C.L. Werner...
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