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  • Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao...
  • Embrace the Suck by Kristen Painter

    Embrace the Suck by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Embrace The Suck: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (First Fangs Club Book 5)Vampire governor Belladonna Barrone is facing the challenge of her life. Literally. Can she outwit and outlast the vampire council? She has no idea, but she has no plans to go down without a fight.If she manages to survive, another challenge awaits her...
  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault...
  • Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it's hide or fight, and the creatures aren't the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.Ebook linkhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/cdad-ep..
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    dark  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  fiction  audiobook  mystery
  • Instauration by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Instauration by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Sunset Park is gone. People are missing. Sylvie, Eric, and the other survivors have crossed the water to the security of a new Safe Zone, where they hope to heal their battered hearts, amass an armory, and get back at the ones who took it all away. But with zombies on the move and few resources to speak of, it’s harder than expected to plot their revenge...
  • All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The final book in the Until the End of the World series is here! Cassie Forrest has sworn she’ll never let the world get the best of her again. She’s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it’s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely...
  • A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Revisit the Monstrous couples from the first seven novels of the series in this collection of sixteen short stories. Plus, meet a new Monstrous couple in a brand new 20k-word novella, Ruke...
  • Welcome to Midgard by Dave Willmarth

    Welcome to Midgard by Dave Willmarth

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A simple farm boy in a mundane medieval world, turned soldier after his home and family are destroyed. Mere steps from achieving his vengeance after years of fighting, a lucky sword strike ends his life.His soul transferred against his will by one of the gods to another medieval world, one filled with magic, monsters, and races out of his childhood fairy tales...
  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Book two of The City Series is here! (Note: The City Series can be read before or after the Until the End of the World series) Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead...
  • World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the zombie apocalypse, your worst enemy may be yourself.From the Until the End of the World and City Series universe comes the story of the virus on the West Coast. Where the end of the world is only the beginning…Rose Winter has enough problems. With a marriage going down the tubes and a dreaded anniversary party on the horizon, the last thing she needs is the zombie apocalypse...
  • One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alvin and his wives had been busy over the last few weeks. They’d gone out of their way to visit settlements they’d helped in the past, all while killing a string of mini-bosses across what had been the American west. Life looked good for Team Asshole… until the devs made a mistake.Without any warning, Sammi stopped showing up...
  • World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a world without, hunger may be as deadly as zombiesWith their Safe Zone overrun by the undead, taking refuge in the mountains seems like the safest bet for Rose, Tom, and the other survivors. There’s one catch, however—between last spring’s human exodus and a neighboring group’s stockpiles, there’s no food left to scavenge...
  • Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One day, You Huo and his famiIy was puIIed into an exam caIIed the GIobaI University Entrance Examination. Going through exams together with other unfortunate examinees, their Iives are put at stake and they can only Iive by passing each exam...
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    dark  romance  sci-fi  lgbtq  fantasy  mystery  horror  mlm
  • Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

    Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Don’t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards...
  • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch...
  • Light by Michael Grant

    Light by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...
  • Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vince finds himself going up in the underworld, but the mafia is far from the only gang in town.The city is abuzz with an international sorcerer's conference, and the mayor is cracking down hard on anything that might make him look bad. But Vince is out to get that bag. That means fulfilling his enforcer contract for the mob, police crackdown be damned...
  • Wyvern's Gold by A.H. Hadley

    Wyvern's Gold by A.H. Hadley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dragons are a myth. Heroes are a reality.Six hundred years ago, humans retreated underground. Our Elders said our sins were why. Ever since, the battle between Heaven and Hell has raged on Earth's surface. Only becoming truly righteous can save us.It was a lie.Stories of dragons willing to devour us and wild men who will torture us keep the population in line...
  • And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Cassie Forrest could almost believe life at Kingdom Come Farm is perfect, with Adrian and her friends at her side and spring on the way. The spring thaw also means millions of defrosting zombies, however, and if the past year has taught her anything, it’s that life in this new world is highly imperfect...
  • Crisped + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Crisped + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty-one days. In a world ravaged by fire and descending into madness, Cavalo has been given an ultimatum by the dark man known as Patrick: return Lucas to him and the cannibalistic Dead Rabbits, or the town of Cottonwood and its inhabitants will be destroyed...
  • Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not so lucky anymore… Civilization is on the brink of crumbling—and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest—or maybe even a brewing civil war—are getting loud. No longer are zombies the only thing preying on those that think to brave the world outside the settlements...
  • Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you need some zombies killed, who do you call? The Lucky Thirteen. A few weeks have passed since the events in Aurora, and Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The odd mall to raid, cattle to herd, provisions to deliver—all no match for our trusty group of scavengers. The world is yours for the taking when killing zombies becomes routine...
  • Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    United we stand, divided we fall Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them...
  • Cursed Witch by Brogan Thomas

    Cursed Witch by Brogan Thomas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her conjury was out of reach. But when she’s flooded with strength, can she survive becoming a target? Tuesday Larson thought she’d settled for normal. A disappointment to her mother for never taking well to magic, she deliberately put distance between her family and any witchery. But the supernatural destroys her barriers when a group of mercenaries tears through her home looking for blood...
  • Battlemaster's Gambit by Nathan Pierce

    Battlemaster's Gambit by Nathan Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Resurrected to dominate or die again?Andric was much like anyone else, further along in his life than he wanted to be. Much further along, and waiting to finally become the main character of his own story.Fate had a funny joke for him, though.He died.Unexpectedly he was given the strangest of plot developments...
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    dark  romance  fantasy  harem  litrpg  survival  magic  demons
  • Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One of my worst nightmares came to fruition, and I was separated from some of my guys. Not knowing their fate left me in a state of constant anxiety. We were determining our next move and waiting for the hordes to pass only added to the stress of the unknown. Of course, leaving the prison and embarking on our next journey was also fraught with additional dangers...
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it...
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    dark  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  mystery  mlm  paranormal
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    dark  romance  sci-fi  time-travel  mystery  lgbtq  mlm  fantasy
  • Mob Sorcery by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a city where magic is as common as air, Vince receives an offer he can't refuse. The local wolffolk mafia long for their glory days and their alluring don, Alessia Lionetti, wants a powerful enforcer to bring them back. That's Vince. This is his big break from his days as a hired thug.Working for the mafia has a short life expectancy, though...
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    dark  romance  urban-fantasy  harem  fantasy  litrpg  sci-fi  urban
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series (Note: The City Series can be read before or after the Until the End of the World series) Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
  • Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe...
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    action-adventure  ai  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  death  drama  dystopia
  • Escalation by Adrienne Lecter

    Escalation by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is anybody out there? After a long winter spent hunkering down in Wyoming, Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The harsh temperatures up in the northern regions might have decimated the undead scourge somewhat, but soon they have to face reality: it’s not just zombies that are out there to hunt people down and kill them...
  • Haven by Elle Casey

    Haven by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My name's Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and I'm alive at a critical time in our world's history, unlike all the adults and babies who didn't survive the virus that almost wiped out the human race. Alliances are building, enemies are gathering, and everything's about to reach the boiling point...
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power...
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It's time to risk it all!The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy.Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense...
  • Toil & Trouble by Nikki Landis

    Toil & Trouble by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A ghoul who craves zombie flesh. A sensitive vampire who cries black blood. A lying werewolf my ancestors adore. And oh yeah, the witch hunter who hates me. Four unlikely heroes sworn to protect the powerful Salem Howe lineage from evil and help prevent the next uprising...
  • Warlord's Storm by Georgia Lyn Hunter

    Warlord's Storm by Georgia Lyn Hunter

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a ruthless warrior convince a broken woman to take a chance on love in his dying world? Deadly warlord Northaen has fought for millennia to preserve what’s left of his angelic dominion of Kalasder...
  • Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Earth is broken beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope. Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won’t let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity...
  • Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes

    Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A mysterious mark, an ancient spirit, and a message from beyond the Aether… After uncovering and destroying a Necromancer plot to take over Skye Príosún, Jess and Finn are united at last and longing to move on with their life together. But the Durupinen world has other plans...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...
  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • Hellions by Natalie Bennett

    Hellions by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Maliki Vicious. Nyx Chaotic. Maliki + Nyx Vicious. Chaotic. Gods. What once was sweet has turned vile. I covet death. He thrives in darkness. Our sacrilegious desires run rampant. Our maleficent demons demand to be sated. Mercy finds no refuge in our hearts. Insanity takes courtship within our minds. Together, we embark on a path saturated in blood and rotting corpses...
  • Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America...
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    dark  romance  fantasy  harem  war  post-apocalyptic  litrpg  military
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