Books like 'The Morose Mononokean, #4'
Readers who enjoyed The Morose Mononokean, #4 by Kiri Wazawa & ワザワキリ also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life... -
![Hookah by Cameron Jace]()
Hookah by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts... -
![Blood Pact by Nazri Noor]()
Blood Pact by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone is red on the inside. The destruction of the Dark Room has locked away the Eldest forever… or so it seems. The Boneyard discovers a bloodthirsty cult desperate to bring back the Old Ones, and Dustin Graves rescues the strangest of sacrifices: a Welsh corgi... -
![All Dwarf'ed Up by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle]()
All Dwarf'ed Up by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDwarf the Bounty Hunter’s going to Portland, Oregon, and the hounds are going with him.Eight humans all marked with dark magic are losing their mind, terrified of a demon that doesn’t exist. Keep Portland Weird just took on a whole new meaning. They need a bounty hunter.Johnny Walker is ready to clean up the streets and get back to his quiet front porch in the Everglades. He’s that good... -
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![Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs punishment for his part in an attempted coup in Heaven, the Archangel Michael is banished to Earth. The holiest of the angelic host has to learn to live as a mortal, not an easy job when you’ve got Satan as a next-door neighbour.Michael soon finds that being a good person involves more than helping out at Sunday school and attending church coffee mornings... -
![Haint Blue by Kimbra Swain]()
Haint Blue by Kimbra Swain
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAs the Samhain approaches, the veil thins and dark beings cross into the town of Shady Grove.Just when her enemies thought they broke her, Grace Ann Bryant shows them an inner strength that they didn't know she possessed.After the devastating events of the midsummer bonfire, Grace battles her emotions along with several new enemies include a so-called friend... -
![Don't Give A Dwarf by Martha Carr]()
Don't Give A Dwarf by Martha Carr
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJohnny Walker, Dwarf Bounty Hunter is back on the hunt.WANTED: Dead or Alive. Logree Creature. Origin is Oriceran. Intelligent, flammable, displaying purple goo and tentacles. Do not approach. Leave to the professionals… like Johnny Walker.Just what the Everglades needed... -
![Zero Dwarfs Given by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle]()
Zero Dwarfs Given by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohnny Walker figured out who killed his daughter fifteen years ago. The hard part will be bringing the monster to justice.Bounty Hunter style with his hound dogs by his side.But the assignments for the Level 6 bounty hunter keep pulling him away. The Feds want him to help a politician who got caught in the wrong places. A dark magical is using the naughty info against him... -
![Go Dwarf Yourself by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle]()
Go Dwarf Yourself by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"One of the best damn bounty hunters. Period." James BrownstoneJohnny Walker was a good bounty hunter in his day. James Brownstone good.But everybody has a line. Johnny found his when his teenage daughter was murdered. Who was the killer? Even Johnny couldn’t figure it out... -
![Last Rites by Nazri Noor]()
Last Rites by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne knife to take a life. One breath to honor Death. Dustin Graves can’t get a break. Murdering an Old One was only the beginning. Enraged, the Eldest have answered with searing rains of ivory fire from the stars, threatening Valero and the world itself. The madness must be stopped.Ancient gods of prophecy, death, and darkness themselves answer the call for battle... -
![A Whisker Behind by W.R. Gingell]()
A Whisker Behind by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSearching for redemption in the shifting realm between the human and fae worlds, not-so-reformed fae steward Athelas seems likely instead to find death, dismemberment, and deadly magic…Exiled, excommunicated, and with a bounty on his head, Athelas is lying low in Seoul for exactly one reason: he has a wedding to attend. Whether or not he’s welcome is another matter... -
![London Growl by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young]()
London Growl by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLondon Bridges Falling Down...and werewolves, too!Power, struggle, and misery fill the Netherworld factions living in London. Their history is vast and their connections are made of steel. In particular, the werewolves have built up a stronghold that has stood the test of time... -
![The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown]()
The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr Newton Barlow and the Purgatorians are back. Now that the fight between good and evil has become routine, one-time sceptical physicist and unhappy medium, Dr Newton Barlow, is badly in need of a challenge. It arrives in the shape of a crime so cunning in its planning, so dastardly in its execution, that even the hyper-logical Dr Barlow will struggle to prevent it... -
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Fallen Reign by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalf human, half angel, 100% pissed off. Mason Albrecht’s life changed the day the angels tried to kill him. As the son of a fallen angel king, Mason is an abomination, one who can command the Vestments, divine arms and armor summoned from heaven’s own arsenals. And everybody wants a piece: death witches, demon princes, even deities of ancient myth... -
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![The Fifth Britain by Charlotte E. English]()
The Fifth Britain by Charlotte E. English
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCast away from the Society (sort of) and out on our own, we've got a big problem on our hands - and an exciting prospect, too. They call it time travel on TV... -
![The Triumph of Death by Jason Henderson]()
The Triumph of Death by Jason Henderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithin months of discovering he’s next in a long line of vampire hunters, Alex Van Helsing has already defeated two powerful vampire leaders. Not bad for a fourteen-year-old.But when a newly risen vampire queen threatens the fate of the world, Alex faces his deadliest challenge yet... -
![Hound of Hades by Lucy Coats, Brett Bean]()
Hound of Hades by Lucy Coats, Brett Bean
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn exciting new illustrated chapter book series set in a magical ancient Greece filled with heroic adventures, gods and goddesses, mythical beasts, and plenty of humor.Pandemonious is summoned by the great god Hades to the Underworld... -
![Goddamned Freaky Monsters by Rick Gualtieri]()
Goddamned Freaky Monsters by Rick Gualtieri
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are reasons we fear the night. Now he's trying to stop them.Three months have passed since the fateful encounter in New York City that ended with the disappearance of Bill Ryder - gamer, geek, and legendary vampire. Now he's back - reawakened halfway across the globe with no allies, clothing, or clue as to how he got there... -
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Fresh Meat by Alice Henderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rash of strange deaths in the Tahoe National Forest bring Sam, Dean and Bobby to the Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt a monster with a taste for human flesh. Soon walking corpses, bodies with missing organs, and attacks by a mysterious flying creature lead the trio to a cunning and deadly foe which can assume a human form and will do anything to survive... -
![Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson]()
Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow that Alex is in the know about the deadly vampires that live—and hunt—around his boarding school, everything is different. Putting his talents to use, Alex is training with the Polidorium to become a vampire hunter, just like his Van Helsing ancestors. Sure, he’s only fourteen, but c’mon: This runs in his blood.But Alex is wondering if he’ll live long enough to succeed... -
![Mercury Rests by Robert Kroese]()
Mercury Rests by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMercury Rests: The epic conclusion to the Mercury trilogy!After foiling an attempt to destroy the universe, Mercury has gone missing... -
![The Road to Farringale by Charlotte E. English]()
The Road to Farringale by Charlotte E. English
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOld Magick. New World.In 2017, little remains of magick save scattered, beleaguered pockets of magickal community and scholarship - and a vast, but rapidly decaying, heritage... -
![Mercury Begins by Robert Kroese]()
Mercury Begins by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTravel to ancient Troy with the irrepressible angel Mercury as he masterminds the most unnecessarily complicated sneak attack in history! Never read any of the Mercury books? Start here! Already read one or more of the books? Also OK! There's no wrong way to read this story, unless you're using a spatula and a bowl full of goose feathers... -
![Death, the Devil, and the Goldfish by Andrew Buckley]()
Death, the Devil, and the Goldfish by Andrew Buckley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Bahamas to Heathrow airport, to the rain soaked streets of London the dead have ceased dying. This is inconvenient for a number of reasons but what’s the real reason behind the chaos?In London we find Nigel Reinhardt, a disgraced, confused, and gifted London police constable who owns a prophetic goldfish... -
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![A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 9 by Kazuma Kamachi]()
A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 9 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Daihasei Festival--a huge athletics festival attended by every school in Academy City, where the superpowered students attending these institutions gather to compete in a wide variety of competitions. And of course, Touma Kamijou is participating... -
![Rapture by David Sosnowski]()
Rapture by David Sosnowski
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize comes an entertaining and inventive tale acclaimed byThe New York Times Book Review as a wry, dry first novel (about) angels with attitude. Spinning an inventive new riff on contemporary angel mania, Sosnowski's first novel is a fanciful zeitgeist satire.--Publishers Weekly... -
![Relic: Blade by Ben Zackheim]()
Relic: Blade by Ben Zackheim
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The action and hilarity are non-stop in this rip-roaring thrill ride of an adventure. Ben Zackheim delivers!" - Joseph Nassise, New York Times bestselling author of the Templar Chronicles series Cocky vampires, mythical swords, steady Glocks and ghost hordes. Welcome to my world. The vampires just woke up from a 1000-year slumber. Before nap-time they buried their fortunes around the world... -
![A Farce to Be Reckoned With by Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley]()
A Farce to Be Reckoned With by Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe play's the thing in this comic fantasy from the authors of Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming and If at Faust You Don't SucceedIt's that quiet time between Millennia, and the demon Azzie is becoming bored and restless. Then inspiration hits. On a devilish sabbatical in Europe, Azzie discovers that morality plays are all the rage... -
![Odds And Gods by Tom Holt]()
Odds And Gods by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's a god's life... ...at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for retired deities. Everlasting life can be a real drag when all you've got to look forward to is cauliflower cheese on Wednesdays.For a start, there's a major techincal problem with the thousand-year-old traction engine which has been lovingly restored by those almighty duffers Thor, Odin and Frey...the damn thing actually goes... -
![Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by Erin Gilbert, Abby L Yates]()
Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by Erin Gilbert, Abby L Yates
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings**As seen in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Ghostbusters**Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the ground-breaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past - now back in print!Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... -
![Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales by Kiersten White]()
Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales by Kiersten White
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce upon a time, a girl skipped into the forest and became a zombie.Wait, no, that's not how this story is supposed to go. Let's try again.Once upon a time, a boy did a horrible job as a sheep-sitter and burned his tongue on stolen pie.No, children in these stories are always good and virtuous. From the top...Categorized as:
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![Tall Stories: Expecting Someone Taller and Ye Gods by Tom Holt]()
Tall Stories: Expecting Someone Taller and Ye Gods by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTall Stories is another omnibus containing two of Tom Holt's beloved comic fantasies. In Expecting Someone Taller, all he did was run over a badger—sad, but hardly catastrophic. But it wasn’t Malcolm fisher’s day, for the badger turned out to be none other than Ingolf, last of the Giants... -
![Flying Dutch by Tom Holt]()
Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMild-mannered accountant Jane Doland must track down Vanderdecker, a magically immortal Dutch sea captain who, along with his crew, has been circling the globe for four hundred years... -
![Hell's Super by Mark Cain]()
Hell's Super by Mark Cain
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHell is ... well, hell, and Steve Minion is the guy who has to keep it all going with every devil and demon - and, as it turns out, not a few of its inmates - stacked against him... -
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![Forever After: A Dark Comedy by David Jester]()
Forever After: A Dark Comedy by David Jester
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael Holland is a grim reaper working the worst beat in the worst town. Michael’s best friend is a pot-smoking tooth fairy, his boss is the angel of death, his psychiatrist can read his mind, and he counts bogeymen, demons, and clones as his acquaintances... -
![とある魔術の禁書目録 11 by Kazuma Kamachi]()
とある魔術の禁書目録 11 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife has mostly returned to normal for the high schooler who knows nothing but misfortune, Touma Kamijou. But in a stroke of unbelievably good luck, he manages to snag two tickets for an overseas getaway trip! Of course, Kamijou is a veteran by now and immediately searches for a sinister trap or a hidden downside to this strange turn of events... -
![Wanted by Betsy Schow]()
Wanted by Betsy Schow
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn the sequel to Spelled, can Robin Hood's daughter, Rexi, stop the Wicked Witch from finding Excalibur?Fairy-Tale Survival Rule No. 52: No matter how difficult the obstacles or all-powerful the evil villain, one can rest assured that the hero of the story never dies. The sidekicks though... they should be worried.Rexi Hood is proud to be an outlaw...
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