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  • 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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    humor  suspense  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  mystery  mlm
  • 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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    dystopia  suspense  romance  sci-fi  time-travel  mystery  lgbtq  mlm
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. 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...
  • Judgment by Delta James

    Judgment by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lars Jakobsson, the leader of the Berserker Syndicate controls everything. He is also my only hope.LarsRhys Donovan is mine. The moment I laid eyes on her she became my obsession. We had one fabulous night together before she disappeared from my bed. In the end, she’ll come to me because I marked her and started her transition. And when she does, I’ll demand judgment...
  • Blackout by Mira Grant

    Blackout by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039...
  • A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town...
  • Death Valley by Karina Halle

    Death Valley by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take Yellowstone and add in the White Walkers from Game of Thrones and you have Death Valley. Morally grey cowboys, menacing wilderness, and deadly zombies await in this dark western horror romance from NYT bestselling author Karina Halle.Three years ago Aubrey Wells’ sister disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Since then, Aubrey’s life has crumbled around her...
  • Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy

    Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’ and Dear Sweet Pea comes a hilarious and spooky middle grade summer-camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp.Magnolia “Maggie” Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight...if she can just get over her stage fright...
  • Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I must marry one of the fae, but the forbidden ice lord wants me.To secure a human-fae truce, I'm one of five women traveling to their magical kingdom, where we'll be courted by fae aristocracy. We have one month to choose a husband from among them.Only Elion, the arrogant, beastly ice lord is forbidden. His torturous scars make the other women gasp. His icy words rip them to shreds...
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    aliens  suspense  humor  fantasy  fae  paranormal  fiction  steamy
  • Feed by Mira Grant

    Feed by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED...
  • Dread Wood by Jennifer Killick

    Dread Wood by Jennifer Killick

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s GoosebumpsIt's basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things can’t get much worse. But they’re wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary...
  • The Getaway by Lamar Giles

    The Getaway by Lamar Giles

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to the funnest spot around . . .Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world’s most famous resorts. He’s got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property’s main theme park. Life isn’t so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it’s to get away from all that...
  • It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames

    It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic thriller.Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world’s biggest tech companies...
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    suspense  crime  horror  young-adult  fiction  sci-fi  lgbtq  mystery
  • Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon.THIS IS PROPHET.It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
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    dystopia  suspense  romance  sci-fi  fiction  mystery  lgbtq  fantasy
  • The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

    The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, one living—hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder.Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries—one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living...
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    crime  humor  horror  fantasy  fiction  urban-fantasy  paranormal  noir
  • The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

    The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Reality and imagination collide when an expert puzzle-maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this fantastical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of AngelologyAll the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else...
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    suspense  crime  mystery  fiction  horror  fantasy  sci-fi  audiobook
  • Dandadan, Vol. 5 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Dandadan, Vol. 5 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his “family jewel,” so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they’ll believe in and what they won’t...
    Categorized as:
    humor  aliens  romance  fantasy  horror  comics  fiction  sci-fi
  • Poison Ivy, Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara

    Poison Ivy, Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist, and dead. In a new body that she didn’t ask for and with a renewed sense of purpose, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work—a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it...by ending humanity...
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    super-powered  crime  comics  horror  lgbtq  fiction  fantasy  wlw
  • Dandadan, Vol. 12 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Dandadan, Vol. 12 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his “family jewel,” so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they’ll believe in and what they won’t...
  • Dandadan, Vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Dandadan, Vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school's UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames "Okarun" because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite...
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    humor  monsters  comics  horror  sci-fi  fantasy  comedy  supernatural
  • The Harrowing: A Graphic Novel by Kristen Kiesling

    The Harrowing: A Graphic Novel by Kristen Kiesling

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this YA graphic novel, a psychic teen hunts potential killers until she discovers the boy she loves is her next targetRowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teenage things like attending college and whether her best friend, Lucas, is maybe more than a friend. . . . Instead, she’s having terrifying visions of blood and violence...
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