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  • Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

    Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 1108 ratings
    Lost and broken, Celaena Sardothien’s only thought is to avenge the savage death of her dearest friend: as the King of Adarlan’s Assassin, she is bound to serve this tyrant, but he will pay for what he did. Any hope Celaena has of destroying the king lies in answers to be found in Wendlyn...
  • The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 127 ratings
    Celaena Sardothien is the assassin with everything: a place to call her own, the love of handsome Sam, and, best of all, freedom. Yet, she won’t be truly free until she is far away from her old master, Arobynn Hamel; Celaena must take one last daring assignment that will liberate her forever. But having it all, means you have a lot to lose . .
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  • The Desperate Quest by A.M. Sohma

    The Desperate Quest by A.M. Sohma

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Chronicles of Retha was meant to be a full submersion video game filled with adventure and magic…but it has become a prison. Kit and her party of misfit players have managed to collect two of the four seals that are required to face Malignus—Retha’s ultimate villain whose defeat may be the only way out of the game...
  • The Assassin and the Healer by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Healer by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 116 ratings
    Meet the Assassin: beautiful, defiant, destined for greatness. Celaena Sardothien has challenged her master. Now she must pay the price. Her journey to the Red Desert will be an arduous one, but it may change the fate of her cursed world forever. ..
  • The Assassin and the Pirate Lord by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Pirate Lord by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 137 ratings
    A Throne of Glass novella. On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She’s been sent by the Assassin’s Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates...
  • Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. Orphaned, disgraced, and stripped of her title, Rho is ready to live life quietly, as an aid worker in the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn...
  • Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Wandering Star by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. Orphaned, disgraced, and stripped of her title, Rho is ready to live life quietly, as an aid worker in the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn...
  • Infinite by Jodi Meadows

    Infinite by Jodi Meadows

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    DESTRUCTION. The Year of Souls begins with an earthquake—an alarming rumble from deep within the earth—and it’s only the first of greater dangers to come. The Range caldera is preparing to erupt. Ana knows that as Soul Night approaches, everything near Heart will be at risk. FLIGHT...
  • Taste of Darkness by Maria V. Snyder

    Taste of Darkness by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 54 ratings
    She's fought death and won. But how can she fight her fears? Avry knows hardship and trouble. She fought the plague and survived. She took on King Tohon and defeated him. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he's gone forever. But there's a more immediate threat: The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own...
  • Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller. These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human kind, and Neryn must prove her worth to them. She desperately needs their help to use her gift without compromising herself or the cause of overthrowing the evil King Keldec...
  • Eden by Janelle Stalder

    Eden by Janelle Stalder

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trapped within the cruel world of hormones and bullies, fifteen-year-old Aiden is convinced life has more to offer him. His instincts are proven correct on the night he is awakened by a voice calling to him from outside his window. As he sleepily peers into his yard, his eyes slowly focus on a woman who says she is there to take him to Eden...
  • Winter Dragon by Olena Nikitin

    Winter Dragon by Olena Nikitin

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    “When a Chaos mage fights, only blood and scorched earth remain. ”. Mage War Chronicles. Some victories are more costly than others, and Ina was the one that paid the price. Determined to rescue her dragon, the newly appointed royal witch embarks on a gruelling journey through the wintery Grey Mountains...
  • Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

    Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback. Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past...
  • Eternity by Elizabeth Miles

    Eternity by Elizabeth Miles

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Secrets and revenge make for desperate measures and fateful choices in this gripping conclusion to the Fury trilogy. The weather is mild in Ascension, but beneath the surface, everything is burning up. The nightmare Emily Winters has been living through for months shows no sign of ending, as the Furies stay on the peripheral, slowly driving her crazy. Em feels. .. different...
  • Threader by Rebekah Turner

    Threader by Rebekah Turner

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the Helios Academy: evolve or die. It's the year 2050 and life is increasingly hard for 'non-citizens'. A slowly emerging young minority has been exposed as 'talents'; they harbour mutations that give them special gifts – super strength, regenerative powers, psychic gifts or the ability to sink through shadows and travel through time and space...
  • Golden by Michael Johnston

    Golden by Michael Johnston

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Recast the spell. Light the flame. Make the world anew. With the ruins of New Kandy still smoldering around them and Nat’s bond to her beloved drakon quickly fraying, Nat and Wes are lost amid a sea of destruction—with Wes at death’s door. Wes tried to save his sister, Eliza, and protect them from her cruelty, only to see firsthand just how dark her power had become...
  • Wolf Wing by Tanith Lee

    Wolf Wing by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    At last, Claidi and her beloved Argul are free to get married. But before they can start their life together, Claidi must face her past. They return to her birthplace, the House, to rescue the other slaves�and find that there has been a revolution, sparked by Claidi�s escape. Then the two are urgently summoned by Ironel Novendot of the Wolf Tower, who tells them that Ustareth is alive...
  • After Eden by Helen Douglas

    After Eden by Helen Douglas

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her. As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret...
  • Wolf Queen by Tanith Lee

    Wolf Queen by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Claidi is eager to reunite with her fiancé Argul-but when she finally reaches his camp, she finds that someone has been spreading ugly lies about her, and Argul is nowhere to be found. Undaunted, Claidi sets out to search for him. Her quest brings her to the icy threshold of a tower, and within it she encounters another shadow from her past-a powerful woman Claidi believes is her mother...
  • Wolf Star by Tanith Lee

    Wolf Star by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The day before Claidi's wedding, she is kidnapped and taken to a mountaintop palace in the shadow of an unearthly star. Wolf Star Rise is the stuff of nightmares, with rooms that change and move for no apparent reason. The only human there is Prince Venn. Neither Claidi nor Venn knows why they are at the Rise...
  • Death Sworn by Leah Cypess

    Death Sworn by Leah Cypess

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    When Ileni lost her magic, she lost everything: her place in society, her purpose in life, and the man she had expected to spend her life with. So when the Elders sent her to be magic tutor to a secret sect of assassins, she went willingly, even though the last two tutors had died under mysterious circumstances...
  • Prophecy by Ellen Oh

    Prophecy by Ellen Oh

    Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The greatest warrior in all of the Seven Kingdoms. .. is a girl with yellow eyes. Kira’s the only female in the king’s army, and the prince’s bodyguard. She’s a demon slayer and an outcast, hated by nearly everyone in her home city of Hansong. And, she’s their only hope. .. Murdered kings and discovered traitors point to a demon invasion, sending Kira on the run with the young prince...
  • Defy by Sara B. Larson

    Defy by Sara B. Larson

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 61 ratings
    Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard...
  • Nightspell by Leah Cypess

    Nightspell by Leah Cypess

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all. In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger—not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours. Darri’s sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now Darri has a chance to save her sister. .
  • The Assassin and the Underworld by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Underworld by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 130 ratings
    When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight slavery in the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to strike a blow against an evil practice. The misson is a dark and deadly affair which takes Celaena from the rooftops of the city to the bottom of the sewer--and she doesn't like what she finds there.
  • City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

    City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 286 ratings
    In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter...
  • The Assassin and the Desert by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Desert by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 126 ratings
    The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren’t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s not there to chatter, she’s there to hone her craft as the world’s most feared killer for hire. When the quiet is shattered by forces who want to destroy the Silent Assassins, Celaena must find a way to stop them, or she’ll be lucky to leave the desert alive.
  • Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 83 ratings
    In this seductive follow-up to Poison Princess , #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole takes us deeper into the dark world of the Arcana Chronicles. Shocking secrets. Evie has fully come into her powers as the Tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all. She now knows that the teens who've been reincarnated as the Tarot are in the throes of an epic battle...
  • Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron

    Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    They say family always sticks together, but when you’re your dad’s only lifeline and the whole world—humans, dragons, and gods—wants you dead, “family bonding” takes on a whole new meaning. My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m in way over my head. I thought getting rid of my dad’s bad luck curse would put things back to normal. Instead, I’m stuck playing caretaker to the Great Dragon of Korea...
  • A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

    A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 207 ratings
    Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival...
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