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A Knack for Metal and Bone by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA royal tinker and a rogue soldier must unite to stop the monsters threatening their city—and unravel the secrets lurking within it. Rowan doesn’t just work with machines—she hears them. The hum of engines, the whisper of gears and wires—they speak to her through the magic that flows from her mech hand... -
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Brightless by Teshelle Combs
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor lovers of fated mates, plot twists, shadow and light magic, and curses that need to be shattered. The world is drowning in perpetual darkness, and a dark-heart named Struggle has been working himself to death to care for his family. But when a terrifying turn of events shatters his reality, he is sent to find the only one who can break the curse and save them all... -
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![A Grave Mistake by Leighann Dobbs]()
A Grave Mistake by Leighann Dobbs
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a mutilated body shows up in their seaside town of Noquitt Maine, the Blackmoore sisters realize that an ancient relic they'd been trying to locate has been hidden right in their own hometown the whole time.... Too bad they aren't the only ones that know it's there... -
![Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward]()
Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsI’m a girl stuck in Neverland with The Lost Boys. I’m no Wendy, I can hold my own. I don’t need to wait around for Peter to save me, but I’m also not an idiot. I know my enemies. It's been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later... -
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![Bellona by Alessa Thorn]()
Bellona by Alessa Thorn
There's one mortal who the goddess of war would burn the world for...and someone was just dumb enough to put a bounty on his head. Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, lives in secrecy among mortals, concealing her divine identity while offering her services as a skilled protector and mercenary... -
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Blood Genesis by Tessa Dawn
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBefore there was a modern-day town called Dark Moon Vale, there was an ancient kingdom nestled in the Transylvanian Alps. Before there was a primordial species called the Vampyr, there was a celestial race begotten of gods and men. Before light battled shadow, the sacrifice became mandatory, or the first Blood Moon adorned the celestial sky... There was the Curse. A punishment... -
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Demon Night by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery secret has a price. It’s a truth that Angel knows too well. Since the hellhounds and infected started to roam, Angel has guarded her secret carefully. But, she’s growing weaker by the day and needs help. In this new plague-ravaged world, the weak don’t survive long, and the useless are quickly abandoned. That’s why Angel’s secret needs to stay secret... -
![Rain Kimber: An Ariel Kimber Novella by Mary Martel]()
Rain Kimber: An Ariel Kimber Novella by Mary Martel
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRain Kimber thought that finding his daughter and finally being able to be a part of her life after so many years without her would be the end of his adventure. He thought he’d find her, take care of the woman who’d stolen his child away from him (you don’t want to know), and then the two of them would immediately become the family they’d been before she’d been taken... -
![Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper]()
Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"Look at you, as sweet as springtime, your heart and soul both. Would you destroy all of that to bring about your lost love's return?" The dead lay gone but not forgotten. War has sparked in the demonic realm of Sha’Demoni, ignited by the wrath of a vengeful goddess seeking recompense for her daughter’s death – and she deems Flowridia responsible... -
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Demon Escape by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines... -
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Demon Deception by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCassie Feld’s world is falling apart. Grieving from the loss of her husband and youngest child, she lives in fear of losing her remaining daughter. She knows she can't protect her alone. There’s a solution, as terrifying and as heartbreaking as she finds it, that will ensure she never has to suffer such a devastating loss again... -
![Tale of the Necromancer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Tale of the Necromancer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Now she knows her past. But is it one worth living with?As Marguerite finally learns the terrible truth behind what she is—and why Gideon Raithe needs her—the memories of her past come flooding back. As she travels through all her previous lives, she learns she has been running from a decision the entire time. And now, she has nowhere left to hide... -
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The Scourge by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be... -
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Necrobane by Daniel M. Ford
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain.To protect her village, she must unearth a source of immense Necromantic power at the heart of Mahlgren... -
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![Silver Diamond, Volume 4: Granting Purpose by Shiho Sugiura]()
Silver Diamond, Volume 4: Granting Purpose by Shiho Sugiura
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRakan makes the bold decision to return to the other world with Chigusa and the others. But what awaits them is a world without light or green, a world that is beginning its end. To top it off, as soon as they arrive, Rakan is immediately mistaken for the Prince and attacked by a strange group of people... -
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Demon Dawn by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSurvival requires sacrifice. The world irrevocably changed after the hellhounds and fey appeared. Most people didn’t survive that first night. Dad had said we were lucky we did. I’m not so sure about that anymore. With her father murdered before her eyes and her faith in the remaining humans shaken, Brenna reluctantly accepts sanctuary in Tolerance, a safe zone managed by the fey... -
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Dash by Mary Martel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDash Flynn always thought he was damaged beyond repair. Both a mother and a grandmother who had wanted him to be born a female witch, growing up, he was nothing but a disappointment to those around him. His father had fought for him as best as he could before he disappeared from Dash's life, leaving him to grow up with the two women they both had hated most in this world... -
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Odd Blood by Azalea Crowley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStuckThat’s what Josephine Pajimula felt like. A burnout millennial on the verge of losing her housing, her roommate, and maybe even her best friend. It made perfect sense to go to a Halloween party, ignore her feelings, and spend the time searching for apartments instead.A ChanceShe hadn’t expected meeting him. A man in a vampire costume took a hard fall in front of her... -
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Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSpring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season.It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment... -
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Double Trouble by London Lovett
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFirefly Junction meets Port Danby as Lola and Lacey take a trip to the Cider Ridge Inn in Double Trouble. Sunni Taylor is finally going to meet Lola Button, the quirky antique dealer who sold her some rather unusual old photos of Cider Ridge Inn. When Lola arrives with her best friend, Lacey Pinkerton, Sunni and Lacey find they have a lot in common... -
![Arata: The Legend, Vol. 11 by Yuu Watase]()
Arata: The Legend, Vol. 11 by Yuu Watase
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn action-packed shonen fantasy from the acclaimed author of Fushigi Yûgi! Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for audiences T.In a mythical world where humans and gods coexist, a ceremony marking the new governing princess is about to occur for the first time in 60 years... -
![Arata: The Legend, Vol. 12 by Yuu Watase]()
Arata: The Legend, Vol. 12 by Yuu Watase
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style). In a mythical world where humans and gods coexist, a ceremony marking the new governing princess is about to occur for the first time in 60 years. Only a girl from the Hime Clan may take this position, but the lack of females born to this family means that a boy called Arata must pose for the role... -
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Flax-Golden Tales by Erin Morgenstern, Carey Farrell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErin wrote flax-golden tales (ten sentence stories inspired by photographs taken by her friend Carey Farrell) from July 2009 to July 2014. They are all archived and can be read at the link attached. She started them for her birthday to make her blog look more like an actual writer (direct quote). Five years and 261 stories later she decided it was time to stop... -
![This Book Sucks by Piper C.J.]()
This Book Sucks by Piper C.J.
Welcome to The Page TurnerA Seattle speakeasy that caters to secret, underground fantasies: drinks, sex, and fang-tastic carnage. 400-year-old Narya Volkova is exhausted by terrible vampire pop culture, struggling to get over her ex, and annoyed by every man on the face of the planet... -
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![Oubliette by Megg Jensen]()
Oubliette by Megg Jensen
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsReychel thought she was finally free. She was wrong. Everyone saw her gift of prophecy as a blessing, but her gift is uncontrollable. No one alive can teach her to manipulate her unique gift and the answers she needs lie buried within a madman’s journals. She’s thrust in the midst of a brewing war and the only uniting factor for her people is their belief in the Prophet... -
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Severed by Megg Jensen
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Three: Cloud Prophet Trilogy Reychel knows her gift of prophecy will lead to madness and now she is at her most vulnerable. The enemy army will attempt to sever her from everything she's ever known: her homeland, her friends, Mark, and her gift. Even at her weakest, she refuses to give up on her desire to end the war between the Malborn and the Serenians... -
![The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine]()
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle... -
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Allegiance by Wanda Wiltshire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second book in the Betrothed Series. Having returned home, Marla seems to quickly forget her Faery Prince, Leif... And strangely, she starts seeing her best friend Jack in a different way... Tensions mount within this doomed love triangle after Leif, unwilling to part with his betrothed, strikes a deal with his father, the fiery King Telophy, to travel to Earth to win Marla back... -
![Winx Club Vol. 1: Welcome To Magix (Winx Club (Papercutz Edition) #1) by Iginio Straffi]()
Winx Club Vol. 1: Welcome To Magix (Winx Club (Papercutz Edition) #1) by Iginio Straffi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin the Winx Club, a group of fairies who fight evil using their unique magical powers! In this first installment, Bloom is introduced to Fairy school in Magix, and a whole new world of superpowered girlfriends, scary monsters, and wicked witches — all the while becoming stronger herself and finding the true meaning of friendship... -
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Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen you control minds, only your heart can be used against you. Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice after all. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders’ fears and strips jackers of their rights... -
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Haven by Laury Falter
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Guardian Trilogy comes a new romantic suspense... HAVEN, Apocalypse Chronicles, Part I On an ordinary day in early September, Kennedy Shaw leaves for school unaware that within a few minutes the world she knows will be gone - succumbed to an outbreak of epidemic proportions... -
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Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsZanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, possesses occult powers and knows the secret of eternal life. However, he cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples, the daughter of Pisani, a misunderstood Italian violinist... -
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The Lair by Emily McKay
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the battle against the vampiric Ticks, humanity was slowly but certainly headed for extinction. For months, twin sisters Lily and Mel had been “quarantined” with thousands of other young people being harvested for their blood—food for the Ticks. Finally escaping with a few friends, the twins are separated—and must continue the fight on their own . . -
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Poisoned by Katherine Pine
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsPoisonous mists settled in the lowlands 17 years ago, rendering ninety percent of the land uninhabitable and killing over half the population. Most blame their misfortune on industrialization or the fey, but some curse Snow White, the princess who was born poisoned... -
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![The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price]()
The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Beware of shaking hands with a Sterkarm!" goes the folk saying. Why the warning? The members of this wild 16th-century Scottish clan are left-handed, and while they smile and offer the right hand, the left wields a dagger... -
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Talyn by Holly Lisle
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, Talyn is a soldier, one of thousands trained from childhood to protect her country from the monarchist Eastil, who would take away the personal freedoms of the Tonk. Talyn long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle... -
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Grayson Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen Addison Lockhart inherits Grayson Manor after her mother's untimely death, she unlocks a secret that’s been kept hidden for over fifty years. For Addison, it seems like she’s finally found the house of her dreams…until the spirit of Roxanne “Roxy” Rafferty comes to call... -
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Wolf Dawn by Susan Cartwright
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAshton Chayton was born with a powerful gift, a unique inhuman ability. Orphaned, raised by the Red Wolves of Opan, captured and enslaved - he is now free and on the run. Unfortunately everybody wants Ashton. Admiral Jones will torture him to get the secret of his power. Lady Lindha feels he is "The One" as named in Temple prophecy. The influential Lord Andros just wants him dead... -
![Waking Up Dead by Emma Shortt]()
Waking Up Dead by Emma Shortt
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsYou know your life has hit rock bottom when you’re living off cooked rats and showering once every few months—if you’re lucky. But for Jackson Hart things are about to get a whole lot worse. When her best friend, Tye, disappears hunting for food, kick-ass Jackson’s ‘head south to safety’ plan looks like it’s dead before it’s even begun... -
![Frost by Kate Avery Ellison]()
Frost by Kate Avery Ellison
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the icy, monster-plagued world of the Frost, compassion might get a person killed, and Lia Weaver knows this better than anyone. After the monsters kill her parents, she must keep the family farm running or risk losing her siblings to reassignment by the village Elders. With dangers on all sides, she can't afford to let her emotions lead her astray... -
![The Fire Wars by Kailin Gow]()
The Fire Wars by Kailin Gow
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJust Announced (5/2012) Winner Teen Book - 2012 Green Books Festival A dystopian romance that takes place on an island and is the melding of mythologies from two different cultures. Her destiny was written in the books.. -
![Behind the Crimson Curtain by E.B. Golden]()
Behind the Crimson Curtain by E.B. Golden
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA magical con artist and an actor turned revolutionary fight for freedom in an atmospheric fantasy debut where layered secrets and daring love clash on a stage of war.On the coal-choked island of Luisonn, the tyrannical Stav Regime breeds rebellion among the working class... -
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The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNational Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative . . . haunting”* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (*Janet Maslin, New York Times)Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage... -
![Dangerous Voices by Rae Carson]()
Dangerous Voices by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsErrik has been a prisoner--and alone--for a long, long time. He lives for the moment each day when the window of his dungeon cell shines a bit of light onto his bearded face. But everything changes when he gets a new neighbor--a young girl with a voice as beautiful as the springrise. They both know the rules: No singing. No speaking. Voices are dangerous. But they can't help themselves... -
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![The Sorcerer's Concubine by Jaclyn Dolamore]()
The Sorcerer's Concubine by Jaclyn Dolamore
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBorn of wood, cloth, and a substantial dose of magic, Velsa is a Fanarlem, a beautiful artificial girl. Raised to be a concubine, she has seen her friends at the House of Perfumed Ribbons sold off to be the pets of wealthy men. Now her own dreaded day has come... -
![Birth Rite by Raythe Reign, X. Aratare]()
Birth Rite by Raythe Reign, X. Aratare
Rated: 2.89 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The house was abandoned, but it was not empty. Something still lived there. Hungry. Remorseless. Trying to find a way out. Or at least that was what Ellen Shafer, his best friend, had tried to tell him. He hadn't listened to her. And she had paid the price." Justin Devereaux is obsessed with an ancient LaMascares Mansion on top of the Hill in Winter Haven...
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