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  • Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 137 ratings
    Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It should have been enough. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett...
  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder...
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  • Alpha Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Alpha Wolf by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 103 ratings
    I came here with a single goal in mind.An aim.A purpose.I will break out of Darkmore Penitentiary.But I was a fool to think that it would be so simple.And now with more and more Fae relying on me to get them out of this slice of hell, I find myself unable to do a damn thing.Mason Cain stabbed me in the back and left me to rot in the dark...
  • Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 152 ratings
    There's more to my brother's murder than I realised... Shadows in the halls, mysteries lurking around every corner. Whoever killed him is covering their tracks well. And now I'm walking a dangerous line between getting close to the four kings for information and wanting to crawl deeper under their skin for my own desires. I can't trust anyone. I can't let my guard down...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 84 ratings
    When I first landed a bartending job at the local guild, I didn't know a thing about magic. These days, I'm practically an expert on the different magical classes, but there's one nobody ever talks about: Demonica. Turns out they have a good reason for that...
  • Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan

    Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 88 ratings
    Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. But the events of City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn’t sure who he is anymore. He knows he was friends with Clary, and that he convinced the total goddess Isabelle Lightwood to go out with him…but he doesn’t know how...
  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 151 ratings
    There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost...
  • The One and Only Crystal Druid by Annette Marie

    The One and Only Crystal Druid by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 62 ratings
    Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia.I forgot everything about that boy, and now I'm out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile...
  • Vax Humana by Michael Anderle

    Vax Humana by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    James was raised by some good men. What would have happened if twisted cultists like the Brotherhood had found him instead of Fathers McCartney and Thomas? It's time to find out more about the Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone.James isn't from Earth or Oriceran. Where he is from has been a question for years...
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 132 ratings
    Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way...
  • A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 199 ratings
    The first book of the Scholomance trilogy is the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans...
  • Bloodline Legacy by Lan Chan

    Bloodline Legacy by Lan Chan

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A hedge witch and her psychotic vampire partner enter the Unity Games. Four supernatural academies. A thousand ways to die. I don’t think I want to be Alessia Hastings anymore.My life plan is pretty simple: Learn to fight. Survive a war with the Hell dimension. Don’t die. It does not, I repeat, it does not involve a mating bond with Malachi Pendragon and spitting out Nephilim babies...
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    magic  mystery  fantasy  paranormal  vampires  demons  witches  fae
  • SSS: Year Two by Avery Song

    SSS: Year Two by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When being different leads to the best years of your life. Powerful witch Silver Spell Solange always dreamed of getting into S.S.S School When she finally achieved it, she couldn't have been happier...
  • Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 54 ratings
    Vampire royals strategise at 2 am.Last week, I inherited every cent of the multi-billion-dollar Le Spyre estate. But tequila is far easier to swallow than the coincidence of my beloved grandmother’s death.I’m over this supernatural game, yet walking away from Kyros isn't simple with the damn mate thing on the cards.The Indebted need my help. My grandmother deserves justice...
  • The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    Demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus to rescue an old friend in this thrilling adventure co-written by New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro...
  • Stone Cold Touch: The Dark Elements by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Stone Cold Touch: The Dark Elements by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Every touch has its price in the second book in the explosive Dark Elements trilogy, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blood and Ash series.Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Her best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to her mysterious power of a soul-stealing kiss...
  • The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

    The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The Sixth book in the the Rivers of London series featuring the young law officer Peter Grant—who must deal with both crime and magic.Where the Marble Arch stands today in London was once the Tyburn gallows - or The Hanging Tree. The walk toward those gallows, along Oxford Street and past the Mayfair mansions, has a bloody and haunted history as the last trip of the condemned...
  • The King's Shadow by K.M. Shea

    The King's Shadow by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 81 ratings
    I just spent the last month pretending to be the pet cat of an elf king. Today, I discovered we’re enemies.In a supernatural society filled with vampires, werewolves, and wizards, I’ve always been an outcast with my ability to turn into a housecat. No one knew what I was.Turns out, I’m a shadow—a race of supernaturals that were wiped out by the elves centuries ago...
  • The King's Queen by K.M. Shea

    The King's Queen by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 66 ratings
    When the elven king of death released me even though my existence is a threat to his kingdom, I took the opportunity to run. There is just one problem… I also fell in love with him.Nothing like a little doomed love to add a dash of intrigue to life, right? Unfortunately, that’s not even the worst of it...
  • A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ollie Wit is the strongest Shadow Walker born in decades but it’s a gift with a steep price. Walking in the Shadowlands can bring untold powers and spells, and even greater risks. Every step into that other world brings her closer to the monsters that have haunted her since a child, destroyed her family and wreaked havoc all around her...
  • The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 128 ratings
    The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death...
  • For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The Man Who Would Be SatanParry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic. But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie. Led down the twisted path of wickedness and depravity by Lilah the harlot demoness, Parry thrived--first as a sorcerer, then as a monk, and finally as a feared inquisitor...
  • King of None by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    King of None by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 33 ratings
    The Ancients are free, and all bets are off. With the rise of the primordial creators of Under everything has changed. Our world is no longer the same, and neither is Aon.I learned his dark secret the moment the sun peeked over the horizon for the first time in thousands of years. Every king and queen in Under used to be human—even Edu. But not Aon...
  • Loveless 04 by Yun Kouga

    Loveless 04 by Yun Kouga

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 26 ratings
    Soubi unexpectedly meets two new Zero warriors Koya and Yamato, who leave him badly wounded. A concerned Ritsuki asks Natsuo and Yoji to teach Soubi about the relationship between a Fighter Unit and the Sacrifice. Older teens...
  • Soul Thief by Jana Oliver

    Soul Thief by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father's been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...
  • Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

    Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 928 ratings
    After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin...
  • Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Dragon Born mage Sera Dering was sentenced to death before she was even born. Condemned as an abomination by the world’s supernatural council, she has escaped her fate for twenty-four years by pretending to be human. Until now. When the council finds out Sera has been hiding her magic, they’re determined to find out why...
  • Dark Bound by Kim Richardson

    Dark Bound by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The pulse-pounding continuation of the Shadow and Light series! After narrowly surviving her encounter with the archangel Vedriel, Rowyn finds herself on another Hunt. But there’s a catch. Her new employer is the faerie Queen of the Dark Court, and Rowyn HATES faeries...
  • Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead...
  • Queen of All by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Queen of All by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 34 ratings
    The world of Under has been remade into what it was long before the Ancients were put in their prison. They are free, and with them comes the reign of the callous, merciless King who was once the man I loved. I always knew Aon was a monster, and as the King of All he is far worse...
  • Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity doesn't last for long.It seems that Liv's troubles are far from over--in fact, suddenly they're piling up...
  • City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

    City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 415 ratings
    Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend...
  • Magic Nights by Ella Summers

    Magic Nights by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.After surviving the trials of the Magic Games, mercenary mage Sera Dering is back home in San Francisco. She wants nothing more than to relax and finally have a long-overdue date with dragon shifter Kai.Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.When a young boy is kidnapped by vampires, Sera’s friend Naomi enlists her help to save him...
  • Jinxed by Donna Augustine

    Jinxed by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Karma, it’s what they call me and the very essence of who I am. When I died young, I was recruited by the agency that keeps the Universe running smoothly. As someone with a human past, most of my coworkers consider me inferior.But not everyone. Something evil has been stalking me for centuries. It’s been biding its time, waiting for the moment when it will strike and it needs me to to do it...
  • Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

    Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 392 ratings
    St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . .
  • A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new as Death...
  • I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus

    I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner...
  • Hex-Ed by Sarina Dorie

    Hex-Ed by Sarina Dorie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Imagine a bumbling character like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum told with the quirky tone of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but trying to get a job at Hogwarts. Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs...
  • Magic Edge by Ella Summers

    Magic Edge by Ella Summers

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Mercenary mage Alex Dering has spent most of her life killing deadly monsters for only peanuts in return—until the world’s most legendary immortal hires her for a prestigious assignment in Europe. In return for hunting down misbehaving supernaturals, he’s going to pay her a boatload of cash...
  • House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildenstein

    House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildenstein

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 113 ratings
    Free the crows, Fallon, and they will make you queen.Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I’d never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halfling loved by beasts but loathed by every pure-blooded faerie at court. Well . . . by all but one. Dante Regio, prince of Luce, had owned my heart since he gave me my first kiss...
  • Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey

    Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    On Solange’s sixteenth birthday, she is going to wake up dead. As if that’s not bad enough, she also has to outwit her seven overprotective older brothers, avoid the politics involved with being the only daughter born to an ancient vampire dynasty, and elude Kieran Black—agent of an anti-vampire league who is searching for his father’s killer and is intent on staking Solange and her entire family...
  • Bright World by Stan Stanley

    Bright World by Stan Stanley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Hazards of Love follows the story of a queer teen from Queens who makes some mistakes, gets dragged into a fantastical place, and tries to hustle their way back home.Amparo's deal with the talking cat was simple: a drop of blood and Amparo's name to become a better person...
  • Blood Casino by Nina Walker

    Blood Casino by Nina Walker

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Keep your cards close and your enemies closer.At least that's what my mom always told me. Becoming a vampire hunter was never in my cards, but it is now that she needs my help. A decade ago vampires seized control of the bars, casinos, and the dark underbelly of society. Now they deal in addiction and bargain with blood, and humans over twenty-five can't fight back against their compulsion...
  • Allison's Adventures in Underland by C.M. Stunich

    Allison's Adventures in Underland by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 87 ratings
    Um. Um. Um. Are you reading this? If you are, I need your help. I was at a party; I was running; I fell. And get this—this is the part you'll never believe—I fell down a rabbit hole. Like Alice in those old books. Except in those books, there wasn't blood everywhere. In those books, the characters weren't all male, attractive, and interested in me...
  • The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand

    The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    At the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, you will definitely learn your lesson. An atmospheric, heartfelt, and delightfully spooky novel for fans of Coraline , Splendors and Glooms , and The Mysterious Benedict Society .Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  magic  suspense  fantasy  young adult  paranormal  dark  humor
  • Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost...
  • City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

    City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare...
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

    Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 158 ratings
    A ll the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead...
  • Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons

    Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    "A ravenous read." -- Kirkus ReviewsShaun of the Dead meets Clueless in this hilarious YA horror comedy set at a local zombie convention--featuring a teenage girl gang that has to save the world from a horde of actual zombies. Perfect for fans of Geekerella, Undead Girl Gang , and Anna and the Apocalypse...
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