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  • Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

    Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 78 ratings
    The final novel in the First Law Trilogy by New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie.Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him -- but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy: it's time for the Bloody-Nine to come home...
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    horror  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  war  dark  young adult  military
  • Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 54 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl...Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago...
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  • House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

    House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 42 ratings
    A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Erin A. Craig, about doomed love, menacing ambition, and the ghosts that haunt us forever.In a manor by the sea, one sister is still cursed...
  • The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 57 ratings
    On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all...
  • Wicked Thirst by Megan Montero

    Wicked Thirst by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His power will end…He is a monster and it’s all my fault. I heard whispers of a curse, but I didn’t want to believe it was true . . . I was wrong.I’ve loved Grayson Shade from the day we met and now that love has doomed him to death. He tried to warn me, he tried to protect himself but I wouldn't let him. If he'd only told me the truth, I would've let him go...
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

    The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies...
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    horror  suspense  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  dark  war  young adult
  • Inferno by Kat Ross

    Inferno by Kat Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed…. Three talismans adrift. Two mad kings. One poisonous crown. As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife...
  • The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett

    The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 47 ratings
    The first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett’s groundbreaking Demon Cycle series—The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, and The Daylight War—set a new standard for heroic fantasy. The powerful saga of humans winnowed to the brink of extinction by night-stalking demons, and the survivors who fight back, has kept readers breathless as they eagerly turned the pages...
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    horror  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  dystopian  paranormal  war  dark
  • Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey

    Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar’s Herald Spy, has been developing a clandestine network of young informants who operate not only on the streets of the capital city of Haven, but also in the Great Halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. In his own established alternate personas, Mags observes the Court and the alleys alike, quietly gathering information to keep Haven and the Kingdom safe...
  • Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more...Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald...
  • Asperfell by Jamie Thomas

    Asperfell by Jamie Thomas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Only the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell. Not one has ever returned.Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal...
  • Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier

    Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 63 ratings
    Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will lose its essential mystic core.The prophecies of long ago have foretold a way to prevent this horror, and it is the Sevenwaters clan that the spirits of Eire look to for salvation...
  • The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig

    The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Drawing on the Grimm Brothers’ dark fairytale, “Godfather Death,” this new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows is a sweeping, fantastical saga of actions and consequences...
  • Trust in the Fallen by Montana Fyre

    Trust in the Fallen by Montana Fyre

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    We made a deal with the devil many years ago and sentenced ourselves to a life of hookups and casual sex. It’s not safe for us to bring a woman into our lives, and until recently it was enough. But then we met her. Our Angel. On the outside Leighton’s a good girl forced to live a life as a pawn in a game she didn’t choose to play...
  • The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

    The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    The Truly Devious series continues as Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery.Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer...
  • Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

    Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from a diamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda...
  • The Blood Orchid by Kylie Lee Baker

    The Blood Orchid by Kylie Lee Baker

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Whatever power you think you have is an illusion.Whatever your dreams are, they belong to me.And wherever you run, I am already there waiting for you.Since Zilan entered the world of royal alchemists, she has learned firsthand that alchemy comes at a price. She has lost her family and her beloved prince in her search for justice against the evil Empress...
  • Piper Prince by Amber Argyle

    Piper Prince by Amber Argyle

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can you hear him? The beast is coming for you.Long ago, a curse fell upon the land—a curse of forgetting and wraiths, a curse that ensured no daughters were born to the pied pipers in over three centuries. The pipers were all that stood between humanity and utter destruction, so they did the only thing they could: they stole the daughters of the nearby kingdom with their hypnotizing melodies...
  • What Hunts Inside the Shadows by Harper L. Woods

    What Hunts Inside the Shadows by Harper L. Woods

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 160 ratings
    From indie darling Harper L. Woods comes WHAT HUNTS INSIDE THE SHADOWS, the second book in the Of Flesh and Bone series, where the heated fae romance of A Court of Thorns and Roses meets the dark obsession of Phantom of the Opera.​Once, I fell in love with a man who deceived me.For weeks, he stood by my side, twisting his words into pretty half-truths...
  • To Bind a Dark Heart by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    To Bind a Dark Heart by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Run, Gwen. Run as far and as hard as you can. Because when I catch you… You will belong to me.”When she shattered the Iron Crystal and returned magic to Avalon, Gwen also shattered Mordred’s heart. Torn between her passion for Mordred and his rage at her betrayal, she fled into the wilds.Gwen’s choice has transformed Avalon, and the island teems with magical wonders freed from the crystal...
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    witches  suspense  dark  paranormal  fantasy  demons  mystery  war
  • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

    What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 90 ratings
    From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania...
  • The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

    The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The second book in a new fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, exploring the nature of self, the inevitable cost of progress, and, of course, magic and romance and betrayal so epic Queen Guinevere remains the most famous queen who never lived.EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE IN CAMELOT: King Arthur is expanding his kingdom’s influence with Queen Guinevere at his side...
  • Girl at the Grave by Teri Bailey Black

    Girl at the Grave by Teri Bailey Black

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Valentine has spent years trying to outrun her mother's legacy. But small towns have long memories, and when a new string of murders occurs, all signs point to the daughter of a murderer. Only one person believes Valentine is innocent—Rowan Blackshaw, the son of the man her mother killed all those years ago...
  • Mark Me by S.E. Traynor

    Mark Me by S.E. Traynor

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After a fire ruins my student house in my last year of University, I end up living with the Four Cardinals, the most popular guys at The Royal Academy of KnightsGate. My last name means I'm supposed to be somebody here, but it's this twist of fate that throws me into the Cardinals' world. They're royal, they’re rich, they're powerful, and now, they're all around me...
  • Sneaky Snow White by Anita Valle

    Sneaky Snow White by Anita Valle

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Cinderella killed my father.She thinks she can do anything because she’s the Evil Queen. And my stepmother. The only thing she truly loves is her Demon Mirror. But the more she gazes into that thing, the crazier she becomes.But I am no longer a child. I won’t allow the Evil Queen to poison my heart and my home. Although my skin is white as snow, my soul is far from pure...
  • The Women's War by Jenna Glass

    The Women's War by Jenna Glass

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility—with consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core.“A compulsive read, riveting characters, life-or-death stakes . . . a smashing book!”—Tamora PierceWhen a nobleman’s first duty is to produce a male heir, women are treated like possessions and bargaining chips...
  • Ghosted by Emily Barr

    Ghosted by Emily Barr

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ariel's accidental meeting with a handsome stranger called Joe is completely perfect; they have a connection like she's never known before. They exchange numbers and agree to meet when he is back from a trip to France. But when Ariel messages him, the number Joe gave her is disconnected. He's ghosted her. She assumes she will never see him again.Except she does. Again and again...
  • Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee

    Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Nobody knew where it had come from, or what it wanted. Not even Jaive, the sorceress, could fathom the mystery of the fabled beast. But Tanaquil, Jaive's completely unmagical daughter, understood it at once. She knew why the unicorn was there: It had come for her. It needed her. Tanaquil was amazed because she was the girl with no talent for magic...
  • Blood and Moonlight by Erin Beaty

    Blood and Moonlight by Erin Beaty

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    Rising above the city of Collis is the holy Sanctum. And watching over its spires is Catrin, an orphan girl with unique skills—for she alone can spot the building’s flaws in construction before they turn deadly. But when Catrin witnesses a murderer escaping the scene of his crime, she’s pulled into the web of a dangerous man who will definitely strike again...
  • Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

    Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists...
  • Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong

    Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is outlawed but four girls with unusual powers have the ability to change it all.The Nightbirds are Simta’s best kept secret. Teenage girls from the Great Houses with magic coursing through their veins, the Nightbirds have the unique ability to gift their magic to others with a kiss...
  • In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

    In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion...
  • The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

    The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Young Rhea is a miller’s daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don’t turn down lords—no matter how sinister they may seem—Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement.Lord Crevan demands that Rhea visit his remote manor before their wedding...
  • Daughter of Darkness by Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr

    Daughter of Darkness by Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Enter the Underworld in an epic new fantasy, where the Gods of ancient Greece rule everything but fate.Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of shepherding the dying on from the mortal world - unless she can earn or steal enough to buy her way out...
  • House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

    House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 115 ratings
    In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short...
  • The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic

    The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An atmospheric, haunting, romantasy inspired by Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, set in a Regency England about two sisters fighting to hold on to their manor while deadly monsters prowl along its perimeters—perfect for fans of House of Salt and Sorrows and Anatomy: A Love Story.Merrick Darling’s life as daughter of the Manor Lord of Sussex is better than most...
  • Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost, Vol. 1 by Kaori Yuki

    Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost, Vol. 1 by Kaori Yuki

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ARE YOU BEAUTIFUL? Young and rambunctious Belle insists on going out to play in the forbidden woods, but her adventurous streak abruptly ends when her mother is spirited away by a beast known to kidnap beautiful women. Twisted by the loss of his wife, Belle’s father keeps his daughter and her unusual violet hair locked away in an effort to “protect” her from prying eyes...
  • Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

    Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 41 ratings
    Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general...
  • A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd

    A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    After killing the men who tried to steal her father’s research, Juliet—along with Montgomery, Lucy, Balthazar, and a deathly ill Edward—has escaped to a remote estate on the Scottish moors. Owned by the enigmatic Elizabeth von Stein, the mansion is full of mysteries and unexplained oddities: dead bodies in the basement, secret passages, and fortune-tellers who seem to know Juliet’s secrets...
  • Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

    Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child...
  • Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

    Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 51 ratings
    The instant New York Times bestsellerIt’s the season for treason…The king of Yusan must die.The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single to kill the God King Joon.He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined…or sold...
  • The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo

    The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    Before he ruled Ravka, before he was the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy with an extraordinary gift. In this prequel story to the New York Times-bestselling Grisha Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo takes us into Ravka's mysterious past, when Grisha lived as fugitives and the Darkling took his first steps on the path to power...
  • By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

    By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's hidden places all over this land-old, old places. Places with a chain for them to chain up the wolf when it's time. A bone-chilling tale of werewolves and love, set in medieval Scotland A mysterious young man has come to a small Highland town. His talent for wood carving soon wins the admiration of the weaver's daughter, Maddie...
  • Rosen Blood, Vol. 1 by Kachiru Ishizue

    Rosen Blood, Vol. 1 by Kachiru Ishizue

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    After a horrific carriage accident, Stella Violetta awakens in a Gothic mansion to find that her saviors are gorgeous young men. The manor’s residents let her stay as a maid, but Stella soon realizes that their allure hides a savage thirst.Levi-Ruin and the mysterious men who took Stella in have a bare kitchen…and a moaning box in the storehouse...
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A "post-modernist" early 19th century Scottish novel featuring multiple narratives and at least one--possibly three--unreliable narrators, "Sinner" is a curious congeries of doppleganger tale, abnormal psychology, moral fable, anti-Calvinist satire, and historical fiction with a little comic relief thrown in...
  • Ignite the Sun by Hanna Howard

    Ignite the Sun by Hanna Howard

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was something called the sun... In a kingdom ruled by an evil witch, the sun is just part of a legend about light-filled days of old. Luckily for everybody in the kingdom, Siria Nightingale is headed to the heart of the darkness to try and restore the light--or she will lose everything trying.Sixteen year-old Siria Nightingale has never seen the sun...
  • Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

    Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but he doubts even his own identity...
  • Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

    Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    'Why would I? People are uneasy enough with me - if I start bringing up sea-wives, they'll take against me good and proper.' 'It could be secret.''Could it?'On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride; an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife...
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