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  • Reign of Stars and Fire by L.J. Andrews

    Reign of Stars and Fire by L.J. Andrews

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 60 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems. It never was. With darkness spreading across the fae isles, the reluctant raven queen seeks the aid of Calista, the storyteller, and unwittingly falls into a dark tale of twisted fates. To save Ari from being lost in a fae sleep, Saga will reach into the past and uncover deadly secrets left behind by her brother, the last fate king...
    Categorized as:
    magic  war  new adult  dark  fantasy  vikings  fae  paranormal
  • The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

    The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    They say Black Dow’s killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud...
    Categorized as:
    war  high fantasy  magic  medieval  horror  fantasy  dark  military
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  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong  Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 71 ratings
    [CHARACTER DEPTH LEVEL +10]. Three years have passed since Shen Qingqiu betrayed Luo Binghe, and now there are only two years left before his "deceased" disciple rises from the dead to claim his bloody glory as the protagonist. At least, that's how the story is supposed to go...
  • The Rebel's Vision by Kristen Banet

    The Rebel's Vision by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 61 ratings
    One declaration was all it took. The Andinna Rebellion has begun. Knowing that the fight will be hard, Mave has taken back the title of Champion. King’s Champion. She’s resolved to stand tall beside King Alchan Andini and fight for him, and to fight for her people. But it’s off to a troubling start...
    Categorized as:
    war  magic  high fantasy  mystery  suspense  queer  reverse harem  poly
  • Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 102 ratings
    From holy cup comes holy light;. The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,. Mere man shall end this endless night. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  war  mystery  horror  suspense  magic  queer  vampires
  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong  Vol. 3 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong Vol. 3 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 67 ratings
    [SATISFACTION POINTS +500! ]To save his sect from destruction, Shen Qingqiu has at last submitted to Luo Binghe--though he wishes people would stop saying it like that! Unfortunately, they're not wrong. Luo Binghe has finally made his desire for his old master clear...
    Categorized as:
    magic  high fantasy  mystery  queer  war  fantasy  historical  m-m
  • The Fall of the Orc by Finley Fenn

    The Fall of the Orc by Finley Fenn

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 53 ratings
    The orc broke him in battle. Now he’s aiming for his heart…. In a world of warring orcs and men, Lieutenant Aulis Gerrard can’t afford to lose one more battle. But when he faces off against the biggest, most brutal berserker in the orcs’ war-band, he knows he’s met his doom…. Until the deadly orc drops his axe. Draws Gerrard close. And orders him… to run...
  • The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 53 ratings
    A man reborn as a villain in a fantasy novel series ends up accidentally romancing the male protagonist in this fan-favorite tale...
    Categorized as:
    queer  magic  high fantasy  fantasy  historical  m-m  humor  demons
  • Make No Bones About It by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    Make No Bones About It by Ann Charles, C.S. Kunkle

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    MYSTERY, MAYHEM, AND MONKEYS, OH MY! Welcome to the jungle, a treacherous place teeming with terrible secrets better left buried. “This dig site isn’t cursed. It’s doomed! ”. Ancient History … A small civilization in the Maya jungle suffered a mysterious, bloody ending. Recent History … A world-renown Mesoamerican archaeologist dug too deep in the same place and wound up dead. Present Day … Dr...
  • Robin's Maid by Jessamine Rue

    Robin's Maid by Jessamine Rue

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 32 ratings
    Threatened with a marriage she doesn't want, Lady Marian strikes a deal with Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Spy on the dastardly bandit Robin Hood and his band, learn their secrets and find their hiding places, and then turn them in to the law. In exchange, she'll be a free woman, with her own property and full control over her future. Dressed as a boy, Marian joins the outlaw band...
  • Dragon Breeder by Dante King

    Dragon Breeder by Dante King

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    I’m Michael Gilmore. Bearer of Noctis the Onyx Dragon. The only male student of Drako Academy, and apparently the one person who can save a dying world. Only a few days ago, I was transported from Los Angeles to a fantasy world teeming with superpowered female soldiers who can command the magic of their bonded dragons. Except the dragons are dying out. And I’m going to bring them back...
  • Sparrow in the Woods by Shona Knight

    Sparrow in the Woods by Shona Knight

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Broken, scared, and running from her abusive past, the last thing Odessa expects is the chance to escape to a new world, but what if the men in that world are determined to break her for good? Odessa. Growing up a social pariah, my parents were the only bright spot in my life. So when they suddenly pass away, I’m left on my own, with a broken heart. That is, until he shows up...
  • Entreat Me by Grace Draven

    Entreat Me by Grace Draven

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 175 ratings
    Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard's salvation. . .. until they confront her elder sister...
  • A World of Lost Words by Jane Washington

    A World of Lost Words by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    I was born with a shadow inside me, a beast clawing and ripping its way to freedom. I was born with a clock inside me, the tick-ticking of my heartbeat drawing us all closer to the inevitable, the inescapable. The end of everything. And now, finally, it has arrived. The world is burning, the souls are screaming, the castles are crumbling...
    Categorized as:
    magic  war  medieval  poly  reverse harem  dark  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System [人渣反派自救系统] by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System [人渣反派自救系统] by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Can’t I read stallion novels anymore? ! [TN: genre with OP protag & harem]. Shen Yuan is reborn into a young man and scum villain destined to die, Shen Qingqiu. But it must be known that the original Shen Qingqiu was sliced alive by his disciple, Luo Binghe, into a human stick! A human stick! Shen Qingqiu’s heart is a full herd of grass mud horses running full tilt, yet:...
    Categorized as:
    magic  high fantasy  mystery  queer  fantasy  historical  m-m  humor
  • Bump in the Night by Cassie Mint

    Bump in the Night by Cassie Mint

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    He’s smart, handsome, and we have an instant connection. Pity all these ghosts keep interrupting our moments…. All my life, I’ve wanted a ghostly encounter. It’s my greatest dream, and it’s never happened for me—not even in Belladonna Bay, where every other building is haunted...
  • Wyrde and Wondrous by Charlotte E. English

    Wyrde and Wondrous by Charlotte E. English

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the Grand Masquerade Ball for the Wyrde… and Wondrous! It’s time to party like it’s 1820, and you know what that means. Rout cakes and punch, satins and silks, and flirting on the balcony under a star-washed sky. Decorous. Genteel. Lovely. Nobody knows who’s throwing this bash, but who cares? It’s the party of the century, and everyone who’s anyone is going to be there...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  horror  suspense  fantasy  vampires  historical  m-f
  • In Death We Part by M. Bonnet

    In Death We Part by M. Bonnet

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 36 ratings
    My routine was simple - classes, work, repeat - then an unearthed family secret changed everything. Four mysterious men shattered my life and stomped on the pieces until I had nothing left. They were strangers to me, but I was no stranger to them. They had been watching me… waiting until the time was right to strike...
    Categorized as:
    witches  mystery  magic  queer  poly  breeding  monsters  paranormal
  • Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

    Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 308 ratings
    A sarcastically funny, dark fantasy romance reimagining of Hercules from Amazon bestselling author Jasmine Mas. I'm just a girl. And it turns out, I'm Hercules. I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all...
    Categorized as:
    war  queer  magic  high fantasy  horror  mystery  suspense  fantasy
  • Savior of the Shades by Vasilisa Drake

    Savior of the Shades by Vasilisa Drake

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    My fated mate is my bully. First, he rejects me in front of the entire pack for being too weak. And when I run, he chases me…. And kills me. But this is not the end of my story. I wake up in the underworld, lost, confused—. But for the first time: powerful. My wolf is finally free, and I have mysterious magic...
  • Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles

    Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 154 ratings
    Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying—literally—off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane, is beginning to feel the strain...
    Categorized as:
    witches  mystery  magic  suspense  queer  horror  tattoos  bdsm
  • Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

    Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell, her brother and sister stolen, and knows she'll have to go back to bad old ways if she's ever to see them again. She sets off in pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he's hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  war  magic  medieval  fantasy  western  dark  humor
  • A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

    A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 163 ratings
    Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets. Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as Stephen Day. He knows Stephen’s job as justiciar requires secrecy, but the magician is doing his disappearing act more than seems reasonable—especially since Crane will soon return to his home in China...
    Categorized as:
    witches  suspense  mystery  magic  queer  m-m  historical  victorian
  • 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 [?] · 97 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...
    Categorized as:
    witches  magic  queer  paranormal  young adult  fantasy  fae  demons
  • The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career...
  • Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

    Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  war  magic  medieval  mystery  horror  fantasy  dark
  • The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 55 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...
  • Julian of Macedon by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Julian of Macedon by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Cursed into an eternity of slavery by his own brother, Julian of Macedon has. spent centuries in hell, where the only respite he knows is measured in a. handful of weeks whenever he's summoned through an arcane spell. With the modern. age, those summonings are becoming fewer and fewer, and he lives in fear of the. day when they'll stop for good...
  • The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 203 ratings
    After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception...
  • Suitor Armor: Volume 1 by Purpah

    Suitor Armor: Volume 1 by Purpah

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Secrets hide behind every corner of the castle walls in the first volume of an exciting Webtoon romantasy graphic novel that follows the budding romance between a lady-in-waiting and an enchanted suit of armor. While humans and fairies are at war beyond the castle walls, Lucia’s life is dedicated to helping prepare Lady Kirsi for her upcoming wedding to King Reimund...
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