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Bastion by Phil Tucker
18 ratingsScorio will rise from the ashes to conquer the ten layers of hell.Reborn without memories, Scorio learns that he is a Great Soul, a legendary defender of the ancient city of Bastion...Categorized as:
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Mother of Learning 3 by Domagoj Kurmaić, Nobody103
14 ratingsThe time loop is coming to an end. With limited restarts remaining, Zorian and his allies must redouble their efforts to discover how they can prevent the release of an ancient primordial being once the time loop expires and they are returned to the real world—where choices can’t be undone...Categorized as:
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Secrets and Spellcraft by Michael G. Manning
18 ratingsNow a student at Wurthaven, Will is confronted with the truth of the present. The powerful magic embodied by wizards like his grandfather is but a distant memory, while the practice of the current day is timid and uninspired, and yet he needs the knowledge still preserved and managed by the college... -
Mother of Learning 2 by Domagoj Kurmaić, Nobody103
17 ratingsAs the months in the time loop seem to add up without end, Zorian forms alliances with acquaintances old and new in an effort to solve the mystery of the loop and save his city—maybe even the world—from destruction...Categorized as:
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Master and Apprentices by Alvin Atwater
13 ratingsThe story of Nate the potion maker continues!Well, did you know that Kyushu is an F-ranked town? Neither did I, but had I known about this tidbit information, all of the unfortunate attacks would’ve made sense. I think. But the Lord Ruler truly is a douche canoe for leaving his people to fend for themselves.That’s not all... -
Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
35 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive. Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one...Categorized as:
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Menacing Misfits by Robyn Wideman
14 ratingsIf Harry Potter lived in Middle Earth and had to loot dungeons to pay his school fees. When Jack Vance's grandfather is murdered, his dying words are to get Jack to promise to attend Darkthorn Academy. Jack doesn't like it, but he'll do what is necessary to honor the man who raised him. Surviving Darkthorn Academy won't be easy...Categorized as:
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Diamantine by Andrew Rowe
16 ratingsAfter bonding with Dawnbringer, the Sacred Sword of Light, Keras Selyrian travels to the nation of Edria to compete in the Tournament of the Sacred Sword. The winner of the tournament will be given a chance to fight for the Sacred Sword of Stone if they can defeat the current wielder, the impossibly powerful Emperor of Edria, in single combat. Winning the tournament will be no simple endeavor... -
A Testament of Steel by Davis Ashura
18 ratingsA young man with no past must progress into a warrior out of legend.Cinder Shade’s life begins on a fateful afternoon at the bottom of a well where he awakens, bruised, battered, and bereft of all memory. His only understanding is a driving imperative—to protect those who can’t defend themselves and become a warrior worthy of the name...Categorized as:
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Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore
10 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes a new trilogy and adventure of Drizzt and fantasy’s beloved characters from Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms.After the settling dust of the demon uprising and two years of peace, rumblings from the Menzoberranzan drow have Jarlaxle nervous... -
The Second Storm by Tao Wong
10 ratingsWhen War Wages, Even Innocents PerishTwo years have passed and the war between the kingdoms of Shen and Wei rages on. The dark sect moves in the shadows, striking against the noble Verdant Green Waters Sect, damaging, killing and kidnapping their members.Among the victims - Fairy Yang, Wu Ying's martial sister... -
Sense by Jay Boyce
13 ratingsHunt the mesmer. Free the captives. Be the hero you never wanted to be.It's been ten days since Jade finally got out. Out of the bed she spent her life trapped in, out of the hospital, and now out of the city, the walls, and way outside of her comfort zone.The wilderness is a terrifying place, especially when you're hunting mesmer…and everything else is hunting you...Categorized as:
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The Second Expedition by Tao Wong
14 ratingsEven the great may fall.Wu Ying's idle winter, one filled with training and recovery, is thrown awry when his Master and Elder Yang return, injured. The Three Seasons poison fills Master Cheng's veins, slowly killing the powerful Elder. His only hope - a rare antidote. But the ingredients for such an antidote are scarce and located in the deepest wilds... -
Proving Grounds by Apollos Thorne
14 ratingsBook 4 of the Underworld series!The minotaurs are dead. Mistress Nava is coming.Join Elorion as he searches for the power to face the impossible...Categorized as:
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Wretched Insect by V.A. Lewis
7 ratingsWyverns, Demons, and an upcoming apocalypse.After the death of Mori Gladius, the Champion of the Human lands, Humankind is still reeling. Belzu is on the run, and Levithus has the Sword of Alexander. With Salvos finally reunited with her companions, perhaps... this is the perfect chance to deal with one of her problems once and for all.This is Book 7 or Volume 5 Part 3 of the Salvos web serial... -
Alpha Ascendant by Arthur Stone
8 ratingsSome say these lands are the most dangerous in the entire North.The Grove is a perilous wound on the face of the planet, home to the most fearsome creatures in all of Rock. Death himself has trod these paths, leaving in his wake freakish mutants who still bear within themselves a piece of his morbid nature.The only thing more difficult than reaching the Grove is leaving it alive...Categorized as:
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Hallowed Bones by Jonathan Smidt
8 ratingsThe dungeon cores are dying.In the wake of the demon invasion, dungeons are being exterminated to protect the land. The Cult of Chaos may have been defeated, but the Exalted One remains in the shadows, pulling the strings.Now his time has come.Ryan, struggling with memories of his life as a human, finds himself once again under threat from the Church...Categorized as:
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Split the Party by Drew Hayes
19 ratingsFleeing from a vengeful king has sent the former NPCs across Solium’s borders, into the kingdom of Alcatham. As wanted fugitives, they head to the small farming village of Briarwillow, hoping to blend in, lay-low, and avoid trouble at all costs. Unfortunately, Briarwillow has problems all its own, and its troubles quickly become theirs...Categorized as:
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A Demon's Pride by V.A. Lewis
11 ratingsPride and prejudice. Humanity's prejudice against a Demon's pride. The story of Salvos continues! After officially becoming a Gold Rank adventurer, Salvos leaves the Nixa and departs on a new adventure to grow even stronger and find a way back to her companion... -
Curious Beginnings by V.A. Lewis
13 ratingsThe Netherworld: it is a hellish landscape inhabited only by Demons, creatures born from the dark abyss. It is also the only world Salvos knows.Joining the ranks of newborn demons, Salvos is thrown into the violent, anarchy-ruled landscape of that world. To survive, she will have to learn, she will have to adapt, and she will have to evolve. She will gain experience to reach new Levels of power...Categorized as:
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Sew You Want to be a Hero by Andrew Seiple
14 ratingsThreadbare has not had a very good time of it, recently. His little girl has been taken from him, and he must travel the kingdom, finding allies old and new, living and dead, to help him rescue Celia. Fortunately, he's got a voice now, and access to all those fun skills he couldn't use before... -
Sanctuary by Apollos Thorne
14 ratingsAfter coming face to face with death, Elorion and company have found a dungeon to call their own. They’ve fought hard to earn a stint of peace, but Mistress Nava is still out there and her captain is now on the hunt. The impending arrival of the army of minotaurs will be the greatest threat they have faced thus far. With their new-found freedom comes a myriad of additional dangers...Categorized as:
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A Cast of Stones by Patrick W. Carr
18 ratingsThe Fate of the Kingdom Awaits the Cast of Stones In the backwater village of Callowford, roustabout Errol Stone is enlisted by a church messenger arriving with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Eager for coin, Errol agrees to what he thinks will be an easy task, but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins...Categorized as:
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Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko
20 ratingsDiving into a revolutionary new video game, Marcus and his friends escape a stagnant society, entering into a world that defies their wildest imaginations. But from the moment that he logs in, Marcus finds himself separated from his friends and thrown into remote village under attack by a horde of goblins... -
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The Sacred Band by Janet E. Morris, Chris Morris
6 ratingsThe Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love in war in ancient times. In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, the legendary Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, paired lovers and friends, to fight on other days... -
Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by Necoco
6 ratingsAn isekai adventure about an ordinary boy taken under the wing of a mysterious undead girl! An ordinary teenager is transported to a fantasy world, accidentally gets on the bad side of the gods, and is dumped in the bottom of the world's deepest dungeon with no skills or magic. Ouch! Once there, he meets a mysterious girl...who happens to be undead...Categorized as:
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King of Shadows by Mike Truk
6 ratingsRevenge, they say, is a dish best served bloody and twitching.For Kellik, nothing matters so much as defeating his father and destroying his reign over Port Gloom.But as powerful as Kellik has become, his father will surely crush him if he doesn't stay three steps ahead... -
Into the Hells by Christopher Johns
6 ratingsHunting for allies. A rescue mission that goes against the natural order. Time to delve deep.Zeke and his friends have a final few obstacles standing in their way before they can try and find a way into the Hells. Everything to this point has been an effort to rescue their buddy, Balmur...Categorized as:
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Easy Meat (Foodstuffs #1) by Arthur Stone
8 ratingsWelcome to the challenge. You’re an absolute nobody here—nothing; a zero; a useless lump of meat filled with bones. You’re but a delicious morsel for your antagonists and those who got lucky at the start. The only goal you can have in your miserable existence is to kick the bucket as soon as possible...Categorized as:
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Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 9 (light novel) (Konosuba by Natsume Akatsuki
8 ratingsThe Demon Lord's forces are headed to Axel Town. And among them is a user of.. -
Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman
24 ratingsMore than a millennium after the human race forges an uneasy stalemate against the demonic human-psyche feeders known as the fae, a pain-hungry demon called Calesta declares war on all living beings. Reprint... -
Ghost in the Storm by Jonathan Moeller
10 ratingsCAINA AMALAS is a Ghost nightfighter, one of the Emperor's elite spies and assassins. And though she remains anonymous, already legends grow around her. Whispers speak of the Ghost nightfighter who stopped the fire of the gods from consuming Rasadda, who defeated sorcerers of terrible power, who liberated slaves and threw down cruel lords.Yet now the storm is coming to claim her.. -
Ghost in the Forge by Jonathan Moeller
10 ratingsCaina Amalas is a Ghost nightfigher, a spy and agent of the Emperor, and time and time again she has overcome mighty foes through boldness and cunning.But even her boldness might not be enough to stop the coming destruction.A secretive cabal of sorcerers has created a weapon so powerful that its wielder will have dominion over the entire world - and the weapon is for sale to the highest bidder... -
Alpha Zero by Arthur Stone
10 ratingsI should not exist.All children like me are stillborn, or die in infancy. Those who cannot grow stronger, die. No empty child has ever reached a year of age, yet I am now thirteen.It has been a long and miserable thirteen years, where the best I can manage to do is walk with difficulty. Sometimes, I cannot even manage that.My clan has paid dearly for every minute of my life...Categorized as:
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Sacrifices by Charles Dean
10 ratingsDesperate to save as many people as he can from a horrible fate in the cruel game of the gods, Lee and his small group of friends abandon the relative safety of Satterfield for the great city of Kirshtein. Tensions within the city have reached a breaking point after the arrival of an enemy Herald, and Lee is soon caught up in the struggle for power... -
The Wastes by Alexey Osadchuk
10 ratingsEric has survived where people much stronger than him have found their deaths. And not just that: he's managed to activate his magic supply, tame one of the most dangerous dungeon monsters, find the ancient city of monster hunters and rescue Jay, the girl abandoned by the scouts in Gulper's lair.He left the Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains behind him...Categorized as:
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Siege of Darkness by R.A. Salvatore
27 ratingsThe conflict between the drow of the Underdark and the dwarves of Mithral Hall comes to a headWhile Mithral Hall teems with whispers of the war to come, chaos erupts both above and below ground. On the surface of Faerûn, the first signs of the Time of Troubles make themselves known, forcing deities to assume their mortal forms... -
Savage Dominion by Luke Chmilenko, G.D. Penman
12 ratingsMaulkin didn't know dying would mean a new eternity of dungeon delving, monster slaying, and glory hunting. If he had, he wouldn't have been so worried about kicking the bucket on a date gone even more wrong than usual.Reborn in the wild world of Amaranth, Maulkin finds himself in a hulking demi-human body with a sword of a size to match... -
Awakening by Robert M. Kerns
12 ratings*** Updated February 7, 2019, with corrections! *** Gavin Cross is a young man in an unfamiliar city with no knowledge of how he came to be there. A desperate choice awakens a power he must learn to control, or it will kill him.Marcus is an ancient master, possessing countless secrets of forgotten lore. He trivializes workings of magic anyone else would say is impossible... -
Defying Destiny by Andrew Rowe
14 ratingsIt’s been almost a year since the Trials of Unyielding Steel. When Lydia gets a lead on the whereabouts of Jonathan Sterling, she concludes her training with a legendary immortal sorcerer and puts a plan in motion for his capture. Near Selyr, Taelien reunites with an old friend — Wrynn Jaden, the legendary Witch of a Thousand Shadows — and meets with Jonan to make a deal...Categorized as:
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Alpha Transcendent by Arthur Stone
6 ratingsI had a plan. A good one that I thought through really well. But itonly took a single cunning dwarf accompanied by two goons to force meinto acting earlier than I’d planned to and before I could completeall my preparations. So all my plans needed revision in face of abunch of unpleasant surprises.Instead of using an army of silent helpers to eradicate the scourge,I’d have to act on my own...Categorized as:
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Immortal Swordslinger 4 by Dante King
6 ratingsEthan Murphy lo Pashat has returned to Radiant Dragon, and everything seems normal until a mysterious monastery appears in Flametongue Valley. Guildmaster Xilarion sends Ethan and his friends to the monastery for a new kind of training that will unlock their most powerful forms of Augmenting so far...Categorized as:
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Elemental Alpha by Liam Lawson
6 ratingsCreate lycanthropes. Give them elemental powers. Save the world.Jerrell Hawkins has a plan. He’s going to marry Nadine Hartwell, study magic at University, and serve his kingdom in the ongoing war in the prestigious Orichalcum Company led by the hero of the realm. To do this, he needs to obtain a Class. When his plan to create a new, powerful spellcasting class fails, he fears all is lost...Categorized as:
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Fearless Pioneer by Arthur Stone
8 ratingsIt started with a girl. One he had seen many months past, and only for a few evenings. Her father, as it turned out, was a barbaric maniac, straight out of the foulest dungeons of the Middle Ages. Decades into the 21st century, the madman seemed terribly out of place...Categorized as:
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The Pillars of Sand by Mark T. Barnes, Nick Podehl
8 ratingsThe epic conclusion of the Echoes of Empire trilogy.Prophecy declared that corrupt politician Corajidin would rule the Shrīanese Federation, even become its new Emperor and sinister magic has helped him defy death in order to do it. But his victory is not assured, thanks to clashing rival factions that hinder any attempts to unify the nation...Categorized as:
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The Sins by Pegaz
8 ratingsOnce bound by his morals, John has been released from his chains.The Sinner System will finally come to reveal its true potential in his hands. Together with his gift for chaos, it will forge his path to victory. One that will finally settle his grudges once and for all.One that will defend what matters most to him. For as much as a man changes, his priorities remain the same... -
Caprion's Wings by T.L. Shreffler
10 ratingsA novella of The Cat's Eye Chronicles.Release Date: February 28th, 2014By the age of nineteen, all Harpies know how to fly—except Caprion. He has yet pass the test of the Singing and gain his wings. His family has disowned him in shame and people are beginning to talk. Now an evil voice haunts his dreams, taunting him, drawing out his worst fears—that he will remain wingless forever... -
Finding a Body by Michael Atamanov
10 ratingsRead opening chapters here -magicdomebooks.blogspot.com/2018/11/t.. -
The Dark Continent by Alexey Osadchuk
10 ratingsEric Bergman used to be treated like an outcast, cripple and freak. Some pitied him, others squirmed in his presence, while others still mocked him to his face. He himself even thought he was born cursed by the gods. But bit by bit, all that changed. That which was once considered a flaw or defect transformed into an advantage. And Eric slowly learned to use it to his benefit...Categorized as:
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The Kraken's Tooth by Anthony Ryan
10 ratingsTHE GREAT MERCHANT CITY OF CARTHULA—RAISED FROM THE BONES OF A KRAKEN ON THE WHIM OF A GODDESS WHERE NOBLE HOUSES CALL UPON DARK MAGIC TO TRIUMPH IN THEIR ENDLESS AND DEADLY GAME FOR DOMINION… Landless one-time king Guyime, once called Pilgrim but known to history as the Ravager, has survived the fall of the Execration — an event that set him on a path to find the legendary Seven Swords...
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