Books like 'Unbound'
Readers who enjoyed Unbound by Shawn Speakman, Terry Brooks, Seanan McGuire, Mark Lawrence, Anthony Ryan, Tim Marquitz, Brian Staveley, Michael J. Sullivan, John Marco, Peter Orullian, Kat Richardson, Sam Sykes, Kristen Britain, Mazarkis Williams, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Harry Connolly, Delilah S. Dawson, David Anthony Durham, Jason M. Hough, Mary Robinette Kowal & Joe Abercrombie also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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He Who Fights with Monsters 5 by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
16 ratingsJason has discovered that his homeworld is not what he thought. What’s more, the rest of the planet is on the precipice of sharing his revelation.With magic on the rise and forces pulling him in multiple directions, Jason is faced with challenges greater than ever before... -
![Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff]()
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
25 ratingsFrom 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... -
![The Golem by Orlando A. Sanchez]()
The Golem by Orlando A. Sanchez
10 ratingsIt’s uncomfortable between a rock and a hard place. When the NYTF reports that a golem, a large rock creature, is terrorizing parts of the city and destroying hubs of power, Ezra calls on Montague & Strong to investigate and stop the creature.Their first reaction is to refuse.Except there’s one problem.No one refuses Ezra, a personification of Death, without grave consequences... -
![She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky]()
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
14 ratingsThe third novel in the brilliant dark fantasy Low Town seriesLow Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. Good only for depravity and death. And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all... -
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![Carl Perkins' Cadillac by John G. Hartness]()
Carl Perkins' Cadillac by John G. Hartness
6 ratingsWhere do you go when you've saved the world but given up everything and everyone you love in the process? The home of the blues, of course! Quincy Harker has retreated to Memphis to lick his wounds and get started on building a new life for himself. He's determined to be a normal guy (almost) living a (mostly) normal life working as a bouncer in a (not even a little bit) normal bar... -
![Unearthed by Robert J. Crane]()
Unearthed by Robert J. Crane
10 ratingsWARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. The town of Midian, Tennessee is spiraling straight to hell. Demons haunt the streets, people are dying by the hundreds, and the only defenders of the innocent townsfolk have been driven into hiding by a sheriff who doesn't know what he's dealing with... -
![The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins]()
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
32 ratingsA missing God.A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts... -
![Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore
6 ratingsThe final book in the trilogy.Douglas Kirk is having a bad week.Not only are groups of human hunters after him, whole werewolf packs have orders to kill him on sight, forcing him to flee Halifax without identification, money, weapons, or even his phone... -
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Breeds 2 by Keith C. Blackmore
8 ratingsThe jaws of winter are clamping down on the city of Halifax. As the light recedes, new terrors arise...Months after the war with Borland and his vicious were brood, Kirk and Morris are experiencing curious aftereffects. They're stronger, faster, and no longer vulnerable to the sharp sting of silver.There is one concern, however... -
![I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain]()
I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain
12 ratingsAfter helplessly witnessing the execution of his family, John is approached by a strange man that promises the power of revenge, for a price; his life for the ability to walk the mortal plane for eternity. Fast forward several hundred years where John finds himself with an unlikely ally, Father Thomes Philseep... -
![Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky]()
Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky
14 ratingsOnce he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town.His name is Warden.He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery's daughter is missing somewhere in Low Town, searching for clues about her brother's murder... -
![The Book of the Beast by Tanith Lee]()
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![Basilisk by Rob Thurman]()
Basilisk by Rob Thurman
12 ratingsStefan Korsak and his genetically-altered brother have evaded the Institute for three years. When they learn the new location of the secret lab, they plan to break in and save the remaining children there. But one of the little ones doesn't want to leave. She wants to kill.. -
![Before the Fall by Francis Knight]()
Before the Fall by Francis Knight
6 ratingsWith the destruction of their main power source, the towering vertical city of Mahala is in crisis. Downsiders are verging on a riot, and the mage Rojan Dizon is just trying to keep his head down and some power back to the city --- whilst staying hopeful that he won't get executed for using his magic. Then things go from bad to worse when a Downsider and emerging mage is found murdered... -
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![Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone]()
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
18 ratingsThe new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts DeadShadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex... -
![A Matter of Blood by Sarah Pinborough]()
A Matter of Blood by Sarah Pinborough
10 ratingsThe recession that grips the world has left it exhausted. Crime is rising in every major city. Financial institutions across the world have collapsed, and most governments are now in debt to The Bank, a company created by the world's wealthiest men. But Detective Inspector Cass Jones has enough on his plate without worrying about the world at large... -
![The Body Library by Jeff Noon]()
The Body Library by Jeff Noon
8 ratingsJeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless investigator John Nyquist into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizensIn a city dissolving into an infected sprawl of ideas, where words come to life and reality is contaminated by stories, John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body.. -
![Low Town by Daniel Polansky]()
Low Town by Daniel Polansky
18 ratingsDrug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer... -
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Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
22 ratingsMiriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.No matter what she does she can’t save Louis... -
![The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth]()
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth
14 ratingsDebut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell . . . and a man named Thomas Fool is caught in the middle. Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell... -
![Strange Magic by James A. Hunter]()
Strange Magic by James A. Hunter
13 ratingsYancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there’s a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a demolition derby, and he’s been saran-wrapped to a banquet table. He never should have answered the phone. Stupid bleeding heart—helping others in his circles is a good way to get dead.Just ask the gang members ripped to pieces by some kind of demonic nightmare in LA... -
![Fade to Black by Francis Knight]()
Fade to Black by Francis Knight
10 ratingsFrom the depths of a valley rises the city of Mahala.It’s a city built upwards, not across—where streets are built upon streets, buildings upon buildings. A city that the Ministry rules from the sunlit summit, and where the forsaken lurk in the darkness of Under.Rojan Dizon doesn’t mind staying in the shadows, because he’s got things to hide... -
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Lost Gods by Brom
18 ratingsA young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist BromFresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . -
![Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston]()
Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston
18 ratingsOnce they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed... -
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![The Cambion Cycle: Quincy Harker Year Two by John G. Hartness]()
The Cambion Cycle: Quincy Harker Year Two by John G. Hartness
6 ratingsFollowing on last year's award-winning dark fantasy series, Quincy Harker is back, and the stakes are higher than ever. Collecting four novellas into one volume, The Cambion Cycle sees Harker and his cohorts battling bigger threats, teaming with legends of folklore, and trying to save the world from a demonic horde. All with snark, flair, and heaping helpings of bloodshed and mayhem... -
![Quincy Harker: Year One by John G. Hartness]()
Quincy Harker: Year One by John G. Hartness
10 ratingsAWARD-WINNING DARK FANTASY WITH ACTION, SNARK, AND DEMONS GALORE “If you love action-packed dark edged urban fantasy with mystery, humor and a lot of foul language then check this one out.” – Sharon Stogner, I Smell Sheep Straight out of the pages of the legendary vampire novel Dracula comes a demon hunter for the modern world. Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker had a son. They named him Quincy...
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