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It fits readers who want historical dark fantasy with grotesque humor, sharp brutality, and a setting where ruin creates its own kind of opportunity.
The Folly of the World
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Disaster strips away civility and leaves greed, desperation, and violence floating close to the surface. In The Folly of the World, three dangerous outsiders move through a flooded medieval Holland in search of fortune, bound together by chaos, cunning, and unstable allegiance. It fits readers who want historical dark fantasy with grotesque humor, sharp brutality, and a setting where ruin creates its own kind of opportunity.
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A flooded town in medieval Holland holds riches for an unusual trio in this darkly humorous adventure by the author of The Enterprise of Death.
"Every page is saturated with wickedness and mischief. Bullington's fans will be happy to see him bring his trademark dark humor, gritty detail, and loopy characters into a new gruesome landscape." —Publishers Weekly
On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant Cods waged a literal class war but weeks before, there is now only a nigh-endless expanse of grey water, a desolate inland sea with moldering church spires jutting up like sunken tombstones. For a land already beleaguered by generations of civil war, a worse disaster could scarce be imagined.
Yet even disaster can be profitable, for the right sort of individual, and into this flooded realm sail three conspirators: a deranged thug at the edge of madness, a ruthless conman on the cusp of fortune, and a half-feral girl balanced between them.
With The Folly of the World, Jesse Bullington has woven an extraordinary new tale of the depraved and the desperate.
"Smart, funny, and full of wild exuberance." ―Lauren Beukes
"The Folly of the World is . . . weaved with masterful wordplay and dark humor. Bullington has perfected his voice in this novel. . . . He was scary good before, and he just keeps getting better." —Fantasy Literature
"[An] absorbing cross—genre piece. . . . This dark and memorable novel, complete with its dark and memorable characters, is among the more distinctive and classifiable reads around." —The Bookbag
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This epic fantasy sequel suits readers who want sweeping worldbuilding, shapeshifting clan politics, and a coming-of-age arc under relentless pressure.
The Bear and the Serpent
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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War closes in from every direction as old rivalries, contested crowns, and ancient terror push a fractured world toward ruin. In The Bear and the Serpent, Maniye is drawn deeper into political conflict while northern clans face a threat far older and more devastating than any civil war. This epic fantasy sequel suits readers who want sweeping worldbuilding, shapeshifting clan politics, and a coming-of-age arc under relentless pressure.
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The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s epic fantasy trilogy, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.
‘Addictively brilliant’ – John Gwynne on The Tiger and the Wolf
As the south is in turmoil, an old terror emerges in the north . . .
Maniye, child of both Wolf and Tiger clans, has been named Champion of her people. But they’re unsure if she’s an asset – or a threat. To buy time, she joins Prince Tecuman’s warband of outcasts and heads south, to help him gain his crown. She wants to discover her true place in the world, but instead heads into the jaws of a fierce new conflict.
Civil war threatens as Tecuman and his twin sister battle for the throne, for only one can rule. Yet whoever triumphs will carry a heavy burden, as a great doom has been foreseen that will fall across their whole world. And soon Maniye finds herself at the heart of a political storm.
Danger is also shadowing her old home, where Loud Thunder and his Bear clan are attempting to unite the northern tribes. But only extreme peril will end age-old rivalries. An adversary from the most ancient of times is preparing to strike, putting their lands and their very souls in danger. And neither north nor south will be spared the terror to come.
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Belonging turns dangerous when every bloodline demands a choice.
The Tiger and the Wolf
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Belonging turns dangerous when every bloodline demands a choice. In The Tiger and the Wolf, Maniye flees a brutal clan war while carrying the one secret that could make her powerful or unforgivable: she can shift into both tiger and wolf. This epic fantasy leans into identity, tribal conflict, and looming war, with a feral atmosphere and high-stakes momentum.
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The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ – Christopher Paolini
In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming . . .
Maniye’s father is the Wolf clan’s chieftain, but she’s an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan’s animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer Broken Axe is set on their trail to drag them back for retribution.
The Wolf chieftain plots to rule the north, and controlling his daughter is crucial to his schemes. However, other tribes also prepare for strife. Strangers from the far south appear too, seeking allies in their own conflict. It’s a season for omens as priests foresee danger and a darkness falling across the land. Some say a great war is coming, overshadowing even Wolf ambitions. A time of testing and broken laws is near – but what spark will set the world ablaze?
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Best for readers who like flintlock fantasy, revolutions, military intrigue, and explosive magic systems.
Promise of Blood
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Grim Dark
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Called “the most fun” by Brent Weeks, Promise of Blood follows Field Marshal Tamas after a coup that topples a monarchy, sparks war, and leaves powder mages, an estranged son, and a blackmailed inspector facing unrest, rival powers, and rumors of waking gods, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 9,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like flintlock fantasy, revolutions, military intrigue, and explosive magic systems.
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In this thrilling first book of the Powder Mage Trilogy, civil unrest has crippled the citizens of Adro in the aftermath of the revolution that obliterated the monarchy—now, Field Marshal Tamas and his lieutenants must confront the true cost of freedom.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king ...
Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.
It's up to a few ...
Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.
But when gods are involved ...
Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should ...
Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy.
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Faith, murder, and political chaos collide when a routine assassination starts unraveling far larger problems.
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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Faith, murder, and political chaos collide when a routine assassination starts unraveling far larger problems. Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead follows a deadly church operative sent to eliminate a princess at a grand religious council, only to find corruption, resurrection, and theological danger waiting inside. This is dark fantasy with sharp intrigue, moral instability, and the dry intelligence of a story that treats belief as both weapon and threat.
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From World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker comes a devilishly clever tale of murder, intrigue, and existential crisis.
Not even the Church of the Invincible Sun is invincible – and somebody has to do its dirty work. Enter Sister Svangerd and her accompanying priest, both first-rate practitioners. Their mission is simple: to make a meddlesome princess disappear (permanently).
To get to her, they must attend the legendary Ecumenical Council, the once-in-a-century convening of the greatest spiritual minds the world has to offer. But when they arrive, they find instead a den of villainy that would make the most hardened criminal blush.
To complicate matters further, it appears that some people who were definitely grim reapered might be not quite dead after all. What began as a little assassination is about to escalate into a theological debate with terrifying consequences for everyone.
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Survival demands reinvention when an outlawed warrior clan faces extinction from both empire and the beasts stalking their land.
The Bone Raiders
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Survival demands reinvention when an outlawed warrior clan faces extinction from both empire and the beasts stalking their land. The Bone Raiders follows scout Sayana as she gambles on an impossible plan to tame giant fire-breathing lizards and turn them into the key to her people’s survival. Jackson Ford delivers an action-heavy fantasy with sharp character dynamics, found family energy, and a fierce struggle to protect a vanishing way of life.
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The start of an edge-of-your-seat, action‑packed epic fantasy series from the irreverent Jackson Ford, where a wild band known as the Bone Raiders harness the power of gigantic, fire-breathing lizards to defend their homeland.
"Awesome. Masterfully executed. Frequently hilarious." — Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE . . . BUT OUR GIANT FIRE-BREATHING LIZARDS DID.
You don't f*ck with the Rakada. The people living in the grasslands of the Tapestry call them the Bone Raiders, from their charming habit of displaying the bones of those they kill on their armour. But being a raider is tough these days. There's a new Great Khan in the Tapestry. He plans to use his sizeable military to get rid of the raider clans. And then there are the huge fire-breathing lizards that are straying into the grasslands a little too often these days.
Sayana is a raider scout. She knows that to protect their way of life, she needs do something drastic. Like convincing her clan to ride those huge lizards, instead of horses. Sayana doesn't know how to do it without being eaten and/or cooked alive, but she'd better figure it out fast - or she and her clan, along with every other raider in the Tapestry, will be wiped out.
"Ford begins this new series with quirky characters, loads of great action sequences, and his trademark brand of humor." — Booklist
"The Bone Raiders is a relentlessly cheeky, ofttimes unserious, and undisputedly rip-roaring bit of fantasy that can only be written by Jackson Ford. Badass female protagonists, found family, and giant lizards — what more do you need? Add this one to your TBR. I fully guarantee you'll be entertained." — FanFiAddict
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A forged invitation opens the door to a deadly fae contest where one wrong move could expose everything.
The Forgotten Dawn
Romantasy · Epic Fantasy
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A forged invitation opens the door to a deadly fae contest where one wrong move could expose everything. In The Forgotten Dawn, Brida enters the Fae Trials to save her dying father, only to draw the attention of a shadow prince who sees through every lie she tells. This epic fantasy romance blends court intrigue, dangerous attraction, and high-stakes survival.
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Where lies are currency, the price of truth is blood.
Brida Larrow has no right to be among the Fae Courts, but she’s willing to risk everything to save her dying father. Armed with a forged invitation and a fierce determination, she enters the treacherous Fae Trials, a contest crafted to break even the strongest Fae. One misstep, and the truth of her identity could be her undoing—and cost her the cure she so desperately needs.
With enemies around every corner, Brida must rely on her wits and cunning to survive. But when Dainan, the enigmatic Prince of Shadows, takes notice of her, the stakes grow even higher. Betrothed to her most dangerous rival and a master of secrets himself, Dainan sees through her every deception. His dark allure stirs something within her, sparking a forbidden attraction that could either ruin her or become her greatest weapon.
Caught in a web of deception and desire, Brida walks a fine line between ambition and survival. In a world where alliances shift like shadows and betrayal is the currency of the Courts, she must find the strength to face not only the ruthless Trials but also the dangerous emotions Dainan awakens. One wrong move could doom her to failure—or reveal a side of herself she never knew existed.
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Violence and ambition shape these lives long before either boy understands what they are becoming.
Kings of Paradise
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Grim Dark
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Violence and ambition shape these lives long before either boy understands what they are becoming. In Kings of Paradise, an outcast genius marked as monstrous fights to survive and plot revenge, while a disgraced prince struggles toward manhood, power, and purpose. This is dark epic fantasy driven by harsh worlds, political tension, and the slow collision of two dangerous destinies.
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A deformed genius plots vengeance while struggling to survive. A wastrel prince comes of age, finding a power he never imagined. Two worlds will collide. Only one can be king.
Winner of the 2018 IRDA for fantasy / 2018 Reader's Favorite Gold Medalist #1 Best Seller in Canadian Dark Fantasy 99% liked it (Goodreads)
"This dark fantasy epic will be held up against George R.R. Martin's masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. Read this book now so you can act pompous around your friends when HBO turns it into a television series." - Goodreads
"Kings of Paradise presents a brutal world of complex yet simple politics, reminiscent of Game of Thrones. An intriguing low-magic world packed with interesting cultures to be further delved. Nell shows considerable skill in displaying his world distinctly through the eyes of his different characters." - Fantasybookreview.co.uk
Ruka, called a demon at birth, is a genius. Born malformed and ugly into the snow-covered wasteland of the Ascom, he was spared from death by his mother's love. Now he is an outcast, consumed with hate for those who've wronged him. But to take his vengeance, he must first survive. Across a vast sea in the white-sand island paradise of Sri Kon, Kale is fourth and youngest son of the Sorcerer King. At sixteen, Kale is a disappointment. As the first prince ever forced to serve with low-born marines, Kale must prove himself and become a man, or else lose all chance of a worthy future, and any hope to win the love of his life. Though they do not know it, both boys are on the cusp of discovery. Their worlds and lives are destined for greatness, or ruin. But in a changing world where ash meets paradise, only one man can be king...
The first installment of an epic, low- fantasy trilogy. Kings of Paradise is a dark, bloody, coming-of-age story shaped by culture, politics, and magic.
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Everything Kellen believes about magic begins to fracture when forbidden books lead him beyond the rigid safety of the city he once trusted.
The Outstretched Shadow
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Everything Kellen believes about magic begins to fracture when forbidden books lead him beyond the rigid safety of the city he once trusted. In The Outstretched Shadow, a young mage uncovers buried corruption, awakens to a wilder and more dangerous power, and finds himself hunted alongside creatures he was taught to fear. This is classic epic fantasy with exile, hidden truths, ancient evil, and a wide world opening at terrible cost.
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The Outstretched Shadow, the first book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training--all men, for women were unfit to practice magic--memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council.
Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic--or did they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the City's isolating walls. Their Magic was not dead, strangled by rules and regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it.
Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic--and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side.
Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magical beings he has learned about as abstract concepts are flesh and blood creatures-Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom.
Especially once he learns about Demons. He'd always thought they were another abstract concept-a stand-in for ultimate evil. But if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And the one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Turned him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate?
Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their defeat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And all the world will belong to the Endarkened.
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Trouble follows Eli Monpress because he invites it with a grin and a plan no one sane would attempt.
The Legend of Eli Monpress
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Trouble follows Eli Monpress because he invites it with a grin and a plan no one sane would attempt. In The Legend of Eli Monpress, a charming thief and wizard sets out to raise the bounty on his own head by stealing increasingly impossible targets, including a king. This is a fast-moving fantasy with sharp banter, inventive magic, and a delightfully reckless streak.
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Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.
But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he's going to put his plan into effect.
The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things. But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one will miss - at least for a while.
Like a king.
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In a world where magic feeds on human life, power carries the threat of corruption from the start.
Feast of Souls
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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In a world where magic feeds on human life, power carries the threat of corruption from the start. In Feast of Souls, a young woman’s rising abilities place her against an immortal male order while her fate binds to a dying prince and a world sliding toward war. This is high fantasy built on sacrifice, dark power, and the fear of what ambition can awaken.
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Classic high fantasy gets a vampire twist in this epic trilogy set in a world of treachery and war, good and evil—and where the cost of magic is life itself.
As a young woman’s powers grow to rival those of the immortal, all-male Magisters, her fate becomes entwined with that of a sick prince . . .
At the end of her bestselling Coldfire trilogy, C.S. Friedman challenged readers to imagine what a world would be like if sorcery required the ultimate sacrifice—that of life itself. Now, in Feast of Souls, she introduces us to a terrifying world in which the cost of magic is just that . . . in which the fuel for sorcery is the very fire of the human spirit, and those who hunger for magical power must pay for it with their lives. In this epic tale of nightmarish shadows and desperate hope, the greatest threat of all may not be that of ancient enemies returned, or ancient wars resumed, but of the darkness that lies within the hearts of men.
With Feast of Souls, C.S. Friedman returns to the epic style which has made her one of the most popular fantasy writers in the genre. This first book of the Magisters trilogy plunges readers into a world of vampire-like magical powers, erotic interludes, treachery, war, sorcery—and a draconic creature of horrific power and evil.
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A gifted young noble enters military training expecting honor and strategy, only to find that the most dangerous battles begin long before the war does.
Inda
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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A gifted young noble enters military training expecting honor and strategy, only to find that the most dangerous battles begin long before the war does. In Inda, ambition, rivalry, and courtly maneuvering shape one boy’s path as he learns how quickly loyalty can turn. This epic fantasy stands out for its military focus, political tension, and immersive coming-of-age arc.
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“A first-rate fantasy novel” that blends military fantasy with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and a diverse cast of characters (Orson Scott Card, New York Times–bestselling author of Ender's Game)
The first book in the acclaimed Inda series, set within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy universe, Sartorias-deles!
Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, destined to become his elder brother Tanrid'’ Shield Arm—his military champion. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the brother whose lands he will one day protect.
When the King’s Voice comes to summon Inda to the Military Academy, he might well feel foreboding, or even fear—war is imminent—yet youthful Inda feels only excitement.
But there are things that Tanrid hasn’t prepared him for, and Inda will soon learn that the greatest threats to his safety will not come from foreign enemies, but from supposed allies within his own country.
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