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  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 113 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 68 ratings
    For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community..
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  • End of Days by Susan Ee

    End of Days by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 89 ratings
    End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister...
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee

    Angelfall by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 172 ratings
    It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel...
  • Ninth Key by Meg Cabot

    Ninth Key by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad..
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 153 ratings
    This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future...
  • Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 106 ratings
    YOU KNOW YOUR LIFE IS BAD WHEN YOU MISS YOUR DAYS AS A POISON TASTER... With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can't help feeling isolated in Sitia...
  • Renegades by Marissa Meyer

    Renegades by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 56 ratings
    Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew...
  • Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

    Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 71 ratings
    Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment.R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization...
  • The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles

    The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    For the perfect love, what would you be willing to lose?It’s been a shattering year for seventeen-year-old Zoe, who’s still reeling from her father's shockingly sudden death in a caving accident and her neighbors’ mysterious disappearance from their own home...
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman

    The Magicians by Lev Grossman

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 98 ratings
    Quentin Coldwater is brillant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless...
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