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Morgan Sheppard (1010 KP) created a post

Aug 8, 2023

💚 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER - Release Date 1st September 2023 💚
Re-written and re-released with over 80k words added

Marella and Daren have been best friends since childhood, getting into many adventures together. At this time of their lives, when their paths are about to take different routes, will they get what they wish for?

#Epic
#Fantasy
#Myth
#Magic
#FREE on #KU

https://books2read.com/Marella2023

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Shimmer and Burn

Mary Taranta

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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To save her sister’s life, Faris must smuggle magic into a plague-ridden neighboring kingdom in...

Young Adult Dark Fantasy Fantasy Horror

The Garden Gnome (Theory of Magic #1)

Jeff McIntyre

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Where did magic go? Our world is defined by science, but history tells us that the world was once...

Contemporary Fantasy

David McK (3773 KP) rated The Aeronaut's Windlass in Books

Dec 20, 2023

The Aeronaut's Windlass

Jim Butcher | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

8.6

(10 Ratings)

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The first book in Jim Butcher's new series: Cinder Spires series, if I'm honest I was a little unsure what to make of this at the start: it's not 'traditional' fantasy (that would be his 'Codex Alera' series); nor is it the urban fantasy (his - still ongoing - 'Dresden Files' series).

Rather, this is probably best described as Steampunk, which is a genre I previously had little exploration in, and which Google defines as:

"...a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.".

Reading that description, this definitely fits right into that bracket!

To my mind, it also falls more towards the fantasy aspect of Steampunk: after all, we have a new magic system, airships, the ability to communicate with animals (cats), and monsters from the ground all within the pages of this story even if (for my money), it never quite gripped me as much as a Harry Dresden book.

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The Innkeeper's Song

Peter S. Beagle

7.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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In this extraordinary fantasy novel of love and death, young Tikat enters a shadow world of magic...

Mirrorfall (Ash & Blue, #1)

Stormy Sto Helit

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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A magical thing happened to Stef Mimosa when she was only two: she died and an angel confronted...

Science Fiction Urban Fantasy

David McK (3773 KP) rated Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

This is pretty much what I would term your standard high-fantasy fiction: high fantasy as opposed to, say, urban fantasy, as it involves Dragons (albeit only at the very beginning, and then more-or-less forgotten about), Elves and Magic amongst other genre staples.

The Raven of the sub-title ('Chronicles of the Raven', remember!) are a group of mercenaries who, at the beginning of the novel, have lived and fought together for years. At the end of one contract, they are hired by a former enemy, before events start overtaking them and they find themselves as amongst the last hope for their land, which is descending into war ...

I found this to be an OK read: not the best of such-like books I've ever read; nor the worst.