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Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities. Sarta is a barbarian blade-for-hire of unbelievable skill. Together, they are a formidable team. And the world is against them. Required by his elder (and rival) Wizards to search out rare and dangerous artifacts, a young man hires a woman to guard him on his travels. Their contract is . . .
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Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements. Set in a world which is, on the surface, much like our own, Addergoole follows three students as they enter a strange, new school and discover just how much they don’t know about themselves, their parents, or their world. . . .
overall 20 votes:
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The enigmatic Peacock King, ruler of half of the known world, seeks to possess the land itself by enslaving the spirits of the wild. Gerald, a newly initiated Poet whose magic is as real as he can write it, is also one of the Armed—enforcers of the Law who wield guns with souls. His mission: infiltrate the Peacock King’s Court . . .
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Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
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The Kingdoms of Evil cast a shadow of death and horror over half a continent and Freetrick Feend is next in line to be their king. A college student in a comfortable and civilized nation not so different from yours, Freetrick suddenly finds himself kidnapped by monsters, engaged to a dominatrix, and put in charge of a country where . . .
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A fiction serial in epistolary form about the imaginary kingdom of Bentlefay, with particular reference to its royal family and their retainers. At the center of it all is Crown Princess Dulcie—young, beautiful, sought-after, and hating every minute of it. Will Bentlefay repel the attacks of neighboring Marshweather? Will the princess ever get porridge for breakfast when she wants it? . . .
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A young prince and Heir of a corrupt Empire discovers that his first and only friend in the world is the enslaved head of state of a country Father is trying to conquer. How does he survive the coming destruction and grow to be the good man he longs to be? . . .
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This is a serialized web story that follows the students at Carpe Arcanum, a magical university hidden on the campus of a traditional university, as they struggle to deal with their new lives and situations that has been sprung on them. . . .
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Evermist is the story of a young man coming into his own on a distant planet where Earth is only a legend. Drafted into the militia, Eli travels to the top of his world to stand guard over Evermist, an ancient and dangerous island locked away for all time . . . Elias is born of a family with influence and money. . . .
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The Philosopher in Arms is the massively-revised version of my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991) set in the “Fifth Millennium” world collaboratively created with S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier. Almost 3,000 years after a human-made cataclysm reduced both human population and technology back to primitive levels, civilization is rising again slowly. Here . . .
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Every year since he was five Andrew has been forced to spend the summer at his Aunt Jenna’s farm. This year he’s about to discover his family is anything but normal, and that he has an important duty. Is he ready for such a weighty responsibility? Does he even believe any of this is happening to him? . . .
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A young man named Liam Wheelwright investigates the gruesome deaths of his estranged parents and discovers The Pneuma Chocolatiers, a shop that specializes in the creation of emotional chocolate. He is soon pulled into a world where spells have a smell and it is possible to fall into the hidden spaces of the heart. It is a journey of self-discovery. . . .
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Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
“Carpe Arcanum” takes place at a college that is more than it seems. The Assistant Dean, Janice Bulldern, is also Mistress of the Arcanum, a mysterious body of magic users referred to throughout the story. Janice finds and recruits new members from the student body. She’s been alerted that one of the new students this term will possess a new [more . . .]
I wasn’t overly impressed by the premise of this story. Post-apocalyptic world, old technologies, a young curious student . . . this had the potential to be all a bit same-y.
However, the storyline has kept me interested for two and a half chapters so far. The main character, Samo, is engaging (if bratty), and [more . . .]