In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds. Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help. Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions. Who was after them? What did they want? What other kinds . . .
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In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds. Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help. Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions. Who was after them? What did they want? What other kinds . . .
The war has dragged on for ten years. The Darithian Empire is on the verge of victory, but Tal wants nothing to do with it. Rebecca dreams of a new life, but gets more than she bargained for. Dragons and magic, legends and swords—an old-fashioned fantasy adventure . . . . . .
A western themed fantasy, following the story of a low-level political discontent beginning with his imprisonment in a decidedly high security prison. . . .
The day Tekkud saw the goatskin usgar was the day his life changed forever. A humble trapper and a faithful son, Tekkud ak Mastaba finds himself drawn into a world of spirits and secrets, into a web of cruelty and conspiracy and into a desperate quest to save his family. In the unique setting of Abdjar every action . . .
A dark brotherhood that was once thought long dead has resurfaced. After tirelessly searching for elements to a spell that could end a terrible curse they have endured for centuries, they find their way to the sleepy village of Blakeby. Meanwhile, a brother and sister move there from the city to start a new life in the country, but what . . .
When an intercosmic postman, wounded and desperate, shows up in the sleepy town of Lionsfort, Hermes Swift, a fifteen year old boy, gets drawn into dimension-hopping quest to deliver a mysterious Edict and destroy Arcadias, the god-like being that controls the Hub: the universe at the center of the Infinite Spiral. . . .
An adventure serial about three men, one an American WW2 Soldier on a mysterious south pacific island being investigated by Nazis. The other story takes place in present time about the soldiers grandson his friend and their attempts to escape a new enemy and find some answers. . . .
When twelve-year-old Alysia Morales chose to become a Sentinel of the mythical bird Suzaku, she was taken away from her family and friends by Avalon Tech Enterprises and turned into Oryn Zentharis’ personal bodyguard. Unlike her parents, Alysia was born without mana, the energy source of magic. That was until one day, she suffered a concussion that awakened her . . .
All over the world, Knights are appearing. They have swords. They ride horses. They wear shining armour. They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter. However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading. They have a Law to uphold. . . .
On her way home for the Christmas holidays, Dora is given a mysterious box by her father. She also discovers that there’s a boy she’s never seen before in the back of the car—but he vanishes when she tries to tell her Dad about him. Then her Dad vanishes too: has he gone to work in London, or has he . . .
To sleep, perchance to dream . . . or wake again in a different world. This is the dual life of Muse, Love, and other Immortals like them. Split between two lives in two worlds, they never sleep, never dream, and never die. In one life they walk among us, unknown, in the other, they are worshiped as gods. . . .
The Ghosts of Earth is the first book of the Truthfarer series which describes the beginnings of a universe—the origins of space and time, and of consciousness itself. These cataclysmic events set in train the Truthfarers’ quest, and the account of their journey Homewards. This history follows the adventures of two of these beings as they travel from the . . .
The God Eaters is a story of redemption, friendship, and young love, set in a world of guns, magic, and religious oppression. It is an action thriller, an epic fantasy, and a carefully-paced romance, all in one—and, much to the author’s credit, these disparate elements work wonderfully together to produce a beautiful, involving, and utterly indelible reading experience.
The Ghosts of Earth has incredibly rich language and texture. If it was written in poem it would seem to be an epic poem. I have enjoyed what I have read of it.
However it is not a modern book. It is extremely slow. Indeed the first chapter covers millions of [more . . .]