On a tower of metal and light, a girl faces an uncertain future. Awash with the tears of gods, a warrior stares down the universe. Together they journey across dangerous lands, to spare the world a demon’s madness. Romance and dark fantasy blend together in this interesting tale about the things we see and the things we don’t. Eikasia—Sometimes, . . .
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On a tower of metal and light, a girl faces an uncertain future. Awash with the tears of gods, a warrior stares down the universe. Together they journey across dangerous lands, to spare the world a demon’s madness. Romance and dark fantasy blend together in this interesting tale about the things we see and the things we don’t. Eikasia—Sometimes, . . .
Kings & Queens is set in the militaristic nation of Solis. Here, citizens are born with Scars – marks of the past that grant their Vessels with abilities. Some Scars give unimaginable power. Others are nothing more than deadly curses. And for six-hundred years, the nation has lived like this under the protection of the Queen-Divines. But when the last . . .
The civil war has ended and the rebellion defeated, but as the Island Empire begins to rebuild, the hunt for a legendary manuscript threatens to tear it apart once more. Woven together by fate and chance, a group of strangers find their personal battles have a wider impact than they ever imagined. An assassin fights to protect her wife, . . .
When mysterious portals start opening up around the world at large events, swallowing everybody, you’d think that would warrant some kind of danger pay when you have to sell hotdogs at a Comic Con, right? ‘No, of course not; what are the odds of that happening here, out of all the big events in the world?’ Well, Emma was . . .
Meet seventeen-year-old Emily Hunte, a teenager living in America during the Great War on Technology. When the attacks in Chicago start, her older sister and trained soldier, Amber smuggles her into a survivalist compound in the wilderness of Alaska—one of the few safe places left in the world. To survive in this cutthroat community, Emily has to take on the . . .
Julius Goldforge knows how the world works. He knows his role. Really, it’s destiny by this point. The mentor dies, the hero gains motivation, and the demon lord falls to their blade. Except . . . something’s clearly gone wrong here. . . .
If you had the power to rewrite anything and everything in the world—no catches, no limits—would it really be as amazing as it sounds? Fed up with a world where science has made every fantasy a reality and people just don’t care about stories anymore, a genius video game developer named Kai Zero uses ancient black magic to transport . . .
The Australian suburb of South Hertling has known its share of misfortunes—supervillain attacks, unexpected time rifts, attempted robot uprisings and crashed spaceships, to name but a few. But finally the suburb has some good news! It is opening day of a new attraction in which for the first time ever, the public can see extinct creatures in captivity—Trilobite . . .
Years ago magic entered our modern world and changed everything. Twenty years later, the world has Access Facilities to help budding magic users and the MDE to help manage, police, and control magic. Raven Delias is a normal teenage girl who is getting her Core magic awakened like everyone her age. She just wants to get into a good school . . .
After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon’s life in a very small way. They say the “Living Jade Empire” creates individualized quests. They say it can read your mind. They say you can find your heart’s desire. They say that there’s never been a game like it, and they’re right but . . . they’re also wrong. . . .
Chen Sia works as a Janitor for ExplorerTech Industries, a small successful technology company who treats Sia like the working dead . . . The world outside is being destroyed, and a misplaced device pushes them 16 years into the future! Being killed brings you back to the past?! How many years can Sia survive? Will Sia survive being transported back? If so, wouldn’t . . .
An epic fantasy inspired by Filipino Mythology and anime. Follows numerous heroes with the blood of God-Kings as they fulfill their goals and learn of a deeper, darker threat in the midst of it all. . . .
Dec 4, 2008: Reading the first five chapters of this story was like slogging through mud up to my thighs. I’ve never taken so long to read what is rightly such a short amount of words but the tedium with which the story is told wore me down.
Every piece of minutiae, every asinine conversation, nearly every bit of movement was portrayed in these chapters in what I could only think of as a means to move the plot forward, as if there wasn’t [more . . .]
Jul 13, 2013: What makes Eikasia an original and interesting fantasy novel is the fact that its two main characters, Nyx and Elmiryn, have mental maladies and unconventional ways of seeing the world. I was also pleased with the subtle featuring of philosophical ideas, ethics, and complex relational dynamics between all of the varied and fairly-realistic characters. The plot was exciting and compelled me to read continuously to get to the latest update.