Fantasy Books for Adults
Fantasy books that contain mature themes
From Tad Williams to Lauren Kate, Laini Taylor to Tim Marquitz. If the supernatural or angels and demons are your thing then these great books should be just perfect reads for you.
1. Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
Kate Daniels #10
Score: 99
Our rating: 9.8 | 1 positive reader reviews
Mercenary Kate Daniels must risk all to protect everything she holds dear in this epic, can't-miss entry in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series.Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Sh [...]
2. Collateral Damage by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 8
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.6 | 0 positive reader reviews
Escaped from prison and back in his own body, life has taken a turn toward the domestic for Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg. His days are filled with diapers, formula, and baby farts, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. Of course it couldn’t last. A raid on Frank’s ho [...]
3. Dante's Journey by JC Marino
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.4 | 1 positive reader reviews
A flash of light and Detective Joe Dante steps through. No longer on the cobblestone streets of 1961 Boston, Joe finds himself in a horrifying new world-Hell itself. Joe was in hot pursuit of his family's killer, drug lord Filippo Argenti, when both were killed, and isn't about to let a l [...]
4. Never Knew Another by JM McDermott
Dogsland Trilogy: Book 1
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Fugitive Rachel Nolander is a newcomer to the city of Dogsland, where the rich throw parties and the poor just do whatever they can to scrape by. Supported by her brother Djoss, she hides out in their squalid apartment, living in fear that someday, someone will find out that she is the child of a [...]
5. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
A Women of the Otherworld novel
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.4 | 1 positive reader reviews
Elena Michaels is a model woman for the 21st century: self-assured, keenly intelligent, fighting fit. And like every modern woman, she has her secrets. Nothing extraordinary about that. Except that Elena really is extraordinary. In fact, she may well be the most extraordinary woman alive. She is, [...]
6. At The Gates by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 3
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
A revolt in Heaven, angels fighting angels. Who better to mediate a peaceful resolution than the Devil's nephew, Frank "Triggaltheron" Trigg?Don't answer that.When Scarlett arrives at his door, beaten to within an inch of her life, Frank finds himself in the middle [...]
7. Beyond The Veil by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 5
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Frank's woman kidnapped, a frantic chase across worlds, an inter-dimensional uprising, and all with the surly father-in-law to be in tow. What could be worse? How about being drafted by the Almighty? Trapped on a strange and hostile planet, forced to deal with an alien insurrection, Frank and [...]
8. Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu by Mercedes M Yardley
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Her mama always said she was special. His daddy called him a demon. But even monsters can fall in love. Montessa Tovar is walking home alone when she is abducted by Lu, a serial killer with unusual talents and a grudge against the world. But in time, the victim becomes the executioner as 'Apo [...]
9. Aftermath by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 9
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
What do you do when your life crumbles around you? If you’re Frank Triggaltheron Trigg you climb into a bottle looking for oblivion. Of course he couldn’t even get that right. Alone and adrift, Frank’s five month binge is interrupted with a boom. A nuclear one and every bit of c [...]
10. Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
The Iron Covenant #1
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers who would follow him anywhere, are being h [...]
11. Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
Alice isn’t having the best of days: she got rained on, missed her bus, was late for work. When two angels arrive, claiming her life so far is a lie, it turns epic, grand scale worse. The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating; an age-old balance is tipping, and innocent civili [...]
12. Exit Wounds by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 7
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
Actions have consequences. For Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg, those consequences involve prison. Specifically, an extraterrestrial prison where he and pretty much everyone he cares about are now trapped. Bereft of weapons, magic, or a good lawyer, Frank plots a break out but the indigen [...]
13. Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
Score: 92
Our rating: 8.0 | 12 positive reader reviews
Billi SanGreal is the only girl in the Knights Templar, and the most kick-ass weapon-wielding heroine around. At fifteen, her life is a rigorous and brutal round of weapons practice, demon killing and occult lore – and a whole lot of bruises. But then, she didn’t have much choice. [...]
14. Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
Midnight Texas #1
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.0 | 2 positive reader reviews
So welcome to Midnight where nothing is what it seems and not knowing everything about your neighbours may end up getting you killed. I enjoy this kind of story, a mystery/crime/thriller/urban fantasy novel, there is something for everyone here and enough loose ends to keep you intrigued to find [...]
15. Monster Republic by Ben Horton
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
An explosion in a nuclear power plant. Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants. A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction. 'No', whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. 'That's not me. [...]
16. The Hollow City by Dan Wells
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? [...]
17. Ben Street: the Secret of the Lost Soul by Tobias Cooke
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
When the students of a famous Performing Arts School left for their outing to Stonehenge one morning in 1946, they had no idea they would witness the crash of a meteorite. Nor did they know that one of the pupils would be murdered as a result. The meteorite had brought with it the last of a speci [...]
18. Resurrection by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 2
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
Armageddon averted, the world returns to business as usual. Unfortunately for Frank "Triggaltheron" Trigg, business as usual sucks.His night out interrupted by a horde of kidnapping zombies, what could possibly be worse? The resurrection of the Anti-Christ, that's what. Caugh [...]
19. Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Sandman Slim series #1
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
Life sucks and then you die. Or, if you’re James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles. Now Stark’s back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop [...]
20. The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
Enchantment Emporium #1
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
Alysha Gale is twenty-four, unemployed, and tired of her family meddling in her life personally and magically. So when a letter arrives from her missing grandmother, bequeathing her a junk shop on the other side of Canada, Allie jumps at the chance to escape. [...]
21. This Savage Song by VE Schwab
Monsters of Verity #1
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a grisly metropolis where the violence has begun to create real and deadly monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the inhabitants pay for his protection. August just wants [...]
22. Master of Sorrows by Justin Call
The Silent Gods #1
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
You have heard the story before - of a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, who comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil that threatens his world.But what if the boy hero and the malevolent, threatening taint w [...]
23. Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will b [...]
24. Echoes of the Past by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 4
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Not when you're the Devil's nephew.An unexpected message gives Frank the answer he's sought for years - where did God and Lucifer go? - but the knowledge brings its own dilemma as inter-dimensional war looms, threatening to engulf the Earth. [...]
25. Deadbeat - Makes You Stronger by Guy Adams
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Max and Tom are old, old friends, who used to be actors. Tom now owns a jazz nightclub called Deadbeat which, as well as being their source of income, is also something of an in-joke. In a churchyard one night they see men loading a coffin into the back of a van. But, why take a full coffin away [...]
26. The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon th [...]
27. From Hell by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: A Novella
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
A rash of brutal murders set God and the Devil at odds, and it’s up to Frank to prove Hell’s innocence. With his angelic cousin watching his every move, he quickly learns there’s more to the mission when he comes face to face with the legend of Jack the Ripper. Time running out, [...]
28. The Never Pages by Graham Thomas
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
The Never Pages is a very odd book to behold – there's no blurb on the back, no author announced on the front and it actually looks like an old journal. It tells us the story of Mr G____, a Dream Investigator who is travelling through the Never Realm in order to find his lover Lucy and [...]
29. The Clown Service by Guy Adams
The Clown Service #1
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
The Department: Section 37 Station Office, Wood Green. The Boss: August Shining, an ex-Cambridge, Cold War-era spy. The Mission: Charged with protecting Great Britain and its interests from paranormal terrorism. The Threat: An old enemy has returned, and with him Operation Black Earth, a Soviet p [...]
30. Nameless: The Darkness Comes by Mercedes M Yardley
The Bone Angel Trilogy #1
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Luna Masterson sees demons. She has been dealing with the demonic all her life, so when her brother gets tangled up with a demon named Sparkles, ‘Luna the Lunatic’ rolls in on her motorcycle to save the day. Armed with the ability to harm demons, her scathing sarcasm, and a hefty chip [...]
31. The Wild Ways by Tanya Huff
Enchantment Emporium #2
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Charlotte Gale is a Wild Power, but there’s nothing wild about the life she is living. When her meddlesome aunts start interfering, Charlie ditches her cousin Allie and their grandmother’s Enchantment Emporium and joins a Celtic rock band on the summer festival circuit. All Charl [...]
32. A Few Words for the Dead by Guy Adams
The Clown Service #3
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Section 37 is under attack. Toby Greene, a Clown Service agent, is on the hunt. But catching someone whose bodyguard is the relentless Rain-Soaked Bride can be a deadly game. Section Chief August Shining has problems of his own. Under investigation by MI6 and at the mercy of a mysterious entity, [...]
33. Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Tricia Sullivan has written an extraordinary, genre defining novel that begins with the mystery of a woman who barely knows herself and ends with a discovery that transcends space and time. On the way we follow our heroine as she attempts to track down a killer in the body of another man, and the [...]
34. Those Above by Daniel Polansky
The Empty Throne #1
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
They enslaved humanity three thousand years ago. Tall, strong, perfect, superhuman and near immortal they rule from their glittering palaces in the eternal city in the centre of the world. They are called Those Above by their subjects. They enforce their will with fire and sword. Twenty five [...]
35. Stiletto by Daniel OMalley
The Checquy Files #2
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
THE CHECQUY: A centuries-old covert organization that protects the nation from supernatural threat. THE GRAFTERS: A centuries-old supernatural threat. After centuries of rivalry and bloodshed, two secret and otherworldly organisations - The Checquy and The Grafters - are on the verge of joining f [...]
36. The Painted Man by Peter V Brett
The Demon Cycle #1
Score: 89
Our rating: 7.8 | 11 positive reader reviews
As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose o [...]
37. Consorts of Heaven by Jaine Fenn
Hidden Empire: Book 2
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
When a naked, amnesiac stranger is found outside a remote highland village, he is taken in by Kerin, a widow whose unconventional ways are tolerated because her son Damaru is "skytouched." All skytouched are able to affect matter, and are tested by the Beloved Daughter, the living godde [...]
38. Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn
Hidden Empire: Book 3
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
Most people believe the Sidhe are long dead, exterminated centuries ago when the males of the race rose up and fought alongside the humans subjugated and enslaved by the female Sidhe. But Jarek Reen knows better: he's discovered, the painful way, that the Sidhe are alive and well, and still s [...]
39. Immortal City by Scott Spear
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
What if angels not only walked among us - but were our celebrities? What if they saved people for money? That's the reality in Angel City, where hot young Jackson Godspeed is the angel everyone's dying to date. Everyone except for Madison Montgomery, that is. She's too busy studying a [...]
40. The Best of Enemies by Tim Marquitz
Demon Squad: Book 6
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
Power comes at a price. For Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg, that price is everything. Lost and alone, Hell closes in until Frank can’t take it any longer. He ascends to Old Town a find a new overlord has staked his claim, but Frank is having none of it. He goes to war against the u [...]
41. Grace Under Fire by Frog and Esther Jones
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
It’s the 21st Century, and magic users are outlaws. The public considers summoners evil and in league with the Devil. So when someone or something wipes out the entire Spokane Grove, police are baffled and wary. After all, what is more powerful than a group of summoners? Grace Moore is a fo [...]
42. John Dies at the End by David Wong
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
On the street they call it Soy Sauce, it is a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit, and lets users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets inste [...]
43. I Left My Haunt in San Francisco by Mark Everett Stone
Files of the BSI: Book 3
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
After avenging himself on the mythical monster that killed his sister, Kal Hakela is back at the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. But, with only a few months left on his contract, he's tempted to retire along with his new love, former MI-7 agent Jeanie. When a friend and former BSI agent [...]
44. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's [...]
45. The Solstice Treaty by David Belltower
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
Welcome to the Shade. In the small town of Beaver Hollow, West Virginia, forester Mark Steele has experienced the same reoccurring vision since he was a boy - one that foreshadows a towering tree, menacing premonitions and his own suffocating demise. Tess McCoy is a former captain in the United S [...]
46. God's Eye by AJ Scudiere
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
Katharine Geryon is living the life her family name has dictated, and why not? After all, it has given her a good job in the family company and a fine life with all the things she should want. But all that changes as increasingly disturbing events begin to occur: soot stains on the carpet, glimps [...]
47. The God King's Legacy by Richard Nell
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
God-king Marsun, the 'Demon King', has ruled for centuries. But nothing lasts forever. Once just an illiterate tribal chief, Marsun trapped an ancient evil within his mighty soul, united scattered tribes, then retreated from the world. But his sacrifice is all but forgotten by those [...]
48. The Fallen and Leviathan by Thomas E Sniegoski
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
On his eighteenth birthday, Aaron begins to hear strange voices and is convinced he is going insane. But having moved from foster home to foster home, Aaron doesn't know whom he can trust. He wants to confide in the cute girl from class, but he's afraid she'll confirm he's crazy. [...]
49. License to Ensorcell by Katharine Kerr
License to Ensorcell series: Book 1
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.6 | 0 positive reader reviews
Psychic Agent Nola O'Grady isn't sure returning to San Francisco, and living near her unusual family, is a good idea. Her job, with a psychic agency so obscure even the CIA doesn't know it exists, can be perilous, and she's afraid of the relatives getting involved. Then the Agency [...]
50. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Mortal Instruments: Book 2
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters [...]
51. Night After Night by Phil Rickman
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Leo Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. Defford hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Knap Hall, a one-time Tudor farmhouse that became the ultimate luxury guest house...until trage [...]
52. Aerie and Reckoning by Thomas E Sniegoski
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Aaron's senior year has been anything but typical. Half angel and half human, he has been charged to reunite the Fallen with Heaven. But the leader of the Dark Powers is determined to destroy Aaron - and all hope of angelic reconciliation. [...]
53. Dead Harvest by Chris F Holm
The Collector #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Meet Sam Thornton. He collects souls. Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure they are dispatched to the appropriate destination. But when he’s sent to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hel [...]
54. Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott
Crossroads series: Book 2
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Marit was pretty sure she had been murdered. She vividly recalled the assassin’s dagger, and her dying vision had shown her the next world - but her spirit had not made the journey. She woke alone, sprawled on a Guardian s altar, with more questions than answers. The Guardians once ruled th [...]
55. This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
We find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the [...]
56. The Rook by Daniel OMalley
The Checquy Files #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
The body you are wearing used to be mine. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity an [...]
57. The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give... [...]
58. The Weight of Souls by Bryony Pearce
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Sixteen year old Taylor Oh is cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim then they pass a mark beneath her skin. She has three weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark to them – letting justice take place and sending them into the Darkness. And if she doesn’t make [...]
59. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
Mortal Instruments: Book 5
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, [...]
60. Chicago: The Windigo City by Mark Everett Stone
Files of the BSI: Book 4
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Kal Hakala is the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation’s best agent, but even he needs a break after his last case, which brought him a hair’s breadth from death and killed the fiancée of his best friend, a Mescalero Apache agent named Canton Asate. Kal’s temporary desk-j [...]
61. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even gre [...]
62. Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams
Bobby Dollar: Book 2
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants [...]
63. Soul Mates by LA Weatherly
Soul Mates Trilogy #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Iris and Nate have dreamed of each other all of their lives. When they meet by chance in an abandoned house, they discover that their dreams were more than fantasy - they are soul mates, destined to be together. But someone or something is watching them, determined to tear them apart. Will Iris a [...]
64. The Wrong Goodbye by Chris F Holm
The Collector #2
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Meet Sam Thornton, Collector of Souls. Because of his efforts to avert the Apocalypse, Sam Thornton has been given a second chance – provided he can stick to the straight-and-narrow. Which sounds all well and good, but when the soul Sam’s sent to collect goes missing, Sam finds himsel [...]
65. Soul Desire by LA Weatherly
Soul Mates Trilogy #2
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Iris and Nate now know that Sibyl's malevolent interference has put a seemingly impossible obstacle in their way - can Iris travel to Nate's time, or he to hers? Or is there a third option? As the pair wrestle with this problem, it becomes clear that Sibyl's demise may not have been a [...]
66. Soul Song by LA Weatherly
Soul Mates Trilogy #3
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Iris and Nate have spent a lifetime dreaming about each other. They have fought tooth and nail and defeated unimaginable odds to be together. Now, at last, they have found a way of existing in the same time. But Iris and Nate are not out of danger yet - real life could yet tear them apart... [...]
67. Eyes Deep by Tim Marquitz
A Clandestine Daze Novella
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
No one trusts a doppelganger, and for good reason. Behind every stolen identity lies murder. For Theodor Crane, his latest crime comes with a new family, a new job, a new set of troubles, yet there’s no escaping his past lives. On the precipice of war between humans and supernaturals, Theo [...]
68. Those Below by Daniel Polansky
The Empty Throne #2
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
For centuries beyond counting, humanity has served the Others, god-like Eternals who rule from their cloud-capped mountain-city, building a civilization of unimagined beauty and unchecked viciousness. But all that is about to change. Bas Alyates, grizzled general of a thousand battles, has assemb [...]
69. The Shadow Crucible by TM Lakomy
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Taking humanity back to their primordial beliefs and fears, Estella confronts Mikhail’s faith by revealing the true horror of the lucrative trade in human souls. All organized religions are shops orchestrated to consume mankind. Every deity, religion, and spiritual guide has been corrupted, [...]
70. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Score: 84
Our rating: 8.3 | 1 positive reader reviews
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our stor [...]
71. Hero Forged by Josh Erikson
Ethereal Earth #1
Score: 84
Our rating: 8.3 | 1 positive reader reviews
Gabe thought he had covered all the angles, but it’s tough to plan a contingency for accidentally trapping an evil god in your brain.Gabriel Delling might call himself a professional con artist, but when walking superstitions start trying to bite his face off, his charm is shock [...]
72. What Happens in Vegas, Dies in Vegas by Mark Everett Stone
Files of the BSI: Book 2
Score: 83
Our rating: 8.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
After faking his own death, Kal Hakala is free of the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation and can finally focus his energy on destroying the monster that murdered his sister. With the help of trusted former teammates, he embarks on a quest to find an artifact to activate a magical Tesla Coil, th [...]
73. The Sounding by Carrie Salo
Score: 83
Our rating: 8.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
In the Book of Revelation, a man named John has a prophetic dream. He dreams of the final prophecies that will come to pass – and the seven archangels that guard them. Each angel waits to sound their trumpet at God’s appointed time, preparing humanity to fight and win the final battle [...]
74. Things to do in Denver when your Un-Dead by Mark Everett Stone
Files of the BSI: Book 1
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
For ten years Kal Hakala has been the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation's top man, the longest surviving agent in its blood-soaked history. There has been no case he couldn't crack, no monster he couldn't kill. Until a plague of zombies in Denver turns into an investigation of a vi [...]
75. All Seeing Eye by Rob Thurman
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee’s life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead – murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well but the shoe itself told him so. Tessa’s death triggers an even m [...]
76. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Mortal Instruments: Book 1
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to ca [...]
77. Into the Nightside by Simon R Green
Nightside series: Book 1
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines. [...]
78. From Hell with Love by Simon R Green
Secret Histories Saga #4
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
It's no walk in the park being a Drood. The family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries but they aren't much liked, not by the monsters they vanished - not that that's surprising - nor the ungrateful humans they saved. They don't even [...]
79. Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.0 | 2 positive reader reviews
Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in t [...]
80. The Death of Torberta Turchin by Shannon Mawhiney
Score: 81
Our rating: 8.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
Torberta Turchin spoke to the dead. But like plants, or rabbits, or any 14-year-old girl, she didn't know that she herself was going to die.And soon.Despite her morbid past, Torberta lives a relatively normal life. She goes to school. She hangs out with her friends. She visits t [...]
81. The Pickpocket's Ghost by Catherine Fisher
Score: 81
Our rating: 8.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
Sarah is making sure everything goes well with her mother's party celebrating her sculpture exhibition and Matt, her step-brother isn't making it any easier for her with his senseless jibes and couldn't care less attitude. As she attends to the guest's needs, she also spots a pain [...]
82. Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
She’s young, deadly and hunted – with only three days to solve her own murder… When Evangaline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab in the morgue – in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there – their troubles are only ju [...]
83. Succubus Nights by Richelle Mead
Georgina Kincaid series: Book 2
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Georgina Kincaid's job sucks. Literally. Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. If she so much as kisses her new boyfriend, she'll drain his life force. Georgina is a succubus - a demon who draws her power from other men's pleasure. Admittedly, the shapeshifting [...]
84. Archangel by Sharon Shinn
Samaria: Book 1
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
The angel Gabriel knows he must marry, for in six months the annual Gloria must be sung by the new Archangel and his human wife to ensure the prosperity of the land. His ordained bride is Rachel, a beautiful and spirited slave girl who wants only the freedom to live her life as she chooses. Liber [...]
85. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Mortal Instruments: Book 3
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and [...]
86. The Veil by Jerry Ibbotson
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Hell is What Haunts us. Something is not right in the picturesque village of Henchcombe. errible things walk the streets each time a thick mist sweeps down off the moor. Not monsters or beasts but the villagers’ deepest, darkest terrors. The things that haunt them in the dead of night. Brok [...]
87. Little Winged One by Will Kosh
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Alida Beretta is a small town Colorado teenager, perfectly normal, aside from the fact that she has a pair of fully functional bird's wings on her back. Her parents know something about it, as does her sister Lela, who has a dark abnormality of her own, but Alida chooses not to ask questions. [...]
88. Nightingale's Lament by Simon R Green
Nightside series: Book 3
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Taylor is the name. John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding things. It's part of the Gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside - the hidden heart of London where it's always three a.m., where inhuman creatures and otherworldly god [...]
89. Dave Vs. the Monsters: Emergence by John Birmingham
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
When an oil rig drills too deep, it unleashes a torrent of nightmares - the creatures of legend, always thought to be figments of our imagination, are now a very real threat to the survival of humankind. But when he kills a seven-foot-tall demon with an axe to the skull, Dave Hooper - a booze-soa [...]
90. Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
A Women of the Otherworld novel
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again - which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad - all she needs to do is [...]
91. The Hunt for Pierre Jnr by David M Henley
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Pierre Jnr has a mind more powerful than any the world has encountered before. He can make you forget, he can control you and he is only eight years old. Three months after his birth he escaped. An hour later he was lost to sur veillance. No one knows where he has been for the last eight years .. [...]
92. The Big Reap by Chris F Holm
The Collector #3
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Sam Thornton has had many run-ins with his celestial masters, but he’s always been sure of his own actions. However, when he’s tasked with dispatching the mythical Brethren – a group of former Collectors who have cast off their ties to Hell – is he still working on the sid [...]
93. Cracked by Eliza Crewe
Soul Eaters #1
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Meet Meda. She eats people. Well, technically, she eats their soul. But she totally promises to only go for people who deserve it. She’s special. It’s not her fault she enjoys it. She can’t help being a bad guy. Besides, what else can she do? Her mother was killed and it’s [...]
94. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig by Tad Williams
A Bobby Dollar Novella
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Bobby Dollar, Advocate Angel and perpetual thorn in the side of Heaven, is about to save the holidays for a very special someone. Or somewolf. Or maybe even some pig... Bobby is summoned on Christmas Eve to do his part in the heavenly judgement of a man who is not prepared to go lightly. You see, [...]
95. Day Shift by Charlaine Harris
Midnight Texas #2
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Welcome to Midnight, Texas. It's a quiet little town, perched at the junction between Davy Road and Witch Light Road, and it's easy to miss. With its boarded-up windows, single traffic light and sleepy air, there's nothing special about Midnight... which is exactly how the residents l [...]
96. The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R Green
Secret Histories #1
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
You know what? It's all true. Everything that ever scared you, from conspiracy theories to monsters under the bed to ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggity beasties. The only reason they haven't taken over the world yet is because my family has always been there to stand in their way. We [...]
97. No Hero by Jonathan Wood
Arthur Wallace #1
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
What would Kurt Russell do? Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. While he’s a good cop, he prefers his action on the big screen. But when he sees tentacles sprouting from the neck of a fresh corpse, the secretive government agency MI37 comes to recruit Ar [...]
98. Conspiracy of Angels by Michelle Belanger
Novels of the Shadowside #1
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Zack Westland awakens on the shore of Lake Erie, his memory gone. Assaulted by powerful psychic fragments, he learns that he belongs to a tribe of angels - one of several living on Earth since the Blood Wars. Pursued by cacodaimons intent on killing him - again - he seeks to end war between the t [...]
99. Blackbird by ND Gomes
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Olivia disappeared the night the blackbird died. It was New Years Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before fourteen year old Alex McCarthy’s sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister, within the previously safe walls of t [...]
100. Grim Solace by Ben Galley
Chasing Graves #2
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Nothing is certain in Araxes. Not even death.Stolen from the widow’s clutches, master thief and ghost Caltro Basalt must learn new ways to survive the cutthroat society of the Arctian Empire. His one hope for freedom and justice? A gift from the dead gods, who continue to beg fo [...]
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