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1) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage to the respite of the convent of St. Mortain. Here she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts and a violent destiny. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. But how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who has stolen her heart?
2) Neon gods
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Society darling Persephone Dimitriou wants nothing to do with her mother's ambitions. She has plans to leave the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start her life far away from the backstabbing and politics. But that all goes down the drain when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. With no options left, Persephone flees Olympus and makes a devil's bargain with a man she...
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
613 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For 2,000 years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psyche knew she'd have to face Aphrodite's ire eventually, but she never expected her literal heart to be at stake... or for Aphrodite's gorgeous son to be the one ordered to strike the killing blow. Eros has no problem shedding blood, but when it comes time to take out his latest target he can't do it. Confused by his reaction to Psyche, he does the only thing he can think of to keep her safe: he marries her. As lines blur and loyalties shift, Psyche...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Del Rey trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
522 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds"--
6) Oathbreaker
Author
Series
Godhunter volume 3
Publisher
[Amy Sumida]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
7) Dark triumph
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
Author
Series
Godhunter volume 2
Publisher
[Amy Sumida]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
411 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this stunning sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, one blind woman will challenge the will of the gods and change the fate of the world.
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortal kind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving...
10) The God engines
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Devoted to the Bishopry Militant and to his crew, ship captain Ean Tephe is given a secret mission to a hidden land.
11) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
12) Circe: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft. When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her...
13) Midnight ruin
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon. Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family...and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but...
Author
Series
Godhunter volume 5
Publisher
[Amy Sumida]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
427 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death...
16) Marked by death
Author
Series
Godhunter volume 4
Publisher
[Amy Sumida]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) Battling Boy
Author
Series
Battling boy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old demigod is sent to help the people of Arcopolis, a city infested with monsters.
18) Wicked saints
Author
Series
Something dark and holy volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.
19) A consuming fire
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born to be a sacrificial Weatherell girl like her mother, Anya Astraea instead sets out in search of vengeance against the mountain deity who claimed the life of her twin sister.
20) Warbreaker
Author
Series
Warbreaker volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
By using "breath" and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.
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