Archive For The “Fantasy” Category
By J. L. Masters
Alexa Raines: Has gotten herself into and out of extra sticky events than most folk even recognize exist. She’s made herself persistently again—literally—in the four-thousand years she’s been alive, and nowadays, she’s a private-detective-sometimes-bounty-hunter, who focuses on improving kidnapping victims—at least, on paper. She occasionally works with the police to carry down serial killers, yet commonly her company, which employs 4 others, “takes care” of items the legislations can’t—or won’t. She’s a difficult employee, riding herself into exhaustion and her 4 staff loopy, yet all of them love what they do, and it is helping that she will pay them well.
THEN:
4000 years in the past she was once offered via her mom and dad to function a temple maiden. The monks pressured her right into a sacred ritual which painfully remodeled her right into a human phoenix. A creature that can't ever die.
After rebirth, she was once livid and murdered the clergymen along with her new powers and ran away. Wandering for years, she was once discovered by means of a “wizard”, somebody good versed within the arcane magical arts, and he or she taught her what she actually used to be, gave her a mystery identify, and taught her magic over the process decades.
Eventually civilization chanced on them and burned them either on the stake. She recovered, and started wandering again.
NOW:
Alexa is at the path of somebody killing Wicca within the mid-west. Little does she be aware of that she's going to come upon a lover from years earlier that may complicate her project and her love life.
By Terry Goodkind
A milestone of storytelling set on this planet of The Sword of fact, Debt of Bones is the tale of younger Abby's fight to win assistance from the wizard Zedd Zorander, an important guy alive.
Abby is trapped, not just among each side of the conflict, yet in a mortal clash among robust males. For Zedd, who instructions energy so much males can in simple terms think, granting Abby's request may suggest abandoning his sacred accountability. With the hurricane of the ultimate conflict approximately to wreck, either Abby and Zedd are stuck in a determined struggle to avoid wasting the lifetime of a child...but neither can get away the shadow of an historic betrayal.
With time working out, their merely selection could be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will by no means back be the same.
Discover why hundreds of thousands of readers internationally have increased Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.
Mary Poppins returns, falling from the sky like a taking pictures big name! quickly Mary and the children are off on a brand new around of brilliant adventures. a trip to Mr. Twigley’s song box-filled attic, an come upon with the Marble Boy, a experience on pass over Calico’s enchanted sweet canes--all a part of a standard outing with the world’s so much cherished nanny.
By Jordan Quinn, Robert McPhillips
Welcome to the dominion of Wrenly—a new bankruptcy e-book sequence filled with fable and adventure.
Meet Lucas, the 8 year-old prince, and Clara, the daughter of the queen’s seamstress. Lucas is an in simple terms baby who longs to make buddies and cross on adventures. Clara understands the dominion good, so she and Lucas group up and discover the lands of Wrenly!
In The misplaced Stone, Lucas and Clara look for Queen Tasha’s lacking emerald. On their interesting event, they shuttle to the entire major points of interest of Wrenly: Primlox (the island of fairies), Burth (the island of trolls), Crestwood (the island of dragons), Hobsgrove (the island of wizards), and the gorgeous Mermaid’s Cove. King Caleb has promised to present the person that reveals the dear stone, and Lucas and Clara are made up our minds to go looking the total nation until eventually they locate it!
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on nearly each web page, the dominion of Wrenly bankruptcy books are ideal for starting readers.
By Stephen R. Lawhead
In a forgotten age of darkness, an impressive king arose to gentle the land
They referred to as him undeserving to rule, a lowborn, callow boy, Uther’s bastard. yet his coming have been foretold within the songs of the bard Taliesin. And he had discovered robust secrets and techniques on the knee of the magical sage Merlin.
He was once ARTHUR—Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty—who could upward thrust to mythical greatness in a Britain torn via violence, greed, and struggle; who might herald a wonderful reign of peace and prosperity; and who might fall in a determined try to shop the single he enjoyed greater than life.
ARTHUR
“Evocate . . . interesting . . . enthralling.” –Locus
By Eoin Colfer
Seemingly not anything during this international daunts the younger felony mastermind Artemis poultry. within the fairy international, even though, there's a small factor that has gotten less than his epidermis on multiple celebration: Opal Koboi. In The final Guardian, the evil pixie is wreaking havoc once more. This time his arch rival has reanimated lifeless fairy warriors who have been buried within the grounds of bird Manor. Their spirits have possessed Artemis's little brothers, making his siblings much more tense than traditional. the soldiers do not appear to notice that the conflict they have been combating once they died is lengthy over. Artemis has till dawn to get the spirits to vacate his brothers and return into the earth the place they belong. Can he anticipate a definite LEPrecon fairy to affix him in what may good be his final stand?
New York Times best-selling writer and comedian genius Eoin Colfer will depart Artemis poultry enthusiasts gasping as much as the very finish of this exciting finale to the blockbuster series.
By James Eggebeen
The struggle among clergymen or Ran and the wizards has been waging for millennia with clergymen killing younger wizards to rid the area of the contest whereas soaking up their energy for themselves less than the guise of teaching them.
When the facility awakens in Lorit he is aware what he faces yet he has no concept he'll quickly develop into the first objective of the Temple. Infusing powers into his sister whilst he heals her, he unwittingly locations a objective on her again. The race is on for Lorit to grasp his powers prior to his sister is killed. Time is working out and the wish of saving her is slipping among his fingers.
Can he give you the option to beat the clergymen who've stolen the magic from his friends and turn into unimaginably strong with no resorting to an analogous strategies they stay by means of? within the conflict among hunter and hunted Lorit is aware he has to do whatever attainable to save lots of himself and his sister yet killing others does not appear like the reply.
Fritz Leiber’s iconic sword-and-sorcery adventurers Fafhrd and the grey Mouser proportion the pages with drunkard-turned-unlikely-hero Spar during this pairing of award-winning novellas
Gentleman barbarian Fafhrd, son of a northern Snow Witch, flees his family’s place of birth to affix a international lover and get away his mother’s keep watch over. Cynical thief the grey Mouser has a mysterious prior, yet not anyone doubts his lethal ability at swordsmanship. while the 2 meet, every one acknowledges a kindred spirit within the different. No gem dealer’s inventory is secure and no gambler will move unfleeced whereas Fafhrd and the grey Mouser live—but the lethal chain of occasions that forges their adventurous partnership ability they're really unwell met in Lankhmar.
Spar has no reminiscence of his youth, no wish for a greater destiny, no matters except how one can receive his subsequent drink. a very good day is one while he can stay away from the abuse of his barkeep boss aboard the Windrush. but if a mysterious conversing cat starts off placing principles into Spar’s head, issues start to swap. There’s a bigger universe available in the market than Spar has ever dreamed of. His future beckons—if in basic terms he can get away the send of shadows.
By Jake Arnott
London. The Sixties. The capital is swinging, yet beneath the boomtown there is a darkish underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: membership proprietor, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and prepared Judy Garland fan. Harry's enterprise is fronting violence with tough allure and inexpensive glamour; placing the frighteners on, acting threat whereas attempting to desperately attempting to bounce the counter into legitimacy. 5 characters inform 5 stories that mix in a rare narrative that's either an explosively paced mystery and brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.