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Emily Woo Zeller
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By:
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June CL Tan
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A UK #1 Sunday Times Bestseller!
The Shadowhunter Chronicles meets Chinese diaspora folklore in Darker by Four, the first in an epic contemporary fantasy duology from Jade Fire Gold author June Tan.
A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.
Rui has one goal in mind—honing her magic to avenge her mother’s death.
Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet—had he been born with magic.
Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble…and the human world will be next if the King is not found.
When an accident causes Rui’s power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without her magic, Rui has no tool for vengeance. With it, Yiran finally feels like he belongs. That is, until Rui discovers she might hold the key to the missing death god and strikes a dangerous bargain with another King.
As darkness takes over, three paths intersect in the shadows. And three lives bound by fate must rise against destiny before the barrier between worlds falls and all Hell breaks loose—literally.
Perfect for fans of This Savage Song and Only a Monster, Darker by Four will pull listeners into a world of love, desperation, and revenge—a world where every deal has a catch, no secret stays buried, and no one is exactly who they say they are.
©2024 June CL Tan (P)2024 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...
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Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that follow, Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons that roam the Nominomi Sea. Until, one day, an encounter with a female dragon offers her what she desires most. A chance to return home, and to right a terrible wrong.
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Really different in a good way
- By Anonymous User on 09-25-24
By: Makiia Lucier
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How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
- Guides for Dating Vampires, Book 1
- By: D. N. Bryn
- Narrated by: Simon Dornet
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He's certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments. Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me. Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up.
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DNF, but it's YA
- By Iya P. on 11-08-24
By: D. N. Bryn
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The Bone Spindle
- By: Leslie Vedder
- Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi - until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle while exploring a long-lost ruin. Now she’s stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose until she and Shane can break the century-old curse on his kingdom. Dark magic, witch hunters, and bad exes all stand in her way - not to mention a mysterious witch who might wind up stealing Shane’s heart, along with whatever else she’s after. But nothing scares Fi more than the possibility of falling in love with Briar Rose.
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hoping for a sequel next year
- By Kindle Customer on 01-26-22
By: Leslie Vedder
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The Library of Shadows
- By: Rachel Moore
- Narrated by: Jeanne Syquia
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn’t uncommon and no one dares stay in the library after dark. And Este Logano enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father. Not literally, of course. Going to her dad’s school just seems like her best hope at figuring out who he was. But then Este meets Mateo, who is maybe—probably—definitely—a real ghost. And an annoying one at that. When Mateo frames Este for the theft of a rare book from the library’s secret spire and then vanishes, Este will have to track him down or risk being expelled.
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The perfect cozy read 📖
- By Kelly Mobley on 05-13-24
By: Rachel Moore
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Teenage Dirtbags
- By: James Acker
- Narrated by: Max Meyers, Lee Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Phil Reyno is a “troublemaker.” With a punk aesthetic and a quick temper, Phil knows that it’s surprising to see him dating universally beloved Cameron Ellis, whose viral coming out video made him an internet darling. Jackson Pasternak is a “good guy.” Junior class president, star rower, and Ivy bound, Jackson is burnt out and misses the only person who ever truly knew him—his ex-best friend, Phil. When Cameron dumps Phil and torpedoes his already-iffy reputation in the process, Phil hatches a plot to expose Cameron as the two-faced liar he truly is.
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Old characters return in this sophomore novel.
- By Kristen on 06-24-24
By: James Acker
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Dungeons and Drama
- By: Kristy Boyce
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris—her dream is to be a Broadway director. But when the spring show is canceled, Riley has to figure out a way to bring it back. Easier said than done—she’s stuck working at her dad’s game store. The place that means more to him than his family does. Riley can't waste time at a dead-end job when her entire future is resting on making a name for herself. So she convinces her co-worker Nathan Wheeler—the floppy-haired, glasses-wearing guy she barely knows from school—to help her. In exchange, she’ll help him make his gamer-girl crush jealous.
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Exactly what you look for in a young adult romance
- By Abigail on 06-03-24
By: Kristy Boyce
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace
- By: Justinian Huang
- Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the Asian wilderness to the heart-pounding cement floors of underground rave scenes, our lovers are inexplicably drawn to each other, constantly tested by the worlds around them.
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Intriguing Story
- By Brittany Miller on 10-21-24
By: Justinian Huang
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Snowglobe
- By: Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort - translator
- Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Greta Jung, Jeena Yi
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.
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Best read of the YEAR!!
- By Jordan on 11-26-24
By: Soyoung Park, and others
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Infinity Son
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Kirby Heyborne, Maria Liatis, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, best-selling author Adam Silvera’s Infinity Son is a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making.
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Not a fan
- By Ryan A Markitell on 10-31-20
By: Adam Silvera
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Dark Water Daughter
- Winter Sea, Book 1
- By: H.M. Long
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk, Samuel Roukin
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to a deathless pirate lord, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection—and, more importantly, his help in sending the pirate to a watery grave. But Mary's dreams are dark and full of ghistings, spectral creatures who inhabit the ancient forests of her homeland and the figureheads of ships.
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Shadow and Bone meets Pirates of the Caribbean
- By Lmadk16 on 07-21-24
By: H.M. Long
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
- A Novel
- By: Sue Lynn Tan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.
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Yawn. Unable to Complete this Snoozer.
- By Patrick Egry on 01-17-22
By: Sue Lynn Tan
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Peeps
- By: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal's life. Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he's infected the girlfriends he's had since Morgan. All three have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls Peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires.
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Love this take on a classic Mythology.
- By Benjamin on 11-05-18
By: Scott Westerfeld
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A Long Stretch of Bad Days
- By: Mindy McGinnis
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Bristal Jamison has a bad reputation and a foul mouth, but she also needs one more credit to graduate. An unexpected partnership forms as the two remake Lydia’s town history podcast to investigate the Long Stretch of Bad Days—a week when Henley was hit by a tornado, a flash flood, as well as its first, only, and unsolved murder.
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Class privilege
- By UnreliableHeart on 07-28-23
By: Mindy McGinnis
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- Jack
- 07-09-24
Riveting- I feel heard
"Darker by Four" by June Tan is a well-crafted fantasy novel that examines intriguing cultural dynamics not often explored in the genre. Tan does an excellent job weaving in authentic Chinese words, phrases, and traditions that add depth and nuance to the story.
The novel's central concept - the coexistence and conflict between Exorcists, Revenants, and Gods - is a compelling one that sets it apart from similar fantasy works. Tan deftly explores the power dynamics and tensions between these factions, making for an engrossing and unique narrative.
However, the male characters in the book prove to be a point of frustration. They come across as entitled, privileged, and selfish, which detracts somewhat from the overall reading experience. The pacing of the novel is also uneven, with the first half weighted heavily towards setup and background, while the second half moves at a brisker pace.
Despite these minor issues, "Darker by Four" is a well-written and culturally rich fantasy that offers readers something fresh and thought-provoking. Tan's skilled handling of the fantastical elements and her keen eye for cultural detail make this a recommended read for fans of the genre.
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