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The Fae Dynasty, Book 1
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Ellen Quay
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Victoria McCombs
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"They vanish without a trace, disappear into the night . . .
Each year on the center island, one girl is chosen to be the next Mortal Queen of the idolized fae. The mortals praise these lucky girls, but their daughters are never seen again.
The fae realm is eternal night, where disputes are settled by chess matches, power is acquired through the most devious kinds of trickery, and seven illusive kings roam. The fae hide their faces behind masks and guard their glass hearts to keep them from shattering. But beyond the veil of this luxurious paradise, a dark secret simmers, for their Queens have disappeared.
When aspiring artist Althea is selected, she is desperate to avoid the same mysterious fate. With no one to trust, she conceals messages in paintings and receives anonymous replies from a stranger who slowly reveals the tale of a girl who outwitted the fae. Only if she is clever enough will Althea survive the fate of the Mortal Queens. As long as the king who cannot love does not claim her first.
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All I knew about life was anger and violence. Pain and suffering. Kill or be killed. I was a “fixer” for the Ruin - a syndicate for the Bratva, Cosa Nostra, Cartel, and any other organized crime faction that dealt in the darker, crueler aspects of humanity. I was a free agent who was called upon to do things weaker men didn’t have the stomach for. And when you surround yourself with death for long enough, soon you don’t remember what it felt like to be alive. And then I saw her.
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AN UNDERWORLD BASTARD.. & MY PERSONAL KRYPTONITE
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 10-08-21
By: Jenika Snow
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Our Deadly Designs
- By: Kalyn Josephson
- Narrated by: Alex Wingfield, Laurel Lefkow, Rebecca Norfolk
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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The Illinir may be over, but the race for Enderlain’s future has just begun. The hunt for the old king’s lost heir is on, and the first to find them will win the throne. But a darker force is festering in Enderlain’s underbelly, and Mikira, Ari, Damien, and Reid will need to find a way back to each other—and themselves—before the kingdom is torn apart. Hearts will be broken and new bonds will be forged in this explosive finale to This Dark Descent, where spellbinding fantasy meets Jewish mythology in a cut-throat race for the throne—and humanity's survival.
By: Kalyn Josephson
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The Nightmare Virus
- By: Nadine Brandes
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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When dream technology goes wrong, a virus spreads across the globe, trapping people in a universal dreamscape. They call it the Nightmare Virus. Cain Cross is determined to find a cure . . . if he can decipher his brother’s chicken-scratch formula notes. But when he gets infected, he has only 22 days until he’s trapped in the mental prison forever. Now, every time he falls asleep, he must fight in a Nightmare Arena until he earns his freedom to live in the “new world” that exists only in the mind.
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page-turning adventure
- By KLD on 09-12-24
By: Nadine Brandes
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The Wonderland Trials
- The Curious Realities, Book 1
- By: Sara Ella
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene—the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year’s annual—and often deadly—Wonderland Trials. Now she has less than twenty-four hours to find her way into Wonderland where nothing is impossible...or what it seems.
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Classic Wonderland Meets Hunger Games
- By Leah E Good on 07-28-22
By: Sara Ella
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The Chaos Grid
- By: Lyndsey Lewellen
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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When mankind’s attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to city. The Plex is endangering its citizens by legalizing a deadly nano drug, and Juniper’s family needs her help to deliver the counteragent.
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original and exciting YA Sci Fi
- By Christian Book Fair on 11-25-24
By: Lyndsey Lewellen
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The Oracle's Journey
- Elves of Alaire, Book 1
- By: M.M. Rees
- Narrated by: Ariel Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Ozanna’s job was going to get her killed. What was meant to be simple bodyguard duty on a cushy, boring bridal journey becomes an increasingly bizarre series of events. Her charge, Emmelina, is a princess with many talents and little sense of self preservation. She leads Ozanna into danger at nearly every turn. When they’re captured by elven highwaymen, Emmelina has the nerve to try and play matchmaker with Ozanna and a wicked dark elf. In the wake of the princess’ chaos, Ozanna is left questioning not just her career choices, but her sanity as well.
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Stellar Debut Novel
- By Anya Jade on 11-26-24
By: M.M. Rees
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The Mermaid's Tale
- Chronicles of the Undersea Realm, Book 1
- By: L.E. Richmond
- Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Locklyn Adair has never fit in. The legs she inherited as a result of her great-great-grandmother’s curse make it impossible for her to belong under the sea. When her niece is also born without a tail, Locklyn is determined to save her from similar rejection by sending her to the only place in the Undersea Realm where legs are acceptable—the Lost Island of Atlantis.
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Incredible!!!!!
- By Bowden Jones on 05-14-24
By: L.E. Richmond
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Wolf Soldier
- Lightraider Academy, Book 1
- By: James R. Hannibal
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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The knights of the Lightraider Order disappeared nearly two generations past. Now, the Keledan have withdrawn behind their barriers, and the Dragon Lands of bordering Tanelethar are overrun with dark oppression. The people are living in disobedience to the Rescuer who freed them long ago. A shepherd boy, Connor Enarian, and four young initiates rekindle the fires of the Lightraider Order in the hope of striking out across the mountains into Tanelethar to destroy a portal and stop an impending invasion.
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Reads flat compared to most allegories but I appreciate what the author was trying to do
- By Angela on 12-06-24
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Us Dark Few
- Us Dark Few Series, Book 1
- By: Alexis Patton
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longs to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn't commit, that wish shatters into oblivion.
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can't wait to read the second book
- By Yonat Aviad on 11-14-24
By: Alexis Patton
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A Ship of Bones and Teeth
- By: Karina Halle
- Narrated by: Jo Raylan, John Masterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Princess Maren is a woman with a secret. Ten years ago she sold her soul to the sea witch Edonia, giving up a life underwater in exchange for the love of Prince Aerik on land. But after a decade of abuse and misery inflicted by the cruel prince, Maren wants nothing more than to reverse the spell. An opportunity for escape presents itself when the prince and princess are traveling overseas and are taken hostage by a band of notorious pirates, led by the fearsome Captain Ramsay "Bones" Battista.
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A wonderful spin!!
- By samantha on 11-27-24
By: Karina Halle
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A Soul as Cold as Frost
- The Winter Souls, Book 1
- By: Jennifer Kropf
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Quarrel of Sword and Bone was a death sentence for anyone who stepped into the arena with the deranged Queen, whose soul had crisped to frost in an age long since past. Sixteen-year-old Helen Bell understood tragedy better than most kids growing up—she knew what it was like to wear clothes from donation bins and be mocked by the beautiful girls in school. She thought these brutal experiences made her ready for anything.
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Impressive!
- By Sara B on 04-18-22
By: Jennifer Kropf
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- Kari
- 06-08-24
Delightfully unpredictable!
I’m hooked! Rarely is there a storyline that brings the first to a sensible close, yet has you hooked and anticipating the next.
This author has multiple series. Each is so different in setting and character development that I never feel like I can predict the next turn.
I’m looking forward to the next installment!!!
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- Crystal Seelig
- 02-13-24
The way the story was told and just being in the far world.
I loved all of it. I can't wait to read the next book! Please let me know when you have more of this series.
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- Michelle Montgomery
- 11-21-24
Unique premise with engaging characters
Mortal Queens manages to build a fascinating and unique other-world without losing itself in the fantasy. The characters are grounded and relatable, and I’m a big fan of the female friendships built into the story. There were plot twists I didn’t expect, and a build-up for book 2 that promises unique adventures of its own.
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- Anne
- 02-08-24
fast paced whirlwind
You could say this book is fast paced, but in truth, it's a bit more of a whirlwind. You don't really have time to get to know the main character, Thea, before you're swept off into a completely different world. we're supposed to see that she has managed to survive in her own world, as hard as that is, but not really given the chance to make any predictions about how she'll fare in the Fae world. the development here is too vague. however, before you realize that, you're already in the Fae city, among the clouds, watching as Thea makes one mistake after another while others pick up after her. at no point does she use her mistakes to her advantage, and instead, uses three months of her short life to wallow in her room and paint and learn how to play chess. all the skills she supposedly has from the mortal world are generally...unused or useless. She does have some tender moments, but there is as little time to enjoy these as there is to get to know the main character - who has the same voice and personality as everyone else, which makes it difficult to differentiate her from the others - before she is suddenly making a new decision and a new mistake. if she is supposed to be cunning, she comes across as more of a blundering fool who, as her father is constantly in her head reminding her, is not prepared for the fae realm.
the world building among the fae is a bit odd too.. though if there was more history or explanation it wouldn't be as much of a problem. but it seems like the only reason for pranks is "power," though it is never explained what "power" does or how it is estimated, though it seems to be just the general perception other people have of you, is that you're powerful. if that is the case, Thea, who is supposed to be powerful at the end, is still incredibly... pathetic, and not in the sense of being worthy of our sympathy, but in the sense of, this kid is pitiful and the wrong sort of protagonist to convince me that she will succeed in the second book, even as the stakes get higher. if there was ever a beneficiary of Main Character Protection, this kid is it.
over all, too fast paced to be well developed, with one note characters that are easily interchangeable and indistinguishable. but I did finish it. it was compelling enough to finish.
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