5 must-read historical books like The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1) by Shauna Lawless

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The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

By: Shauna Lawless

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-li…

If you liked the historical plot in The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1) by Shauna Lawless , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

1. The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Format: 491 pages, Paperback

When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to sur… read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) by Mark  Lawrence

2. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1)

By: James Logan

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced … read more

Similar categories in James Logan's The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)

By: Richard Swan

4.11

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The third novel in an epic fantasy trilogy, which follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Empero… read more

Similar categories in Richard Swan's The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1)

By: Ryan Cahill

4.11

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

Born in fire. Tempered in blood. Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords … read more

Similar categories in Ryan Cahill's Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I told him that the sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when …"

-Ryan Cahill, Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1)

Cover of The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard  Swan

6. The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)

By: Richard Swan

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's… read more

Similar categories in Richard Swan's The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2)

By: Richard Swan

4.30

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

From a major new debut author in epic fantasy comes the second book in a trilogy where action, intr… read more

Similar categories in Richard Swan's The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5) by Ryan  Cahill

8. The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5)

By: Ryan Cahill

4.16

Format: 95 pages, ebook

The Order have watched over the continent of Epheria for thousands of years. But there are those wh… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Cahill's The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Song of the Huntress

By: Lucy Holland

3.76

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, fem… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Holland's Song of the Huntress book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #2) by Ed McDonald

11. Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #2)

By: Ed McDonald

4.25

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Traitor of Redwinter is the second in Ed McDonald’s Redwinter Chronicles, full of shady politics, m… read more

Similar categories in Ed McDonald's Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #2) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn’t Burn book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3) by M.A. Carrick

13. Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.28

Format: 688 pages, ebook

“Lush, engrossing and full of mystery and dark magic" ( BookPage ), Labyrinth's Heart is the thrill… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1) by Shauna Lawless

14. The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

By: Shauna Lawless

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-li… read more

Similar categories in Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • ireland
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken, #1) by R.J.  Barker

15. Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken, #1)

By: R.J. Barker

4.10

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

In a world locked in eternal winter and haunted by prophecy, a young boy trains for years to become… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Barker's Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) by H.M. Long

16. Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

By: H.M. Long

3.86

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling J… read more

Similar categories in H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What I wanted to do was speak—I was dying to, with the wind curling in my lungs. I wanted to sing, to soothe the ache of it."

-H.M. Long, Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

Cover of Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs

17. Shield Maiden

By: Sharon Emmerichs

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Both epic and intimate, Sharon Emmerichs's extraordinary debut novel reimagines  Beowulf  from the … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Emmerichs's Shield Maiden book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

18. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Judas Blossom (The Nightingale and the Falcon #1) by Stephen Aryan

19. The Judas Blossom (The Nightingale and the Falcon #1)

By: Stephen Aryan

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

An imaginative and sprawling epic fantasy reimagining of the Mongol Empire's invasion of Persia, fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Aryan's The Judas Blossom (The Nightingale and the Falcon #1) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2) by H.M. Long

20. Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2)

By: H.M. Long

4.15

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

Swashbuckling adventure on the high-seas, full of magic, betrayal, redemption and fearsome women, i… read more

Similar categories in H.M. Long's Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2) by Sophie Keetch

21. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.46

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Keetch's Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2) book and Shauna Lawless's The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook

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4.02

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