In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.16
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather …
Want to Read $ 11.99"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
If you liked the fantasy plot in In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) by Seanan McGuire , here is a list of 21 books like this:
1. Thornhedge
By: T. Kingfisher
4.00
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more
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- novella
- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
2. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
3. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
By: Travis Baldree
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
6. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
7. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
8. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
9. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
By: Heather Fawcett
4.02
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
10. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- novella
- fantasy
- fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
11. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
By: Heather Fawcett
4.32
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
12. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
13. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
By: Nghi Vo
4.18
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
14. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
15. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
By: Travis Baldree
4.12
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
16. Nettle & Bone
By: T. Kingfisher
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
18. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.16
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more
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- urban fantasy
- magical realism
- novella
- magic
- young adult
- young adult fantasy
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
19. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
By: A. Deborah Baker
3.69
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more
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- novella
- young adult
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
20. 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
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
