15 Best fiction books like In the Shadow of Ruin by Tony Debajo

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In the Shadow of Ruin

By: Tony Debajo

4.59

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

King Jide Adelani has ruled the lands of the Yoruba in West Africa for many peaceful years, but now…

"There comes a time when every man must stand and fight, discarding all his fears and embracing his fate."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"There comes a time when every man must stand and fight, discarding all his fears and embracing his fate."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"Lions born of the same mother are still lions and will kill their own for survival and dominance in the pride."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"Lions born of the same mother are still lions and will kill their own for survival and dominance in the pride."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

If you liked the fiction plot in In the Shadow of Ruin by Tony Debajo , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Of Cinder and Bone

By: Kyoko M.

4.04

Format: 323 pages,

After centuries of being the most dangerous predators on the planet, dragons were hunted to extinct… read more

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2. Stay with Me

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more

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3. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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4. A Touch of Light (The Ashes of Avarin, #1)

By: Thiago Abdalla

3.85

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

The worthy are immortal. To die is a sin. But in a tide of madness and ruin, life is a fragile thin… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.33

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Didn't I tell you a bath would help?"

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"Some demons could not be soothed by any lullaby."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"You have never worried me, daughter. You have only disappointed."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

"And the more I learn, the farther I feel. I don’t know where home is anymore."

-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

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6. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

By: Ukamaka Olisakwe

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more

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  • fiction
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7. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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)

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8. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human (Mead Mishaps, #3)

By: Kimberly Lemming

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Lemming's That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human (Mead Mishaps, #3) book and Tony Debajo's In the Shadow of Ruin

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

10. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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11. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, #2) by Kimberly Lemming

12. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, #2)

By: Kimberly Lemming

4.09

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Anyone else ever thrown a drink at someone's head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I'll fess up on a beach surrounded by man booty. Preferably mermen, if ya got em."

-Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, #2)

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13. The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

By: Evan Winter

4.31

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"to achieve greater results we must outlay greater effort."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"Your Journey ends here, on this battleground. Tomorrow is nothing more than a formality"

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

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14. Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

By: Temi Oh

3.65

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus,"

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"In the darkness, every fear finds a face."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"Loving anything is bound to the pain of losing it."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

"What would you die for? Willingly die for? I’d probably say nothing at all."

-Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

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15. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Glitter and Kindling (The Chosen Legacy Book 1)

By: Brittany Hester

4.14

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Love is a game Ren never wanted to play. Growing up in the desert biodomes of Province 5-9, ther… read more

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17. Mud Crab Kingdom: The Soft-Shelled Prince (1)

By: Joel Anthony Hamilton

4.50

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

In a time ruled by fair-skinned kings and racial divides, the son of a fair-skinned king and mud-sk… read more

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  • fantasy
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18. Waterborn (Honu #1)

By: Dawyone Combes

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Koldair Noa can sum up his whole life in three words: Running, family, friends. But one day, while … read more

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19. Saving Eden (The Eden Saga, #1)

By: K.R.S. McEntire

3.95

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old Angela and her father are the last survivors on earth. She dreams of adventure and… read more

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  • fantasy
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20. In the Shadow of Ruin

By: Tony Debajo

4.59

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

King Jide Adelani has ruled the lands of the Yoruba in West Africa for many peaceful years, but now… read more

Similar categories in Tony Debajo's In the Shadow of Ruin book and Tony Debajo's In the Shadow of Ruin

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"There comes a time when every man must stand and fight, discarding all his fears and embracing his fate."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"Lions born of the same mother are still lions and will kill their own for survival and dominance in the pride."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"The boy took his seat at one side of the fire, his men arrayed about him like the spikes on a porcupine's back, all bristling with spears."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

"If you say the gods have deemed it is your time to fall, it will be on top of our broken bodies, and we will walk with you to the underworld."

-Tony Debajo, In the Shadow of Ruin

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21. An Ocean of Others

By: Joshua Scott Edwards

3.92

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

REMEMBER WHAT'S REAL OR YOUR HEAD WILL BE THEIRS Survival is never easy, but it’s never been har… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

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3.90

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Thiago Abdalla

3.85

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Jordan Ifueko

4.33

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3.95

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4.15

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Seanan McGuire

4.09

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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4.00

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