25 must-read fiction books like Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3) by Sharon Shinn

Cover of Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3) by Sharon Shinn

Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

By: Sharon Shinn

3.75

Format: None pages,

In this story of hidden magic and forbidden love, the King's Rider Justin befriends Ellynor, a youn…

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Cover of The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3) by Kristen Britain

1. The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3)

By: Kristen Britain

4.25

Format: 679 pages, Hardcover

For Karigan G'ladheon, the call of magic in her blood is too strong to resist. Karigan returns to t… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Britain's The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adventure
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence to the world in a way that would surpass the a…"

-Kristen Britain, The High King's Tomb (Green Rider, #3)

Cover of Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1) by Juliet Marillier

2. Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1)

By: Juliet Marillier

3.68

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Juliet Marillier "weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier

3. Heart's Blood

By: Juliet Marillier

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Whistling Tor is a place of secrets and mystery. Surrounded by a wooded hill, and unknown presences… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's Heart's Blood book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Den of Wolves (Blackthorn & Grim, #3) by Juliet Marillier

4. Den of Wolves (Blackthorn & Grim, #3)

By: Juliet Marillier

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The "powerful and emotionally-charged" fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels con… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's Den of Wolves (Blackthorn & Grim, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3) by Sharon Shinn

5. Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

By: Sharon Shinn

3.75

Format: None pages,

In this story of hidden magic and forbidden love, the King's Rider Justin befriends Ellynor, a youn… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adventure
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

6. Tower of Thorns (Blackthorn & Grim, #2)

By: Juliet Marillier

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Juliet Marillier's "lavishly detailed"* Blackthorn & Grim series continues as … read more

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7. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more

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8. The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ing… read more

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9. The Wizard Hunters (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #1)

By: Martha Wells

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once a fertile and prosperous land, Ile-Rien is under attack by the Gardier, a mysterious army whos… read more

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Cover of Vision in Silver (The Others, #3) by Anne Bishop

10. Vision in Silver (The Others, #3)

By: Anne Bishop

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizin… read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"This is Ruthie Stuart, Officer Kowalski’s mate. She will show your pups around the Market Square,"

-Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver (The Others, #3)

"He gave the side of her head a quick lick before she squealed and ducked away from him. Tasted like Meg. Felt like puppy fuzz. Too bad he couldn’t hold her down and give her a proper grooming like he…"

-Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver (The Others, #3)

"For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together. He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling h…"

-Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver (The Others, #3)

Cover of Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4) by Anne Bishop

11. Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

By: Anne Bishop

4.27

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind ov… read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark."

-Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

"He didn't understand why everyone fussed about taking clean clothes out of a drawer. Underclothes smelled a lot more interesting after the female wore them."

-Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

"You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living."

-Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

"While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent mad…"

-Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

12. By the Sword

By: Mercedes Lackey

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run th… read more

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13. The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)

By: Robin McKinley

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homeland… read more

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Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

14. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3) by Mercedes Lackey

15. Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

By: Mercedes Lackey

4.44

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited story of the founding of Valdemar comes to life in this 3rd book of a trilogy from… read more

Similar categories in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • adventure
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"....knowing that losing a beloved pet was just as hard as losing a member of your family. Maybe harder, because everything with a pet was wordless. You never really knew if they understood what you m…"

-Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

"We care deeply for the creatures that depend on us, expecting nothing, really, and getting so very much from them. Loving them takes courage, because love requires daring. Daring to risk the pain of …"

-Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

Cover of Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1) by T. Kingfisher

16. Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.16

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"There are few things in life as steadying as someone you have to be brave for."

-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)

"Are you sure you wouldn't like some nice murderers instead?" he asked plaintively. "Quite sure, thanks"

-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)

"If I'd given him too much, he'd know something was afoot. Too much money is as dangerous as too little; it means you want it too bad."

-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)

Cover of Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) by T. Kingfisher

17. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

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  • romance
  • adventure
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

Cover of Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2) by T. Kingfisher

18. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adventure
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

19. 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 Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1) by T. Kingfisher

20. Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladi… read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I fear that I am not the best possible person for this, but I am the best possible person available at this time, which is much the same thing."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

"There was something about poverty that was a little like war. Either you had been there or you hadn't, and it wasn't really possible to explain it to anyone who hadn't."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

Cover of The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2) by T. Kingfisher

21. The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.22

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin.… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adventure
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It could,"

-T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)

Cover of Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1) by J.D.  Evans

22. Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1)

By: J.D. Evans

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

“All magic is beautiful,” she said, “and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, or the terro… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Evans's Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"A cruel irony that she missed him more when she was with him than when she was away."

-J.D. Evans, Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1)

"Someone starved of something will take whatever they can get and make it into what they need, because they do not know there is more to be had in the world."

-J.D. Evans, Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1)

Cover of Wild Country (The World of the Others, #2; The Others, #7) by Anne Bishop

23. Wild Country (The World of the Others, #2; The Others, #7)

By: Anne Bishop

4.27

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others ser… read more

Similar categories in Anne Bishop's Wild Country (The World of the Others, #2; The Others, #7) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5) by Michelle Sagara

24. Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5)

By: Michelle Sagara

4.32

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuri… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Sagara's Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
Cover of The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards, #1) by Juliet Marillier

25. The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards, #1)

By: Juliet Marillier

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman is both a bard--and a warrior--in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author o… read more

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  • fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
Cover of Storm & Shield (Mages of the Wheel, #2) by J.D.  Evans

26. Storm & Shield (Mages of the Wheel, #2)

By: J.D. Evans

4.17

Format: 400 pages, ebook

“All you see is that I run. Why haven’t you realized I always come back?” She is lightning and… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Evans's Storm & Shield (Mages of the Wheel, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2) by Tasha Suri

27. Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.00

Format: 480 pages, ebook

The fate of an empire rests in the hands of a young woman with magical blood and nothing left to lo… read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I am afraid for you!"

-Tasha Suri, Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)

Cover of Dark & Dreadful Brutes (Forbidden Mates #2) by Lola Glass

28. Dark & Dreadful Brutes (Forbidden Mates #2)

By: Lola Glass

4.10

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

After ten years trapped in a cellar, I was finally rescued… by a ruthless fae king who immediately … read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Dark & Deadly Predators (Forbidden Mates #3) by Lola Glass

29. Dark & Deadly Predators (Forbidden Mates #3)

By: Lola Glass

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

After eight years in a cave, I was finally rescued… by a terrifying fae king who tells me I'm his m… read more

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  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Dance with Fate (Warrior Bards, #2) by Juliet Marillier

30. A Dance with Fate (Warrior Bards, #2)

By: Juliet Marillier

4.24

Format: 507 pages, ebook

A young woman who is both a bard--and a warrior--seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's A Dance with Fate (Warrior Bards, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

31. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

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