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10 best books like Bound (Megan Derr): The Magpie Lord, The God Eaters, The Shattered Gates, Counterpoint, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1, Wicked Gentlemen, The Pedlar and the Bandit King, Lord of the White Hell, Book 2, Sebastian, The Land of Night

The Magpie Lord
AuthorK.J. Charles
A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell.

Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He’s also inherited his family’s...
AuthorJesse Hajicek
ISBN1847288650
The God Eaters is a fantasy, an adventure and a romance that takes place in a totalitarian world that resembles the Old American West.

Kieran Trevarde is imprisoned in Churchrock for murder and Ashleigh Trine for rebellious activities against the government. Churchrock is a high security...
The Shattered Gates
AuthorGinn Hale
9/15/19 reread

Yap I'm rereading it. Go ahead and judge me. I needed a comfort read.

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Counterpoint
AuthorRachel Haimowitz
It is the twilight of mankind. Depleted by generations of war with a dark race, the human kingdoms and their ancient alliance stand on the brink of extinction. The outlands are soaked with the blood of the fallen. The midlands are rotting with decadence and despair.

Elfkind, estranged by past...
Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN0978986164
Kiram Kir-Zaki may be considered a mechanist prodigy among his own people, but when he becomes the first Haldiim ever admitted to the prestigious Sagrada Academy, he is thrown into a world where power, superstition and swordplay outweigh even the most scholarly of achievements.

But when...
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN0978986113
Belimai Sykes is many things: a Prodigal, the descendant of ancient demons, a creature of dark temptations and rare powers. He is also a man with a brutal past and a dangerous addiction. And Belimai Sykes is the only man Captain William Harper can turn to when faced with a series of grisly murders.

But...
The Pedlar and the Bandit King
AuthorKirby Crow
Scarlet of Lysia is an honest peddler, a young merchant traveling the wild, undefended roads to support his aging parents. Liall, called the Wolf of Omara, is the handsome, world-weary chieftain of a tribe of bandits blocking a mountain road that Scarlet needs to cross. When Liall jokingly demands...
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN0978986172
Kiram fought his family and Cadeleonian bigots to remain in the Sagrada Academy to prove himself as a mechanist and to dispel the deadly shadow curse that threatens to destroy his upperclassman, Javier Tornesal.

But when his efforts provoke retaliation, Kiram’s family and home are endangered....
Sebastian
AuthorSam Argent
Sebastian Orwell did the only thing a smart wizard could do when he stumbled upon the wounded Crown Prince: he healed him and dumped him in a tavern where he could continue not being Sebastian's problem. Unfortunately, the prince isn’t content with being alive, and he hunts Sebastian down to thank...
AuthorKirby Crow
ISBN1603700102
Struggling to come to terms with his new life in Rshan na Ostre, young Scarlet is trying to find his place in a decadent, foreign society that bears an ancient hatred for all Hilurin. As Liall is pulled away from Scarlet and into the jaded intrigues of a royal court, the young pedlar wonders if they've made...
AuthorKirby Crow
ISBN1934166383
In this second book of the Scarlet and the White Wolf trilogy, Scarlet the pedlar and Liall the bandit find themselves among hostile company aboard a Rshani brigantine headed north through icy waters. Liall has been summoned home to Rshan na Ostre by way of a cryptic message. Scarlet, after a near-fatal...
AuthorJosh Lanyon
Valentine Strange, late of his Majesty’s 21st Benhali Lancers, needs money. Happily, the wealthy Holy Orders of Harappu are desperate to retrieve the diadem of the Goddess Purya from an ancient temple deep in the mountainous jungle—an area Strange knows well from his days quelling rebellions....
AuthorGinn Hale
Reread 10/1/19

Remember when I read this entire series in, like, 3 days?



The reader part of me misses those days. Y'know the days when I wasn't Captain Slow Read?

But then I remember I actually like my job now so...



Doubtful. But mebbe.

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Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book One
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN1935560336
Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy (Lord of the White Hell universe), Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose....
Witches' Blood
AuthorGinn Hale
Reread 9/25/19



Still having MAJOR heart eyes for this series.

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Having...
AuthorGinn Hale
I’m officially all in. On to the next!



****rating updated from a 4 star to a 5 star after getting through the next book. Like Maya Angelou says “when you know better, do better ”.
Servants of the Crossed Arrows
AuthorGinn Hale
John hatches a desperate plan that lands him in the middle of a battle while Kahlil takes on a final mission...

When John opens a letter addressed to his missing room-mate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and...
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN1935560352
Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy (Lord of the White Hell universe), Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose....
AuthorGinn Hale
Reread 10/5/19

I forgot how compelling this series becomes the further you get into it.



le sigh

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THISCLOSE to my face springing a leak....
Think of England
AuthorK.J. Charles
Lie back and think of England…

England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage.

Curtis’s...
A Case of Possession
AuthorK.J. Charles
Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets.

Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as Stephen Day. He knows Stephen’s job as justiciar requires secrecy, but the magician is doing his disappearing act more than seems reasonable—especially since Crane will soon return to his home...
Flight of Magpies
AuthorK.J. Charles
Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink.

With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student flying off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And the strain is starting to show in his relationship...
AuthorK.J. Charles
This is a short bonus feature, set a couple of days after the events of The Magpie Lord, as Stephen and Crane head back to London, and wonder where they go from here...

Written on the request of some Magpie readers - Vio, I'm looking at you ;) - as a small Christmas thank-you to all the people who enjoyed...
AuthorSera Trevor
Lord Jasen of Grumhul has a gambling problem. Or rather, his father has the problem, but since he's gambled away everything that was rightfully Jasen's, it's become his problem, too. With no money and no skills to earn a living, his best bet for getting away from his father is to present himself for marriage...
The Summer Palace
AuthorC.S. Pacat
Imagine giving this less than 5 stars, can't relate

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Reread before The Adventures Of Charls:
I honestly need a different rating system for the Captive Prince books because there's no way this is ONLY a five stars


Original review:
If this was still 2016, I would...
Band Sinister
AuthorK.J. Charles
Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He’s a rake and an atheist, and the rumours about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It’s orgies.)

Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks...
Prince of Air and Darkness
AuthorM.A. Grant
Phineas Smith has been cursed with a power no one could control.

Roark Lyne is his worst enemy and his only hope.

The only human student at Mather’s School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie...
Sword Dance
AuthorA.J. Demas
Five years ago, Damiskos’s brilliant military career was cut short, leaving him with a permanent disability and scars that are not all physical. Adrift and still grieving, he tries to find meaning in an unsatisfying job.

Work takes him to the remote seaside villa of an old friend, where,...
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