The Gathering Storm

10 best books like The Gathering Storm (Kate Elliott): Beguilement, The Cloud Roads, The High King's Tomb, Blackveil, Dragon Wing, Dragon Prince, The Pyramid Waltz, Those Who Hunt the Night, The Haunting of Tram Car 015, A Study in Silks

Beguilement
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0061139076
Alternate Cover edition here.

Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. Enroute to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers. The necromancers armed with human bone knives fight "malices", immortal entities that draw out life, enslaving humans and animals....
The Cloud Roads
AuthorMartha Wells
ISBN1597802166
Moon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe,...
The High King's Tomb
AuthorKristen Britain
ISBN0756402662
For Karigan G'ladheon, the call of magic in her blood is too strong to resist. Karigan returns to the Green Riders, the magical messengers of the king, to find she's badly needed. Rider magic has become unstable, many Riders have been lost, and the Rider corps is seriously threatened. The timing couldn't...
Blackveil
AuthorKristen Britain
ISBN0756406609
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The long-awaited sequel to Green Rider, First Rider's Call, and The High King's Tomb.

Once a simple student, Karigan G'ladheon finds herself in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces...
Dragon Wing
AuthorMargaret Weis
ISBN0553286390
Preeminent storytellers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have redefined epic fantasy. Since the publication of their Dragonlance series, millions of readers have enjoyed their imaginative world-building, rich characterization, and intricate storylines. Now these best-selling authors bring...
Dragon Prince
AuthorMelanie Rawn
ISBN0756403014
Gather round children, and cast your minds back to the ye old days of the late 80's/early 90's, when fantasy was still very much an underground thing, most stories were tedious Tolkien retreads or Dungeons and Dragons sessions put down on paper, and writers of the feminine persuasion were notably light...
The Pyramid Waltz
AuthorBarbara Ann Wright
ISBN1602827419
To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women’s hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom’s greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend. When...
Those Who Hunt the Night
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0345361326
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer...

Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all...
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
ISBN1250294800
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark’s short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane. Senior Agent Hamed...
A Study in Silks
AuthorEmma Jane Holloway
ISBN0345537181
London, April 4, 1888 ~ Evelina Cooper, niece of Sherlock Holmes, is ready for her first London Season - except for a murderer, missing automatons, a sorcerer, and a talking mouse. In a Victorian era ruled by a ruthless steam baron council, mechanical power is the real monarch, and sorcery the demon enemy...
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
ISBN0765389444
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads...
AuthorMelanie Rawn
ISBN0756403057
It took me a while to get into this, because I’m terrible at keeping up with series, and it has been a while since I read the previous Dragon Prince book. But, kudos to Melanie Rawn for creating such a memorable world and characters, because by the first couple of chapters I’d gotten my footing and could...
The Scions of Shannara
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857230752
I need a way to rate the book and then a way to separately rate the edition I got. I have the audio I got from OverDrive and the gain is so low that with the recording turned up all the way, my speakers turned up all the way and going into my computers audio controls and jacking them up all the way I could barely hear...
The Elf Queen of Shannara
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857238273
"Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren.
It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one...
AuthorOvidia Yu
ISBN0062227157
This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant

After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady devoted to mah-jongg...
Mirror Sight
AuthorKristen Britain
ISBN0756408792
Karigan G'ladheon is a Green Rider--a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. This corps of messengers, each gifted with a brooch of office that imparts a unique magical ability to its wearer, was founded over a thousand years ago during the terrible time of the Long...
The Compass Rose
AuthorGail Dayton
ISBN0373802161
The legends of the Godstruck were just that -- legends. Until, in an attempt to defend her people, Captain Kallista Varyl called on the One for aid and was granted abilities such as no one had seen in centuries. Now Kallista has been charged with a new destiny as one of the most powerful women in the land --...
Batgirl, Volume 2: Son of Penguin
AuthorHope Larson
ISBN1401274242
Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, is back in Burnside! But everything’s…different—friends, school, even Burnside itself. Batgirl must determine her next steps when she realizes that the shady new tech mogul moving into her neighborhood is none other than the estranged son of the Penguin!

But...
Pearl, Vol. 1
AuthorBrian Michael Bendis
ISBN1401290612
Pearl is an exceptional tattoo artist…and and accidental assassin for one of the modern-day San Francisco Yakuza. She was born into one life, but another is calling to her. This is Pearl Vol. 1, from the Peabody Award-winning creators of Jessica Jones.

When Pearl accidentally meets one...
Gwenpool, the Unbelievable, Vol. 4: Beyond the Fourth Wall
AuthorChristopher Hastings
ISBN1302905481
Gwen Poole is everyone's favorite character from the "real" world! And her superpower is Official-Handbook-level knowledge of top-secret comic book facts! But the longer she's in the Marvel Universe, and not reading about it from the outside, the more her powers run out...or do they? Maybe a trip...
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