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Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Barbarian Warlord Fantasy Books

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BARBARIAN WARLORDS WANTED!!! Bethany is looking for recommendations, and while I have a list that we created a few years ago (and still being updated ➔ (Reader Question – Book Recommendations like “Game of Thrones” & “The Golden Dynasty” ) and I’m reading a book in the exact genre she’s looking for, I figured I’d post her question so we can get even more recommendations. 

She asks:

Hello fellow bookworms!

I have fallen down a ‘barbarian, warlord’ book Blackhole and am in desperate need of new suggestions. Anything like the Warlord series – Elizabeth Vaughn, Pathfinders way series, Tarien Soul, The Golden Dynasty & the kingmaker chronicles. Love me a warrior. read more

Stacey Marie Brown’s “Descending Into Madness” will be LIVE in just a few days & we’re giving away an ARC!

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Descending Into Madness (Winterland Tale Book 1)

OH MY what an intriguing cover (and title) and yes. BLURB JOLT! I. AM. TITILLATED (and the concept is so clever!!) Oh this will be so much fun… 😉

“What if Alice Liddell’s story didn’t happen the way you think? What if it wasn’t Wonderland she fell into, but Winterland. This mad tale is dark, twisted, sexy, and nothing like the legend you know.

After losing her job and finding her boyfriend/boss cheating on her with her replacement, twenty-five-year-old Alice Liddell has moved back home to save money and regroup. read more

Laura Thalassa – The Four Horsemen Series Reading Order

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<— NEW SERIES FROM A MUCH-LOVED AUTHOR (our crew LOVES her!!) & book #2 just went LIVE and I’m reading it as we speak. And yes, I’m being SO bad, ’cause I’m reading it out of order (I started with #2), but OMG I got a total blurb-jolt from War. It gave me that “Drogo-Khaleesi / KA Golden Dynasty vibe and I was so in the mood for that!!! 😛 And since each book is about a different couple, I don’t feel lost.

P.S. I’m totally loving it. It is EXACTLY what I was hoping for, and the writing is great (and the heroine is modern, albeit in a very changed and horrible new life). read more

K.F. Breene & Shannon Mayer – Shadowspell Academy Trilogy Reading Order

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MUCH LOVED FANTASY SERIES and the trilogy is now complete!!! Relief if here for so many of my fellow readers that have gone CRAZY for this one!! 😀

Tessa: Shadowspell Academy: The Culling Trials by Shannon Meyer and KF Breene – These two authors together is a dream. The action was fast, the plot held tons of aches, family and friendship come into play… YAY! …it’s addicting and really good.

Robyn: I read book one and it was good.

Tessa: The Culling Trials 2 by KF Breene and Shannon Mayer. These two should work together more often.🙂  The second book did NOT disappoint. read more

Amelia Hutchins – The Elite Guards Series Reading Order

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FAE CHRONICLES SPINOFF!!! Book #4 JUST WENT LIVE!! Hugely popular author within our crew, and #2 apparently has an uber jerk-face hero! YAY  US!!! 😛

Ela: Amelia Hutchins also released A Demon’s Dark Embrace (The Elite Guards #1)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Fae Chronicles spin off (kind of)….this is where she focuses on Ryder’s brothers :)

Tessa: *begins cursing* So, of course I had to get Demon’s Dark Embrace.

Ela: Of course you HAD TO GET A DEMON’S DARK EMBRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

MichelleS: Finished Claiming The Dragon King. Man, he was hard to love. Total jerk-face. Wanted to slap him around. But that’s why I read this stuff, right?? Great addition to this super sexy series. read more