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The Leopard by K.V. Johansen, Marakand #1 In the days of the first kings in the North, there were seven devils… Ahjvar, the assassin known as the Leopard, wants only to die, to end the curse that binds him to a life of horror. Although he has no reason to trust the goddess Catairanach or her messenger Deyandara, fugitive heir to a murdered tribal queen, desperation leads him to accept her bargain: if he kills the mad prophet known as the Voice of Marakand, Catairanach will free him of his curse. Accompanying him on his mission is the one person he has let close to him in a lifetime of death, a runaway slave named Ghu. Ahj knows Ghu is far from the half-wit others think him, but in Marakand, the great city where the caravan roads of east and west meet, both will need to face the deepest secrets of their souls, if either is to survive the undying enemies who hunt them and find a way through the darkness that damns the Leopard. To Marakand, too, come a Northron wanderer and...

DMC: Devil May Cry: The Vergil Chronicles by Guillaume Dorison ( writer ) and Patrick Pion ( artist ) In a world controlled by demons, Dante is humanity's last remaining hope. But Dante is lost, imprisoned far from the human world, accompanied by Kat, a human psychic, and nearly driven insane by his inner demon, Dante's twin brother Vergil must now attempt a rescue! Discover the shocking secrets behind the stunning new Capcom videogame, DMC: Devil May Cry. Earlier this year the Devil May Cry franchise saw a new release in the popular video game series: DMC: Devil May Cry. Rather than continuing the series, DMC: Devil May Cry is a reboot of the first game that was released over ten years ago. The Vergil Chronicles is the first tie-in comic that tells the story leading up to the reboot computer game. Everyone must have at least once heard of the Devil May Cry series. I have played several games myself and it's hack 's slash adventure, big swords, bold m...

Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, Craft Sequence #2 Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him. But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father — the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists — has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply. From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire... and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry. Just last week I finally, after quite som...

The Thousand Names by Django Wexler, The Shadow Campaigns #1 In the desert colony of Khandar, a dark and mysterious magic, hidden for centuries, is about to emerge from darkness. Marcus d’ Ivoire, senior captain of the Vordanai Colonials, is resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy remote outpost, when a rebellion leaves him in charge of a demoralised force in a broken down fortress. Winter Ihernglass, fleeing her past and masquerading as a man, just wants to go unnoticed. Finding herself promoted to a command, she mut rise to the challenge and fight impossible odds to survive. Their fates rest in the hands of an enigmatic new Colonel, sent to restore order while following his own mysterious agenda into the realm of the supernatural. Ever since finding out about The Thousand Names I just wanted to read this book. Having been termed with “flintlock fantasy”, the beautiful cover and the interesting synopsis, this book just had to be great. And you know what i...

One man down after they lost a sniper on a certain mission in Abbottabad, Pakistan, NAVY SEAL Cadet Jack Walker is chosen to join the US’s only supernatural unconventional-warfare special-mission unit – SEAL Team 666. Battling demons, possessed humans and mass murdering cults and evil in its most dark an ancient form, SEAL Team 666 has their work cut out for them. And when they discover that the threat isn’t just directed against the US, Walker finds himself at the centre of a supernatural conflict with the entire world at stake. It is not often that you come a book description like SEAL Team 666, although I do think that there are more and more authors trying to break into a new road with using the army in fantasy books. SEAL Team 666 is no stranger in that. Weston Ochse is a Bram Stoker Award winner for best first book – not SEAL Team 666 but for Scarecrow Gods in 2005. But with this background in writing horror, combined with the short glimpse of the synopsis of the book,...

Alice isn’t having the best of days: she got rained on, missed her bus, was late for work. When two angels arrive, claiming her life so far is a lie, it turns epic, grand scale worse. The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating; an age-old balance is tipping, and innocent civilians are getting caught in the cross-fire. The angels must act to restore the balance – or risk the Fallen taking control. Forever. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory – a disgraced angel with a drinking problem – Alice will learn the truth about her own history… And why the angels want to send her to Hell. What do the Fallen want from her? How does Mallory know so much about her past? What is it the angels are hiding – and can she trust either side? Caught between the power plays of the angels and Lucifer himself, it isn’t just Hell’s demons that Alice will have to defeat… Blood and Feathers is the first novel by Lou Morgan. It is, as you might have guessed from the synopsis, a book ...