Books like The Warded Man
Every night demons rise from the ground to hunt and humanity cowers behind magical wards; after his mother's death, eleven-year-old Arlen Bales leaves his village sure that people should fight back, while an herb gatherer's apprentice and a young jongleur find their own ways to survive.
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Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Magician
Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.
Malice
In the Banished Lands, where giants once ruled, Corban, a blacksmith's son, wants only to become a warrior, while kings gather for war, an old prophecy stirs and a wolven pup attaches itself to him.
Rites of the Starling
The second Shield of Sparrows novel: as the Crux migration descends on the five kingdoms of Calandra, Odessa, running through a cursed realm with a young girl in her care, must decide what she is willing to become to survive.
Wizard's First Rule
Richard Cypher, a woods guide in Westland, rescues a mysterious woman, Kahlan, from four assassins, and learns she has crossed the magical boundary to find the long-lost wizard who can name a Seeker of Truth to stand against the tyrant Darken Rahl.
The Way of Shadows
Azoth, a street orphan in the slums of Cenaria, begs the legendary wetboy Durzo Blint to take him as an apprentice in the art of killing, and has to give up his old life and his name to do it.
The Way of Kings
A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.
A Game of Thrones
As summer ends in the Seven Kingdoms, the noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne while an exiled princess gathers dragons and something ancient stirs beyond the Wall.
The Poppy War
A war orphan with shamanic powers is drafted into a military academy where she must survive both the brutality of training and the awakening of ancient gods.
The Last Wish
Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
In an alternate matriarchal Asia after a cataclysmic war, a teenage half-breed carries a monster inside her and hunts the sorceresses who made her a weapon.
The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.