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I've been looking for this one for the last couple of years. In a town/city all the adults are dead, and all the kids are missing. Police detectives are called, and they investigate. In the end, it turns out the kids killed their parents, and there's an epilogue or something that shows they've become terrorists. I can't remember if it's a novel or a novella.
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I need help. All I remember is this: - fantasy - main character female - she's some kind of priest and a magic user, exiled from her temple - there is an evil living wooden doll in the book
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Jun 3, 2013 12:18
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sorry, that's not it. I've never read Canavan. thanks for trying, though.
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Jun 3, 2013 12:32
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fritz posted:Wheel of the Infinite, Martha Wells? That's it! Thanks a lot.
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Jun 4, 2013 04:47
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Fantasy trilogy, I read the first 2 books. It's about a young man who becomes a squire, if I remember correctly, to a knight whom he admires. He falls in love with a girl and later realizes that she's his lord's (intended) wife. The 2nd book deals with a tournament the squire, his lord and his retinue go to. There is magic in the books - monsters, necromancers etc. Anyone? edit: David Keck - In the eye of Heaven & In a time of treason. It wasn't a trilogy, it was a duology. Doktor Avalanche fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Sep 6, 2013 11:48
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Another fantasy request... I can remember only one part of the book, in which some mages/wizards/magic-users fight as mercenaries for an army against invaders who have mages of their own that they put in a huge box of some kind which shields them from attacks. The mages we're reading about manage to defeat these strangers (surprise surprise). I think it is a newer release (last 2-3 years). Thanks.
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Sep 8, 2013 17:38
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I'm looking for a science fiction novel (or novels, I think it's a trilogy) which starts with a crew of scientists and soldiers coming to a planet which was colonized, but barely (small colony of religious folks). The main characters are a soldier (an officer, if I remember correctly) and an alien. The alien is the protector of the planet, or something like that, and is something of an outcast both to his own and to the human colony on the planet. Also, he's immortal because of a parasite of some kind. The soldier gets infected with the parasite as well, and goes to live with the aliens.
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Feb 2, 2015 13:49
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Nettle soup, that's it, thanks!
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Feb 2, 2015 15:19
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Like I said above, it's the Karen Traviss book series, Nettle Soup figured it out.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:31
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I don't know if this is even real but it's in my head and I can't get it out: SF or fantasy. Some kid or teenager (male) from a tribe or a town meets another kid or teenager (male) who's from a more primitive culture. They meet in the woods or in the wild if I remember correctly. And there are some long-lived people in the primitive culture (either immortal or just hundreds of years old). Also, if I remember correctly, at the end of the novel the primitive culture moves to a secluded place. An island maybe? The secondary character, if I'm remembering it well, is a girl from the primitive culture who ends up in a position of power. I couldn't decide if it's SF or fantasy cause I think it's one of those "fantasy setting is future earth" kind of books. It's not Dark Eden.
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Aug 21, 2015 05:01
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I'll repost one of my old requests:Barbe Rouge posted:I can remember only one part of the book, in which some mages/wizards/magic-users fight as mercenaries for an army against invaders who have mages of their own that they put in a huge box of some kind which shields them from attacks. The mages we're reading about manage to defeat these strangers (surprise surprise). It could be a story, I'm not sure. The huge box is something like the trojan horse, if I recall correctly.
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Jun 4, 2016 07:54
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I haven't read neither Norrell nor Weber's Hellgate. I think the main character was a woman. And I'm not sure she was a magic user, maybe she was a regular soldier. There's a possibility that it was just a short story, cause all I remember about it is that one battle with the mages in the trojan horse box. Doktor Avalanche fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 08:23
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Trying to remember a book I read. Can't recall any details except for one weird scene. One of the Generation V books by M.L. Brennan.
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Aug 19, 2016 19:35
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navyjack posted:These are actually pretty good Yes they are, IMO. Too bad the publisher isn't interested in books 5 & 6.
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Aug 22, 2016 16:10
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navyjack posted:Ugh, is THAT why there's nothing about a 5th book?? I suppose so. I'm hoping when/if Brennan writes another book/series it'll do better and maybe raise interest in Gen V as well.
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Aug 23, 2016 17:05
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Hi, I'm trying to remember the author or the name of a fantasy series about a people who live by the sea and wear masks. The MC is a son of one of the noble houses. Some poo poo happens to their society and they have to leave the shore. I can't remember if the masks are just used in rituals or generally. And I think the MC might be gay but can't be sure. 3 or 4 books. edit: it's Ricardo Pinto's fantasy series Doktor Avalanche fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 23:08
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I recently read a fantasy book and promptly forgot the title, the author, characters' names, any proper noun in it actually LMAO. I remember that it's in a country ruled by a foreigner king who got control of it while getting it rid of demons, who exist but some are not what they seem. The story is told in the past and the present. There are flying squads that use these giant birds which imprint on their riders or something. The current king is trying to call back his father's old captain of the guard and is using his aunt, the captain of the bird riders' squad, to do it. Also the world has an equivalent of the Jews (a people who have a reputation for being scheming traders) who are being pogromed. There are other things going on but I don't want to spoil it in case someone else wants to read it. Help?
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Nov 9, 2020 21:03
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:You’re sure they’re birds and not dragons? That’s a major theme in the Dragonriders of Pern series. it's not pern, 100%
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Nov 9, 2020 23:39
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fritz posted:That sounds a lot like Kate Eliot's "Black wolves" which unfortunately is in contractual hell and has no sequel. that's it! thanks.
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Nov 18, 2020 03:15
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Fantasy series, only read half of the first book. The MC is a young man who grew up in some kind of assassin school/monastery, and the moment he was supposed to be mentally primed with orders his superior has a heart attack and while hallucinating tells him to protect his friends instead of the real order ("kill without remorse" or some similar stereotype). So the MC sets off to find some friends to protect. Hijinks ensue.
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Mar 9, 2021 15:21
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Splicer posted:This sounds delightful and I would like to read it yes, how the hell did you find it, I tried googling all kinds of stupid poo poo and nothing came of it thanks
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Mar 10, 2021 03:18
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy. A series of novels.The setting of the first book is a planet that is slowly being colonized by an intergalactic empire, which also has subjugated humans. The local (iirc local in this case mean the sector of space, not the planet itself) governor is a human and his sister ends up joining the planet's natives who are set up in tribes, a mix of the usual "desert people" tropes. She hooks up with the chieftain of the tribe who turns out to be trying to unify them all against the foreigners that he believes will inevitably encroach on them.
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Apr 2, 2021 21:53
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ToxicFrog posted:Jaran/Crown of Stars by Kate Elliot? Yes! Thank you.
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Apr 3, 2021 02:45
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there was a cartoon where a kid turns into a car (and the transformation looks like something cronenberg would make, but for kids) so turning into a pump IS weird but still completely imaginable edit: the parents using their son-pump at the end is both incredibly funny and disgusting Doktor Avalanche fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 10:10
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I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: the book is SF and it's told from the POV of a soldier who wakes from cold sleep or whatever in a space ship and has to go attack aliens. Him and his buddies get beaten and he's taken into the alien ship. Turns out they're humans and he's a clone or something manipulated by the aliens into finding and destroying humans.
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Apr 8, 2022 17:35
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ulmont posted:Pretty sure it's Alan Dean Foster, one of the Damned series, specifically Book 2, A False Mirror. It takes a little while to get to that scene though, I think. no, this is a standalone and it's a newer book (last couple of years)
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Apr 9, 2022 07:45
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ulmont posted:Oh, hell, you're right, I read that one too. Hang on. Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter. yes! thank you.
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Apr 10, 2022 00:41
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somewhat generic werewolf urban fantasy novel - the pack are young drifters going from town to town in a van of some kind, scrounging for food by pickpocketing I suppose, the MC is the wife of a rich dude who abuses her. turns out the MC is also some kind of hot poo poo in the werewolf world (of course) and her husband is involved in some kind of evil ritual or whatever. i cannot remember the author or the title.
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Aug 28, 2022 20:56
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Read it twenty years ago so I'm a bit iffy on the details, but this sounds like Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. sorry, no, this is definitely newer I'd say probably released in the last couple (as in, two) of years
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Sep 1, 2022 23:17
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looking for an urban fantasy werewolf series a girl comes back home to her pack. i think her parents are dead and the pack leader is her uncle or something. i can't remember a lot about the plot, except there are lone wolves testing the boundaries of the pack's territory and the pack leader and his enforcer (the girl's former love interest, also a professor of english lit or something like that) deal with that in a bloody fashion. also sometimes tourists trespass but that is dealt with more politely (LOL).
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Hughlander posted:Pretty sure you have it a bit wrong but you mean 'Bitten' by Kelley Armstrong: yeah, thanks
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