High Fantasy

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the real, or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent but its rules differ in some way(s) from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or "real" world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements. ...more

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Hemlock & Silver
Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)
Mistress of Bones (Mistress of Bones, #1)
The Deathless One (The Gravesinger, #1)
Scorched Earth (Dark Shores, #4)
While the Dark Remains (The Winter Dark, #1)
Voidwalker (Beasts of the Void, #1)
The Bone Raiders (The Rakada, #1)
Yuli (Guardians of Dawn, #3)
Eternity's Blade
Lady Dragon
The Last Soul Among Wolves (The Echo Archives, #2)
The Art of Legend (War Arts, #3)
The Damned King (Eidyn, #3)
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)
Metal Slinger (Fire & Metal, #1)
Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1.5)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
Fate of the Sun King (Artefacts of Ouranos, #3)
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3)
Blood Over Bright Haven
A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)

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Lord James did not know whether to feel proud of his daughter or throttle her. He had managed to collar her quietly among the guests at the Shinar manor, and they were alone together in the Lord Steward’s library. He ordered her to a sofa in front of a ceiling-high bookcase. Helen heard the same hard quality in his voice that she had perceived the first time they spoke together. She swallowed hard. He was not in a mood to be trifled with or flouted. “You dress and behave modestly enough, Lieuten ...more
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That’s right. A halfblood. A halfblood with the skills and the talent to fight alongside the best. They’d all seen her. Who were the Hunters to turn her down after that? They wouldn’t dare.
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