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Try the Last Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey.
My books are a lot lighter and fluffier, with definite HEA vibes, but it doesn’t really have the strong psychological emotions you were looking for. My MC has a troubled past and is flawed, certainly, but he mostly rises above it all.
Hi there! You’d probably enjoy my books! They’re called The Incarnate Accounts and they’re m/m YA urban fantasy books about a reincarnating monster hunter who stops crimes being committed by mythological beings and falls in love with the guy who hires him. 3.99 ebook on Amazon!
You can also check out my website for cover art, more info, and other places to buy the books!
Thanks! I’m trying to get the word out there! Many others recommended on this list are great, too, so Happy Reading! 😊
Do you think that reading all the short stories in one of the bundled Amazon original collections (ex: Into Shadow or Black Star) counts as a book for the purposes of Bingo?
This might be a decent place to ask, although I can ask on the daily thread if you think that's better.
Would you consider Amazon's Original Stories collections, such as Into Shadow, which is being advertised with an AMA on the sub at the moment, HM for the Short Story square? Seven stories, all advertised as part of the 'collection', but Goodreads has them as part of a series.
They are talking about Into Shadow.
They authors of this collection aren't controversial at all. Garth Nix is borderline YA, lol. I don't think anything in this book is going to distract BookTok from the amount of Abuse and non-con 2HA is about to unleash on them.
If you like any of the authors of Into Shadow, they are doing a AMA on r/fantasy today!
I wrote The Enchanter! https://www.amazon.com/Enchanter-Journals-Evander-Tailor-Book-ebook/dp/B09VNDHW49
Book 2 is gonna be out in a few months, and I'll also start doing a unique project called Mana Mirror on my patreon once it's out!
Sorry, I think I misspelled it.
Fjoryn: A Rebel Rises by RJ Castiglione
It's not the best Progression Fantasy I've ever read, but it seems fairly professionally written and I know it is written by a gay man, so is good from an "own voices" perspective. It's LitRPG.
Hello everyone! I'm announcing my first novel, The Enchanter, by me (Tobias Begley). It's a Progression Fantasy novel with strong influences in Magical Academia, Sword and Sorcery, and Epic Fantasy. This is the novel's description:
Evan never thought he was going to be special. As the adopted son of a tailor, he had always expected to manage the shop after his father passed. But when his Aura awakens, he finds himself entering Yesgol Academy of Magic, a place filled with the children of elite mages and nobles, all of whom have had magical education from the time they could walk. Among such prestigious company, Evan will have to learn fast or be left in the dust and in debt. At Yesgol, he studies the arts of enchanting and divination, but all is not as it seems.
As Evan pushes forwards his skills as a mage to catch up with his peers, he finds himself entangled with a secret society for the reformation of magic, deals with the occasional extraplanar horror appearing in the shadows of the school, and catches the eye of a charming young noble who's been excommunicated from his family.
"There are so many excellent things I could say about The Enchanter, about how fresh its conflict is, how much fun the magic and setting are, but, in the end, the most important thing I can say about it? I stayed up late reading it until my eyes hurt, and then kept reading it anyways." - John Bierce, author of Mage Errant
Huge thanks to John Bierce, Bryce O'Conner, Phil Tucker, and Andrew Rowe for all of their help! I couldn't have done it without you all!
It's a new progression fantasy novel that I launched a week ago!
Here's the blurb:
Evan never thought he was going to be special. As the adopted son of a tailor, he had always expected to manage the shop after his father passed. But when his Aura awakens, he finds himself entering Yesgol Academy of Magic, a place filled with the children of elite mages and nobles, all of whom have had magical education from the time they could walk. Among such prestigious company, Evan will have to learn fast or be left in the dust and in debt.
At Yesgol, he studies the arts of enchanting and divination, but all is not as it seems. As Evan pushes forwards his skills as a mage to catch up with his peers, he finds himself entangled with a secret society for the reformation of magic, deals with the occasional extraplanar horror appearing in the shadows of the school, and catches the eye of a charming young noble who's been excommunicated from his family.
"There are so many excellent things I could say about The Enchanter, about how fresh its conflict is, how much fun the magic and setting are, but, in the end, the most important thing I can say about it? I stayed up late reading it until my eyes hurt, and then kept reading it anyways." - John Bierce, author of Mage Errant
I mean, if you see this, you've likely seen my post, but...
I'm announcing my first novel, The Enchanter, by me (Tobias Begley). It's a Progression Fantasy novel with strong influences in Magical Academia, Sword and Sorcery, and Epic Fantasy, with a gay male main character.
https://imgur.com/gallery/rPnjvnN
This is the novel's description:
Evan never thought he was going to be special. As the adopted son of a tailor, he had always expected to manage the shop after his father passed. But when his Aura awakens, he finds himself entering Yesgol Academy of Magic, a place filled with the children of elite mages and nobles, all of whom have had magical education from the time they could walk. Among such prestigious company, Evan will have to learn fast or be left in the dust and in debt.
At Yesgol, he studies the arts of enchanting and divination, but all is not as it seems. As Evan pushes forwards his skills as a mage to catch up with his peers, he finds himself entangled with a secret society for the reformation of magic, deals with the occasional extraplanar horror appearing in the shadows of the school, and catches the eye of a charming young noble who's been excommunicated from his family.
"There are so many excellent things I could say about The Enchanter, about how fresh its conflict is, how much fun the magic and setting are, but, in the end, the most important thing I can say about it? I stayed up late reading it until my eyes hurt, and then kept reading it anyways." - John Bierce, author of Mage Errant
Hello everyone! I'm announcing my first novel, The Enchanter, by me (Tobias Begley). It's a Progression Fantasy novel with strong influences in Magical Academia, Sword and Sorcery, and Epic Fantasy, with a gay male main character.
https://imgur.com/gallery/rPnjvnN
This is the novel's description:
Evan never thought he was going to be special. As the adopted son of a tailor, he had always expected to manage the shop after his father passed. But when his Aura awakens, he finds himself entering Yesgol Academy of Magic, a place filled with the children of elite mages and nobles, all of whom have had magical education from the time they could walk. Among such prestigious company, Evan will have to learn fast or be left in the dust and in debt.
At Yesgol, he studies the arts of enchanting and divination, but all is not as it seems. As Evan pushes forwards his skills as a mage to catch up with his peers, he finds himself entangled with a secret society for the reformation of magic, deals with the occasional extraplanar horror appearing in the shadows of the school, and catches the eye of a charming young noble who's been excommunicated from his family.
"There are so many excellent things I could say about The Enchanter, about how fresh its conflict is, how much fun the magic and setting are, but, in the end, the most important thing I can say about it? I stayed up late reading it until my eyes hurt, and then kept reading it anyways." - John Bierce, author of Mage Errant
Hello everyone! I'm announcing my first novel, The Enchanter, by me (Tobias Begley). It's a Progression Fantasy novel with strong influences in Magical Academia, Sword and Sorcery, and Epic Fantasy, with a gay male main character.
https://imgur.com/gallery/rPnjvnN
This is the novel's description:
Evan never thought he was going to be special. As the adopted son of a tailor, he had always expected to manage the shop after his father passed. But when his Aura awakens, he finds himself entering Yesgol Academy of Magic, a place filled with the children of elite mages and nobles, all of whom have had magical education from the time they could walk. Among such prestigious company, Evan will have to learn fast or be left in the dust and in debt.
At Yesgol, he studies the arts of enchanting and divination, but all is not as it seems. As Evan pushes forwards his skills as a mage to catch up with his peers, he finds himself entangled with a secret society for the reformation of magic, deals with the occasional extraplanar horror appearing in the shadows of the school, and catches the eye of a charming young noble who's been excommunicated from his family.
"There are so many excellent things I could say about The Enchanter, about how fresh its conflict is, how much fun the magic and setting are, but, in the end, the most important thing I can say about it? I stayed up late reading it until my eyes hurt, and then kept reading it anyways." - John Bierce, author of Mage Errant
Incarnate Accounts (there are 3 books) by Justin Schuelke. YA gay male protagonist, urban fantasy. Has ghosts, headless horseman, murder in book one, and graveyard features heavily in the second book, and demons in the third book which just released. Plus, they keep getting better as they go on, and the first one’s already good!
The Patron Wars, by Katrine Buch Mortensen! Really fun shapeshifter-centric progression fantasy in a Norse-inspired high magic world.
In terms of 'any others', my own series, The Patron Wars, is a more western progression fantasy story with a female lead. I would struggle to call it 'most popular' but it does fit what you're looking for.
For a bit more of a stretch, while Hugh is nominally the lead character, Mage Errant very much runs an ensemble cast with a pretty even gender distribution among the main cast.
I released a book called “Incarnate” recently that might be what you’re looking for. Here’s a link to Amazon, but you can buy it pretty much anywhere!
https://www.amazon.com/Incarnate-Book-One-Accounts-ebook/dp/B08Q7G54JT
It’s kind of a murder mystery but with monsters. Lots of twists, so I don’t want to say too much! 😊
I’m really happy with it, and it’s been getting good reviews. And I’ll be releasing the sequel in a few months, so if you like it, I’ll have more out soon!
Happy reading!
It’s already out, came out at Christmas! Here’s the Amazon link (but I also sell it on Kobo and Barnes and Noble if you need):
Plugging myself here, my debut novel The Spark has a protagonist with anxiety/autism issues that frequently comes to the surface and she isn't mocked for the fact.
To plug myself here: The Spark, my debut novel, follows a very average and in many ways not classically heroic character who finds herself swept up in a civil war. The position she occupies increases in importance, of course, but she is most certainly not a Chosen One and there are always bigger fish in the story dictating its course far more than she does.
I liked the Richard K Morgan 'grimdark' series, starting with The Steel Remains. It has a similar style to Abercrombie and Martin in that each chapter follows a specific character POV, and I would say it has similar grimdark themes to First Law or ASOIAF.
I think the blurb they use for the book is terrible, but here's a link to it on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Steel-Remains-Land-Fit-Heroes/dp/0345493044/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
If you liked The Captive Prince that suggests to me you like power imbalances in your stories. There is Magebound by Katica Locke. The Mating Habits of Werewolves was interesting. Trigger warning on those two. The latter is explicitly not a romance...more a deconstruction of some niche romance plots. You could search amazon for "Omegaverse".
If you just want fantasy with gay characters there is How To Make Friends And Not Incinerate People or The Chronicles of the Last Herald Mage.
>Kind of specific, Isekai nearly always either drops the MC straight into the new world, where the MC will be human since they were before, or they have the MC reborn as a monster with no choice whatsoever. I can't think of a single Isekai story, including anime, where the MC has a choice of their race except for the VRMMO ones.
Several people on this forum constantly complain the MC always selects "human" in ever story where there is a race selection option. (eg Mr_jon3s)
I've encountered a few with a race selection option. The Axe Druid, Fjorgyn: A Rebel Rises (Book 1), the truly terrible The Elf Collecter, The Halfwit Halfling.
Unbound had a "race selection" option that was blacked out.
Fjorgyn: A Rebel Rises isn't half bad outside of some typos. The village building doesn't really appear until the very end but what little appears sets up a really good promise for book 2.
I highly recommend Teresa Frohock's three Los Nefilim novellas (which are episodic/serialized, although each one resolves its individual story). You can get them separately (first is In Midnight's Silence) or collected into one edition. They're dark historical fantasy set in 1930s Spain, and pack an amazing amount of character development and plot into a short space.
Looking for a good book? How about one that's starting production as a web series? How about only $1.99 for 500 pages?
Riley Parra: Season One follows police detective Riley Parra and her lover, medical examiner Gillian Hunt, as they battle demons and angels on the urban streets.
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if the first book being written in 2010 doesn't disqualify it, The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan and it's 2012 follow up The Cold Commands are not only exactly what you are looking for, but exceptionally well written. + digging up those links made me realize there's a new one out from 2014, now that i know, that'll probably be the next book i read.
She has a TON of books, but I've noticed that her earlier books are better. I feel like she's trying to write more romance into her newer novels, which just isn't for me. The Last Herald Mage Trilogy is by far my favorite and it's the first fantasy series I recommend to people right off the bat.
- Riley Parra Season One
- 9.0/10
- Fantasy, Fiction, Occult & Supernatural
- This book series is what got me back into reading after a long time.
- Amazon link. Get it in paperback or kindle.