18 books like Kingdom of Ash

What to read after Kingdom of Ash — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 463p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Celaena Sardothien owes her reputation to Arobynn Hamel. He gave her a home at the Assassins' Guild and taught her the skills she needed to survive. Arobynn's enemies stretch far and wide - from Adarlan's rooftops and its filthy dens, to remote islands and hostile deserts. Celaena is duty-bound to hunt them down. But behind her assignments lies a dark truth that will seal her fate - and cut her… Shares: [series:Throne_of_Glass], Assassins, Young Adult

The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 848p · ≈ 28h · Moderate A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden… Shares: Queens, Imaginary places, Assassins, Magic

Fields of wrath Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Moderate "Nearly two decades ago, Mickey Zucker Reichert introduced fantasy readers to her greatest creation--the Renshai, a race of warriors who lived for battle and swordcraft, and who began training in the art of war from the moment their fingers could grasp a weapon. Set in a world enriched by Norse mythology, Mickey's first two trilogies about the Renshai--The Last of the Renshai and The Renshai… Shares: Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles

Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson · 2012 · ★ 4.8 · 1088p · ≈ 36h · Moderate The eagerly awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Way of Kings. Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Now the Assassin is… Shares: Guerres et batailles imaginaires, Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

Ringworld Larry Niven · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subsequent sequels: 1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The Ringworld… Shares: Guerres et batailles imaginaires, Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles

Before They Are Hanged Joe Abercrombie · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown… Shares: Guerres et batailles imaginaires, Imaginary wars and battles

The Alloy of Law Brandon Sanderson · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are… Shares: Imaginary places, Magic

The Big Time Fritz Leiber · 1958 · ★ 3.2 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Moderate From back cover Ace paperback December 1982: This is war: The biggest, longest war that anyone could imagine. The soldiers are recruited at the moment of death to fight through all of time. The goal is to change the past, and insure victory in the future. The Change Winds are blowing. Welcome to the Big Time. "Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to be bringing… Shares: Guerres et batailles imaginaires, Imaginary wars and battles

Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb · 1997 · ★ 4.3 · 757p · ≈ 25h · Moderate From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from… Shares: Imaginary places, Assassins, Magic

The invasion of the Tearling Erika Johansen · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of Mortmesne, she crossed the Red Queen, a brutal ruler whose power derives from dark magic, who is sending her fearsome army into the Tearling to take what is hers. And nothing can stop the invasion. Shares: Queens, Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy · 1983 · ★ 4.4 · 720p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Terrorists attack the USSR, they respond by attacking western Europe to replace the oil assets destroyed by the terrorists. Who will win? Shares: Guerres et batailles imaginaires, Imaginary wars and battles

Ship of Destiny Robin Hobb · 2000 · ★ 4.4 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Robin Hobb has established herself as one of the masters of fantasy fiction And nowhere is that more apparent than in this powerful, poignant, swashbuckling epic of treachery, heroism, and humanity. The rousing conclusion to the Liveship Traders trilogy, Ship of Destiny is the spellbinding story of a once-thriving city now reduced to shambles by raging war and rampant greed; of a glorious and… Shares: Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2) Robert Jordan · 1990 · ★ 4.3 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Now in development for TV! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age,… Shares: Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 1245p · ≈ 41h · Moderate The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, at the top of his game In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe whose numbers are as great as their thirst for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi… Shares: Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · ★ 4.6 · 1204p · ≈ 40h · Moderate Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches,… Shares: Imaginary places, Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

Dragons of Spring Dawning Margaret Weis · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Dragons. Creatures of legend. Stories told to children. But now dragons have returned to Krynn. The darkness of war and destruction engulfs the land. Hope dawns with the coming of spring. Armed at last with the dragonlances, the heroes lead the people in the final desperate battle against the dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-elf, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage; they… Shares: Queens, Imaginary places

Queen of Shadows Sarah J. Maas · 2015 · ★ 4.9 · 672p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past... She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her… Shares: Queens, Assassins, Magic

Dragonfly falling Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Sequel to Empire of Black and Gold. The Wasp Empire's armies are on the move - and the city of Tark will be the first to feel their might. Salma and Totho prepare for battle, alongside their Ant-kinden brethren. And within Tark's walls, they'll face a force greater than any Lowlander has ever seen. Stenwold Maker predicted this threat, and the Empire's secret service now deems him too dangerous… Shares: Imaginary wars and battles, Magic

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