After being exiled to the farmland around her village, Rowan Northwood takes the only chance at freedom she might ever get: she runs away with a passing Knight and doesn’t look back.
The woman cares nothing for Rowan’s company, yet she’s the first person who isn’t repulsed by the powers that burn within her.
Just another overpowered necromancer, fresh out of the academy.
Jakub just graduated from the academy as a necromancer – a powerful mage who raises things from the dead. His instructors doubt he has what he takes to become overpowered, but he vows to prove them wrong.
On his first real assignment, everything goes wrong. Cut off from the protection of the academy and trapped in a hostile land, he’ll have to improvise to survive. Luckily, he lives in an RPG-like world, where his skills and magic are measured in numbers.
To survive, he needs to level up, learn new spells, and use them in creative ways. But can he succeed when he finds himself pitted against a hostile clan of mages, murderous monsters, and a rogue necromancer villain?
Some people say necromancers are overpowered. Well…his life depends on it.
With LitRPG/Gamelit/ western cultivation themes, The Necromancer series are 3 fun books about an academy necromancer trying to become overpowered while making sure he doesn’t go too far and slip into the underworld
Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile.
A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead–except that his estranged brother is involved, and the the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen, soldiers, and priests-and of the gods themselves…
REVIEWS:
‘ gripping mystery steeped in blood and ancient Aztec magic. I was enthralled.’ — Sean Williams
‘An Aztec priest of the dead tries to solve a murder mystery, and finds that politics may be even more powerful than magic. A vivid portrayal of an interesting culture in a truly fresh fantasy novel.’ — Kevin J. Anderson
In the magic-rich realm of Thay, an evil necromancer recruits the undead to his cause—a cause that will change the face of Faerûn forever
The realm of Thay has long been ruled by the uneasy peace of an alliance of wizards, but all along there has been one who believes he is the true master: the lich Szass Tam. The head of the School of Necromancy, Tam is ready to overtake the Red Wizards and and place himself as Thay’s sole ruler. When he finally moves against his former allies with an army of undead soldiers—from zombies to lichs to vampires—many fear that Thay is only the first of his many conquests.
Standing against him is the bard Bareris Anskuld and Aoth Fezim, a griffon rider and warmage. It falls to them to unite the wizards and citizens of Thay in a dangerous fight for their freedom, their survival, and their home.
Another trilogy in the same setting available here
John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war’s end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called “Barsoom” by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of Green Martians, or Tharks, as the planet’s warlike, six-limbed, green-skinned inhabitants are known. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs.
collected in three books
first here
second here
third here
Philip K. Dick Award Finalist
A “ridiculously fun” series debut “with a well-thought-out space opera setting and lots of fancy reveals”—from a Hugo Award winner (Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky).
A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology that could change the fate of humanity—or awaken an ancient evil that could destroy all life in the galaxy.
The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with news of First Alien Contact. When the crew informs her that humanity has alien allies already, she reveals that these are very different extra-terrestrials—and the gifts they bestowed on her could kill all humanity, or take it out to the most distant stars.
