Books Like Powder Mage
After a coup topples a king, a powder mage field marshal faces royalist plots, foreign armies and a god threatening to return.
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Mistborn
Under an ash-choked sky ruled by a god-king for a thousand years, a street thief learns to burn metals for power. She joins a crew planning the impossible heist of the Final Empire.
Lightbringer
The Prism, who wields every color of light, hides a secret, while his newly discovered son must learn the magic and survive the war.
The Stormlight Archive
On a storm-scoured world, a slave-soldier, a scholar and a guilt-ridden assassin take up the oaths of the broken Knights Radiant as an ancient enemy returns.
The Drenai Saga
An aging axeman, Druss the Legend, and other heroes of the Drenai stand against impossible odds at fortresses like Dros Delnoch.
The Demon Cycle
Demons rise from the ground each night and only magic wards stand between them and humanity. A boy determined to fight back becomes a legend.
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Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.