Fantasy Thriller Books

The best fantasy thriller book reviews. Fantasy thrillers are suspenseful tales in which a protagonist’s survival is threatened in a fictional, dystopian or magical universe.

Gorgons, a Wildly Imaginative Archeology Thriller by Ox Devere

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The Bottom Line: A wildly imaginative archeology thriller that makes Greek myth feel new and dangerous. Ox Devere’s third Ridley Samaras thriller has the kind of premise that sells itself: what if the myth of Perseus and Medusa was not myth at all? On a sun-blasted dig site above the Aegean, Gorgons wastes no time turning archaeology into danger. The breakthrough comes when Dr. Nasrin […]

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Talisman, a Captivating Time Travel Thriller by Tom Catalano

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The Bottom Line: Time travel meets archaeological suspense in this captivating tale of greed, conscience and the terrifying cost of second chances. As Talisman opens, American archaeology student John Shaw is digging in the heat of Antigua when his tool sinks into a hidden cavity beneath the sand. Inside is a human skeleton clutching a strange gold device. Supervising professor Henri Rutherford, despite his experience,

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No Home Without You, a Post-Apocalyptic Romance Thriller by Lena Gibson

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The Bottom Line: Love in a post-apocalyptic world rarely feels this exciting or dangerous. Lena Gibson delivers the goods in this dystopian romance.  In Lena Gibson’s No Home Without You, Earth has been remade by an asteroid strike, and human survival now depends on security and the difficult question of who gets protected when there are not enough resources to go around. Vita xTerra is

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Murder Under Redwood Moon, a Spellbinding Paranormal Thriller by Sherri L. Dodd

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The Bottom Line: A spellbinding small-town paranormal thriller where witchcraft and murder make deadly company.  Set in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, Murder Under Redwood Moon is the story of a spiritually attuned young woman whose quiet routines begin to fracture. Twenty-three-year-old Arista Kelly spends her time practicing witchcraft when she’s not working in the Earth & Ocean crystal shop. Troubling visions of an ominous tattoo, mounting unrest

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The Best Stephen King Audiobooks Ranked In Order (Updated for 2026!)

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Newly updated to include King’s newest story collection, Never Flinch! The reigning master of suspense is the author of more than 60 books and audiobooks, all of which have been international bestsellers, and many have been translated to the screen. The names are instantly recognizable:  It. Pet Cemetery. Misery. Thinner. All instant classics, and yet King’s craft seems to sweeten with age, with King still churning

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The Breaking of Time: Chronicles of the Arvynth by J.J. Hebert

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The Bottom Line: A winning blend of the supernatural and family adventure that crackles with heart and imagination. Five stars.  The Breaking of Time opens in a quiet New England suburb with a startling confession. Daniel Ward, devoted husband, father, and unassuming accountant, admits that the life he has built is a carefully constructed fiction. He is far older than he appears, and he has spent years

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Swallowing the Muskellunge, a Lyrical Historical Fantasy Thriller by Lawrence O’Brien

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The Bottom Line: A historical fantasy with teeth, told with startling elegance and lyricism. Swallowing the Muskellunge is the story of London Oxford, an ex-slave navigating a world where freedom can be threatened by violence, the whims of powerful men and forces he cannot name. London commits his family to a precarious northbound winter caravan of sleighs headed toward a “promised land” in what would

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666: The Devil I Knew, The Devil I Didn’t Know by Eliade Moldovan

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The Bottom Line: An unforgettable supernatural saga that deftly blurs fact and fiction into something truly original.  666: The Devil I Knew, The Devil I Didn’t Know is unlike any other book you’ll ever read. The concept was borne out of author Eliade Moldovan’s memoir about growing up in Romania during the Cold War. Like a songwriter creating an album, Moldovan prepared 41 stories for the original book, and on the advice

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Colony, a Shockingly Great YA Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: A shockingly great YA Sci-Fi thriller that earns its suspense and pays it off repeatedly. Highly recommended for any sci-fi fan.  At a time when establishing an outpost on Mars seems more plausible than ever before, Ron Wolff’s Colony opens – appetizingly so – with a detailed schematic diagram of Hellas Station, a base for human colonization and scientific exploration. What follows next is

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Miles in Time, a Dazzling YA Sci-Fi Thriller by Lee Matthew Goldberg

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The Bottom Line: A dazzling and poignant exploration of time, memory and the fragile courage of youth. Miles in Time opens as Miles Hardy, a 14-year-old aspiring detective living in the sleepy town of Frontier, Iowa, is jolted awake by a bang that seems to fracture reality itself. Dreaming of melting clocks — a clever nod to Salvador Dalí and the book’s time-centric themes — he awakes to find the acrid scent

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