Risingshadow: October 2026 Edition

For years, Risingshadow has been a place to discover books, follow upcoming releases, rate what you have read, and build a personal bookshelf. Today, we are taking one of our biggest steps forward in a long time. We are introducing Reading Insights, a new way to explore your reading history and the world of books within Risingshadow. The idea behind Reading Insights is simple: your bookshelf can be much more than a list of books you have read. As your reading history and ratings grow, they ... [read more]

For years, LitRPG built an enormous readership largely outside traditional fantasy publishing. Its biggest stories grew through self-publishing, web fiction, ebooks and audiobooks, gathering readers who were perfectly comfortable with experience points, character levels, skill trees and worlds governed by game-like rules. Now the publishing industry is paying much closer attention. What once looked like a highly specialized corner of online fantasy is increasingly appearing on the lists of ... [read more]

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Kristen Ciccarelli’s bestselling The Crimson Moth series is expanding in two directions at once. A television adaptation is now in development, while the fantasy romance series that began with Heartless Hunter and Rebel Witch will continue with two additional novels. For readers who thought Rune and Gideon’s story had ended with Rebel Witch, September has brought a rather dramatic reversal. Kristen Ciccarelli’s The Crimson Moth is being developed for television, with a pilot already ... [read more]

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Brian Jacques' Redwall series appears to have one final adventure left to tell. Orphans of Mossflower, a previously unpublished novel credited to Jacques, has surfaced in publishing catalog information with a September 2027 release. If the listing holds, it will become the 23rd and final novel in the Redwall series, arriving more than sixteen years after Jacques' death and the publication of The Rogue Crew. For a fantasy series that had effectively been considered complete since 2011, that ... [read more]

Rebecca Yarros is heading back to Basgiath this month, but not in the way readers waiting on the Onyx Storm cliffhanger might expect. Threshing Day will be published on September 29, 2026, bringing together thirteen stories from across the Empyrean world. Each returns to one of the defining moments in a rider’s life: the day a dragon chooses them. Xaden Riorson is confirmed to be among the characters featured. Thirteen stories, one very important day Anyone who has read Fourth Wing knows ... [read more]

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(Bobiverse #6)

Audible listeners agree! The “Bobiverse” series is “smart, funny and addictive,” “a love story to science fiction” and “my favorite series ever.” BOBIVERSE TO-DO LIST: · Determine who built a vast wormhole network–and why · Investigate mysterious, derelict alien spaceship · Crack faster-than-light travel · Help tens of thousands of refugees find a new planet · Confront a new threat from an old enemy · Figure out how to save the known universe from certain ... [read more]

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(Riftwake #1)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first book in a new, high-flying trilogy featuring the legendary Skyward Flight as they undertake a deadly intergalactic mission to explore a mysterious alien world. After decades of war against alien oppressors, the humans of the Defiant Defense Force are finally free. Yet for Arturo Mendez, leader of Skyward Flight, freedom isn’t what he thought it would be. His first postwar assignment seems simple: ... [read more]

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(Impossible Creatures #3)

The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Impossible Creatures series. Join Christopher and Anya on their next daring adventures in the magical Archipelago! It’s the Midsummer Feast on the Islet of Glimt, and on this magical moonlit evening, the word on everyone’s lips is bandits. Reports of masked men burning villages are spreading throughout the Archipelago, but worse is still to come: Christopher and Anya are ambushed and one of the people closest to them is ... [read more]

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(Alex Stern #3)

The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Hell is empty and all the devils are here… Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the ... [read more]

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(Weapons and Wielders #4)

In the aftermath of the Tournament of Sacred Swords, Keras and his companions are injured, exhausted, and on the run. After being pushed to their limits in the battle against Akadi, a malevolent demigod from another world, they’re pursued by numerous enemies with their own agendas. The greatest of these is Raizo, the Wielder of Cloudcutter, often believed to be the most powerful of the Six Sacred Swords. One of the leaders of the dragon-eating Tails of Orochi, Raizo is the swordsman who ... [read more]

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(Heir Duology #2)

The gripping conclusion to the action-packed, ruthless, and romantic fantasy duology that began with HEIR, from the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Sabaa Tahir. A falling empire. An ancient evil. A lost homeland. A lie that could destroy the world. In the crumbling Martial Empire, crown prince Quil Farrar and his aunt, Empress Helene, are losing a war against the vicious Kegari horde. Quil’s armies dwindle, his faith falters, and the woman he loves ... [read more]

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(Amber the Cursed Berserker #4)

Old plans continue & Old debts must be repaid… Having completed the challenge of the Shattered Tower, Amber finally meets its owner. The imprisoned Primordial Spirit who has been waiting for her. His motives are unknown and dangerous. And that’s just the beginning of the things awaiting her. An old friend is back, and he’s coming for vengeance, intending to settle their debts once and for all. He faced her at the start of her journey; he faced her once she learned the secret of the gods; ... [read more]

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(First Necromancer #4)

The Primordial of Entropy has arrived on Earth, and he’s here to… help? After some quick thinking by Hades and an evolution that has far-reaching consequences, Drew manages to position himself in a way that should make him appear neutral to the visiting Primordial. But in doing so, his relationship to The Baleful Lady is irrevocably changed. However, when the personification of Entropy decides Drew is due a ‘reward’, things start to get… weird. Whisked off to another continent, Drew is ... [read more]

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(The Stonewater Kingdom #2)

Rachel Gillig, the queen of gothic romantasy, returns with higher stakes, darker mysteries, and deeper longings in this gorgeous sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling sensation The Knight and the Moth. Aisling Cathedral is in ruins. Rodrick Myndacious, Bartholomew, and Maude Bauer are rumored to be dead—and the king has taken Sybil Delling as his bride. To show off their union and solidify his power over Traum, Benji proposes a series of tournaments throughout the hamlets. Captive and ... [read more]

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(The Sharded Few #3)

An age is ending. In the Frayed Lands, Salahi and Hollow refugees from Karath press on towards the ruins of the Winter Palace, hoping to claim the Light and join the ranks of the Sharded Few. But great forces are stirring in opposition: riftbeasts stalk the plains, the People of the Wind are unsettled, and a legion of the dead is gathering under the will of the Radiant Emperor. Heth Su Canaav must navigate both the treacherous politics of his new hold and the dangers that are closing in around ... [read more]

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(He Who Fights with Monsters #13)

The last time Jason Asano returned to Earth, it didn't go great. Isolated from his friends and forced to work with people who had betrayed him time and again, he had come perilously close to becoming worse than the monsters he fought. This time, no power on Earth can stop him. Bursting with cosmic power and with friends and allies at his back, the only thing stopping him from conquering the world is the fact that he doesn't want to, but that may well change. The Earth has problems, from ... [read more]

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(A Court of Thorns and Roses #6)

What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of ... [read more]

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(All the Skills #6)

Join Arthur and his dragon, Brixaby, as their hunt for more legendary cards continues in the sixth installment of this hit progression fantasy series, featuring a unique card-based magic system. [read more]

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(Spells, Swords, & Stealth #6)

Where does one hide from a vengeful god? That is the question set before the party of adventurers from Maplebark as they flee what remains of the Ardrane Estate. They need a place to shelter, to regroup, and to make preparations for the future. Fortunately, the party has a lead on just such a place, even if it is somewhat… unusual. At a university run by a goblin, the group discovers unusual lessons, buried secrets, and clues toward a mystery of their own. Yet all is not well on campus, as ... [read more]

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(Azarinth Healer #7)

Ilea has been fighting terrifying creatures of magic for a long time - now she’s become one of them. After her adventures on the deadly Krahen Isles, Ilea broke through and gained another question mark. However, while she worked on her Classes in the North, things did not remain idle on the Plains. The war with Baralia has come to an end, and with it the influence of one of the major Healing Orders of the world. More Orders are taking note of the rise of the Medic Sentinels. Conflict is ... [read more]

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(Blacktongue #2)

The Thrice-Bound Fool is the epic, rollicking next chapter in the bestselling and “awesome as hell” (Nicholas Eames) fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief. Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on him deciphering a very bad book indeed; a stolen, sentient tome that tries to kill him every time he opens it—and often when it’s closed. Galva, veteran ... [read more]

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(Bitten #2)

Welcome back to the Wolf Queen’s Court. Vanessa Hart is done being a victim. After the brutal winter massacre stole everything from her, she vows vengeance against her enemies once and for all—even if that means killing the boy she once loved... Vanessa bides her time playing the role of a docile subject. But beneath her mask, she sharpens her powers, embracing the werewolf within while weaving a complicated web of lies, betrayals, and alliances to topple the throne. Unfortunately, ... [read more]

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(Astra Academy #6)

Death Lord Umbriel. The Oblivion Gate. The final showdown in the abyssal hells… Gray Lexly and the rest of his class are tasked with the impossible. They must train themselves to dive into the deepest levels of the abyssal hells and face off against the last two remaining Death Lords who plot to invade the realm of the living. Fortunately, Gray and his classmates will have help from the god-arcanists of old. Together, they form a strike force to defeat the most powerful arcanists who dwell in ... [read more]

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(Villains #3)

The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from V.E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. The ExtraOrdinary of Merit City, a secret group of individuals gifted with a power connected to their manner of near-death experience, have been keeping a low profile, avoiding the ever-watchful eye of EON in the wake of the showdown with Marcella, Eli, and Serena. But when EON―and its relationship to the ... [read more]

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(RE: Monarch #4)

Discovery of a tragic death sends Cairn reeling from loss. Still grappling with the realities of a drastically different kingdom than the one he remembers, he resolves to uncover the connected mysteries, as well as the identities of the mortal individuals involved. But mortal threats are not the only dangers in store. As most gods have long since abandoned this world, there are still many great powers that roam the land uncontested. Some good, neutral, and others forged from the purest of ... [read more]

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