Name: Pigs Get Fat
Rating: 4.07 (67 reviews)
Author: Warren Murphy

Castle Kingside (Rewrite)

★ 4.66

Gennon Asche

A puzzling encounter leaves Dimitry a beggar with a strange emblem on his wrist. Around him, people suffer as ruthless organizations, opportunistic nobles, and an overly pious church vie for power in a medieval land under constant siege by stone monstrosities rampaging from the coasts.

Can a kindhearted surgeon aid this ailing world with modern knowledge, resourcefulness, and magic? Or will rival powers crush Dimitry first?

A fiction that starts brutally grim and eventually transitions into technology uplift with a focus on science, magitech, and town building.

Warning: Technical terms abound.

Cover art by AbsolutePower.

Amelia Thornheart

★ 4.73

Keene

After years of fighting a terrible disease, Amelia finds herself transported into a mysterious world, right into the quarters of a demon captain! Free from her years of suffering, Amelia decides to face this new reality with optimism and cheerfulness!

Strangely, she seems to have a new body, retaining all the abilities of her game character she spent years levelling in the hospital! However, wasn't that character a demonic combat mage? Who's this pretty blond woman she's become!?

Well, never mind! Better not let the demons know of her titanic combat capabilities, instead maybe her modest healing abilities could be provided as a service? Hang on, I'm not a spy, or an assassin!

[WILL NEVER BE STUBBED] [Cover art by SnowfredeL]

Series Discord: https://discord.gg/YnvN9UKBHp

Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion

★ 4.54

melmonella

One woman's quest for freedom and justice through lying, engineering, friendship and mind games.

In a world of immortals and demon beasts, of spiritual energy and cultivation, where a modern empire seeks to break old blood debts and dispel superstitions, bring peace and equality among species and peoples, and resist the Heavens that smite all those who step out of line - one Qian Shanyi, a young cultivator, is drawn into the orbit of a classical xianxia protagonist, whose luck is so great it gushes out of his ears.

Can she survive, thrive, and ascend into Heavens like a phoenix, with nothing more than her cunning and tenacity as tools?

It starts with engineering and turns into tax evasion, but at the heart of it one question: cultivation is the ultimate freedom, but what does freedom mean when the Heavens hold all the cards?

Tags: Female lead, pocket dimensions, "The Martian"-style engineering, mindgames, xianxia, philosophy, civics in a xianxia world, opposition to "might makes right"

What to expect:

Complex motivations and characters with varied perspectives

Looking at various xianxia tropes through a different lens

Rebelling against the Heavens, and what it means to be a cultivator

Complex xianxia world that isn't built on "might makes right"

Civics of a xianxia empire dealing with living weapons

A lot of problem solving and mind games

Complex and detailed magic system

Engineering, politics and economics of sect building.

What not to expect:

Isekai, blue boxes, etc

Misery porn (protagonist laughs in the face of problems)

Romance

Infernal Investigations

★ 4.65

saithorthepyro

Murder. Machines. Diabolism. Biosculpting. Tea!

Malvia was once an Infernal of the Black Flame gang, a member of the Empire’s most despised race serving in one of its most infamous criminal enterprises. But that’s all in the past now. One faked death later, and she’s been living the last few years as Katheryn Falara, a slightly sketchy alchemist operating under the nose of the law.

And business is booming. With the Anglean Empire's nobility constantly scheming against each other, both magic and machine benefiting from her skills, and an ever-expanding kingdom full of rare ingredients, Malvia's been content to sit on the sidelines and make a tidy sum of cash.

However, a rash of poisonings among the noble heirs make her behind-the-scenes role impossible. Elements of a life she wanted to leave behind keep resurfacing, and soon she’ll find herself at the center of a web of intrigue. It’s either figure out the web or be trapped by it forever.

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Underland

★ 4.7

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

Underland is now available on Kindle and Audible!

Once, the sun shone brightly on Azlant. Until came the Whitemoon, to steal mankind's light and condemn it to eternal darkness.

Valdemar Verney is a sorcerer with a dream: to find a new world for his people to settle, one where the sky isn't a ceiling made of stone. But in the underground empire of Azlant, dissent is never tolerated. Brought before one of the undead Dark Lords, Valdemar is offered a choice he cannot refuse. Meanwhile, the swordswoman Marianne Reynard is given a mission: to investigate a dead cult with a few mysteries left to unravel.

Both are looking for the truth, though they might regret finding it; for many cultists, monsters, and cosmic horrors stand in their way. They'll just have to kill them all.

Cover by Vitaly S. Alexius.

Bloodsworn Eternity, Vow Across Lifetimes

★ 5.0

pangmida

In the grim shroud of Velisandria, where the streets at night are roamed by creatures of bloodlust, Elise Whitefield is more a relic than a woman—her father’s masterpiece, the Porcelain Doll of Duskmoore.

Forged in the cold fire of duty, her heart has been a locked casket since girlhood. Now, she knows nothing beyond obedience: protect the realm, slay the night, and guard the borders of Duskmoore where the forest hungers just beyond the treeline. To the world, she is perfection frozen in time, feeling nothing, wanting nothing.

But even the sharpest blade can falter.

When the elegant and mysterious Duke Ravencourt enters her life, her heart begins to waver. Where she is ice, he is the flame of a candle in a sepulchre. In his presence, the casket of her heart begins to tremble, and a long-dormant warmth threatens to thaw the perpetual winter within.

Now, Elise stands at the precipice of her own soul.

Will she remain her father’s flawless weapon, eternal and untouched?

Or will she shatter her own iron prison and allow a forbidden love to teach her how to live again?

And so begins another life...
Another story...
And the same vow across lifetimes.

Cover art by: me

Assassin in a Superhero World: Progression Fantasy LitRPG

★ 4.9

LividEmperor

Leona’s life plan: naps and snacks. Dad’s plan: job or college. To stall him, she signs up for a hero academy exam fully intending to fail—then the universe says “plot twist.”

Hogwarts: Harry Becomes a Girl

★ 4.5

windkaze

Lynn, a boy with subtle psychic powers and a strange pocket that creates magical items, lives cautiously while helping others in secret. After meeting the lonely and struggling Harry, he offers him a single enchanted cookie. That night, Harry eats it—and an unexpected change begins, pulling both of them into a fate far different from the ordinary world.

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