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Long Live the Soulless: An Epic Fantasy Villain Romance (Dark Maji Book 5) Kindle Edition

by Kel Carpenter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 897 ratings

Book 5 of 5: Dark Maji

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She died protecting the man she loved. She died by his hands.
On that blood soaked grave, vengeance grew.

Quinn Darkova leads a listless existence in the dark realm. As honored guest and beloved by Mazzulah, she wants for nothing. But when Risk enters the realm to save her, the dark god can’t resist a good bargain.

Lazarus is not the man he once was. Consumed by his own grief, he’s a beast whose sole motivation in life is getting revenge on the man who took Quinn from him. Fate isn’t done with either of them. There’s still one game left to play.

Winner takes all, and no matter the victor, the Sirian continent will never be the same again.

This is the fifth and final book in the Dark Maji series. This series must be read in order.

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About the Author

Kel Carpenter is a USA Today bestselling author and writer of all things fantasy.

Lucinda Dark is the pen name for USA Today bestselling author, Lucy Smoke. A writer of various genres, Lucy is a young adventurer with a lust for good characterization and unique protagonists.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083H1LWQ2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kel Carpenter LLC (July 3, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3049 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #262,053 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,603 in Dark Fantasy Horror
- #3,857 in Dark Fantasy
- #6,856 in Romantic Fantasy (Books)

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Kel Carpenter
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Kel Carpenter is a master of werdz. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s traveling the world, lovingly pestering her co-author, and spending time with her family. She is always on the search for good tacos and the best pizza. She resides in Maryland and desperately tries to avoid the traffic.
For subrights or media and film inquiries, please reach out to kel@kelcarpenter.com.
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Lucinda Dark, also known as Lucy Smoke for her contemporary romance, is a lover of books, good food, and animals. When she's not on a quest to find the perfect milkshake, she's carefully crafting her next story.
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4.5 Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2020

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Satisfying ending to a great series. I loved each and every book, and every character that came along the way, and though I'm happy that some of them got their happy endings, I was still sad about what had happened to Vaughn and Dominicus. I'm hoping that we get a bonus epilogue or book for Vaughn and Axe, because I was hoping they would end up together and it was left open ended. I wasn't a huge fan of Dominicus, but I wanted Lorraine to be happy with him, or to be happy with someone, so that sucked too, but I also love Risk and Draevan's ending, and how he is willing to wait for her until the day he dies. I'm not a huge fan of Risk and most of her POVs were boring, but I loved her and Draevan together, so I'm happy they get their happy.

Besides all that, Lazarus and Quinn are still my favorite characters, and I love how their personalities were consistent. They both grew, but Quinn was always a bada** and had no problem showing it, and had no problem putting anyone in their place. She was just always awesome. She did overshadow Lazarus at times, and I wish his powers could have been just a little more epic in the finale, but I'm also not mad that the women are the ones to save the day. I also wish we could have seen them get married, but that would have been out of character for them, I think I just wanted to finally see some sweeter moments from them where they would say I love you or something. Well, the hero technically did once, but I didn't get as much from the heroine. Either way, you can obviously tell how infatuated and obsessed they are with each other, so I wouldn't count out the day where possessiveness takes over and they finally decide to tie the knot, they do have forever after all.

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Angela

Best final book in a long, long time.

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020

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I quickly fell in love with Kel's work and waited, quite impatiently I might add, for this finale.
I'm accustomed to book series leaving you hanging, wanting for much more, killing off characters needlessly, or they just aren't wrapped up as well as they could have been...
This finale is none of those things. Sure there are a few characters that I'd love to read about, to know how things panned out in another couple years book time... but I am not left with the feeling that I need it. This is a series that if I put the books away and never read them again I would be content, because it ended extremely well. Huge kudos to the author(s), that is not something that happens often.

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Bambi_Unbridled

This is the end… of everything.

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022

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Binge complete! Long Live the Soulless it the culmination of the Dark Maji series, in which we have met mages, skeevs, raksasa, pirate queens, tree-dwelling warriors, and dark gods.

Our main couple, Quinn and Lazarus, are of the anti-heroine and anti-hero variety. Yet their darkness is no where near the level of the dark inside the champion of the light gods. {{{SHUDDER}}}. Quinn continues to work toward Lazarus’ ends, even while dead-ish. Sisterly devotion and a dark deal bring Quinn out of the dark realm to continue the light and dark gods’ chess game. Quinn remains the unapologetic and powerful anti-heroine that I have loved from the first book, which prompted this series binge. Her time spent with a dark god has only enhanced her devastating and determined personality, yet her heart still beats for one man - Lazarus.

After his devastating loss, and in the manner in which it was caused, Lazarus has released his inner demons (souls) to rampage while hiding himself away. Yet this is only losing him time to prepare for the war that is still raging, and preparing to march to his door. Finally, once he is ready for revenge against the one man who took his dangerous woman, will her coming back change his mind?

Soooo while I really enjoyed this series, I felt the ending was a bit anti-climactic. I loved the character development we got here for Risk, and Quinn’s psyche kept evolving to a more dangerous state. But I would have liked some more relationship development with Lazarus and Quinn, and I definitely felt like our villain got more of a fizzle than a bang in the ending. I do feel like there is an opportunity here a spin-off series (or two), and I haven’t looked yet to see if those are out there. But I have discovered a new author here and I am glad she has a backlist I can riffle through when I’m looking for a distraction.

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Brittney Luhman

A bit of a weak ending

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2022

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For such strong characters, I was disappointed by the ending. It felt almost rushed. Such an amazing build up and development of the plot - not necessarily a lot of development of some of the characters but enough to want to experience more of how they changed. It lacked a bit in sentiment. Not that any of the main characters cared much for sentiment to begin with! Which is what caused me to love this series.

It was a fresh take on over done tropes, a completely new play on the fantasy romance. And I’m impressed with how addictive it was for a genre that at times can feel redundant. This series is filled with surprises and actual relatable traumas and recovery from them. It gives depth and truth to them as well. Perhaps that’s what I loved the most. This is my second time reading it through, and I’m glad for it.

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2024

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I read this series over and over again I love how it all turn out Quinn and Neiss and all the players in the game .

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PanDDa

Really enjoyed this series

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2022

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There was lots of world building and characters. I finished the last three books in a day. Perfectly written with dark heroes and heroines. Numerous story lines and points of view that kept me intrigued. Really loved it

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Andy

Best series to take you out of a reading slump!

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020

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This series got me out of my reading slump after ACOTAR and TOG. It was a refreshing world to visit where the characters were flawed and in some cases cruel, yet had redeeming qualities that made them memorable. I loved Quinn and the fact that she embraced her cruelty and gave no apologies for what she was.

The only reason why I didn’t give this five stars was because I feel there was more to flesh out with Risk, the child soul eater, and Axe. All the characters had so many layers and complex feelings that this book could have been way longer to truly show their development. Especially with Risk. Her ascension just happened, like the build up wasn’t as exciting and Quinn’s was.

Still please pick up this series and read it. It will keep you entertained and invested.

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Kindle-Kunde

Happy End for the Vilians!

Reviewed in Germany on September 28, 2023

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This book series is so good! And our girl just geht's more powerful with every book

P.N.

Loved the final book

Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2020

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I think the author did a great job with this series. For me it was a bit rocky in book one but it took off quickly and really surpassed my expectations. Also, it was an interesting new look at Fantasy.

Jz

The perfect ending to a series I've loved

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2020

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I've loved this series from the very first book and this final book was EPIC! I love the way the authors bought everything together for a crescendo of an ending. The growth in all the characters from the very first book to where it finishes here has been my favourite about these books. I particularly loved Risk in this last book. Now normally the first main character I meet is where my preference will lie on favourite character. It is incredibly rare for me to be swayed to change my allegiance onto another character, particularly if they have not been in all the books. But, Risk just blew me away in this book, and whilst I'll always love Quinn, I think the development of Risk just made me love her more.
There were tears from me at the ending of this book. A war has come, and a war must be fought and we all know that not everyone will survive. But the authors did all of the characters justice whether they lived or didn't.
All I really want to say though is that this book was amazing and the journey the authors bought me along on with these books was scary at times but I loved it. Five stars from me.

Abe

Wow

Reviewed in Australia on February 3, 2021

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There is a realness to how emotions play out in this entire series that makes you sit back and just say wow.
I would so love to know Vaughn's story

GemmaxM

I'm sorry its ending, I loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2020

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Wow this series was just amazing and I'm so sorry to see it end. The characters both broke my heart and tore my soul open and took it to the dark realm but also brought me back and showed me the might of those who have the will to fight for themselves. I felt such sorrow in the last book where Quinn died and Lazarus went mad, but was Ecstatic when she arose and the game to end all games was still in play. I really enjoy this, it was very well written And I will definitely be reading more by these amazing authors, there was so much going on in this book love, life, death, resurrection, betrayal, new and enchanting characters and so much more. A must read series. But now to the dark realm I will return

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Long Live the Soulless: An Epic Fantasy Villain Romance (Dark Maji Book 5) Kindle Edition

She died protecting the man she loved. She died by his hands.
On that blood soaked grave, vengeance grew.