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Deston J. Munden

Goodreads Author

Born

in Elizabeth City, The United States

Website

https://djmunden.com/

Twitter

SrBuffaloKnight

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction

Influences

Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, Michael J. Sullivan, Patrick Rothfuss, ...more

Member Since

April 2018

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/srbuffaloknight

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Deston “D.J.” Munden is a fantasy and science fiction author, living near the Outerbanks of North Carolina. Somewhere in the vague realm of his late twenties and early thirties, he lives with his brother in a small house in the woods where he taught himself how to imagine and write down worlds with orcs, swords, and magic (and sometimes mutants and spaceships). When he’s not writing, he’s playing video games with his best buds, rolling horribly on multisided dice, eating double his weight in food, trying out new recipes, collecting samurai memorabilia and watching as much anime and reading as much manga as humanly possible (sometimes doing more than one of these things at once).

His current work includes the Dargath Chronicles novels and D ...more

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Deston J. Munden’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 1,850 ratings · 619 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife 3.88 avg rating — 1,641 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tavern (Dargath Chronicles, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dusk Mountain Blues (Dusk Orbit Blues, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duke's Brand (Dargath Chronicles #2) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duke's Brand: A Dargath Chronicles Novel by Deston J. Munden (Goodreads Author), Amanda Williams (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tavern it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Deston J. Munden

Dargath Chronicles (1 book)
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Dusk Orbit Blues (1 book)
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Quotes by Deston J. Munden (?)

“Adults sound so boring. All you do is work and mope around.”
― Deston J. Munden, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

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“He had decades left in this second life. He didn't have to fill them with purpose - he could waste them doing nothing.”
― Deston J. Munden, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

tags: cozy-fantasy, joy, pleasure

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“Life is more than just fixing your past mistakes.”
― Deston J. Munden, Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

tags: letting-go-of-the-past, life, mistakes, moving-on, regret

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