![]() ![]() Larger monsters are known as bogles, smaller ones are called nickers. The waters and the land between city-states are populated with an assortment of monsters, forever at war with humankind. The Haacobin Empire consists of several city-states linked by roads, rivers, canals and surrounded by the Vinegar Seas, caustic waters where man cannot survive. The land is called the Half-Continent and the orphanage, Madam Opera’s Estimable Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, is in the city-state of Boschenberg. In a world where humans and monsters co-exist, who are the good, the bad and the ugly? That’s the problem facing our young hero Rossamünd as he finally leaves the orphanage which raised him and sets out to become an apprentice in his new trade in this first book of the ‘Monster Blood Tattoo’ trilogy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The marketing copy for this novel calls it a “fantasy romance,” but I don’t think that’s accurate. (I’m not sure why, because I do like podcasts, but I don’t like audiobooks very much.) Since romance fantasy is not thick on the ground, I will Hoover up anything that even seems subgenre-adjacent. I was squee-level excited when her Audible original fantasy novel for adults, The Bridge Kingdom, was released on Kindle earlier this year. Jensen since her debut novel, Stolen Songbird, which is about a beautiful songstress who is stolen away to live under a mountain with trolls and gets married to a very dreamy troll prince. The fact that I enjoyed the book quite a lot until that point made my disappointment even more intense. The Bridge Kingdom started out incredibly strong, but things that happened in the last 15% or so of the book soured the reading experience for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() I keep reading books that are very hard for me to grade, because I have conflicting reactions to them. Theme: Arranged Marriage, Enemies to Lovers, Political Genre: New Adult, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy ![]() ![]() ![]() Woodall would read the early pages to his sons, Dave, then six, and Chris, nine, before bedtime. "It is a wonderful feeling, just overwhelming." "I am like a rabbit in the headlights," the 47-year-old Woodall said. Its promoters have compared it to Watership Down, the classic children's story by English novelist Richard Adams. His sweeping story centres on a lone robin's fight to save a world called Birddom from hordes of evil magpies. It really only started as a bedtime story and the boys wanting it night after night made it develop so much." "I don't think I could possibly get used to this, it's just skyrocketed beyond all expectations but it's wonderful," he said. Woodall admits he is overwhelmed by his new-found fame and fortune. ![]() It is generating the sort of hype normally reserved for big names like Harry Potter author JK Rowling. A British supermarket manager who wrote a fairytale as a bedtime story for his children has sold the film rights to the Walt Disney company for $1 million.Īfter 11 years of writing and more than 30 rejections from publishers, Clive Woodall's novel, One for Sorrow: Two for Joy, has been published in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Local anesthesia didn’t work well on angels. Wraith, like all five of the Sem siblings, was extremely protective of his mate and offspring.Įidolon took Reaver’s shirt and tossed it to Sin. “The third lasher tried to decapitate my mate.” Wraith shrugged in his beaten-to-hell leather duster. “I only needed two lasher thyroid glands. “I had to kill three lashers for those, so treat them well.” The tiny objects inside clinked as the container met Eidolon’s palm. “You know what I mean.”Įidolon gestured to Wraith, who tossed him a glass vial. “I hate to tell you this,” Eidolon said as he gloved up, “but what I’m doing now is helping you. “I know your charm will keep you safe from most dangers in Sheoul, but if word gets out that any of you helped me, Underworld General itself will be a target for Satan’s minions.” But no, I won’t put any of you at risk.” He held up a hand to stop Wraith from saying what Reaver knew he was going to say. “Wraith has a neon arrow pointing to his little pin head, but your Heavenly bullies won’t recognize the rest of us.” ![]() ![]() It was time for them to enjoy their lives with their new families. ![]() Besides, they’d been through enough in the last few years. ![]() |