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Blog Tour: After the Fall – D.M. Simmons

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We’re going back to the beginning when the first angels fell…

This special omnibus includes both books in the After The Fall duet—the story of Dante and Diablo, fallen angels, bound since The Fall—as well as bonus content previously unreleased. A fresh, new taken on fallen angels unlike any out there, readers call it “super-hot with all the tingles,” a “fascinating enemies to lovers tale, “a story that is “as swoony as it is steamy,” and “a whirlwind, with twists that come at you!”

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After the Fall: The Duet of Dante & Diablo

Genre: Spicy Fantasy Romance

❤️‍🔥Spicy Fantasy Romance
❤️‍🔥Fallen Angels
❤️‍🔥Enemies to Lovers
❤️‍🔥Found Family
❤️‍🔥Soul Mates

Dante

What courses through me, if not the need for desire and corruption?
It is after all, what I am.
Daemon. The worst of The Fallen.
And my job is clear.
Secure fealty from the Undecided to whom we are bound.
Diablo has not wavered in five thousand years.
And I not only wanted her on our side. I will stop at nothing to make it happen.

Diablo

What will I become if I swear my fealty and surrender to the dark?
It is not who I once was.
I may no longer be an angel, but I will be Undecided until the end of time.
Dante doesn’t intimidate me. Not anymore.
The fire that drives him, is now alive in me.
I’ve been paying since The Fall. And I’m done paying in blood and tears.
I will break myself from our bond. And will stop at nothing to make it happen.

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About the Author

D.M. Simmons is an award-winning author of adult and new adult fiction. She is passionate about creating atmospheric worlds and telling captivating stories that take readers on an adventure. Fascinated by the indelible power of love, romance is usually at the heart of her stories, along with the narrator’s journey. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, sons and crazy cats.

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My thoughts: this was an interesting (and spicy) take on the story of angels turned demons after the Fall from Heaven. Dante and Diablo are in a way two sides of the same coin, both somewhat tormented and trapped together, unable to break free and be themselves. Dante is essentially meant to get Diablo to swear allegiance to the dark side, their fight is centuries old and both are driven to a sort of despair by it but at the same time drawn towards one another.

This special edition brings both books together with additional materials and it is rather beautiful (I was only sent an ebook but I went and had a look at the gift set – see link above) and if you enjoy reading this and want something to treasure, then I say go for it!

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Storm and Flame – Mallory Wanless

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Elena has always been a disappointment to her mother, the headmistress of the country’s best school for magic. On her sixteenth birthday, she is expelled by her mother, and she and her familiar are turned out in the cruel world of the magept (the magically inept normies).

Quinn is a thief, a hunter, and a hothead. His unexpected friendship with Elena brings out a fiery side of him that he didn’t know he had, including uncovering magical abilities no one thought were possible since men weren’t supposed to be capable of magic.

With Quinn’s help, Elena creates a safe new life as a barmaid at a small inn. But when a group of drunken men attack Elena, her magic awakens with shocking ferocity. Elena’s explosion of magic creates a power surge that reaches the mountain where her mother runs the world from her magic school, and investigators are sent to uncover the source of the power surge.

With investigators now on their heels, Elena and Quinn are on the run. The awakening of their powers kickstart a prophecy and send the two teens on a quest to save all the magic in the world from being destroyed by the turmio, a sentient black cloud that’s been created to absorb and erase all magic and magical beings from their world.

Content warning: the story mentions incidents of child abuse, sexual assault, and birth trauma. May not be suitable for some readers.

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Mallory lives in Texas with her husband and their two young boys. She spends her days homeschooling and full-time parenting. Her nights, and any free time she manages to carve out during the day, are devoted to reading and writing.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Starlight Jewel – E.L. Lyons

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

The human city of Minalav is renowned for its lavish balls, where nobles bring wealth from distant lands to the Starlight Palace, to be romanced—and robbed—by the half-human hybrids who live below the city. The wealthy guests leave without their treasure, and with no memory of their evening—except the unforgettable feelings that bring them back, season after season. But the magic of Minalav is built on dark secrets and lies.

Axly, a hybrid assassin and seductress-thief, will do anything to protect her human half-brother. The path of blood and chaos she carves will tip the precious balance of Minalav, and the world around it.

https://www.LyonsPen.com/books for more info on the world and characters!

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Reader and writer of dark adult SFF, feeder of cats and raccoons, hermit of the suburban swamp.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Queen and Conqueror – Isabelle Olmo

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

In this gripping epic fantasy, a young woman desperate for peace decides to marry the king who killed her husband, setting off a chain of events that will test her strength, resilience, skill, and determination. With a richly imagined world and complex characters, Queen and Conqueror is a must-read for fans of fantasy, adventure, and feminist literature.

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Isabelle Olmo was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was raised on a diet of 1980s fantasy films and Sweet Valley High. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in English Literature. She has a passion for storytelling, blending genres, and travel. Queen & Conqueror was her debut novel.

You can follow her on Instagram @isabelleolmobooks and Tiktok @isabelleolmo

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Book Blitz: The Lost Daughters – Viola Tempest

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The Lost Daughters Trilogy is a brand-new, never-released, Asian fantasy trilogy featured first on Kickstarter. Each book stars a different princess of the Jinu Kingdom, betrayed and thrown out by her very own father, the king of Jinu, just because she wasn’t born a son. But what happens when a son is finally born and becomes the king’s biggest nightmare? This campaign features a stunning deluxe edition omnibus with all the trimmings!

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The rules of China dictate that sons reign supreme…

The Forgotten Daughter

Born a daughter into the kingdom of Jinu, Xiuying knows nothing but rejection and betrayal, even as a young child.

She is left forgotten and raised by maids while her parents, disgraced by her gender, tells the rest of the kingdom that she’s dead, when the only thing she wants is love.

And eventually, her father and king, Qianfan, sends her away to an abandoned island… to die.

The Broken Daughter

Xiaofan, the princess of Jinu, thinks she has it all.

Her parents love her. Her father gives her everything she’s always wanted.

But then her parents have another child.

And Xiaofan feels her entire world crumbling beneath her.

It’s time for her to become an orphan and pretend like she’s never been part of the kingdom.

The Righteous Son

After years and years of trying, the kingdom of Jinu has been blessed with a son!

However, disappointment ensues when Qianfan realizes that Jinhai is nothing like him.

That he’s weak, emotional, and unfit to be a king.

A shame to the family name.

The only way for Jinhai to prevent his father from destroying the kingdom with his conniving mother is to fight and take down the king for good.

But he’ll need the help of his sisters.

With their combined powers and fury, are the siblings strong enough to take down the monster who made their lives a living hell?

Or will the dictator of Jinu continue to reign supreme and destroy anyone else who comes in his way?

Kickstarter investors will receive a 5×8″ 500+ page book that includes:

  • Blue faux leather and gold foil hardcover
  • Stenciled edges
  • Gorgeous gold foil reversible dust jacket
  • Color front-end sheet map
  • Color back-end sheet illustration
  • Beautiful deluxe interior layout
  • color interior illustrations
  • Hand-signed by Viola Tempest
  • Smyth-sewn binding

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About the Author

Viola Tempest is a dystopian fantasy and paranormal romance author who yearns to expose the truth of those in the modern world: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Her inspiration primarily stems from life experiences, those who annoy her, ex-boyfriends, and the crazy dreams that pop into her head every once in a while.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Poison Forest – Lauri Starling

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

There has been a string of disappearances in the Triumvir of Corundum. Someone is stealing royal children, and Thedra’s childhood sweetheart Dette, the princess of a neighboring kingdom, is the latest to go missing.

When Thedra suspects the sorcerer she blames for her mother’s death is behind Dette’s disappearance, she refuses to let him harm anyone else. She sets out with the help of a dashing soldier and a secretive servant girl to find and rescue Dette before it’s too late.

Thedra would do anything to stop the disappearances and save her friend–even cross a cursed forest that brings her nightmares to life. But one of her companions is hiding something, and the forest seems to want her dead. To defeat the sorcerer’s twisted magic, she must face her worst fears and risk losing what she wants most: the freedom to love who she chooses.

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Lauri Starling writes historical romance with LGBTQ+ rep under the pen name L.S. Young. Poison Forest is her first published young adult fantasy.

She lives in Central Florida and loves to garden, read, and spend time with chosen family. She is an outspoken member of the neurodiverse and ex-evangelical communities.

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Blog Tour: The Yawning Gap – C.V. Vobh

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For fans of swords and sorcery! Check out The Yawning Gap by C.V. Vobh!

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The Yawning Gap (The Wanderers Cycle Book 1)

Publication Date: June 2023

Genre: Epic Fantasy

A catastrophe a thousand years ago divided the world into isolated Fragments, eventually driving most of humanity back to a premodern lifestyle. Since then, an unexplained blight has been spreading, and strange and monstrous creatures have arisen in its midst.

Cor, the son of a whisky distiller, doesn’t know about any of this. His peaceful little village has been isolated for hundreds of years—until he finds a way out, wandering into another Fragment. It’s rather less peaceful. But with the help of Brayleigh—a spritely redhead teen he soon befriends, who is a bit wiser to the ways of the world—maybe our sheltered whisky stillman can survive and, in time, make his way back home.

Celeste has not been so sheltered. Her family was murdered by orks at age 8; she left the Academy at 18 to travel with a merchant caravan; and now, she’s the orator for the new leader of the People’s Commonwealth. Everything she’s dreamt of is finally in reach … so why does it feel farther away than ever?

Deliad, the Knight-Lord of Norvester—the former kingdom replaced by the Commonwealth—would like nothing better than to confront those responsible with the edge of his halberd, Celeste included. But, with his small band of former knights stuck hiding in remote hills and half-starving, it’s looking increasingly unlikely he’ll ever get the chance.

Nothing could be further from their minds than the workings of a Warlock a thousand miles away, and his obsessive decade-long pursuit of vengeance. Yet as fragmented as this world is, it’s also a small one. Will the hand of vengeance reach them across a thousand miles? … Or will they, perhaps, reach him first?

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About the Author

C.V. Vobh lives with his wife and children as far from his city job as he can manage. He grew up reading J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Raymond E. Feist, and R.A. Salvatore, and some of his favorite authors today are Joe Abercrombie and Matt Dinniman. When he’s not working, writing or reading, he’s running.

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BBNYA Semi-finalists: Old Wizard’s Home – D.G. Redd

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This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Rodius Drach, the most evil and villainous wizard to have ever lived, has languished in the old wizards home for ten thousand years. Yet he is nothing but patient, and awaits the time of his inevitable return, when he will once again rain havoc and ruin upon The Three Kingdoms and rise as its dark ruler. Now his arch nemesis, the white wizard Delavar Godson is planning an escape. Will Rodius team up with his sworn rival? Will he once again summon his black army to torment the land and bring forth a dark age?

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D.G. Redd writes fantasy and science fiction. His fantasy is heavily inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, whereas his science fiction is influence by Iain M Banks and Kevin J Anderson.

While he writes speculative fiction now, D.G. Redd grew up reading thrillers and horror. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, and Tom Clancy are the inspiration behind Redd’s fast paced writing. Wilbur Smith, Eddings, Tolkien, and Hobb showed him the magic of fantasy and multi-novel story lines.

He resides in Sydney, Australia and firmly believes that all the voices in his stories have Australian accents.

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Blog Tour: Who is Anna Stenberg? – Tracey Norman

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Tracey has written fiction for as long as she can remember, covering a variety of genres and subjects. She is currently enjoying success with her first stage play WITCH, a historical drama based on original English witch trial transcripts, which premiered in 2016 and has been performed continuously ever since. It has been used as Theatre In Education for Years 8 and 9 and for Exeter University undergrads and has been included as a formal seminar in two Bristol University undergrad degree courses – ‘Witchcraft’ and ‘History Outside the Box’. Its 75th performance was also its London premiere.

Tracey’s most recent publication was ‘Dark Folklore’ (2021), co-written with her husband Mark, and she has several other titles currently in progress, one of which is a non-fiction expanding on the research she undertook to write WITCH. She has written regular folklore columns for the Dartmoor newspaper The Moorlander, and is an active member of the Exeter Authors Association, a network providing support to writers and promoting a love of books and reading.

When she is not writing, Tracey can be found behind a microphone, as one of the voices behind Devon-based indie audio production house and theatre company Circle of Spears Productions. She is a freelance narrator on Audible and has a sizeable list of stage, TV and film credits. She gives talks to a variety of groups on historical subjects such as witchcraft and early modern medicine. She doesn’t relax often, but when she does, it generally involves reading, coffee and her slightly unhealthy obsession with sock yarn. She, Mark and their daughter live near the edge of a forest in mid Devon with a feline trip hazard.

My thoughts: our unnamed narrator – who later adopts the name Viktor, is running away from her dangerous father, escaped from an asylum. She runs into the mysterious Anna Stenberg while disguised as a boy. The pair head to France, where Anna has an assignment in Amiens.

For Anna is a member of the order of Guardians, dedicated to fighting the forces of darkness and protecting the peace between humans and the other creatures that live among them. Amiens has a vampire, apparently, and it is causing uproar in the town.

She sees something in Viktor, an ability she has herself. As the pair deal with the problems, which are more human in nature than supernatural, they grow into close friends, and head to Paris to the headquarters of the organisation Anna works for.

Their relationship is the centre of this book, despite Anna having many secrets and not sharing too much, she and Viktor develop a bond. There are some twists at the end that you just won’t expect, and it suggests that there is a sequel in the works. An unusual historical fantasy thriller and one that gets better as the book continues, which augers well if there is more to come.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Book Blitz: Children of the Earth – Amanda Auler

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It’s release day!

We love this cover! It’s positively magical. Make sure to check out Children of the Earth and visit one of Bookstagram hosts for a great giveaway!

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Children of the Earth (The Mothmar Trilogy)

Publication Date: November 7, 2023

Genre: YA Fantasy

Receive from above or take from below,

Light versus Dark, you reap what you sow.

With her newly acquired Gift burning inside her, Solyana Marusda leads her group through the Mothmar snow in search of the prophecy’s secrets. But when they stumble upon the city of Takanah, they find themselves surrounded by the Taka Reu and all it threatens to unleash. Desperate for answers, Solyana finds herself on a path paved with the sacrifices of others—sacrifices that make her wonder whether she is the savior or the destruction of her people.

In the wake of carnage, nearly everything Pallah Bogson holds dear has slipped through her fingers. With a rumor of hope, she sets out in search of the truth that promises a place of belonging. But as her connection to the Mother Below grows, so too does the influence of forces beyond her control—and when Pallah finds herself the instrument of chaos, there is no way of telling what is or isn’t her own will.

All the while, someone is watching, waiting—with more sinister schemes than either girl can know.

A story of friendship, family, and the choices that shape us. Dive into the world of Mothmar and experience magic, animal companionship, and adventure layered through time and dipped in mystery.

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About the Author

Amanda Auler is the author of Daughter of the Sun, the first in the Mothmar trilogy. As an advocate for stories steeped in theme, it’s no wonder some of Amanda’s favorite authors are Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, and Juliet Marillier. When she’s not at her laptop, Amanda can be found roasting coffee in her garage (usually with a book in hand), baking bread, and trying to keep up with her three growing boys. She and her husband live in central North Carolina where they stay up too late watching Top Chef and eating fancy ramen.

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