Rebecca Crunden's Blog, page 27
June 23, 2022
#IndiePride: Gaia Octavia – Hidden Gem


Blurb:
Jade has spent the last eight years under the thumb of the sadistic leader of a raiding camp, where he has learned to grow numb, to feel nothing, and it works for him. But everything changes the day he spots a new captive at the camp–a beautiful, green-eyed boy named Emit–who looks at Jade like he is more than just a prisoner.
Emit has grown up within the safety of his family’s ca...
#IndiePride: Kat Kinney – Bound

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My review of Bound.

Blurb:
Teacher by day, fantasy writer by night, West Caldwell was forced to live in secret long before werewolves and vampires accidentally outed themselves on social media, causing a worldwide freak out. One slip of his rare Omega magic bound Topher Greer to him against his will. Now that magic threatens to fracture even further—just as shapes...
#IndiePride: E.G. Radcliff – The Hidden King

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Book review of The Hidden King | Website

Blurb:
Hidden truths. Hidden power. Hidden destiny.
On the shores of a rusty sea, in the streets of a starving city, a young man named Áed scraps to build a life for himself and the makeshift family he loves. Scarred by a trauma he cannot remember, and haunted by the brutal damage it left behind, he has no idea of the co...
June 19, 2022
#IndiePride: Marian L Thorpe – Empire’s Legacy, Empire’s Bard & Empire’s Heir

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Empire’s Legacy (Empire’s Daughter, Empire’s Hostage, Empire’s Exile):
A country on the brink of defeat. A woman who answers a call to arms. A man to challenge an Empire.
For centuries, women used weapons to kill for food, men to kill in war. Now Lena must break with tradition to save those she loves, but as she steps from...
Author Interview: Marian L Thorpe

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1. Paperback, hardback, audiobook?
Paperback most of the time, audiobook for driving and planes.
2. Pick a genre, any genre!
Impossible. I’m a voracious reader; I lean towards historical and literary fiction, but I will read almost anything under the right circumstances.
3. What is the first book you remember reading?
One of the Janet and John books (these are the UK equivalent of Dick & Jane books, for the uninitiated.) I’m not sure which...
#IndiePride: Coffee Quills – Blasted Research & Spells, Snow & Sky

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Blasted Research | Spells, Snow & Sky


Blurb for Spells, Snow & Sky:
Sky needs breathing room. Keeping a photographer on a short leash is, in her opinion, an act of cruelty. Fleeing Florida and landing in Hokkaido might just be the act that saves her sanity, even if it dooms her romantically. Yuki wishes to leave Japan. Not forever, but to at least travel...
#IndiePride: Jaimie N. Schock – The Pyre Starter

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Blurb:
Exhausted with life, Dakota tries to end his—only to be saved at the last moment by his friend, Terrell, who then drags him into a world of magic and intrigue that’s always been right there, hidden beneath the surface.
Powerful magic users are steadily dragging the planet into a violent war, and evil forces will stop at nothing to take th...
Author Interview: Jaimie N. Schock

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1. Paperback, hardback, audiobook?
I love all of them, but I prefer paperback when it comes to reading.
2. Pick a genre, any genre!
Urban Fantasy.
3. What is the first book you remember reading?
Who Put the Pepper in the Pot by Joanna Cole.
4. What book shaped your childhood most?
I read a lot as a child, but the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey were particularly important to me at the time.
5. When did you first start writing?
...June 17, 2022
#IndiePride – Vaela Denarr and Micah Iannandrea – The Gift of Blood

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“Shit, people keep killing me off. It’s like some bad TV show.”
a note from the authors:
“We wanted a story about a buff, beautiful lesbian who gets to be fucking badass and show that just because you’re physically doesn’t mean you’re better than everyone. You gotta put in the work. So we wrote...
June 11, 2022
#IndiePride: Meg Radiant – A Twist in the Rift

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Blurb:
If you could travel to different worlds, would you ever come back to this one?
Lyrica is the usual final year university student, except that she has the ability to see Rifts – portals to other worlds in this Universe. When her acquaintance Basil, a time-travelling archaeologist from the future shows up and needs her help, well...