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P.L. Stuart

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Born
in Toronto, Canada
March 19

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Tolkien, Mark Lawrence, Wurts, Cornwell, GRRM, Gwynne, Miles Cameron

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August 2020


P.L. Stuart was born in Toronto. He holds a university degree in English, specializing in Medieval Literature. P.L. is an assistant editor with Before We Go Blog https://beforewegoblog.com/ . The Drowned Kingdom Saga chronicles flawed and bigoted Lord Othrun's journey towards change, and his rise to power in a new world after the downfall of his homeland, which is based on Plato's lost realm of Atlantis. The Bestselling 'A Drowned Kingdom' is mentioned in the prestigious Kirkus Magazine’s 2021 Indie Issue among “Four Great Examples of the Genre” of fantasy, and won the 2022 Picky Bookworm Award for Best Indie Book Based on Mythology. Book 4 'A Lion's Pride' won Bronze for the Fantasy genre in the esteemed Reader Views 2024 Literary Awards. ...more

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A Drowned Kingdom (The Drow...

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Happy Holidays everyone!

This is the post where I note the top Indie/Self-Published, and the top Traditionally-Published books for Sci-Fi & Fantasy that I read in 2023!
 
It's always hard to choose "top books of the year" from so many fantastic books that I read in 2022. However, every reader has individual tastes, and when one makes a top book list, one needs to remember that someone else's top list will be completely diff Read more of this blog post »
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A Drowned Kingdom The Last of the Atalanteans Lord and King A Lion's Pride A Pack of Wolves
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“Perhaps I was not the excellent judge of character that I believed.”
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“They were just men of flesh and blood, we knew, but it felt as if they were evil spirits, haunting our sight, appearing out of nowhere at every mountainside. We could not escape their unwanted, malevolent gaze.”
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“Investigation by the townsfolk found the miller's land empty. His grain mill was eerily deserted. The family's dinner was cold, left uneaten on the table. There were no signs of violence, but no signs of the inhabitants either.”
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“When one kingdom drowns, a new one must rise in its place. So begins the saga of that kingdom, and the man who would rule it all.”
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“He was unarmed. He was dying on his feet. But he could still kill me if he got close enough. The battle was not over, as he said himself, until one of us was dead. That would not be me.”
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“Investigation by the townsfolk found the miller's land empty. His grain mill was eerily deserted. The family's dinner was cold, left uneaten on the table. There were no signs of violence, but no signs of the inhabitants either.”
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“No sane man would charge, uphill, into a line of spears, levelled down at them. Suicide. But that is precisely what our knights did.”
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“The dimples in the water appeared and disappeared subtly in our wake, as otters swam and played off our stern. It was all so beautiful while going down the Elynlyr, and nothing could have surpassed it except the view of our great city.”
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P.L. Stuart MyBookJourney wrote: "Hi, thank you for the friend request! A Drowned Kingdom sounds really good, I'll definitely check it out :)"

Thanks so much MyBookJourney for accepting the request! I would be honoured if you end up reading A Drowned Kingdom. Looking forward to hearing your impressions if you do! Have a wonderful day!


MyBookJourney Hi, thank you for the friend request! A Drowned Kingdom sounds really good, I'll definitely check it out :)


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