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Andy Peloquin

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Born

in Tokyo, Japan

Website

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Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Ebooks

Influences

Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, A.C. Doyle, E.R. Burroughs

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November 2013

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I am, first and foremost, a storyteller and an artist--words are my palette. Fantasy is my genre of choice, and I love to explore the darker side of human nature through the filter of fantasy heroes, villains, and everything in between. I'm also a freelance writer, a book lover, and a guy who just loves to meet new people and spend hours talking about my fascination for the worlds I encounter in the pages of fantasy novels.

Fantasy provides us with an escape, a way to forget about our mundane problems and step into worlds where anything is possible. It transcends age, gender, religion, race, or lifestyle--it is our way of believing what cannot be, delving into the unknowable, and discovering hidden truths about ourselves and our world in a b ...more

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	Assassin (Darkblade, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Darkblade Assassin (Hero of Darkness #1) 3.95 avg rating — 1,366 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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
	Protector (Darkblade, #2) 4.41 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Child of the Night Guild (Queen of Thieves #1) 4.26 avg rating — 578 ratings — 6 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
	Assassination Protocol (Cerberus, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Darkblade Protector (Hero of Darkness #3) 4.22 avg rating — 481 ratings — 6 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
	Shields in Shadow (The Silent Champions #1) 4.22 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Warriors of Blood and Shadow: Boxed Set 1 (The Silent Champions #1-2, 2.5) 4.39 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 2020	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
	Slayer (Darkblade, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 362 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
	Darkblade Seeker (Hero of Darkness #4) 4.26 avg rating — 364 ratings — 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

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Celebrating an INSANE Milestone

Yes, you read that right.

ASSASSIN (Darkblade #1) has cracked 1,000 reviews/ratings on Amazon.

All in just under 11 months!

That’s totally beyond anything any of my previous books have achieved–I think Darkblade Avenger (the Hero of Darkness box set) hit around 700 or so over the course of 2 years.

I’m so grateful and thrilled that people are loving the rebooted/overhauled version as much as they are.

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Hero of Darkness (7 books)
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Darkblade (6 books)
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Cerberus (7 books)
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The Silent Champions (4 books)
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Queen of Thieves (4 books)
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Immortality and Chaos: The Complete Epic Pentalogy (Immortality and Chaos #1-5)

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The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)

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The Thousand Scars (Counterbalance Book 1)

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“The gods are nothing more than the creations of humans needing something to blame for their problems.”
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“Aye, and I've heard tell that he shits scorpions and pisses venom. We've all heard the tales,”
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“A woman older than time stared down at the Hunter, her pale, age-spotted face twisted in a mixture of anger and concern.”
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“The gods are nothing more than the creations of humans needing something to blame for their problems.”
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“The gods are but aspects of an unknowable divine power. Humankind has given them faces and names in an attempt to understand the power, and thus we have created the gods as we now know them. What was once something vague and indefinable is now rationalized into a concept humans can grasp. In our worship of the various aspects of the gods, we have transformed those aspects into the gods themselves.”
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“The simple man needs something beyond himself to blame and credit for the bad and the good. If we were to accept all the blame and credit upon ourselves, it would be more than we could bear. Looking back at the horrors perpetrated in the name of the gods, our minds would shatter. This way, with the gods, mankind has a way to ease its conscience.”
― Andy Peloquin, Blade of the Destroyer

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“I must point out...that now is a good time to have these gods. For if they weren't created for a time like now, when the world could very well be facing an untimely end, why would they be needed at all?”
― Andy Peloquin, Blade of the Destroyer

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“Priests are meant to pass on the word of the gods, minister to the poor, and provide the services offered by their temples. No one said anything about being holy. Not even the gods are truly holy.”
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