Why Should I Read From the Ashes of Victory?
If you are just discovering me and my work, welcome! I’m grateful you’re even reading this. If you’ve come this far, I must have piqued your curiosity somehow, so let me attempt to give you a reason to stay and spend your valuable time reading my books.
The From the Ashes of Victory series is about a group of women secretly gifted in magic living in a world without it, in the shadow of the First World War. Despite living in Britain, all of them have lost everything; their families, their homes, in some cases, even themselves. The series follows them as they rebuild their lives and come to understand the extraordinary magical gifts that they wield, above and beyond that of normal witches, called a Manifest.
Magic is secondary to the characters, however, and their deep emotional connections to one another. We follow them as they change and grow, whether as friends or something more. As sister witches, as friends, as lovers, this series centers on relationships, and the positive support they each have for one other as they try to put their tragic pasts behind them in order to create something new, something the world has never seen before.
From the Ashes of Victory is for you if you are interested in…
- A sweet lesbian romance between a fiery Scottish badass and an angelic French nurse
- A cast of characters that is almost entirely women, including every single POV character (Book 3 features only a single named man with any dialogue, and he’s only in one scene)
- Emotional stories about loss, guilt and rebuilding, but always with the silver lining of hope included
- Positivity! Though the themes and setting are heavy, the characters are supportive of one another, not constantly at each others’ throats
- Taking control of your own destiny, even when the rest of the world doesn’t want you to
- Characters imbued with astonishing power, and the struggle to come to grips with it
- Characters that grow and change over the course of the series, and are never static
- Stories about love in all its myriad forms, and the bonds that come from it
- Witches! No broomsticks, but plenty of magic
- Dealing with past trauma in a healthy way, and becoming all the stronger for it
- A historical fantasy set in England following WWI that becomes an alternate universe before your eyes
- And finally, the basic ethos of the entire series: Extraordinary women with extraordinary gifts in extraordinary times
I sincerely hope you enjoy this series, and you stay with me until the end. So far, I have gotten a book out every eight months or so, and aim to keep that pace until the series is finished. I am very happy to have you as a reader, and I would love to hear from you if you would like to make your thoughts known. Mine are scattered throughout this blog, so please feel free to go back and read about my thoughts on writing and the creation of this series. I post every week.
Welcome!
-Cameron Darrow
The From the Ashes of Victory series is about a group of women secretly gifted in magic living in a world without it, in the shadow of the First World War. Despite living in Britain, all of them have lost everything; their families, their homes, in some cases, even themselves. The series follows them as they rebuild their lives and come to understand the extraordinary magical gifts that they wield, above and beyond that of normal witches, called a Manifest.
Magic is secondary to the characters, however, and their deep emotional connections to one another. We follow them as they change and grow, whether as friends or something more. As sister witches, as friends, as lovers, this series centers on relationships, and the positive support they each have for one other as they try to put their tragic pasts behind them in order to create something new, something the world has never seen before.
From the Ashes of Victory is for you if you are interested in…
- A sweet lesbian romance between a fiery Scottish badass and an angelic French nurse
- A cast of characters that is almost entirely women, including every single POV character (Book 3 features only a single named man with any dialogue, and he’s only in one scene)
- Emotional stories about loss, guilt and rebuilding, but always with the silver lining of hope included
- Positivity! Though the themes and setting are heavy, the characters are supportive of one another, not constantly at each others’ throats
- Taking control of your own destiny, even when the rest of the world doesn’t want you to
- Characters imbued with astonishing power, and the struggle to come to grips with it
- Characters that grow and change over the course of the series, and are never static
- Stories about love in all its myriad forms, and the bonds that come from it
- Witches! No broomsticks, but plenty of magic
- Dealing with past trauma in a healthy way, and becoming all the stronger for it
- A historical fantasy set in England following WWI that becomes an alternate universe before your eyes
- And finally, the basic ethos of the entire series: Extraordinary women with extraordinary gifts in extraordinary times
I sincerely hope you enjoy this series, and you stay with me until the end. So far, I have gotten a book out every eight months or so, and aim to keep that pace until the series is finished. I am very happy to have you as a reader, and I would love to hear from you if you would like to make your thoughts known. Mine are scattered throughout this blog, so please feel free to go back and read about my thoughts on writing and the creation of this series. I post every week.
Welcome!
-Cameron Darrow
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