Dust Jacket Reviews

11 July 2013

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#6)

I found anyone onnnnnne. By 'one' I mean amazing books due to release this year.

Only Half Alive | Konstanz Silverbow

The World's darkest creature, will be their brightest hope!
While darkness haunts her, she craves the light. Christina is a demon, but she doesn't want to be. She is willing to sacrifice everything to change it. Only one person stands in her way, and he will stop at nothing to keep her the way she is.The greatest battle of light vs dark threatens every living creature, a battle that could destroy all. And the demon in love will only have one chance to save everyone.

I'm really fricking excited for this, I can't even tell you. It's just below Control by Lydia Kang on my GIVE ME NOW list. That's a list I have now.

The cover for this comes out really soon so keep an eye out for it!

I need it!!

Getting back on track with the blogging thing

I know I've been very absent and there have been no posts for the past God knows how long, but to be fair I don't have any followers and it's just me talking to myself at this point.

But anyway! A trip to London and illness (and laziness) have made this blog bare, but I'm gonna queue a tonne of posts for the coming fortnight and get my ass in gear with writing reviews.

First week (and a half) of Camp Nano! My daily target was around 400 words when I started, which was intentionally low since I'd have to make words up because of missing days for a holiday. But before I went away I was exactly on track, if not over, and I'm looking to get back that way.

So far I've written 2,191 in July, which is 15% of my target. And in total I have around 17,000! I'm pretty close to finishing the first draft of Vast Energies, which is awesome. And it has a shiny new tumblr and goodreads page and blurb.

Aaaand in other news I got to meet Sarah Rees Brennan at the weekend, after a total nightmare of a journey, and she was lovely and signed all of my books and gave me spoilers. She pretty much made my entire life.

And in bookish things I finished Reboot by Amy Tintera several days ago and it was really fricking good, and I'm currently reading the torturous Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan. Very much looking forward to having my heart broken by Jared Lynburn.

Hope everyone had a good week/end!

2 July 2013

Vast Energies

In past posts I've mentioned an untitled high fantasy project, and I've talked a little about the Books of Amber, but now I can reveal a blurb and other fancy things!

First off here's the blurb.

A magical protector.

A hunted prince.

A tormented king.

In the vast realm of Síoraí anyone in possession of magic is killed. Hael Opscurus, King of the Great West, fears that his reign is threatened when a rebel Prince escapes during a conquest of the North, along with a companion of the most dangerous kind. A Protector. With the Western Compass rebelling against him, Hael and his formidable Sorcerer army will stop at nothing to capture the fugitives and eliminate the threat.

Alezander and his Protector Seren have been running ever since the Western King ordered his Sorcerers to kill Alezander’s father—the King of the Northern Compass. Now on the run and with very few options, Alezander and Seren must seek safety in foreign lands with strangers. But while the pair stay hidden a war is igniting, and people are relying on Alezander to win it.

Inspired by Little Snow-White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Books of Amber is a series of high fantasy e-novellas to later be compiled into a full novel.

Vast Energies is novella 1 of 4, and it has a tentative release of this November. Unlike The Lux Guardians, the Books of Amber WILL be available to buy on Amazon.

Each novella will be a mix of poetry and prose (mostly prose - it reads exactly as a novel but each chapter is accompanied by a three lined haiku.) It's the first time I've published any of my poetry, but it really fits the feel of the book.

This is the first haiku:

And this is the first draft of a poem that will appear at the end of Vast Energies. (Click to enlarge)

Image source: CAStock via DeviantArt

I hope you enjoy reading it when it comes out!

As a side note if you're interested in beta reading/reviewing/critique partnering BoA comment on this post :)

1 July 2013

30 Days of Books - Day 12

A book you used to love but don’t anymore

Matched series | Ally Condie

I loved Matched when I first read it. Ky and Cassia's romance just hooked me in and it was beautiful and honest. But then Crossed happened, and I was unsure about where the plot was going. It dragged on and on and got boring but I stuck with it. Reached - ugh. Reached ruined this series for me. It was flat, the resolution was hardly a resolution and the conflict not conflict at all. Ky and Cassia didn't feel very together, and everything just felt weird. It felt wrong and slow and nothing at all. Not how a conclusion to a series should be.

I still love Matched, but Matched alone. Not with the rest of the series.