Book Blitz (Book Spotlight): Monkey Around – Jadie Jang

On Aug 20, 2021Aug 20, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Book Spotlights, FantasyLeave a comment

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I’m delighted to be part of the book blitz for ‘Monkey Around’ by Jadie Jang organised by Storytellers on Tour. This is Jang’s debut novel, released by Rebellion Publishing, and today I have an extract to whet your appetite as well as the chance to win a copy of the book for yourself.

Book Summary:

San Francisco has a Monkey King – and she’s kinda freaked out.

Barista, activist, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint.

But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances, shapeshifter murders, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian.

Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well, most of them. The urgent ones, anyhow.

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Cover Reveal: The Stone God (Indulgence #1) – Erin Kellison

On May 3, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Cover Reveal, Fantasy1 Comment

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Today I’m delighted to be helping with the Storytellers on Tour Cover Reveal for The Stone God by Erin Kellison, which is due for release May 24th 2021.

Book Summary:

Enter bestselling author Erin Kellison’s captivating new world of gods, monsters, passion, and games…

Terah Crane knows not to tempt the gods. A happy life—or at least an uncomplicated one—involves no gods at all. And since her loving grandfather bought her an Indulgence that exempts her from their service, she can focus on her other problems of being recently divorced, broke, and unemployed.

Seeking a fresh start, Terah packs everything she owns into her beat-up car and moves to her family’s empty country cottage—never mind that deadly firedrakes occasionally wander into the garden. When an unlikely flood carries a cracked pillar of stone from a nearby shrine right to Terah’s doorstep, it seems the gods demand her service after all.

The man trapped inside the monolith is still alive, and Terah’s reluctant task is to resurrect him, his godkiller of a sword—and his fury for vengeance.

The gods’ awesome powers are matched only by their careless, capricious whims—and vulnerable mortals are often the ones to suffer and die. Now, the gods are watching Terah, making her a pawn in their savage game. Her survival depends upon navigating a new world of peril and treachery, taking up a weapon, and making a fateful move of her own…

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Blog Tour (Book Review): The Lore of Prometheus – Graham Austin-King

On Apr 14, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Fantasy, Review, Self-Published, Thriller3 Comments

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Today I am delighted to be reviewing The Lore of Prometheus by Graham Austin-King, the winner of the 2020 BBNYA Award. You can also find out more about the award, and being involved in the 2021 BBYNA at the bottom of the post.

*Disclaimer: ‘I was given a copy this book in exchange for an honest review, all views are my own.’*

Book Summary:

John Carver has three rules: Don’t drink in the daytime, don’t gamble when the luck has gone, and don’t talk to the dead people who come to visit.

It has been almost five years since the incident in Kabul. Since the magic stirred within him and the stories began. Fleeing the army, running from the whispers, the guilt, and the fear he was losing his mind, Carver fell into addiction, dragging himself through life one day at a time.

Desperation has pulled him back to Afghanistan, back to the heat, the dust, and the truth he worked so hard to avoid. But there are others, obsessed with power and forbidden magics, who will stop at nothing to learn the truth of his gifts. Abducted and chained, Carver must break more than his own rules if he is to harness this power and survive

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Book Blitz: Astral Cuts – John Notlad

On Mar 15, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Book Spotlights, Fantasy3 Comments

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Today I am delighted to be helping out with the release day book blitz for ‘Astral Cuts’ by John Notlad organised by Storytellers of Tour. Below you can find an extract from the book to whet your appetite, and I hope you will check out the book and the author.

Book Summary:

A twisting contemporary fantasy about a son’s revenge, an imaginary friend with a magical dagger, and a journey between the planes of existence in search of one sinister cowboy.

Flint Hainsen is a young, ordinary man still living at home with his mom. That is, until the evening he discovers her lifeless body on the living room floor.

Grief-stricken, Flint quickly falls into the hands of an otherworldly gentleman by the name of John. The enigmatic, old cowboy claims to be a friend of his late mother. He offers answers surrounding her death and a plot of revenge. However, Flint soon finds that John’s motives are far more sinister than he let on and the answers he provides only lead Flint deeper down the rabbit-hole between this reality and another.

From the other side of that rabbit-hole emerges Nelson Germander III. He was a friend of Flint’s from childhood, an imaginary one. He has returned to the physical world with a warning: John is a demon from the Astral Realm, and he must be stopped.

Armed with Kashvi, a portal opening dagger, the two old friends descend through the layers of reality in search of John. They are confronted with the monsters that lurk in the shadows, and their minds. Along the way, Flint’s troubled past rears its head and the sinful connection that binds he and his mother to the astral visitors becomes all too clear.

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Cover Reveal: Katy of Clay – U.L. Harper

On Feb 16, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Cover Reveal2 Comments

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Today I am delighted to be part of the Storytellers on Tour Cover Reveal Blitz for ‘Katy of Clay’ by U.L. Harper a YA/NA Urban fantasy that is due for release on the 20th August 2021.

Book Summary:

It’s typical to acknowledge how your parents have shaped you. But what if they shaped you out of clay?

When Katy visits her father, she questions why she can no longer remember the face of her mother who died nine years ago.

What’s more is that recently her body has been going through strange changes.

It’s these changes that force her father to reveal an old family secret—she’s made from clay and will be catapulted into another world because of it.

Shortly thereafter, she finds herself in a frightening parallel world where ghosts indefinitely relive their deaths, a land where she will discover the secret that cost her the memory of her mother’s face, and it’s a place where she’ll journey to find the insidious truth about what she’s destined to become.

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Blog Tour (Book Review): Kept From Cages – Phil Williams

On Jan 15, 2021Jan 15, 2021 By Rowena AndrewsIn Fantasy, Review4 Comments

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Today is my stop on the blog tour for ‘Kept From Cages’ by Phil Williams organised by Storytellers on Tour, which is the first in the Ikiri duology. I hope that you will check out the book and the author, and enjoy the rest of the tour with the schedule in the banner below or (HERE). A massive thank you as well to Phil Williams for the physical copy of his fantastic book.