Finna introduced the sardonic-yet-lighthearted world of LitenVärld, an IKEA-like corporation rife with wormholes and other multi-dimensional oddities. While Finna was a delightful adventure, rich with emotion and sarcastic, relatable characters, it felt like it was just the beginning of something, opening a wormhole to a broader literary world of potential. Now, with Defekt, the potential established in Finn takes a big step forward into the multiverse, in every possible way. And at its core is the one character from Finn that I never thought I would connect with: the hardworking and dedicated (albeit lonely and emotionally lost) Derek. Fucking Derek…
Reviews
Book Tour: Small Places by Matthew Samuels
Review: Bright Steel (Masters & Mages #3) by Miles Cameron
Overall this series has been rife with full tilt action, character and magic badassery, camaraderie moments to die for, and plenty of soft, humorous, and quiet snippets between duos or trios that warm your chest. Cameron’s world has been one that is truly so rich and evocative, borrowing from a cultural setting that isn’t used often enough in fiction.
Author Chat – Cameron Johnston
Guest Post: What is Grimdark to Me? by Clayton W. Snyder
Blog Tour Review: The Last Nomad by Shugri Said Salh
Review: City of Lies (Poison War #1) by Sam Hawke
Cover Reveal: The Misfit Soldier by Michael Mammay
Review: The Hand of the Sun King (Pact and Pattern #1) by J.T. Greathouse
Author Chat – Howard Andrew Jones
Guest Post: Humor in Fiction by K.R.R. Lockhaven
Book Tour: The Abdication by Justin Newland
Author Justin Newland describes The Abdication as a “suspense thriller”, which I find to be an accurate way to categorize this novel. There certainly is a lot of suspense in the story, and that is no surprise given Newland’s history: this is not the author’s first rodeo, having published several novels before this one. Newland certainly knows how to layer the drama in the narrative so the reader has several components of tension to look forward to.