Synopsis: Upholding her tribe’s highest law, Fenri must keep her heart—the body’s fourth portal—closed at all times, or face execution. Fenri is a Knowledger, a brilliant collector of information who dreams of discovering the ocean’s secrets. The tribe’s Masters grant her permission to explore the ocean, but only if she first traverses the perilous desert […]
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Review: Synthetic Sea by Franklyn S. Newton
This review only represents my personal opinion and does not reflect the entire judging team’s (Red Stars) thoughts or progression in the SPSFC4 competition.
Book Review: The Envoys of War (The Envoys of Chaos #1) by Dave Lawson
Synopsis: Don’t kill the messengers. As a bodyguard for the King’s Envoys, Gen is content with her life of traveling, drinking wine, and hitting things with her sword. It’s the perfect job. Until the King sends her and her friend Cordyn into war-torn enemy territory on a mission to deliver vital military intelligence to an […]
COVER REVEAL: Voyager (Darkblade #9) by Andy Peloquin
Blurb The Hunter rides for vengeance……and embarks on a voyage of bloodshed and death. His pursuit of the escaped Groebus Dayblood and his assassin accomplices leads to the shores of Einan and beyond, across the Frozen Sea. But danger follows wherever the Hunter goes. Sailing with him are parties unknown plotting bloody murder. Their deadly […]
Book Review: The Land Herself (A Tale of Cirilliarc) by Ainy Cormac
Synopsis: This faith is a double-edged sword, indeed. In the deserts of Utter Ung, there lies a great stone dagger, buried in the heart of the dead goddess. Sahul. The mother. The land herself. For hundreds of millennia, the artefact has drawn broken people to it; those in search of answers, and those in search […]
Book Review: As Born to Rule the Storm by Cate Baumer
Synopsis: Cadet Charlotte Amsel will trade her life to win a war- but not all at once. As part of an elite group of experimental soldiers, she can move through time, with each jump taking months from her own fated lifespan as she struggles to prevent the cold war from boiling over into an apocalypse. […]
Book Review: The Path of Pain and Ruin (The Gods Path) by Joel Glover
Synopsis: In the wastes beyond the Last City, all is quiet. Everyone has heard of the Hundred Blessed. Of the Final War between the Empire of Blue and Green and the Empire of Red and Ivory. Of what they did. But the war is never over. You can’t outrun your past. And you can’t hide […]
Cover Reveal: The Fall Is All There Is (Four of Mercies #1) by C. M. Caplan
Hello again dear reader or listener, you know we at FFA love doing cover reveals and even more so when it’s for one of our own!
Allow me, then, to share with you all the brand new cover for C. M. Caplan’s, SPFBO9, BBNYA, and Indie Ink Awards Finalist, The Fall is All There Is!
Review: From the Depths (The Heart of Quinaria #0.6) by B.S.H. Garcia
Synopsis: The world can sustain the needs of many, but the greed of a few can destroy it for all. In a life steeped in peril, the Brune family has thrived on the knife’s edge. Renowned for their smuggling and bounty exploits, Konar and Karliah’s parents command both respect and fear. Comfortable yet haunted, the […]
Review: For A Few Days More by Z.B. Steele
Synopsis The Hinterlands are a lawless place of broken dreams and broken people. Roth is a bodyguard trying to leave his dark past behind, but history has a way of turning back up. Cynthia is a bandit who’s trying to make a future by wading through blood. They travel separately, trying to live by their own codes. […]
COVER REVEAL + EoT KS: Paschia’s Hidden Journals – Volume I: Awakenings & Aeveaternity by Sam Paisley
Blurb Discover the untold history of The Keepers, and the origins of the universe itself, in this first entry into a new prequel to The Elements of Time series: Paschia’s Hidden Journals: Volume I – Awakenings and Aevaeternity. Through a series of journal entries, Paschia documented his awakening, growth, philosophy, and the eventual rift that […]
COVER REVEAL: New York Minute by Stephen Aryan
Blurb A noir story, set in an alternate New York City. After years of being a cop, and now a private investigator, there’s little that surprises Cole Blackstone. But when someone working for Karl Dolman, the most notorious crime boss in the city asks for his help, Cole is caught off guard, and more than […]