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The Demon and The Raven by Paul R Willson

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“The Demon and The Raven” is an enemies to lovers dark fantasy romance. A tale of love and redemption.

The ruthless young King Andras of Galitia- known as the ‘Demon of Galitia’- sits on the conquered throne room of Jotrel. With his reputation of cruelty and ruthlessness proceeding him, his new subjects cowering before him.

When the impoverished Duke of Tyrese presents his daughter, Korbela, as a tribute to Andras,. Andras is unnerved and captivated by her green eyes as she fearlessly meets his gaze.

The more Korbela spends time with Andras she attempts to defy and undermine him to make him leave Jotrel. However, she discovers Andras is not the mindless tyrant she takes him for. She finds him to be a complex and intelligent character capable of kindness and brutality in equal measure. She also finds years of war has created a demon inside of him that haunts and urges him to perform acts of savagery that drives him to feel intense remorse that threatens to break him.

As their bond deepens, Korbela must free Andras from his demon that attempts to consume him before it is too late.

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I like starting from the point where the bad guy wins. I try to work out what drives them and if they can change. With Andras, he has a lot of issues which Korbela has to peel back to find out the deep seated issue Andras has while overcoming her preconceived presumptions about him.

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The Top Speculative Fiction Books and Series – An Extremely Subjective List By Lynne Cantwell

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It all started when I saw one too many iterations of the BBC’s top 100 books on Facebook. These lists are always heavily weighted with hoary old tomes written by dead white guys. Plus the BBC always leans on British authors (as well they should, since they’re based in London, but still). But my biggest issue with these lists is that they never include enough speculative fiction entries. I’m defining speculative fiction as science fiction, fantasy, horror, and any combination, including all subgenres, thereof.

Anyway, I saw that list and I snapped. I have a lot of well-read friends who read speculative fiction all the time. And I was certain that if I asked around, I could come up with a list of 100 speculative fiction novels – and not only that, but our list would be a whole lot more interesting and fun than anything the BBC could put together.

So I took nominations and posted the list on Facebook. That drew more nominations, so I added them and posted it again – which drew more nominations. We ended up with 147 entries for our list of top 100 speculative fiction novels. (That reminded me of the marketing hook for Douglas Adams’s So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: “the fourth book in the trilogy!” That trilogy was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which of course is on our list.)

The list actually includes way more than 147 books, because I insisted on each series being one listing or else we’d have gotten to 100 too fast. (For example, if you count each of the 41 Discworld novels separately, you’re nearly halfway to 100 already.)

Of course, when I posted my final-final list on my blog, I received even more nominations from my friends. But I’m sticking with this iteration for now. Happy reading!

Top 147 Speculative Fiction Novels, in no particular order (according to Lynne & Friends) [Read more…] about The Top Speculative Fiction Books and Series – An Extremely Subjective List By Lynne Cantwell

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Featured Book: I AM DRAGON by Brian Green

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About Featured Book: I AM DRAGON by Brian Green

My name is Randall Erik Ddraik.
I’m a Dragon.

Randall works as a security consultant, bodyguard, and all-around badass for hire, working for the supernatural elite, and the occasional human who’s wealthy enough to afford him. Case in point, his current client Annalisa VanSusstern, one of the world’s richest humans. Humiliatingly, she’s just been kidnapped right out from under his nose, almost costing Randall his life in the process.

Annalisa is in Randall’s care, which means he’s taken an oath to keep her safe, so nothing short of his death will stop him from rescuing her. As he navigates through LA’s hidden supernatural world, fighting to get her back, he discovers hidden, and dangerous, secrets about her. It turns out Annalisa isn’t human, and worse, she’s the key to unleashing a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen. Randall has only three days to find her and stop it.

The insane thing is, he’s not sure he wants to, because if he doesn’t, he gets the one thing he’s desired most for almost five hundred years… to become a Full-blood Dragon.

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