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Guvnor

Guvnor

The Guvnor
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#66
#66
The Sword Defiant
Gareth Hanrahan
Fantasy
Set in a world of dark myth and dangerous prophecy, The Sword Defiant launches an epic tale of daring warriors, living weapons and bloodthirsty vengeance.
£0.99 £5.49
Deal ends: 31-10-2023​

All the usual places.. amazon, kobo, apple, google

I think the basic premise of this story could be 'what if the D&D 5E party defeated the Dark Lord and spent the next two decades winning the peace, and being eaten up by it' which is a fine enough idea, but Gareth Hanrahan brings his many (many) years of RPG industry experience creating and running those kinds of settings to bear, creating something that feels fresh and innovative, no mean feat within the tropes of D&D-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off High Fantasy. Readers of his Gutter Prayer series won't be as surprised by this, but for those who aren't, it could be easy to read the blurb and think this is more trad high fantasy of elves and dwarves and magic swords. That's just the veneer for what is a much richer, more complex story and setting with morally ambivalent characters, a plot that twists and turns, and an ambiance that owes as much to Lovecraft as Tolkien, playing with those hackneyed tropes whilst very much respecting them. It's also very well written, with a light touch that is not as common as one might wish in this genre. Will be picking up the sequel.
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Maddz

Maddz

Demi-God
#69
#69
Looks like Gateway SF have refreshed their cheap books on Amazon and Kobo. There's various new titles at £1.99: I've picked up Harry Turtledove's Gap series at £1.99 each (which gets rid of 3 hardbacks) and Lawrence Watt-Evans The Misenchanted Sword (Ethshar 1) also at £1.99.
 
Guvnor

Guvnor

The Guvnor
Staff member
#72
#72
Inverted World
Christopher Priest
Literary Fiction
A uniquely powerful SF novel of a society in decay, plus moving cities on tracks..
£0.99
Deal ends: 30-11-2023​
Available from all the usual places
 
Altair-the-Vexed

Altair-the-Vexed

Acolyte
#74
#74
My other half has written a sequel to her book! It's just £1.99.
I know some of you enjoyed the first outing - this novel continues the story, changing focus and expanding the story, but still including the gang from before.

She says:
"I am very pleased to announce that I have published my second novel!
Subject Beta is the sequel to my first novel, Subject Alpha, and now available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CNJ1DWC3 and Kobo (for epub format): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/subject-beta
Please do give it a go, recommend it to anyone you think will like it, and don't forget to leave me a review!"

(The first one is linked in the Kindle and Kobo pages, if you need to get up to speed.)
 
Guvnor

Guvnor

The Guvnor
Staff member
#75
#75
Altair-the-Vexed said:
My other half has written a sequel to her book! It's just £1.99.
I know some of you enjoyed the first outing - this novel continues the story, changing focus and expanding the story, but still including the gang from before.

She says:
"I am very pleased to announce that I have published my second novel!
Subject Beta is the sequel to my first novel, Subject Alpha, and now available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CNJ1DWC3 and Kobo (for epub format): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/subject-beta
Please do give it a go, recommend it to anyone you think will like it, and don't forget to leave me a review!"

(The first one is linked in the Kindle and Kobo pages, if you need to get up to speed.)
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Loved the first one, snapped up this one.
 
Guvnor

Guvnor

The Guvnor
Staff member
#79
#79
Shanghai Immortal
A. Y. Chao
Fantasy
This richly told adult fantasy debut teems with Chinese deities and demons cavorting in jazz age Shanghai.
£0.99
Deal ends: 30-11-2023

all the usual places

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble.

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers, and trying to control her explosive temper - with varying levels of success.

So when Jing overhears the courtiers plotting to steal a priceless dragon pearl from the King, she seizes her chance to expose them, once and for all.
 
Guvnor

Guvnor

The Guvnor
Staff member
#80
#80
The Black Prism
Brent Weeks
Fantasy
A stunning new edition of the action-packed first novel in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series, from fantasy superstar Brent Weeks
£0.99 £5.49
Deal ends: 31-12-2023​
 
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