Hi everyone! I'm back. I know it's been a few weeks since I last posted. I've been communicating with my alpha readers and making updates to Of Myth and Memento Mori, my upcoming Gothic Romantasy filled with ghosts, Appalachian legends, and Welsh mythology. More on that soon, but today, I want to tell you about a book that I read recently.
Now, I will apologize in advance. You know I love books, and every once in awhile one truly surprises me, not because I didn't expect it to be good. Oh no, I had a feeling this book was going to be great, but I had no idea that it would give me that fully immersed feeling that I've only gotten with a few books over the years.
Children of Rima: Seeds of the Fallen is book one of a fantasy series from Miriam Yvette. Side note: Myriam Yvette is also a fantastic artist. Check out her work sometime.
I digress.
I won't give any of the plot away. Instead I will attach the blurb lower in this blog and tell you of how this book made me feel. In my life, certain books, certain stories have drawn me in so deeply that I looked forward to every spare second of reading time that I could nab. You all know these books: Wheel of Time, The Witcher, Kushiel's Dart, Harry Potter, all things Tolkien. These are the stories where you don't want to read them all at once (even if you sometimes can't help but devour them quickly.) The tales within are a special sort of adventure and the time it takes to read these books is some of the most exciting moments a reader can have.
Children of Rima is like that. It's an adventure, a fully-immersive experience, and more than that, the characters have so much heart. For all of you romance lovers, there is an underlying enemies to well...lovers aspect that provides an almost cheeky undercurrent to the harrowing situation in which the characters find themselves. Also, this is one of those stories where the side characters are just as colorful and expressive as the main characters. As a reader, these details create a deep association. You will feel like you know each of the characters well, and you will want to know more.
Miriam Yvette is currently writing the next installment right now, and I am sitting on pins and needles, stalking her socials, and counting down the minutes until the next book is written. Children of Rima is a fantasy for the ages.
All of that to say, go! Read this book! It's so so so good! Really good! 😀
Enemies To Lovers. Secret Identity. Dark Secrets.A secret identity hides the truth, but what happens when it becomes a cage?
Lucan Greystone long lived under an alias, his true self, hidden in a new body, but when a murder attempt sends him adrift to a Riman town, the wound he suffered won't heal. Now he must depend on the Harrow family to trek the long, perilous road and reunite with his friends, all while suffering Elene Harrow's company, the town's heathen who nearly killed him.
