![]() ![]() She now lives in Utah with her bossy dog, Rosy, where she writes full time. Tricia Levenseller, author of five YA fantasy books, including The Shadows Between Us and the Daughter of the Pirate King duology, grew up in Oregon, where she spent her childhood climbing trees and playing make believe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The forge has always been Ziva’s safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and she’s not sure just how much of herself she’ll have to sacrifice to save Kellyn and take center stage in the very war she’s been trying to stop. When the events that follow lead to Ziva and Kellyn’s capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation she’s been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sister’s life. In the conclusion of Tricia Levenseller’s exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.Įighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’ve been a huge fan of gothic horror ever since I was a kid, and growing up, Lucy from Dracula and Bertha from Jane Eyre were two characters that I always wanted to know more about. “ Reluctant Immortals is about the untold story of two of gothic literature’s forgotten female characters, specifically Lucy Westenra, the tragic victim from Dracula, and Bertha Antoinetta Mason, the so-called madwoman in the attic from Jane Eyre. Q: What inspired your Bram Stoker Award nominated book? ![]() Monster Complex uses Amazon affiliate links. More great horror fiction articles on Monster Complex Interview with Gwendolyn Kiste on RELUCTANT IMMORTALS She joins Monster Complex for an exclusive interview about her novel Reluctant Immortals, explaining its fun (and somewhat surprising) historical literary context, reveals what inspires her unique angle for horror fiction, and tells us her favorite things about horror stories. Gwendolyn Kiste is the multiple-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author who is now up for another Bram Stoker Award-in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel in horror fiction for Reluctant Immortals. “I thought it would be so exciting to see what these two overlooked female characters would have to say in a world where they finally had a chance to tell their side of things.” ![]() The horror author talks about revisiting two of gothic literature’s forgotten female characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the tension is greatly heightened by his use of multiple points of view and a wildly nonlinear structure.” A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan “I believe Await Your Reply, which sends three characters on parallel journeys of reinvention, would be a captivating novel no matter what structure Chaon chose to use. But his book about serial killer Gary Gilmore is a masterpiece, and it changed the way I write.” Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon It’s almost as if some people confuse the question ‘Which books influenced you?’ with ‘Which writers do you uncritically adore, and do you also approve of them stabbing their spouses?’ I don’t like most of the Mailer books that I’ve read. “I get some strange looks when I cite this book as an influence. Ondaatje’s text was revelatory: I think it was the first time I understood how beautiful prose could be.” The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer “I requested this novel for Christmas when I was 14 or 15. All these years later, I retain strangely vivid images of scenes in Stevenson’s book.” The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje I was slow to pick up reading - I struggled until I was 7 - and I still remember the joy I felt when the pieces suddenly clicked into place. “Stevenson’s 1883 page-turner was the first full-length book I ever read. ![]() ![]() The first character introduced is a man called Paul Jonas, apparently an infantryman on the Western Front of the First World War. ![]() The book tells the story of a group of ordinary people who are drawn into the network to stop them. These men include: Felix Jongleur, who was a child at the time of the First World War and is currently the world's oldest man Jiun Biao, a Chinese economist described as "the terror of Asia" and Robert Wells, the owner of Telemorphix, the world's largest telecommunications company. The novel tells the story of a frightening virtual network created by a group of rich men known as The Grail Brotherhood. The "Otherland" refers to a virtual world or worlds and the "City Of Golden Shadow" is a city in the Otherland network to which the main characters are being summoned. ![]() ![]() City of Golden Shadow, originally published as Otherland, is a science fiction novel by American writer Tad Williams, the first book in his Otherland series. ![]() |