Current Tags
epic fantasy, shapeshifters, magic, angry gods, animals, alchemy, secondary world
Categories
Fantasy / Action & Adventure
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Author's Description
Treacherous gods, shapeshifting spies, and a new threat rising from the waves. When the high alchemist's wolf clan lover chooses his family over her, a single spiteful act suggests the bones of their world rise from dangerous ground. Eager to atone and to defend her unborn child Sorcha convinces the lord of the rat-shifters to aid her in a quest for redemption that may shatter lives and foul the very source of the magic that binds them. New episodes twice weekly! Mon/Fri (or more)
Why I Chose it
There is some really rich world building going on here, and the author is skillfully balancing on the line between giving the reader just enough information and dangling immensely cool concepts just out of reach.
[4 episodes so far, with 4 updates in the last 30 days.]
Who Might Like This
Anyone who enjoys secondary world fantasy should dive into this!
Unrelated Griping
For a company that started by selling books, Amazon is weirdly ignorant about everything related to authors when it comes to Vella. There's no way to list more than one author on a story, there aren't author pages or any way to give people more information, and the author name isn't even linked to other stories by the same author.
But this also means the author field has descended into complete anarchy, so it's kind of funny. People are making up all sorts of crap. Since there aren't many ways to get information about a story without multiple clicks (BECAUSE THE VELLA USER INTERFACE IS SO FREAKING TERRIBLE, GAH!), the author names have become the entrails by which it is possible to foretell the quality.
Someone who puts numbers in their name? Probably going to write like a teenage boy.
Someone who just uses the first initial of their surname? Total lack of imagination and professionalism.
Someone with obvious typos in their name? Very likely to quit the story after two episodes.
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