Long time no see on the blog due to some web/theatre news I'll reveal later. For now, it's back with a bang as I participate in my first CSFF blog tour, a series dedicated to Christian science fiction and fantasy novels. This month's book is the first in a new trilogy: Storm Siren, by Mary Weber. All participants in this tour received a free copy of the book from the publisher, but were encouraged to post their own unique review (good or bad) in kind.
Just like usual, I'll have my review up tomorrow (Tuesday morning). Today's the kick off with information about the author, book, and tour. Wednesday I'll post some closing thoughts on the book's sifting genre style and tone.
Storm Siren
by Mary Weber
YA Fantasy from Thomas Nelson (Aug. 19th, 2014)
Tour Participants"I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you."
In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled.
As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth—meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.
Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war, or be killed.
Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she’s being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the handsome trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons.
But what if she doesn’t want to be the weapon they’ve all been waiting for?
Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, Storm Siren is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win.
