Abendau's Heir is published.

Received my paper copy of the book yesterday, and it's a beautiful edition! The cover is stunning. Oy, though, it cost £5.99 to ship to Finland...that's so much! I feel badly about that (it seems that much shipping cost must surely erase the profit margin), so I went ahead and ordered Oracle for my Kindle! I see this as a win-win! :)
 
Just a quick heads up - we had been talking about an October release for Sunset over Abendau, but with Inish coming out and a lot of events and what not coming up over the autumn - I'll be doing some podcasts and panels, and another Comic Con - we've decided to put release back to Spring 2016. the book is written (although Teresa has still to dig her teeth into it), so no worries on that count - it's just a timing thing. /)
 
I just finished "Abendau's Heir". It's a riveting story that is hard to put down, but the villains are a bit one dimensional. There is also more gratuitous violence than I generally read, especially in the last third. I tend to prefer exploring the aftermath of trauma and the character's coping strategies, rather than just seeing sadism.

However, I did buy the e-book of Sunset Over Abendau, so I will be starting that one soon.
 
kythe said:
I just finished "Abendau's Heir". It's a riveting story that is hard to put down, but the villains are a bit one dimensional. There is also more gratuitous violence than I generally read, especially in the last third. I tend to prefer exploring the aftermath of trauma and the character's coping strategies, rather than just seeing sadism.

However, I did buy the e-book of Sunset Over Abendau, so I will be starting that one soon.
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Thank you! The violence element - it was either very brave or very foolhardy for a first book, but it was deliberate. So often sff puts its 'chosen ones' through hell and it doesn't really change them, or the reader. I wanted to confront what that would mean for an actual person, and to do that I held the reader close. Which makes for unpleasant reading (and writing).

The good news is that the rest of the trilogy is about the aftermath of those events, and how the characters move on, so Sunset might be easier reading. :)

And thank you so much for the support.
 
As I was reading the last third of "Abendau's Heir", I found myself thinking about "More Than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon. I doubt there were any intended similarities between those stories, since "Abendau's Heir" is an adventure story and "More Than Human" is more philosophical. But both books have characters that have been very abused and don't fit in to society, yet have superhuman abilities and when working together can accomplish the seemingly impossible. Ealyn and Kare have "powers", and toward the end Kare, Silom, and Lichio had become a well-oiled machine enough in accord with each other to act in sync.

It took me a few days to process why I saw similarities when the stories are not otherwise similar, but I think that is it. ;)
 
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