Longbows, wenches and a
butt cheeks giveaway… such were the very serious and in no way silly topics of
my blog during my review for Donna Hosie’s fabulous debut novel, Searching for Arthur. Now she’s back with
its sequel, The Fire of Merlin, and I’m here to help reveal it. Ta-da!
Seventeen-year-old Natasha Roth and her older
brother, Arthur, are reunited once more with the Knights of the Round Table.
Unfortunately their joy is not shared by Arthur’s girlfriend, “Slurpy”
Samantha, whose hatred of Natasha has not been lessened by time or distance
since the Roth family relocated to London.
But Natasha’s happiness is short-lived.
The knights come with ill news from Logres: a
magical darkness has fallen over the land. The Lady of the Lake, Nimue, is
battling against her former lover, Merlin, whom she imprisoned before the
enchanted sleep. He has been freed and Natasha soon discovers that her own
actions the previous year unlocked more than just a gateway between the past
and the present. When “Slurpy” disappears, a frantic Arthur decides they must
leave the 21st century once more and return to Camelot.
With her beloved Sir Bedivere at her side, Natasha
follows the sound of the bells and leads Arthur and the knights back into
Logres. But there are more than bells ringing in her head. Natasha starts to
suffer from terrifying visions in which she sees the destruction of Logres.
As the darkness continues to infect the living, the
people start turning on each other, accusing outsiders of witchcraft. Terrified
that Natasha will be hurt, Sir Bedivere takes her, the dwarf Byron and Byron’s
sister, Guinevere, into the safety of his father’s castle. Yet nowhere in
Logres is free from fear and suspicion, and Sir Bedivere unwittingly leads
Natasha into a terrifying chain of events in which time itself is manipulated.
Natasha must uncover the truth about the danger to
Logres and those she loves. Who is the real threat to Arthur? Can myth and
legend become fact? What is the secret that “Slurpy” is now hiding?
And for the love of all things holy, when will
Logres invent saddles?
Sounds awesome, doesn’t
it? Well to celebrate it's release on November 30, Donna is offering Searching for Arthur as a FREE download, right here, for the first 5 days of the month. (P.S. That's right now, so go get it!) And to whet your appetite even more, here’s a sample from my review of Searching For Arthur. Enjoy!
Hand Me A Longbow And Call Me A Wench
...The reason I couldn’t wait to review Donna Hosie's Searching
for Arthur is because it changed me. Not in a ‘grab a sword, declare
yourself a knight and run off to fight wolf-riding dwarves’ kind of way,
(although if that meant hooking up with any of the lead characters then hand me
a longbow and call me a wench). It changed me because for a while I forgot I
was an aspiring author who beats myself up if I don’t achieve a certain amount
of writing each day… For a while I found that every time I opened my laptop to
get some work done I would simply stare at the screen, yearning for my kindle,
until I gave up and permitted myself one more chapter. (Or two. Or ten)...
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YOU are awesome!
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