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Monday, June 18, 2012

Emerald City Dreamer review

 Book Review of Emerald City Dreamer sponsored by Bewitching Book Tours

Emerald City Dreamer
Dreams by Streetlight Book One
By Luna Lindsey

Book Details
Word count: 124,000
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Amazon Kindle Price: $3.99
Available from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk
ASIN: B007L9CTEI

Super Short Blurb:

Jina Harper has helped her friend, Sandy, start a faerie hunting order in Seattle.  Now, they're finally on the tail of at least one dark monster bent on evil.  When prey hunts, who will lead the chase, and who will run?

Short Blurb/Synopsis:

Emerald City Dreamer is book one of the urban fantasy series, Dreams by Streetlight, set in Seattle.  Jina is a rock star and a faerie hunter, who users music as her weapon.  But she is a dreamer, so her music also attracts and feeds the fae.

As she finds herself falling in love with an elf, conflicts with Sandy escalate.  
Enemies begin to gather, and Jina must make a choice between loyalty and what she believes.

Delve into this deeply developed, internally consistent world of the fae, and meet beings who are simultaneously alien, elegant, and terrifying, fueled by dreams and the creative energy of artists.  Glimpse the secret world of Tir Nan Og through the eyes of fully fledged four-dimensional characters living in a Seattle that is just a bit weirder than you think.

This is a story with psychological depth, a page-turner with unexpected twists and turns.

Long Blurb/Synopsis (also on Amazon):

Jina and Sandy survived the unthinkable.  Now they've set up a secret Order in Seattle to fight the impossible - fairytale creatures born of human nightmares and nourished on dreams.  Their tools: iron, lore, science, glamour, and support groups.  As beginners, without access to the ancient societies of faerie hunters, they must rediscover how to protect themselves.  And in order to fight the fiends of the world, Sandy must take control her inner ghosts.

As a dreamer in a rock band, Jina unknowingly feeds the fae and attracts unseen enemies at every turn.  Now, they're finally on the tail of at least one dark monster bent on evil.  She is a dreamer, so she must follow her heart - but which way does it lead? 

Jett is an elf who only wants to protect her hodge-podge clan of faeries from the encroaching world of science and religion - which have systematically slaughtered her kind and the beliefs that gave birth to her people.  True dreamers are rare beings, and when she finds them, she does everything she can to protect them and claim them as her own.

Ezra is a teenager who never feels comfortable in his own skin.  Most people like him well enough, but when he looks in the mirror, he sees a demon.  He has been taken in by the Garbage Eaters, who expect obedience and purity.  Before long, he suffers a crisis of faith that may lead him into real danger.

Delve into this deeply developed, internally consistent world of the fae, and meet beings who are simultaneously alien, elegant, and terrifying, fueled by dreams and the creative energy of artists.  Glimpse the secret world of Tir Nan Og through the eyes of fully fledged four-dimensional characters living in a Seattle that is just a bit weirder than you think.
 
This is a story with psychological depth, a page-turner with unexpected twists and turns.

When prey hunts, who will lead the chase, and who will run?


YouTube Video Author Reading of short story Right After Feeding Time: http://youtu.be/0q-ckzF0Jyw

About the Author
Medium bio:

Luna is an indie author located in Seattle, WA. Her first story (about a hippopotamus) crawled out of her head at the early age of 4. Her mom had to write it down for her. After running out of things to say about hippopotami, she switched genres to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. During a ten-year break from fiction, she primarily wrote non-fiction and became an accidental expert on mind control, computers, and faeries.  After returning to fiction in 2010, she now publishes ebooks and seeks publication in short story markets.  She has written over thirty short stories and three novels. 

Long bio:

Luna is mostly a Washington native, however she was born in Salt Lake City, UT.  She grew up in the Tri-Cities, Washington, spending time between the three cities of Richland, Pasco, Kennewick, and outlying town Benton City. 

She grew up reading her father's sci-fi collection, which included many classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card.  She was homeschooled, and as a child was into piano, model rockets, astronomy, physics, 4H, Girl Scouts, writing, giving speeches, computers, and raising rabbits.  She started attending cons and playing RPGs in her early 20s.

In 2003, Luna moved to Seattle.  She lives a weird life and loves to geek out and delve into many topics.  Her interests are many, and sometimes she forgets all the things she knows how to do.

Luna worked for many years in the IT field, mostly in the computer software industries, before quitting to write full time in 2010.  She has written over thirty short stories and three novels. 


Website and Blog: http://www.lunalindsey.com
Facebook Author Link: http://www.facebook.com/LunaRLindsey
Amazon Author Link:  http://amazon.com/author/lunalindsey   

Book Review:

            Wow!  That’s all I have to say.  This is a twisting turning page turner of a novel.  More happens in this book than I could even begin to cover here.  First know that Fae are real, and some of them capture and torture people.  Jina and Cathy are two such people and they aren’t going to take it lying down.  They are going to fight back.

            Then Jina meets Jett and things change.  Suddenly she doesn’t want to kill the Fae, she’s in love.  But her best friend who was tortured by a fae also, isn’t ready to give up her anger and her desire to kill.

            This was a hard book to read.  It’s not a simple little story.  You have to pay attention to the characters and plot or it’s easy to get lost.  However, a little attention is an easy trade-off for such a great story.  I give this story 4 out of 5 clouds.

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