The Fallen Tour Stop & Review
The Fallen (The Greatest Sin) by Lee French and Erik Kort Me
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Goodreads Direct Link
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Blurb:
For hundreds of years, the Blaukenev clan has wandered across Tilzam, from one end to the other and back. Each wagon carries history, love, laughter pain, sorrow, and secrets. Their greatest secret of all may be Chavali, the clan Seer Spirits claim.
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With her gift/curse, nothing surprises her anymore, no one keeps secrets from her. She, on the other hand, has more than enough secrets to keep Secrets of her own, secrets of her clan secrets of the world, secrets she even keeps from herself.
There are always people who want secrets Some will do anything to get what they want.
The Fallen is the first story of The Greatest Sin, of a world adrift from its God that desperately wants Her back Chavali's comfortable, predictable life will be ripped apart and burnt to ashes as she's forced into the middle of that struggle. Change, she hates it passionately. It hates her right back.
Buy links:
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/The Fallen-Greatest-Sin-ebook/dp/ B00I1OMEH4
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Book Excerpt:
“Come in.” They did not speak the clan tongue in front of Outsiders, not without dire need, lest someone overhear enough to translate it and learn it. Instead, they spoke Shappan, the dominant language of Tilzam. Nearly everyone knew it, regardless of country or native tongue. Along with the words, spoken in the light accent of the clan, she lifted a hand to gesture to the stool opposite herself. “You are welcome here.”
He was timid as a mouse and small like one, too. Keino could probably lift this man over his head with one hand, or break him in half over his knee Chavali watched him take small steps and dart his eyes all around. “Um you’re the Seer?” His Shappan was obviously better than her own, she could tell even with so few words spoken.
“Yes. No one can see into the tent, it is safe, you are safe here. Sit, be calm.” Coaxing a scared little man onto the seat was not her preferred way to spend her time, and she stifled a sigh and a roll of her eyes. “If you do not sit, I cannot help, yes?”
“Oh, right. Of course.” He moved quickly practically jumped onto the stoo while shooting terrified looks all around the tent. “I’ve just never done anything like this before, and, um, I’m worried about…”
Holding out her hand, she kept her tone calm and patient. “Give me your hand. I cannot help if I have no connection to you.”
His audible gulp made her want to rol her eyes again, but he tentatively offered her his hand. As she seized it, the spirits rushed him, eager as always for new people to interact with DearCreatorIhopeyoucanhelpmeI’mdoomedthisissocrazy
“Calm,” she told him, shutting her eyes to make it easier to focus on this pile of crap. “If you do not calm down, see nothing, just a bouncing jumble of nervous. Deep breath in through your mouth, out through your nose. Come, do this a few times.”
His thoughts began to settle as he followed her orders. It became less a rushed mush and more actual coherent ideas. Amy is going to kill me for this. I shouldn’t be doubting her, but am, and I need to fix that. She’s a sweet girl, this is all my fault.
“I see a name. A-something, Anna? No Amy. Does this name mean something to you?”
As expected, he gasped a little. How does she know that? Is this the rea thing? If she knows that, she must know if she’s seeing Marcus or not.“Yes, that’s my wife.”
“You worry about her, you think she is meeting someone else?”
“Yes!” His mind flooded with images of Amy, who he loved, deeply, but also with images of a man much more virile than himself. That other man wore armor and used a blade for his work. A city guard, perhaps, or a soldier.
“There is another name, with a…’c’. But not at the front, maybe in the end? No, no, the middle. Arcu, Marcus. Yes Marcus. He wields authority.”
“Yes, he’s in the Order of the Strong Arm one of their knights. I need to know.” He already knew, of course. That was the beauty of what Chavali did All the answers were in his mind already he just needed someone else to say it out loud because he couldn’t, the poor fool. People really were the same no matter where she went.
Still, it wasn’t good to just say things like this aloud with no feeling or props, or anything to give her an air of more authority than just pulling things out of the air. Her free hand dipped into the pouch tied to the thin belt around her waist (it also held a smal blade in a sheath at the smal of her back), pulled out five objects at random and tossed them on the table. Keeping hold of his hand, she peered down at the bones, finding it amusing that all five were actually bones The pouch also had crystals stones, and even bits of shell and wood all minimally shaped and etched with ink-stained runes by her own hand.
It wasn’t that the bones were only props they had meaning for Chavali. It was that they weren’t tools for divining. In this context, she used them as prompts, as ideas for how to word things“Mmm.
” Starting with the one closest to him, because she didn’t like having them out of her control for any longer than necessary, she picked up a chicken wing bone, displayed it then deposited it back into her pouch“Pain of the soul, for you.” The next was a finger bone, from Seer Marika’s dead body. “Betrayal. Face down the betrayer is a woman.
” A bone from the paw of a dog was next. She liked that dog enough to preserve a part of him. “Love, but face down, so actually just lust.”
This was all so stupid and predictable. His mind raced as her words confirmed everything he feared.
The next a horse’s tooth, was an amusing addition.
“Secrets. Many secrets.”
The last one almost always turned up when she did this. It was a chunk of unidentified bone, picked up some time ago just because of its odd shape.
“Fear There is much fear through all of this.”
She needed nothing more from this man to make her pronouncement, and she didn’t care in the slightest if it turned out to be true or not.
They would be gone tomorrow morning, and likely wouldn’t return for several years, if ever.
Letting go of his hand, she gave him a mildly sympathetic look.
“The bones have spoken. She has betrayed you, and you must deal with that in your own way.
The bones, I think, suggest you confront it head-on, but this Marcus may not be wise to cross.”
He nodded, resigned. “Thank you.”
“It is not a thing I wish to be thanked for Good fortune to you.” She watched him get up and leave, and snorted at him as soon as the tent flap was shut again. Idiot. He was, of course the first of today’s parade of idiots and twits, each of them with a story as uninteresting as the next, a story Chavali had heard dozens of times before.
About the Authors
This book has two authors, Lee French and Erik Kort.
Lee French lives in Worcester, MA with two kids, two mice, two bicycles and too much stuff.
She is an avid gamer and active member of the Myth-Weavers online RPG community where she is known for her fondness for Angry Ninja Squirrels of Doom.
In addition to spending much time there she also trains year-round for the one-week of glorious madness that is RAGBRAI, has a nice flower garden with absolutely no lawn gnomes, and tries in vain every year to grow vegetables that don't get devoured by neighborhood wildlife.
Erik Kort abides in the glorious Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as Mirkwood-Without-The-Giant-Spiders Though the spiders often grow too numerous for his comfort.
He is defended from all eight-legged threats by his brave and overly tolerant wife, and is mocked by his obligatory writer's cat. When not writing, Erik comforts the elderly, guides youths through vast wildernesses, and smuggles more books into his library of increasingly alarming size.
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Connect with the Authors:
Lee
Twitter https://twitter.com/ AuthorLeeFrench
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Blog http:// AuthorLeeFrench.wordpress.com
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Erik
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Giveaway:
The authors are giving away five print copies of The Fallen – autographed by both authors! Enter at Goodreads Entry will be open the length of the tour.
Direct Link to the Giveaway
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ show/79967-the-fallen
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