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Author interview with Lou Morgan At the end of 2012 I got introduced to Blood and Feathers the debut of Lou Morgan. From the moment that I started reading I just knew that Blood and Feathers would be an amazing book and Lou Morgan didn't proof me wrong. Blood and Feathers was a powerful debut with lost of cool idea's that came to full fruition. Earlier this year the sequel to Blood and Feathers, Rebellion was published and with finally getting around to reading it, I am again very excited and a bit sad as well, because I now again have to wait till book three! If you want to read a powerful Urban Fantasy from a star on the rise chockfull of cool stuff, make sure you ask these books. Soon! Author bio: Lou Morgan lives in the south of England with her family. She studied medieval literature at UCL but much prefers making things up. Her first short story was published in 2008 by the British Fantasy Society, and since then her stories have appeared in anthologies from So...

Blood and Feathers: Rebellion by Lou Morgan, Blood and Feather #2 "This is a war. THE war. There is no stopping; no getting out. You're in this - just like the rest of us - to the end." Driven out of hell and with nothing to lose, the Fallen wage open warfare against the angels on the streets. And they're winning. As the balance tips towards the darkness, Alice - barely recovered from her own ordeal in hell and struggling to start over - once again finds herself in the eye of the storm. But with the chaos spreading and the Archangel Michael determined to destroy Lucifer whatever the cost, is the price simply too high? And what sacrifices will Alice and the angels have to make in order to pay it? The Fallen will rise. Trust will be betrayed. And all hell breaks loose... First off. Stop. And look at the cover. Yup. I know. Great stuff. Makes you want to read it straight away doesn't it? On to the book itself now. Last year around the same time a...

With the Review Round-up  posts I try to capture the best books that I have read those months. Since I read about 20 books minimum each month and in the majority of the cases there are many books that I really enjoyed. But I am trying to narrow this down to a top 5 books for each month that are not per se my most highest rated books but they can also be extraordinary books of self published authors where they dare to engage into new idea's. Looking back at the genres that I read in November it again spans out over a many different genres: Steampunk, Epic, Sci-Fi, Urban, Young Adult, Horror, Historical Fiction. I had the chance to pick up one of the most unexpected  My top 5 of the November books are (not in this order): 1. Blood and Feathers (Solaris)  by Lou Morgan 2. The Falling Machine (Pyr)  by Andrew P. Mayer 3. Babylon Steel by (Solaris)  Gaie Sebold 4. Tomorrow the Killing  (Hodder and Stoughton)  by Daniel Polansky 5.  Phoenix Risin...

Alice isn’t having the best of days: she got rained on, missed her bus, was late for work. When two angels arrive, claiming her life so far is a lie, it turns epic, grand scale worse. The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating; an age-old balance is tipping, and innocent civilians are getting caught in the cross-fire. The angels must act to restore the balance – or risk the Fallen taking control. Forever. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory – a disgraced angel with a drinking problem – Alice will learn the truth about her own history… And why the angels want to send her to Hell. What do the Fallen want from her? How does Mallory know so much about her past? What is it the angels are hiding – and can she trust either side? Caught between the power plays of the angels and Lucifer himself, it isn’t just Hell’s demons that Alice will have to defeat… Blood and Feathers is the first novel by Lou Morgan. It is, as you might have guessed from the synopsis, a book ...