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Here are the books I have left (the titles are links to my full reviews):
LIBERATION BY R.M. KROGMAN
In short, this one is long and will be for people who want lots of POVs, lots of culture, lots of world building, dark themes and grey characters.
THE AUTUMN APPRENTICE BY ALEXANDRA RUNES
This one will be for people who like intimate stories focused on personal stakes rather than epic scale high stakes kind of things. The character is disabled and represents a different kind of MC I don’t personally see done often.
THE LIGHT MUST HOLD BY KRISS GALLOM
This one will be for people who want monster stories, survival stories, with a lot of action, violence, and zombie-like beings. This one held on through multiple rounds of cuts and has a lot to offer.
BLOOD OF THE HUNTED BY MARC MICCIOLA
I don’t typically enjoy werewolf stories. I liked this one enough to read through what’s a pretty long book (listed at 700 pages). To get me to read a book that long is a feat, and this competition has me doing it three times so far in SPBO 10, so y’all are bringing some talent. To make me read 700 pages of a werewolf story is a whole other level.
FOGBOUND BY N.J. ALEXANDER.
The first book I read for this competition made it through multiple rounds of cuts to make it here to the end. It’s about a bookworm who gets possessed by a military ghost/spirit and watches in horror as he/they sign up to go be a soldier.
THE SAGA OF BJORN UNFRID BY JOHN SIMONS JR
This was my last book that I read for the competition, at a stage where I was taking every opportunity to cut a book and move on to find my finalist (because I already had a standard set by other semifinalists), and yet I continued on through this one because it was just so different. This is like a modern viking book on acid. I was unable to predict a fucking thing throughout this entire read.
So, of these remaining books who is going forward as a semifinalist???
Let’s find out!
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CONGRATS TO BOTH OF YOU ON YOUR SEMIFINALIST STATUS!!!
I have announced privately to the judges who our senlin net is going to be this year. I was going to announce it publicly in an effort to give the other teams a chance to read it as quickly as possible to see if they’d want it, but I can just do that privately and avoid cutting one of the current semifinalists today. We shall announce publicly our finalist and senlin net soon!!!!!
If you don’t know what a senlin net is, it’s when a blog has two or more books they genuinely feel would do equally well in the contest. They can offer up their second place winner to the other blogs to read to see if they would like it to be their finalist choice. I’ve made the judges aware of who our senlin net is now so they have enough time to read it and compare it and see if they want it as their finalist.
Cheers!!!