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I''m an assisstant historical researcher who lives with their Mum.

I'm a bit weird and quirky, kind of a loner, and I love most mediums of fiction--books, TV, films, comics and Anime, and particularly those in the sci-fi and fantasy genre, and also murder-mysteries and a lot of period fiction. I enjoy the macabre and the surreal, and I love dark comedy too.

Dolorelamia is... a quirky book, with a very morally dark protagonist, and I don't think it will be everyone's cup of tea. It's also very long, and it takes a while to get into the action, but I feel the initial set-up is important for establishing characters and plot points that will come into play later.

Rooks of the Knot is my new side-project, part YA dystopian fiction, part deconstruction of YA dystopian fiction and done in the G. R. R Martin multiple POV style, I hope it recieves all the support and well-thought out criticism that Dolorelamia has!

If you have any questions or criticisms about the book or want to ask anything at all, feel free to message me, but if you'd like me to read your book, know that I can sometimes find it hard to get into books that are not of the genres I mention I like above. Even in the genres I do like, I tend to lose interest if the focus of the story is on romance, unless it's a really unusual romance ;) This said, I will do return reads :).

I hope everyone enjoys my books!

favourite books

Good Omens
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Sandman
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anything P.G. Wodehouse
The Romance of Silence
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Princess Bride

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Rooks of the Knot

Rachel Iliffe

In a city protected by martial law and enclosed by a forcefield, six young people struggle with sudden upheaval both from without and within.


The Land of Camelot, resurrected on the tomb of London, is protected by a force-field called the Endless Knot and by the Rooks—soldiers; feared, admired, and often hated by the citizenry.

For centuries following a catastrophic war the Rooks have safeguarded Camelot, but their brutality has pushed some citizens too far. Seemingly without warning, a team of rebels infiltrates and takes over a section of Parliament, the stronghold of the Rooks, determined to be the first people to leave Camelot in over seven hundred years.

Tryamour and Unghared become their hostages—two very different girls both trying to keep themselves and their companions alive. Yvain by contrast fights with the rebels, but begins to question the worth of their actions. Dorigen and Degaré, a physics student and a Rook cadet, face the same questions but from the opposite side, while Palamon is determined to somehow find his true love within this chaos.

But with the rebels aided by fanatic outsiders and the Knights who control Camelot with their own agendas, it begs the question of whether the people should fight to free themselves from oppression...

Or if they're better off with the devils they know.

 

Dolorelamia

Rachel Iliffe

A steampunk adventure set in another universe, wherein an assassin must ally with someone who hates him in order to rescue their loved ones.


Centuries ago, the technologically advanced clone race—the Sociotopians—made contact with the pre-industrial nations of the southern continent. Relations alternate, and the now industrialised continentals distrust the arrogant Sociotopians for the most part, although some of the clones have decided to exile themselves and have intermixed with the continentals.

Elliet Regan is the result of one such union. A palaeontologist, a cross-dresser, and an assassin working for his family’s organisation, he has more to worry about than the relations between his home and his father's people. Benevolent mercenary, Jared Simnel, seeks constantly to destroy him, while the jaded inspector Iobel Vindemar never stops looking for a way to make Elliet pay for his crimes.

But their grudges are put on hold when agents of unknown origin abduct every single Sociotopian and Sociotopian descended person in the mid-western part of the continent, Elliet’s siblings and two of Jared’s friends included. Elliet alone escapes, and with his friend Lizelba must ally with Jared and Vindemar to confront this mysterious threat and rescue their loved ones.

If Jared will let Elliet get that far, that is...

 

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I wrote 139 days ago

Wow, this is so good I read all five chapters and had to back it right away! No stylistic complaints--I'm not the world's biggest fan of present tense, and the mood is just a little depressing for my tastes, but that's just a me thing and your writing is absolutely brilliant--Merit, Rev, Bree, Dalia... view book

I wrote 226 days ago

Club Grimoire Alternate Critique Hi there, it's me--you may remember me from when you commented on my book a couple of days ago XD. Well, I have to say this has a superb style--good pace and description, yes, and a great introduction to the main character, but it's mainly the style that I'm en... view book

I wrote 226 days ago

Club Grimoire Alternate Critique, Hey there! As I read your first chapter for the original club Grimoire, and my two small points of criticism (i.e., the journal being a confusing framing device and the foreshadowing around the necklace being a bit inelegant) still stand, so I've moved onto your ... view book

I wrote 234 days ago

Hi there, here to return the favour for the comment you gave my book a few days ago! This is a great story with really imaginitive characters, I really get the feeling of a classical fairy-tale when reading about Roscoe, and Lord Nasturtium is emminently entertaining, I feel I could read an entir... view book

I wrote 234 days ago

Club Grimoire Alternate Critique Hello! I was very pleased to read your prologue, it's the kind of prologue I like, more of a setting the scene/mood of the work to follow (plus a bit of meta, which I've always liked) than the whole 'tale of opening kill-guy' I see so often in fantasy, which alway... view book

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