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Hello readers/bloggers!

My name is Shelby K. Morrison. I am looking for ARC reviewers for my new book set to be published in May. The book will be available in a couple weeks. Then you'll have 3 months to review so there is no rush. Details are below.
Title: From the Ashes
Series: Book One; Legend of the Liberator series
Length: 89k words
Genre: Fantasy/ YA Fantasy
Publish Date: May 3rd, 2015
Available formats: ePub/Mobi/PDF
Description: For eighteen years Aia Wynnald has lived a lie. Raised as a highborn in the Kingdom of Tharien, she’s filled her days with tutors and archery lessons. But simmering beneath her polite surface is a dangerous gift, one which she must keep a secret. Aia is a Bender. And in Tharien, Benders are feared and hunted.
When her unruly power breaks free with dire repercussions, Aia’s lifelong goal of independence shatters. As she scrambles to piece her life back together while evading capture, she disturbs a vengeful force intent on destroying the kingdom.
Now, with the help of an unlikely ally, Aia will decide the fate of Tharien. To rescue those she cares about will require accepting what she is. But can she risk becoming the monster she’s dreaded to save the very citizens baying for her blood?

If you are interested, PM or respond here. Or you can email me at shelby.morrison90@yahoo.com Thanks!

ψＭＡＸψ wrote: "I would love to review this. Is it possible for you to send it through my email: maxsillitoe@hotmail.com?"

Hi Max! I'd love to have you review From the Ashes! Sending you an email now with details!

It sounds great! but unfortunately I cannot read ebooks because of a problem in my eyes. I'll wait for its release and try to get a copy! Good luck with your book!

Damián wrote: "It sounds great! but unfortunately I cannot read ebooks because of a problem in my eyes. I'll wait for its release and try to get a copy! Good luck with your book!"

I'm sorry to hear that Damian. That is the pits! :( Thank you for your interest, just the same and I hope you enjoy it when it comes out in paperback. Keep your eye on May 3rd! :) Thank you!!

How many on this site feel good about reviews of other books? I had that experience yesterday when I contacted the author about their book. I didn't give it stars. Instead, I suggested changes to make it better.

I'm open to reviewing sci fi and fantasy as long as its not a dystopia or about vampires or werewolves.

I'm acquiring a great distaste for dystopias and its mainly because the authors assume the wild is the same as the city. It's not. Years ago, a rough tough street thug type visited my folks on their farm that backed against "the woods" of the Olympic mountains.

Somehow, the conversation turned to the animals in "the woods". I calmly told about the first time I heard cougars in the night. I was about eight when my father and me went searching the woods for several missing milk cows.

I heard what sounded like a baby crying, yet the cry echoed off the hills. "Dad," I yelled. "I hear a baby crying. Should we rescue it."

"No. We aren't rescuing it. It's doing just fine on its own."

Then, the conversation turned to the Apple orchard just beyond twenty feet of black berry brambles and the bears who ate the apples every fall. "Last year, my dad said. "A hunter shot a year old bear about a hundred feet from the house."

The street thug's face turned white, and we had to escort him to his car maybe thirty feet from the front door. Apparently, the prospect of being eaten frightened him far more than being shot.

If someone writes a dystopia where hot young bodies with a yen for rolling in the hay spend their second night in "the woods" in the trees after finding one hot young body half eaten and another drug off into the "the woods" because they all foolishly slept in the open, I 'll review it. Even better, after one night on the open ground and a second in the trees, they build a rude fort with tall palisades, I know they've learned that large "ambush" predators like bears, wolves and cougars rule the night.

Or, if they're all eaten after a week, that would work, also

Len wrote: "How many on this site feel good about reviews of other books? I had that experience yesterday when I contacted the author about their book. I didn't give it stars. Instead, I suggested changes to m..."

Len was helpful. I wasn't looking for stars, just a sensible, intelligent reader who would express an honest opinion, and that is what I got.

This call for reviewers is now CLOSED. If you're interested in reviewing future books in the series, please either contact me through Goodreads, my website www.shelbykmorrison.com or email shelby@shelbykmorrison.com. Thank you!