{"id":32621,"date":"2016-06-25T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32621"},"modified":"2016-06-23T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:07:08","slug":"just-arrived-the-blood-in-the-beginning-by-kim-falconer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/25\/just-arrived-the-blood-in-the-beginning-by-kim-falconer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: “The Blood In The Beginning” by Kim Falconer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blood<\/a>Kim Falconer is a friend and fellow author from the Supernatural Underground<\/a>, which makes the arrival of her latest book, paranormal urban fantasy, The Blood in the Beginning<\/em><\/a>, doubly exciting.<\/p>\n

And because I’ve taken a sneak peek already, I can tell you that The Blood in the Beginning<\/em><\/strong> features a heroine called Ava Sykes who is truly take-no-prisoners and kickass.<\/p>\n

I can also tell you that this book is fast-paced and I love the world building already.<\/p>\n

But since it’s a “just arrived”, what does the back cover blurb have to say:<\/p>\n

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Ava Sykes Wants To Put The Past Behind Her … But Some Things Just Won’t Die<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Some things are better left in the dark . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate by day, bouncer by night, Ava Sykes is just trying to make her way in New LA, a city recovering in the \u2018Aftermath\u2019 the time after an earthquake tore the country apart. Ava studies hard, trains at the local dojo, and teaches kids self-defence. Sure, she has a rare blood disorder and a stolen identity, but who doesn\u2019t keep a few secrets these days? Life is tough, but when Ava takes a job at the trendy new club, Poseidon, her financial worries seem to be over.Then the evil wakes up.After stumbling into the VIP area of the club, where humans are on the menu, Ava is attacked in the street, and finds herself in the hospital, trying to put the pieces together. The bizarre hallucinations aren\u2019t helping, and neither is Dr. Miguel Rossi, the man who claims to know more about her origins than she does.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Shocked to the core at the discovery, Ava begins a search for her birth mother \u2014 and the truth \u2014\u00a0 but with a copycat killer on her tail, the attractive and powerful Daniel Bane offering to protect her and a doctor bent on unravelling her mysterious \u2018condition\u2019, the facts are hard to pin down. Meanwhile, the \u2018otherness\u2019 in her blood makes her increasingly irresistible to all the wrong people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ava used to dream of knowing where she came from but faced with the truth, she\u2019d give anything to forget.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Kim’s also made a book trailer, which you can check out here:<\/p>\n

The Blood In The Beginning<\/em> — trailer<\/a><\/h4>\n

No reviews yet — but with The Blood In The Beginning<\/em> and Ava Sykes about to hit the streets next month, I am sure there will be soon.<\/p>\n

I am hoping, too, that Kim will join me here for a guest post and some giveaway fun, and we may be going to do a Q&A on Twitter as well — so definitely Watch This Space. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kim Falconer is a friend and fellow author from the Supernatural Underground, which makes the arrival of her latest book, paranormal urban fantasy, The Blood in the Beginning, doubly exciting. And because I’ve taken a sneak peek already, I can tell you that The Blood in the Beginning features a heroine called Ava Sykes who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32621"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32629,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions\/32629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}