The Blood Trials (formerly titled: The Praetorian Trials)
Ikenna Amari, a young woman who is an outsider in the country she calls home, elects to train for the elite Praetorian Guard to discover who murdered her grandfather. Along the way, she learns how to be a leader and how to hone a frighteningly powerful blood magic so that she may wield it against an even greater enemy than the one that she knows of.
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Just finished Blood Gift audiobook. This series was a refreshing change from the more-frequent-than-I'd-like lackluster attempts to find a good new author. Also, that it's a duology, not a10-20 book series.
I anxiously await the prequel tale detailing what the gods were, and the details of their rise & fall.
I applauded that you created a new world, "human society but definitely not Earth" (altho, maybe it is, and the gods reshaped the continents and society to their needs). Things like rewording Occam's razor. If it truly isn't Earth, the nits I've to pick, both in book 2, are the use of a Latin name for Ikenna's squad (but face it, it sounds so right in that context), and Ikenna's…
I love the work that you're doing and I am from Houston Texas but I currently live in Iowa West Des Moines. And I support your books I believe you are a wonderful author I can't wait for you to continue to keep putting out more SFF.
I would love to see a spin-off of the blood trials. Keep doing what you doing continue to be blessed and continue to keep sharing your gift and love for writing with the world. Love the Edwards family.
Will there be another book in the blood gift series after the second book? Or is the second one the last one?