Gina Rae Mitchell

BBNYA Winner’s Tour: #11~ These Violent Nights by Rebecca Crunden

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) celebrates the top 15 finishers in the 2022 competition with an incredible round of blog tours. I hope you enjoy learning more about the winners as much as the panelists enjoyed reading these fabulous books. These winners are the best of the best. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate with the authors by reading the books and leaving your reviews. Congrats to all!

If you want more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website or take a peek over on Twitter, @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with The Folio Society (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads. As usual, a big thank you to Noly for designing and creating the banners! Now is the time to sign up for the 2023 competition. It’s projected to be bigger and better than ever before!

And now on to the epic winner’s tour!

   

Book Details

These Violent Nights by Rebecca Crunden
Published by Independent on March 31, 2021
Genres: Epic Fantasy, Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy, Romance
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 635

Once upon a time, inhabitants of another world tore a hole through the universe and came to Earth. They called themselves Suriias, and rivalled humans in knowledge and skill with one great exception: they had magic.

War followed. Humanity lost. And three hundred years later, humans are on the brink of extinction.

Orphans Thorn and Thistle live in hiding. They are the last of their families, the last of their friends. They scrape by, stealing to survive and living on the streets or hiding in sheds. But even under the brutal regime of the Suriias, there are places where humans can mingle in secret with magical sympathisers, and one night Thistle gets an unexpected offer of marriage from a Suriia with high standing and friends in all the right places. For Thistle, it’s a chance at safety and comfort; for Thorn, it’s a chance to find the ones who killed her parents.

And so the pair move into the capital city of Courtenz. An urban monstrosity of magic and might, false friends and flying cars, drones and death tolls, the new city promises a fresh start – and new love – for both.

But if there’s one thing Thorn knows for certain, it’s that dreams can swiftly turn into nightmares.

Source: BBNYA, Kindle Unlimited, The Write Reads Tours

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Purchase Links for These Violent Nights

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My thoughts on These Violent Nights

Let’s just start by saying I loved this book. The world-building is phenomenal, the characters are well-developed, and the pace is perfect.

The author has mastered the fine art of showing without telling, so you won’t find massive info dumps throughout the story. This keeps the pace moving, so the tale captures and holds your attention. There were no noticeable typos or grammatical errors.

The many characters are well-delineated to make each memorable, but if you are like me, I keep a notecard handy to prevent confusion. Sometimes, I get so engrossed in the tale that I forget points I want to make in my review. This is definitely one of those books. So I apologize if I ramble a bit.

In a dystopian world, people have to make hard choices. This creates some morally gray areas, but I can see why each choice was made.

Thorne is a tortured soul. She and Thistle are the last of their human cohort, and survival is the top-most on her list. After living in hiding, stealing food, and protecting Thistle, she’s not ready to accept help from the overlord Suriias. Thistle is tired. Tired of being cold, hungry, and on the run.

When the opportunity comes to bind themselves to the only decent Suriias they have ever met in exchange for returning to living openly, they take a chance—Thistle for comfort and Thorne for the chance to avenge her parent’s death.

From this point on, everything is suspect, and there are plot twists I never saw coming. More characters are introduced, some minor, but a few, like Lucien, play a much larger role.

I’m giving this book a 5-Star rating and recommending it to all lovers of dystopian novels with a bit of romance, danger, and epic fantasy adventure.

The breakdown of my rating is below.

World-Building – 5
Characters – 5
Writing – 5
Plot – 4
Themes – 4
Enjoyment – 5

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