After a hundred years of watching humans make bad decisions, anyone would be sick of their job as peacekeeper. Reihan, a seaver created to deal with humans who lose control over their manifestation abilities, is no exception.
Welcome to the October 27th stop on the blog tour for The Travelling City by Adrienne Miller with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
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About the Book
The Travelling City
The Travelling City Book One
by Adrienne Miller
Published 21 April 2023
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 369
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After a hundred years of watching humans make bad decisions, anyone would be sick of their job as peacekeeper.
Reihan, a seaver created to deal with humans who lose control over their manifestation abilities, is no exception.
Worse still, virtually all humans in the Travelling City can manifest.
That is, shape reality according to their more or less well-formed and often poorly thought-out designs.
That alone would be enough to keep her busy, but then there are people like Phillippe.
Phillippe, who drenched himself in the city’s collective subconscious to strengthen his inborn powers.
Even though he shouldn’t be, he seems fine, crowned as the new star escort in the Brothel of Transformative Curiosities.
But Reihan has seen this story play out before. And Phillippe is far too charming, far too kind, and far too inconsolable for her to simply look away.
The Travelling City is a dark fantasy mystery packed with romance and even more existential dread; set in a whimsical, bizarre and ever-changing world.
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Excerpt
“Why would you say that to me?”
Phillippe’s voice was still shrill, but it assumed a layer of calm that Reihan found unusual. His eyes fixated on her, almost as if he was intrigued by the callousness lurking behind her words.
“Because I didn’t cause this, Phillippe. Because I was created to solve a problem that you humans could so easily avoid if not for your petulant greed and insistence on breaking every rule, no matter how well-meaning.”
“We had no choice”, Phillippe replied, still with that eerily resigned tone of his.
“I don’t believe that. All you people can manifest at least to a degree. You’ll never truly go hungry, and you’ll never truly go cold. Hells, if you get sick, you can make yourselves healthy, and when you get old, you can make yourselves young, at least for a little while. Everything else is a choice.”
“You don’t know – you wouldn’t understand.”
About the Author
Adrienne Miller writes in the genre of Dark Fantasy; combining beautiful aesthetics with existential dread. Her stories feature complex romances, found family dynamics, and storylines centred on world mysteries.
She has grown up with both classic and new Fantasy, from Michael Moorcok’s Eternal Hero series, Michael’s Scott’s “Thraxas” magical detective romps, to quiet and heart-felt Science-Fantasy by Becky Chambers.
The Travelling City is inspired by her love for the imaginative worlds of old-school role-playing games like Planescape Torment and the intricate character work of urban fantasy authors like Holly Black.
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Giveaway Alert!
Adrienne Miller will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
a Rafflecopter giveaway| Oct 9 | Sandra’s Book Club | Oct 11 | Novels Alive |
| Oct 12 | Read Your Writes Book Reviews | Oct 13 | Dawn’s Reading Nook |
| Oct 16 | A Wonderful World of Words | Oct 17 | Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’ |
| Oct 18 | Kit ‘n Kabookle | Oct 19 | Fabulous and Brunette |
| Oct 19 | Long and Short Reviews | Oct 20 | Hope. Dreams. Life… Love |
| Oct 23 | Joanne Guidoccio | Oct 23 | Straight from the Library |
| Oct 24 | Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read | Oct 25 | The Avid Reader |
| Oct 26 | Literary Gold | Oct 27 | Westveil Publishing |
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Thank you so much for hosting today’s stop on your blog.
I think the cover art looks fantastic. Sounds like a good story.
Happy Friday. What are your typical weekends like?
Sounds like a really good read.