Winners of the Charlotte E English’s Draykon Series giveaway!

We’ve has an amazing week with Charlotte, with a lot of people getting introduced to her wonderful Draykon Series. I really want to that Charlotte for taking the time out, during one of the most important weeks of her writing and coming to visit the blog and sharing such wonderful insights into her writing and her books with us

 As many of you already know, we had a huge giveaway to launch the third and final book in the series during the Featured Author Week. Thank you to everyone who entered. As with all giveaways, not everyone can win, but quite a few of you have! So, congratulations to all our winners, and for everyone else, remember to check out Charlotte’s books here.

For those of you who missed the extravaganza, here is a quick recap:

Day One: A Biographical write-up by Charlotte
Day Two: Charlotte’s books – An Introduction to the Draykon series
Day Three: My review of ‘Orlind’, the third book in the series
Day Four: An interview with Charlotte E English
Day Five: Guest post
Day Six: Short story by Charlotte involving Tren

And now for the big announcement! Here are our winners of the giveaway!

Winners of the entire series:

1. bn100
2. Amber Ivers

Winners of individual books:

Draykon:

1. Larry Kroesing
2. Penumbra
3. Elisa Nuckle
4. puttputt1198eve
5. Anubha Agarwal

Lokant:

1. Tricia
2. Kimara Cheney
3. Erick Ruvalcaba

Orlind:

1. Omkar Kumbhar

Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!

The winners will be contacted directly by Charlotte soon, so be on the lookout for an email from her! Also, please respond to the email as soon as possible, as I would have to draw a different winner if we don’t hear back from our winners within 72 hours. Remember to visit the Giveaways page to enter into more exciting giveaways running currently!

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Cover Reveal for Orlind (Draykon, #3) by Charlotte E. English

This is something I have been waiting desperately for! When I first received the ARC of Orlind, I wanted to know what the cover was going to look like. Each book in Charlotte’s series has had remarkably wonderful, eye-catching covers.  The art work is simply mesmerizing on each of them. When I heard that the cover would not be ready for quite some time, I was hugely disappointed. I kept pestering Charlotte for updates which she did not really have.

Well, the wait is finally over! Today, I get to reveal the fantastic cover for the third and final book in the Draykon Series!

The cover depicts one of the seminal points in the story, where Llandry and Pensould are fighting the war, on the side of the humans. I won’t say more as I do not want to give away a MAJOR plot point. I think you should just go ahead and read this amazing series if you want to know more! :P

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Cover Reveal for Orlind (Draykon, #3)

by Charlotte E. English!

Interview with Charlotte E. English, author of the Draykon Series

Today is a very special day, as I get to interview one of my favorite indie authors! Charlotte E. English is the author of the Draykon series. I have given each book in the series a 5 star rating, so you can imagine how much I like them.

I have one more treat for you. As part of the ‘Featured Author Week’, Charlotte is also appearing on two other blogs, where you can take a look at two amazing character interviews!

Here are the links to the two blogs:

1. Ebook Apothecary
2. Urban Fantasy Reviews

Now, I can’t wait any longer, so lets get started!

Describe your series? What genre would you classify it into?

The Draykon Series is high fantasy, set in a rather whimsical alternate world. It also has a strong mystery element.

Ritesh: You can find a much longer description of the series here!

How did you come up with the idea for the series?

I hardly know! It can be difficult to figure out precisely where an idea came from. I’m sure that my love of books like Alice in Wonderland had something to do with it, though; I’ve always been fascinated by really original (and whimsical) world-building, and that’s where Draykon really started – with an idea for a weird and wonderful world.

Review of Orlind (Draykon #3) by Charlotte E. English

Orlind (Draykon #3) by Charlotte E. English

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: If you have not read the previous two books in the series, this review is going to have some major spoilers for you.

Do you like it when a series ends perfectly? Is it not nice to know that everything that was left unanswered in the previous books is finally answered by the author and the loose ends are tied together is the most perfect of bows? Personally, I don’t like series which end with things not explained clearly, or where it is left to the readers’ imagination about what happened to the characters after the series ended.  If you like your series to finally end, and to end well, then this is the book. This is definitely the biggest reason why I am giving this book a five-star rating.

At the end of the last book in the series, we all knew that a war was coming, a war where the draykoni were going to try and lay claim to the world and fight the humans to regain control. Well, we are definitely not disappointed in that regard. The war forms one of the main story arcs in the book and it is a grand war, with everyone from humans to drakoni to the Lokants involved in it. In fact, the second big story arc in the book is about how the Lokants influence and meddle with everything that is going on. Of course, as expected Krays and Limbane end up on opposite sides of the war. I can’t tell you much more about the lokants’ influence on the whole situation without giving away the ending, but I’ll just tell you that there is a lot more going on than you can ever imagine. The war between Limbane and Krays is much more important than some petty rivalry.

Charlotte introduces the Draykon series

The Draykon Trilogy is the first segment of a planned, well, sequence of series. The three books (Draykon, Lokant and Orlind) cover the first big story arc: what happens when Llandry Sanfaer, a young, shy jeweller, stumbles across a strange – and strangely mesmerizing – new gemstone? The consequences of that discovery will completely change both, her life and her world. By the end of this trilogy, humans are no longer the only sentient species in the Seven Realms world: an ancient race has returned and the two will have to find ways to co-exist.

The Seven Realms is an odd place, composed of lands where it’s always light (the Daylands) and realms where it’s always dark (the Darklands). Existing alongside the Seven are two alternate planes of reality, colloquially known as the Uppers (connected most closely to the Daylands) and the Lowers (connected to the Darklands). These Off-Worlds, as they are collectively known, are dangerous and unpredictable and nobody really knows how they work or how to survive there reliably. Both places are important throughout the series.

There are two main protagonists across this trilogy, both women. Llan Sanfaer is a twenty-year-old, winged human of the Daylands Realm of Glinnery. She’s an only child, and as a result her parents are particularly protective of her. She’s a jeweller by trade and extremely shy. Her counterpart, Lady Evastany Glostrum, is her opposite in many ways: she’s a mature woman and an aristocrat of the Darklands realm of Glour. Both women will be bound up in the world-shaking series of events that follows the discovery of Llandry’s gem.

There are secrets galore surrounding Llandry and Eva’s world, many of which are discovered over the course of the trilogy. What is so special about this gem, that someone is willing to kill for it? Who are the strangely powerful white-haired sorcerers who seem to be involved every step of the way? Why are they interested in the stone, and the world that produced it? And what really became of the mysterious Seventh Realm?

The first trilogy draws to a close with the release of the third book, Orlind, in a few days’ time. Later this year I’ll be starting work on the next set of books (maybe another trilogy, I’m not yet sure). These will be set in the same world, and will take place after the events of the first series. We’ll be meeting some new protagonists, plus revisiting many of the characters from the Draykon books. When the dust of the racial wars has settled, how will the new Seven Realms look? What will become of the Off-Worlds once their old masters have returned? And have we really seen the last of the Lokants?