Allowing the Night Audiobook Is Out

Allowing the Night, A Dark Fantasy Romance, by T. S. Winterway is now available as an audiobook! I am both proud and saddened to say it's available exclusively on Aspenn Fantasy Payhip store for $4.99 plus tax according to the regional regulations. 

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Allowing the Night has been reviewed by several LibraryThing users if you'd like to find out how others deem the story before purchasing. If you want my opinion, it's a lovely little book, an enchanting bedtime story for adults.

When it comes to the audio version of my book, I've buried the project. The Heirs of Duty is such a long book that converting it to audio, even with AI software, would be too expensive and time-consuming. If I could expect sales, I would take the gamble, but I've long since ceased to hope that I'd get back even a fraction of the resources I've invested in Braenduir Chronicles. 

Even though Smashwords' Read an E-Book Week was a success -a year ago, I would've been over the moon, imagining so many downloads must lead to a handful of reviews at least- I no longer nurture a silly hope that anything more would come out of it. I am still working on the series -a part of me just can't ditch the project, though I know it's nothing if not a waste of time- but whether Rues of the Heroes will ever be published remains to be seen. 

So much for whining, however. It's as useless in marketing a book as the feigned positivity. I hope from the heart that my friend's book gets more attention than mine.

 

Giving a Much-Hyped Book a Go

Everyone was rambling about ACOTAR, so I decided to determine whether it's worth the fuss.  Turned out, it isn't. Had I chosen to read the book instead of listening to it, I would've given up on it after the first couple of chapters. Even listening to it until the end was a challenge.

Why? Because the plot is tedious and predictable. And that's all I've got to say about it.

The development of the main character made me want to tear my hair off. In the first chapters, she seems like my type of female character, strong, independent... All in all a girl who goes her own way. Soon enough she shrinks into a typical female lead of a romantic story, becoming but a groupie for the male lead. The book doesn't offer an explanation for why she loses herself like that. Is it because of sheer love, or does Tamlin put her under a spell? If it's the latter, her trajectory would be acceptable.

I could rant on and on about how disappointed I was in this book, but I believe, I've made my point already. It's not for me, and wasting time reading the sequels hasn't even crossed my mind. However, this is only my personal opinion, and I do encourage everyone to form their own by reading the book themselves, instead of taking my word for that one could figure out many a less frustrating way to spend their time.