Fiach Fola - Book 2

by Anna Rose

Raising a fledgling isn't easy. The Irish vampire Siofra has made her first fledgling vampire and knows she can't raise him in the big city. In addition to forensic science being just too advanced in the modern world, Nathaniel also has friends and family who think him dead. Thus, she is forced to take Nathaniel overseas, where she can teach him how to be a vampire in a safer place and keep his loved ones from an unfortunate ending of their own.

While there, Siofra and Nathaniel get caught up in local politics and must work together to keep safe the very rare Leone.

"Fiach Fola" is the second book in the Sumaire Web series.
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385 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2012

About the author

Anna Rose is a published author of Urban Fantasy and Young Adult Fantasy, best known for their works under the Sumaire Press imprint. Their first novel, SIOFRA, was published in 2012, followed by FIACH FOLA and DROCH FOLA, with the short story FEASTA FOLA included in the series. Although part of a series, FEASTA FOLA can be read independently.

Anna is currently working on the TALES OF THE DRAGONGUARD series, which starts with AYA’S DRAGON and continues with SARA’S FIRE. Their Patreon page provides a unique first-look opportunity for their subscribers to view their current works in progress in a raw, chapter-by-chapter serialized format.

One of their notable characters is Trevor the Demon, who enjoys cooking in Hell’s Kitchen. Currently, Anna is focusing on their series THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS, which follows Hector Rhoades and his unlikely friendship with the Devil, Luci Inferi. Throughout the series, Hector discovers the dangers of preconceptions and learns that demons are not necessarily to be feared. The first novel, LUCI: RHOADES TO HELL, will be followed by LUCI: RHOADES TO RECOVERY and then LUCI: RHOADES TO REDEMPTION. The series is centered on preconceptions, love, loss, grief, and healing.

Amongst their short stories is TECH SUPPORT: An Infernal Tale, a short humorous horror piece, which tells the story of what happens when Hell's printer goes down. It is currently available in both ebook and audiobook formats.

Anna Rose recently relocated from California to New Hampshire, where they continue to write and expand their literary works. Their writing style is unique and captivating, with an emphasis on creating multidimensional characters that readers can connect with on a personal level. Their passion for storytelling and their ability to immerse readers in imaginative worlds have earned them a dedicated fanbase.

Reviews

[Tammy Chance Cover · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second book in the series and I have read both multiple times. I have to say I love the strong almost real characters that Anna has created. You can almost see yourself watching the story unfold as you read. I can't wait to see what happens next,a real page turner.

[NJ McKim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm finally getting to all those reviews I promised to write. It's true that Fiach Fola is so not writting in the sloppy, romantic b.s. that 95% use. Try it you like it ;-)

[John Steiner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anna Rose's Fiach Fola

For those who are familiar with Siofra by you’ll be pleased to know the saga continues. It begins not long after where Anna Rose’s first novel leaves off. She has to school her “child” in the un-life of vampirism, and at the same time become the junior dance partner in vampire circles predating her by centuries.

Siofra was written to inform the reader of the main character’s past and does that rather well. Fiach Fola also reads like a private journal, but takes place in the protagonist’s modern life’n’times. We learn that vampires aren’t the only mythic creatures in the real world crafted by Anna Rose. What’s more the reader gets to see how a clan-based supernatural society comes about through a different culture.

Much of the book is told through a reflective perspective that lends one to think Fiach Fola might translate into Vampire Tuesday, but I don’t necessarily consider that a bad thing. Not every story is a major quest nor every protagonist on a grand mission.

As such most of the novel’s side plots don’t come across as challenges to the quadru-centenarian Siofra. I rather believe that’s by design, so as to invoke a sense of how fleeting those events are to someone with multiple lifetimes of experience.

The vampire puns are fast and frequent, but you are fairly warned in advance. There are times of repetitive description, over-description and tangential description that at times pulled me out of the story, but overall Fiach Fola paints a larger more in depth picture of nightcrawler politics and the surprising degree of needed diplomacy between the dead youngsters of only centuries and those who probably predate the second millennium A.D.

The larger subplot includes villains who seem a bit flat. That entails the actions and motivations of human villainy common to Iraq, and is based on observations combat vets who served tours there. However, the true story surfaces in its due course to remind you that life issues pale in comparison to un-death problems by an order or magnitude or three.