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Forestborn : MM Historical Fantasy Romance
Zeno is gone and Aparis has no memory of how it happened.
One day the lovely human soul is there and the next he’s gone. There is a hole in Aparis memory, and on some days he feels like he’s losing his mind. The more Aparis tries to remember, the more his head hurts, so he calls on the only person who might have some Lord Lotem.
But the Lord doesn’t give out answers or secrets for that matter for free. The question is will Aparis be willing to pay the price?
Lord Lotem has been keeping secrets for so long, he isn’t sure he knows how to share them anymore. For a brief moment he thought he could tell them all to Zeno, but Zeno was gone now, and the only one who feels his absence as keenly as Lord Lotem is Aparis. Aparis who keeps demanding answers. Aparis who let him down before.
Will Aparis pay the very steep price for all his secrets?
Or will he disappoint Lord Lotem again?
One day the lovely human soul is there and the next he’s gone. There is a hole in Aparis memory, and on some days he feels like he’s losing his mind. The more Aparis tries to remember, the more his head hurts, so he calls on the only person who might have some Lord Lotem.
But the Lord doesn’t give out answers or secrets for that matter for free. The question is will Aparis be willing to pay the price?
Lord Lotem has been keeping secrets for so long, he isn’t sure he knows how to share them anymore. For a brief moment he thought he could tell them all to Zeno, but Zeno was gone now, and the only one who feels his absence as keenly as Lord Lotem is Aparis. Aparis who keeps demanding answers. Aparis who let him down before.
Will Aparis pay the very steep price for all his secrets?
Or will he disappoint Lord Lotem again?
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 29, 2024
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J. Tomala
34 books10 followersWriter of (queer) fiction and sometimes artist.
Lover of books, baked goods, plants, art and tentacled things.
Enjoys a bit of horror too.
Gives away review copies (ebooks only).
Lover of books, baked goods, plants, art and tentacled things.
Enjoys a bit of horror too.
Gives away review copies (ebooks only).
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December 1, 2024
The mystery of Lotem and the forestborn finally revealed!
I did have to go back and re-read the last two chapters of Welcome to Hell just to remind myself of where we left off, as this does pick up directly after where Welcome to Hell left off.
Just like Welcome to Hell, this is not a genre romance, even though it’s labeled “historical fantasy romance”. There are romance elements, but the ending of this doesn’t really deliver a HEA. It’s a bit of a cliffhanger too, like Welcome to Hell.
I generally hate reading books where the timeline jumps between past and present, but I did not mind it at all… in fact, I rather enjoyed it. It kept the suspense high.
I think I still prefer Corpseflower the most of the three books so far, but I probably liked this a tad bit more than Welcome to Hell, even if I did miss Zeno almost as much as Aparis did.
This was a difficult book to put down, I stayed up til 2am to finish it. I could read books from this world endlessly and never tire of them.
While it did not interfere with my enjoyment of the book, I did notice quite a few typos, mostly of a similar, but wrong, word being used in place of the word it should be.
Ex. “which” instead of “witch”, “barley” instead of “barely”, “sighting” instead of “sighing”, “inconvenient” instead of “inconvenience”, “back” instead of “beck”, “deluded” instead of “diluted”.
I did have to go back and re-read the last two chapters of Welcome to Hell just to remind myself of where we left off, as this does pick up directly after where Welcome to Hell left off.
Just like Welcome to Hell, this is not a genre romance, even though it’s labeled “historical fantasy romance”. There are romance elements, but the ending of this doesn’t really deliver a HEA. It’s a bit of a cliffhanger too, like Welcome to Hell.
I generally hate reading books where the timeline jumps between past and present, but I did not mind it at all… in fact, I rather enjoyed it. It kept the suspense high.
I think I still prefer Corpseflower the most of the three books so far, but I probably liked this a tad bit more than Welcome to Hell, even if I did miss Zeno almost as much as Aparis did.
This was a difficult book to put down, I stayed up til 2am to finish it. I could read books from this world endlessly and never tire of them.
While it did not interfere with my enjoyment of the book, I did notice quite a few typos, mostly of a similar, but wrong, word being used in place of the word it should be.
Ex. “which” instead of “witch”, “barley” instead of “barely”, “sighting” instead of “sighing”, “inconvenient” instead of “inconvenience”, “back” instead of “beck”, “deluded” instead of “diluted”.
May 8, 2025
i absolutely adored this book. It’s definitely my favorite so far and i loved learning about Lotems upbringing and Aparis digging to find out the truth.
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