The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe – Giveaway

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I get in a lot of reading time when we go on vacation, and so I was able to thoroughly enjoy this new Tor/Forge Book: The Hum and the Shiver (October 2011), the first in a new series from Alex Bledsoe, when we cruised to Alaska in August.  It captured my attention early on in the book.  It takes place in the present, but has a hint of magic that keeps you pressing for more.

Alex Bledsoe’s new book, The Hum and the Shiver, expertly blends fantasy and the local folklore of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains.  This is where songs live…and can kill.  When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there, quietly living in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history.  But there are clues hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations.  The Hum and The Shiver tells the tale of Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true Tufa and soldier returning home from war.  The book follows her struggles to join in the song of her people and let it lift her onto the night winds and soar beyond her haunted homeland.

“This powerful, character-driven drama, set forth in superbly lucid prose, occurs against an utterly convincing backdrop and owns complications enough to keep everybody turning the pages.”– Kirkus Reviews starred review.

Comparable to the lush magical realism of Charles de Lint and Holly Black’s darkly fantastic Modern Faerie Tales series, The Hum and the Shiver is a fresh fantasy from a truly masterful storyteller.

The Hum and the Shiver will be available at booksellers nationwide and online on September 27, 2011.  It does contain a lot of mature content.

One reader will win The Hum and the Shiver book.

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