SPFBO 6 Phase 1

Welcome to my not-so-official SPFBO page!

To find out what we were up to in the finals, please check out my SPFBO 6 Finals page!

Before we get to the details of SPFBO 6 Phase 1, let’s get the formalities out of the way first:

The Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off is hosted by none other than Mark Lawrence, author of The Broken Empire, The Red Queen’s War, The Book of Ancestor and Impossible Times trilogies. 300 books compete, judged by 10 blogs and at the end of 10 long, bloody months 1 winner will emerge. You can find every detail on Mark’s SPFBO page along with the process of all 10 blogs in Phase 1.

Team RockStarlit BookAsylum is back for another year! We also got new members and a different process than last year. Instead of everyone sampling all 30 books, we decided to divide our lot among us (everyone got to pick 2 they were most interested in reading, and the rest got sorted randomly). Everyone will pick their favourite from their batch, we’ll read them and eventually pick our finalist.

Find out more about us and how we are going to do things in this Introduction post!

As the other blogs, we got 30 books assigned as well. We have 5 judges, who each will pick 1 semi-finalist once we get through our 6 books each. We will try to write as many reviews as we can. Each judge will have one post up during July – September with mini reviews for their 5 cuts and announcing their semi-finalist. From September through October we’ll post our joint reviews of all 5 semi-finalists before we announce our finalist sometime toward the end of October. Below you can follow our process.

Where available, the book titles are linked to their Goodreads pages.

Color code:

Red: cut
Blue: chosen as a semi-finalist
Purple: chosen as finalist

Belle

Rating	Title	Series	#	Pages	Rating
Clare Sager	Beneath Black Sails	Beneath Black Sails	1	386	7.7
D.K. Holmberg	The Edge of Darkness	The Volatar Saga	1	501	7
Sean Harris	Inescapable	Vampire Wars	1	242	2
E.L. Aldryc	My Friend, The Gifted	The Universe of Infinite Wonder	1	281	7
Ela Bambust	Demon Queen				2
Eric Sparks	Truth Unearthed	A False Dawn	1	304	6

Check out Belle’s mini reviews and semi-finalist announcement!

Jen

Author	Title	Series	#	Pages	Rating
Scott Warren	The Dragon’s Banker	–	–	263	6.7
S. Kaeth	Between Starfalls	Children of the Nexus	1	442	6
Amanda Fleet	Aegyir Rises	Guardians of the Realm	1	279	7.5
Bekah Berge	The Whisperings in the Shadows	Shadow	1	328	6
Edward Nile	Ironshield	The Ironshield Saga	1	604	7.2
Michelle Connor	Where Ravens Soar	Nine World Protection Agency	1	134	6.2

Check out Jen’s mini reviews and semi-finalist announcement!

Nick

Author	Title	Series	#	Pages	Rating
Dave Dobson	Flames Over Frosthelm	Inquisitors’ Guild	1	317	4.5
Eric T Knight	The Knights of Dragonwatch	The Dragon Queen of Chaos	1	268	6.9
Stuart Kurth	Two Blades	True Steel Trilogy	1	596	4
Ginger Li	Half-Blood Mage	Light and Fire	1	282	4
T K P Sternberg	The Singing Gold	Pathfinder of Svitjod	1	496	6.5
Brett Humphrey	Awakening	Dragonborn	1	149	3

Check out Nick’s mini reviews and semi-finalist announcement!

Peter

Author	Title	Series	#	Pages	Rating
Nicholas McIntire	The Hunter’s Gambit	Archanium Codex	1	653	7.3
C M Debell	Silver Mage	–	–	1049	6
Rainbow Maccabre	Political Nightmare	–	–	356	3
Gracen Bridges	Aftershocks	Earthcore	3	169	4
S.L Rowland	Sentenced to Troll	Sentenced to Troll	1	274	3

Check out Peter’s mini reviews and semi-finalist announcement!

Timy

Author	Title	Series	#	Pages	Rating
Michael R. Fletcher	Black Stone Heart	The Obsidian Path	1	487	8
Chris R. Underwood	Shadow of the Lantern Bearer	The Golden Remnant Saga	1	483	7.5
Jennifer R. Povey	Firewing	–	–	242	3
D.H. Willison	Harpyness is Only Skin Deep	–	–	297	5
Jonathan Pembroke	Rumble in Woodhollow	The Holly Sisters	1	494	6
Lily Lashley	Epilogue				7

Check out Timy’s mini reviews and semi-finalist announcement!

The titles are linked to Amazon!

Author	Title	Belle	Jen	Nick	Peter	Timy	Average
Scott Warren	The Dragon’s Banker	6.5	7.5	7	6.5	6	6.7
Clare Sager	Beneath Black Sails	8.5	8	7.5	6.5	8	7.7
Michael R. Fletcher	Black Stone Heart	X	7.5	9	7	8.5	8
Nicholas McIntire	The Hunter’s Gambit	7.5	7	7.5	8	6.5	7.3
Eric T. Knight	The Knights of Dragonwatch	6.5	7	7	7	7	6.9

The Host	Type of party	Link
Ela Bambust	park tea-party and picnic	Join the party!
Eric Sparks	house party	Join the party!
T K P Sternberg	picnic	Join the party!
E. L. Aldryc	house party	Join the party!
D. H. Willison	festival	Join the party
Jonathan Pembroke	Drink-Because-We-Can Party	Join the party!
Grace Bridges	a hot tub party	Join the party!
Rainbow Maccabre	a pub disco	Join the party!
S.L. Rowland	a barbecue	Join the party!
Dave Dobson	Inquisitor’s Guild Graduation	Join the party!
Bekah Berge	a beach party	Join the party!