Like it says on the tin, I'm looking for a beta reader for my 91k fantasy, GODSFALL. It's a modernization of multiple mythologies, with an LGBT+ romantic subplot. It's been through a couple drafts; grammar/spelling things should be very few and very far between. I'm mostly looking for the big picture stuff: are the characters interesting/dynamic, is the plot moving at a decent pace, does everything flow well, etc. etc.
As far as swapping goes: I'm looking for a quick turnaround--a couple of weeks, ideally, and I'll be able to do the same. I prefer to read SFF, but I also enjoy suspense, thrillers, and some contemp. No erotica or YA romance.
I've included a short blurb below. If it sounds like something you might be interested in, shoot me a PM! I figure we can swap first chapters and see if we want to go from there.
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Blurb:
The first god fell from the sky on August 30, 2028, smack in the middle of London. By the time British Armed Forces took it out, nearly two weeks later, the entire city had been decimated.
After twenty years and dozens more godsfall events, the world is a husk of what it once was. To carve out a living in one of the few remaining cities, Rowan Key, an amoral mercenary with voices in his head and fire at his fingertips, puts his knack for strategy to use taking odd jobs for odder people. Good, bad, legal, illegal—he’s not one to sweat the scruples when the price is right. They bring the brawn, he brings the brain, and everybody walks away with a nice chunk of change.
One night, after a heist well done, he’s welcomed home by a colonel with the Anti-Deitic Coalition, who uses a face from Rowan’s past as leverage to blackmail him into joining the ADC’s Hail Mary of a science experiment. Their mission? To use people like Rowan, ones with godsblood in their veins and the preternatural abilities that come with it, to eliminate a rampaging goddess before she reaches her full strength and unleashes it on the city of Nashville. And if hunting a goddess with his patchwork team of Godsbloods wasn’t dangerous enough, the whispers in Rowan’s head have news for him:
The goddess is hunting him, too.
As far as swapping goes: I'm looking for a quick turnaround--a couple of weeks, ideally, and I'll be able to do the same. I prefer to read SFF, but I also enjoy suspense, thrillers, and some contemp. No erotica or YA romance.
I've included a short blurb below. If it sounds like something you might be interested in, shoot me a PM! I figure we can swap first chapters and see if we want to go from there.
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Blurb:
The first god fell from the sky on August 30, 2028, smack in the middle of London. By the time British Armed Forces took it out, nearly two weeks later, the entire city had been decimated.
After twenty years and dozens more godsfall events, the world is a husk of what it once was. To carve out a living in one of the few remaining cities, Rowan Key, an amoral mercenary with voices in his head and fire at his fingertips, puts his knack for strategy to use taking odd jobs for odder people. Good, bad, legal, illegal—he’s not one to sweat the scruples when the price is right. They bring the brawn, he brings the brain, and everybody walks away with a nice chunk of change.
One night, after a heist well done, he’s welcomed home by a colonel with the Anti-Deitic Coalition, who uses a face from Rowan’s past as leverage to blackmail him into joining the ADC’s Hail Mary of a science experiment. Their mission? To use people like Rowan, ones with godsblood in their veins and the preternatural abilities that come with it, to eliminate a rampaging goddess before she reaches her full strength and unleashes it on the city of Nashville. And if hunting a goddess with his patchwork team of Godsbloods wasn’t dangerous enough, the whispers in Rowan’s head have news for him:
The goddess is hunting him, too.
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