The Fire Rain Chronicles Five-Year Anniversary {USA GIVEAWAY}

 

Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hiiiii! 

Remember how I said something big was going to happen one July 1st in my anniversary post? Well that's still going to happen (see the end of the post for details) but it turns out another big thing is going to happen today! And that is because TODAY, this most fabulous *April 24th, 2021, marks The Fire Rain Chronicles' (Azalei's Riders, Azalei's Strategy, and Azalei's Fall in that order), FIVE year anniversary! 

I am a big fan of Miranda Marie (the author of TFRC as well as the books Echoes and Mirage). And so to thank that wonderful woman for writing these wonderful books, here's Bleeding Ink's very first giveaway!  

I have decided to be a nice host and not make you read through this whole post before entering (because I know some people see "giveaway" and enter without really caring if they actually want the product or not), so first off here's the giveaway:

-Giveaway Information-

The prizes:

There will be three winners, and thus three prizes!

3rd place: A kindle copy of Azalei's Riders

2nd place: A kindle copy of Azalei's Riders as well as Azalei's Strategy 

1st place: The completed TFRC trilogy! Azalei's Riders, Azalei's Strategy, and Azalei's Fall with your choice of paperback or kindle copies! 

(The giveaway will be limited to the USA, I'm afraid. Hopefully in the future I will be able to offer giveaways that extent to all countries, as non-Americans should get to read these books, too!) 

How to enter:

All I need you to do to enter this giveaway isssss....

-Share this post (save it to a Pinterest board, send the link to a friend, post it on social media, post of of the graphics (at the end of the post) on social media, etc.)

-Email me (at edna.pellen@gmail.com) to confirm your entry by providing visual evidence that you shared the post (screenshots, links to your posts, those such things) as well as telling me your first name.

-Comment on this post (about anything! Seriously you can even just say "boop beep". No profane or inappropriate comments, though, that's the exception.)

How winners will be chosen:

Once you've entered (again, by commenting and by emailing me), I'll draw names at random and we'll see who wins! I will then personally email the three winners and provide them with their digital copies, and/or ask for their place of residence if the first place winner chooses paperback copies.  

The Deadline:

The deadline for this giveaway will be May 11th (chosen because May 11th is the date that the books were republished on), so if you want to participate, make sure you enter by then! 

By May 12th, I will email the winners to let them know that they won. 

If you win:

I don't require anything, but it would really help the authors out if you left a review on as many review sites as possible (just one is okay too ;D) and told some friends about it. 

Also, if it turns out that you really like the books once you've read them, you should come back here and tell me about it! It would also be really sweet if you reached out to Miranda Marie and told her that you liked them, because it's always wonderful to be told that someone enjoyed something you made and indie authors don't get a lot of that.

-Information about the Books-

Alright, you've read the giveaway part, now here's the information on the actual books.

Overview: 

The Fire Rain Chronicles is a YA sci-fi dystopian trilogy that is independently published. Taking place in the early 3000s, it explores many interesting and sometimes difficult topics in a new light.

These books are filled to the rim with great and convicting characters, intense sequences, good worldbilding, good prose, and engaging narration, all while remaining clean content-wise (though there is violence) without breaking the realism. 

Book Description:

I am listing all three books' descriptions, but I personally would skip reading the last two if you've not already read the book that comes before them, because the descriptions kind of give a few things away. Not fully to spoiler point, but it's better safe than sorry.

Azalei's Riders:

It's the early 3000s and for the Southern Countries, there has never been a better time to live in. Technological advances have made the need for roads obsolete and drastically reduced the amount of earth needed to grow crops. As a result, much of the planet has been plunged back into the breathtaking, unknown wilderness it once was; a fact that has, for centuries, been celebrated. 

Until now. 

With the disappearances - thousands vanishing out of the sky every time a transport leaves on of the cities - it is soon becoming clear that the jungle that now separates the islands of civilization is harboring an enemy. Someone is here, I their forests, on their land, hiding somewhere in the vast, impenetrable space. Someone they can't see or detect. Someone who is making the cities go dark, on by one.

How do you fight an enemy who slips passed your radars, is undetected by your satellites, and concealed from your scouts?

Turn the tables. Develop your own secret weapon. One just as invisible to them as they are to you. 

Only this weapon isn't made of gears and wires. It's not moving pieces and a quick plug in to recharge. This one doesn't have a control panel, a comfortable seat, an air conditioned cockpit.

This weapon breathes.

Azlaei's Strategy:

Sometimes lines get blurred.

Sometimes the truth is a lie, and the lies are the truth. 

Sometimes what you believed was rain is really fire.

Sometimes your saving grace is the destruction you've been fearing. 

Azalei's enemy isn't the kind that subjects his people through fear and threats. He's a more dangerous kind of enemy - the kind that weaves hope and safety into chains. The kind that inspires, enthralls, and enraptures. He has always known that fear loses to hope in the end, and so he became the hope.

That leaves Azalei with the weaker weapon. She has to convince a country of happy, contented people that Carson isn't a hero at all - that he is, in fact, turning their children into weapons, filling their heads with lies of a greater tomorrow, and then robbing that tomorrow from the countries surrounding them. 

And she has to do it at her own trial.

Armed with a few young adults that are hardly more than children, a file of information, and a couple dozen dragons, she has as long as it takes a jury to find her guilty of treason to prove that Carson is the opposite of everything he's claimed to stand for. And that's if she can keep herself and the children from being murdered beforehand. 

Welcome to the game of strategy. 

Azalei's Fall:

A happy ending for all but one.

It's the last stage of Azalei's extensive, daring, world-inclusive plan. One more move and it'll all be over, for good. But with all of the Souther Country's people trapped in an inhospitable wilderness, some of her most prominent allies among them, the last piece of strategy isn't enacted before Carson uses his influence to turn her closest companion to his side.

Losing allies and watching as the world teeters on the edge of giving into Carson's threads, Azalei must return home and confront her people. Yet, even though tensions are rising world-wide, at home she is welcomed as their country's rightful queen. Her people ready to rise to her call, the world waiting for the moment she takes the throne and resolves this war before it begins, the Families prepared to back her in whatever way she asks, she makes a final move that no one could have seen coming. 

In twist after twist that rattles everything Azalei's allies thoughts they knew about her, Arae's true intentions finally come to light, and they're nothing anyone could have imagined. With Carson exposing a new side to his own plan that pushes the world into the brink, and their faith in Azalei disintegrating before their eyes, Azalei's friends start to question everything they thought they knew about the game they've been playing these last few months. 

In the aftermath, the only questions that will remain are these: Who is friend, who is foe, and who will burn?

Author Info:

Bio: 

Miranda Marie is 24 years old and lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She began writing when she was about 10 years old. Because she was dyslexic, reading was very difficult for her. Finding writing easier, she lost herself in worlds of her own making. 

She participates in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) every fall, where she wrote and reworked all her books. She enjoys the community there, where she met many of her friends.

She's fascinated by turtles, as she believes they are essentially mini dragons with built-in armor.

 

Socials:

Her website: Sincerely, Miranda Marie

Other:

Here's my fandom Pinterest board for The Fire Rain Chronicles: TFRC fan board

Keep an eye on that board (and my Pinterest account in general) for review posts and related content. 

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Alright, there you have it! That's how you can enter the giveaway, that's what the books are about, and what's who the author is. Now what are you waiting for? Join the giveaway! ;D 

Last thing before I go...

July 1st surprise: 

Given the nature of this post, I figured I should just go ahead and tell you what the July 1st thing is. It isssss...

ANOTHER GIVEAWAY!

Yep! This giveaway will be for Dragons' Bane by Melody Jackson. 

The reason why I promoted that giveaway and not this one is because I actually didn't plan on doing this giveaway this year. But then I found out this was the five year anniversary for The Fire Rain Chronicles, and threw it together sort of last minute. 

So. If you're more of a fantasy person, come back on July 1st for that giveaway! ;D 

Aaaand that's all folks. Are you going to enter either of these giveaways? Have you read these books before? Do you put milk in your tea (I couldn't think of any other related questions okay)?

I'd love to hear from you below. 

- Edna Pellen

*The books, Amazon, and Google will say that Azalei's Riders (the first book in the series) was released on May 11th of 2018. This, however, is not true. If you go far enough back on Miranda Marie's FaceBook page you'll see it was published back in 2016, and if you look on GoodRead's date for when it was published, you'll it was April 24th of 2016.

The reason that those places say otherwise is because Marie re-published the books on that date. The original date, however, is April 24th, 2016, making this the five-year anniversary of The Fire Rain Chronicles.