free e-book!
I've periodically mentioned Underwood & Flinch, a series of novels written and performed for podcast by Mike Bennett that I've been following for a couple of years now. He's made the original novel free as e-book on Amazon for today and Monday:
US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0821BMY8B
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0821BMY8B
(I don't know if either site limits you geographically.) Here's his blurb:
All David Flinch ever wanted was a normal life. But when you're a member of the Flinch family, normal has never been easy.
For hundreds of years, the eldest male Flinch has been servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood. While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family's lord and master, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out. After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David’s sister, Lydia. It’s a job she means to have, even if it means making David’s the first blood shed in this new age of Underwood and Flinch.
From a fandom perspective: I would rate this M but more for violence than for sex; there is some not-very-explicit sexual content, but there is no f/f or m/m other than a little implied in an orgy scene. I also remember there's a bit of alluded to past f/m incestuous thoughts. There's very little romantic content overall as it's mostly adventure/action/horror with a little humor that mostly comes from the fish-out-of-water aspect of Underwood dealing with the modern world.
I will say that Bennett does an extraordinary job with the podcast, the equal of any professional audiobook I've listened to, and his intros and outros are also enjoyable, so if you like audiobooks I would recommend the podcasts, which I believe are free for book 1 (the same one that is free as ebook). The rss feed on his site seems to be borked, but perhaps the various app versions work? (He's currently on the fourth book, which is Patreon-only.)
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US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0821BMY8B
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0821BMY8B
(I don't know if either site limits you geographically.) Here's his blurb:
All David Flinch ever wanted was a normal life. But when you're a member of the Flinch family, normal has never been easy.
For hundreds of years, the eldest male Flinch has been servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood. While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family's lord and master, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out. After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David’s sister, Lydia. It’s a job she means to have, even if it means making David’s the first blood shed in this new age of Underwood and Flinch.
From a fandom perspective: I would rate this M but more for violence than for sex; there is some not-very-explicit sexual content, but there is no f/f or m/m other than a little implied in an orgy scene. I also remember there's a bit of alluded to past f/m incestuous thoughts. There's very little romantic content overall as it's mostly adventure/action/horror with a little humor that mostly comes from the fish-out-of-water aspect of Underwood dealing with the modern world.
I will say that Bennett does an extraordinary job with the podcast, the equal of any professional audiobook I've listened to, and his intros and outros are also enjoyable, so if you like audiobooks I would recommend the podcasts, which I believe are free for book 1 (the same one that is free as ebook). The rss feed on his site seems to be borked, but perhaps the various app versions work? (He's currently on the fourth book, which is Patreon-only.)
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth