Book Spotlight: Imperfect Illusions by Vanora Lawless

A drafted empath. A dreamwalking poet. A world at war.

Chicago, 1917.

Idealistic, aspiring poet, Elliot Stone can make people feel euphoria or horror with a simple touch. But that's only part of his magical abilities. He can also wake in the dreams of people he cares deeply for.

Stubborn, fiercely independent Warren “Sully” Sullivan is an illusionist with a secret: he feels the emotions of others as visceral sensations. A lifetime of fending for himself and parsing feelings that aren’t his own has left him guarded.

An intoxicating, intense connection on their last night of freedom should be nothing more than a one-night stand. And it is. Until Elliot awakens in Sully's nightmare with an overpowering urge to save him, regardless of his carefully crafted moral code.

As tragedy draws them together in real life to battle enemies with twisted magic, weakness is a disastrous liability. When keeping safe means revealing his to Elliot, can Sully take the risk?

GENRE: Romance, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

LINKS: Amazon | Goodreads | StoryGraph

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Vanora Lawless is a genderfluid disaster bi with ADHD and a passion for telling love stories set in magical or niche historical worlds. In spare time between crafting new worlds and stories, Vanora can be found poorly practicing guitar, curled up in a blanket burrito with a good book, or currently, marathoning Teen Wolf like it's 2013.

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About BBNYA and the Spotlight Tours

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 16 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out www.bbnya.com or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Check out the other books that have been part of the tour so far:

• A Blend of Magic by Kate Kenzie
• Accrue's End: Affliction by E.R. Smo
• Agent. Mother. Other. by Sharn Lee
• All In by Russell Isler
• Anathema and Tidbit by Stephanie Barr
• Angels by Rachel Churcher
• Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton
• Black Stone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher
• Daughter of the Beast by E C Greaves
• Disenchanted by Brianna Sugalski
• Grave Covenant by Tobias Youngblood
• Healer's Blade by Kyrie Wang
• Heir to The Sun by Karen Lykkebo

and more coming soon up until the 4th of December!

To browse through the list of all the entrants, check out this Pinterest board! Nearly 300 authors signed up their books this year, and the quality's been amazing that we've indeed had a challenge scoring the entries. We're currently in the final round and the competition is just so tight. Stay tuned for the winner announcement this December!

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Hi! I'm Marie, a Filipino SFFH author and book reviewer currently based in the UK. I’m the co-author of The Prophecies of Ragnarok, a Norse myth new adult urban fantasy trilogy, and I also have several short stories published in anthologies and literary journals.

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All things end, and all must die.

But death is not always the end.

When Geiravor Lokisdottir was stripped of her name and cast out of Asgard, torn from her family and the life she had known, she thought she’d lost it all. But in the shadows of Niflheim she discovers the path to her destiny, and what it truly means to be queen.

This is a prequel short story to THE PROPHECIES OF RAGNAROK trilogy by Meri Benson and Marie Sinadjan, and a retelling of the myths involving Hel, the Norse goddess of death and the queen of the underworld.