Celebrate Lit / September 7, 2022

Blood Secrets

About the Book Blood Secrets

Book: Blood Secrets

Author: Morgan L. Busse

Genre: YA Steampunk Fantasy

Release date: August 9, 2022

Not everyone wants to see the world saved . . .

Time is running out. Cities are being engulfed in the Mist and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Theo believes he has found a way to stop mankind from Turning, but he doesn’t know how to alter Cass’s unique blood into a cure. Or if it can even be done.

Meanwhile, Cass struggles with the idea that she is possibly the savior of the world—a world she is not sure is worth saving.

From the Winchester manse to the steel city of Decadenn, there is something more chasing Cass than the House of Lords or the masked man who can walk in the Mist. Soon she must decide if she will use her blood to save mankind or let those who only care about themselves perish.

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My Thoughts on Blood Secrets

This is part of a series. If you really want to understand this book you’re going to have to read the rest of the series first. I read this in order and am so glad I did. It’s an amazing book on it’s own but with the back story this series is incredible.

This is fantasy. This is science fiction. I’m not a huge fan of either. At all, like I really don’t like them. But this series! I loved it! I was captivated. I could not put them down. Book one was great and I read it first of course, but then I had to wait a bit for book two to come out. I hate waiting when I really want to read something!

Anyway, this book came out and I immediately sat down with it. It’s great. It’s wonderful. But also, it’es too short and I was very upset that it’s just a two book series. I could easily have read on for another two or more books.

Cass is a great hero.

She has blood that could save everyone. But does she want to? And even if she wants to, will she be able to? Can they solve the riddle of why her blood saved her and how it can save others? But also how does she feel about these people who have been killing her people? Does she want to save them? And will they even let her save them or will they just try to kill her instead?

So many good questions. So much mystery and suspense. I loved it! This is a book and series that I can highly recommend.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of Blood Secrets

Morgan L. Busse is a writer by day and a mother by night. She is the author of the Follower of the Word series, The Soul Chronicles, and The Ravenwood Saga. She is a three-time Christy Award finalist and winner of both the INSPY and the Carol Awards for best in Christian speculative fiction. During her spare time, she enjoys playing games, taking long walks, and dreaming about her next novel.

More from Morgan

A lot of stories involve the hero saving the world. But is that realistic if you consider what the hero has been through? What if saving the world means saving the villain? Or that bully who made the hero’s life terrible back in high school? Or the person who lied and it cost the hero his or her job, home, or even their first love?

When I started writing Blood Secrets, it hit me (and therefore Cass as I was writing her story), that if she saved her world—all the people who were forced to live on mountaintops, airships, and sky islands because of the deadly Mist that covered everything else—she would be saving the people who saw her as lesser than. The people who forced everyone else off the mountains to die in the Mist, including her parents.

The same people who would never think of saving someone like her.

As I wrote her story, I felt Cass’s resentment and anger towards the “echelons”—those at the top of society and literally the world. She was fine with saving others like her. But the thought of saving the people who ordered the purges that killed so many made her feel sick.

In her mind, they didn’t deserve her sacrifice.

Honestly, I had never thought about it before.

The hero saves the world.

It’s what a hero does.

But this was the first time I really thought about what that meant, and who it meant saving. It made me look at myself.

Would I be willing to save everyone?

Even those who have hurt me? Who has cost me so much in my life? Ugh. That’s a hard thought.

People love heroes, and sometimes even want to be one themselves. But the reality is being a hero is really hard. It’s not just saving the world; it’s saving those who live in the world. The good and the bad. Those deserving and those not so much. That’s what a real hero does.

I won’t share what decision Cass made because that is part of her story. But I am glad I was able to write her story because it made me think more about how I would react in her situation. And about God, who ultimately gave all to save a world that did not want Him.