The time has finally arrived! The Revived launched yesterday, and I’m absolutely humbled by the outpouring of love you Champions have sent my way, thank you! (Did you guys like Noir? He’s probably my favorite addition, though I do like Alistair and the pirates a lot as well.) I’m also really excited because Solus Miles is actually around for the majority of this book. It was so much fun to really bring him into the fold of things. (And, I’m not gonna lie, I love it whenever he uses Sinistre–his dragon–for combat!)
As a big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review The Revived, I have a short story/extra chapter I’m going to release when the book hits about 70 reviews across Goodreads, Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, etc. The extra is called Return to Luminos. I’m excited about it, because the next book jumps right back into the middle of things, and I did want to show you all the “Fun” that goes down when Kit and the others get back to the big city. Buwahaha.
In other exciting news, the first King Arthurs and Her Knights Boxset is free today through Tuesday, 
September 18! This boxset contains books 1-3 (Enthroned, Enchanted, and Embittered) and some bonus material that isn’t available anywhere else. So even if you have a copy of the first three books, you still might wanna snag this boxset for the extras. Please feel free to tell any friends/family members that might enjoy the series about this deal as well!
Thanks again for all of your support, Champions! I hope The Revived makes you laugh, and/or that you enjoy Britt’s adventures in ancient Britain. Have a lovely weekend!
A-MEN! I love both of them *so* much!
I can’t wait for the extra, seriously!! Also, it’s so hard to wait because I want both Snow White AND the fourth Retha book. Snow White is the fairytale I most enjoy reading retold, but Retha is so awesome 🙂
Hahaha, yeah it is a dilemma as a writer, too, because I love all the worlds as well. (Usually I end up having to make my decisions business-based, though.)
I’ve been running around all the different websites trying to see if there are enough to get the extra out. I even made my brother write a review! Can’t WAIT! 🙂 😀
Wish granted! 😉 It’s out now–check out the newest blog post for the link.
I loved Revived! I could help but enjoy the book and laugh out loud at times because it was sooo funny. I loved the way Kit became allies with the Pirates and the danger she was in when she almost got kidnapped when they were battling the spiders. I can’t wait to read the next books! Kitty you have done a wonderful job!
Thank you, Tiffany! I’ve been “sitting” on the idea of those pirates since book 1 when I introduced her Swear Proficiently skill, so it was so much fun to be able to finally bring them into the story.
That is amazing seeing how the details in the first books are used in later books. Like when reading the second book over there are the Solis Sentinels where a celestial being and dragon statue that reminds me of Pax and Sinistre. I also like how you tip your hat at LOTR with ‘The Password” for Milk Crown guildzone and Pokémon when Kit order Solus Miles to attack the queen spider. I can’t wait for the last two books. I can’t wait to see what Pax was talking about what will be available for Kit.
I’m glad you are enjoying all the fun details! I do like including some geeky references–though I try not to put TOO many in there. 😉
And I also can’t wait to reveal Pax’s abilities. (Or Kit’s legendary class. Lol, that one is going to be oodles of fun.)
Yay! So glad they’ll keep popping up. As a parent myself, I do have a soft spot for Luther and his getting things done while a two year old naps on him ;-). But yes, you can’t really take one without the lot of them! I’d forgotten you intended to do the next things as TWO more books, so now I’m extra excited. Yay “extra” (at least for my sieve-brain) adventures!
Okay, this randomly posted here as well as as a reply further down. Sorry for the duplication, not sure how it happened!
I sped through this so I could start reading it again, aloud, to my family. I had to pause while reading it last night when I got the part where Kit uses “Love’s Call” to summon Miles to the guild meeting because my husband and kids were laughing so hard! I often overhear the littler two using “my sweet honey!” in their play ever since we read the first two books.
My husband really wants to know if the Retha books will ever be available as audiobooks. He has been thoroughly enjoying them and would love to listen to them (repeatedly) on his way to and from work.
Keep up the good work, Kitty! We cannot say enough positive things about your books.
Awww, thank you, Karen, that is so fun and cute to hear! (I am totally blushing right now.) That’s also awesome that you guys enjoy it as a family!
As for audiobooks, I sadly don’t have any plans for that now–but it is something I would love to do in the future!
Love it, love it, love it! I’m dying to know what Solus’ Love Call is like. Kit is always so embarassed by hers…
Buwahaha, don’t worry that will come up eventually!
The book was awesome. It was better than the first two parts and i laughed more. Noir and trash panda were great and noir’s babbling about everyone trying to make him a heal slave was hilarious. Alistair and teara were good too. Loved everytime georgie was taken a peg down. It was nice to see luther’s POV. And obviously kit, miles and paco were wow….
Don’t know which i want more: snow white or book 4 of retha…
So glad you liked it! Trash Panda is like a secret vigilante hero at times. I’m hoping I’ll get to write a scene where he reaalllyyy goes for Georgie, buwahah!
WOW
Just finished The Revived! I’m still processing it! I loved it! It was so funny; I loved getting to see Miles more, the Pirates had me all but rolling on the floor with laughter!
I must admit, I keep drafting home-movie scripts of Retha in my head; the kinds me and my friends do. Or would, if it weren’t for school. And our non-existent special effects budget.
Can’t wait to re-read – maybe I’ll even find a way to get my brother sucked into the series. He loved the humor in Dealing With Dragons, and your books are just as funny!
I did that with Lord of the Rings!! My friends and I still have some of the terrible footage. We tried so earnestly but it is HILARIOUS to watch now. (Mostly because our horses for Rohan were my adorable Icelandic ponies who spend the whole time looking at the camera going “Can you believe they’re making us do this??”)
First off, I am totally in love with Solus Miles (He’s so sarcastic and introverted and I want one). Second of all, this series would be amazing as a cartoon or as a series. I would totally watch that and since I was telling someone about the books and they mention how it sounded like a good TV show I cannot get the idea out of my head. This would be an amazing series. Please give us more soon! I’m so excited for the rest of the series!
It would be fun to see them as a TV show/cartoon! (That would probably instantly transform Solus to be 2X more hilarious as you’d get to see him deliver his lines with a straight face while everyone else wiggs out!)
LOL. I have one! It is one of the reasons I love Miles so much, he is exactly what my BF would be like in that situation.
I am greatly looking forward to spending more time with Solus Miles, myself! Loved him in this book, and enjoying all the new additions, too. I am happy that we got a little bit of the “old crew” out in the real world, too. I was terribly afraid I’d miss them if they were entirely out of the book.
Yeah, I really miss the old crew too. (I was going to say I miss Vic the most, but Vic is awesome because of Cookie, but then Axellent is just…too much, but Luther! Luther is so sarcastically funny and then he needs Gil to be balanced. So…yeah…I miss ALL of them.) They will continue to pop up both in book 4 and 5, so hopefully you will find their conclusion worthwhile! 😀 (And enjoy learning more about Solus, too!)
It’s so hard to wait for the next books! Hope it’s not too long, even though this one literally just came out!
Yay! So glad they’ll keep popping up. As a parent myself, I do have a soft spot for Luther and his getting things done while a two year old naps on him ;-). But yes, you can’t really take one without the lot of them! I’d forgotten you intended to do the next things as TWO more books, so now I’m extra excited. Yay “extra” (at least for my sieve-brain) adventures!
Ahaha as I am NOT a parent I can’t tell you how glad/relieved it makes me to hear that I was able to accurately represent that. (Whew!)
And I think I really only mentioned there would be five books over on my A. M. Sohma face book page and once or twice way back in April, so it’s totally understandable you would forget! 😉 (There’s just too much content! I had some really cool stuff planned that I don’t have the heart to cut out for the sake of finishing the series as planned, sooooo I thought you guys wouldn’t mind if I explanded it another book. 😉 )
The sense of humor on Miles! I mean I knew he had to have one, because let’s face it a hero without one is not interesting. Noir’s personality was great; he made me crack up so often. But Miles really impressed me. Plus, the way the NPC’s ribbed him over Kit was straight up amazing. I was dying. I absolutely can’t wait for the next one. Way to rock it Kitty!
Yeah, Fame and Fortune cracked me up. I love how the characters use them as revenge. Fortune coming out and telling Miles that he could use an armor upgrade was refreshing. I know we love Miles and his ability to take on anything he is up against, but it is nice to be reminded that he is human, too.
I’m glad that both of you enjoyed the characters! I agree with you guys in that I feel like Miles really had a chance to shine–or maybe grow?–in this book as it reveals so much more about him and also makes him not-quite-so-distant. (Give him another book or two with Kit, and that lone-wolf tendency will be history! Hahaha!)