BLOG TOUR: Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

Wicked Saints 

By Emily A. Duncan

Thank you so much to St. Martin's Press for sending me an eARC of Wicked Saints and for allowing me to be apart of the blog tour!

To start things off here is the synopsis of the book:

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A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.

A prince in danger must decide who to trust.

A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. 

Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.

In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. 

Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.


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If that synopsis sounds like something right up your alley, I have a special treat for you! Here is an excerpt of the book:

EXCERPT

Q&A

I also had the pleasure of asking Emily some questions about Wicked Saints and her writing process:

⚔️ Q: What character would you say was the easiest to write and which character was the hardest?

A: They all have their challenges! Serefin’s voice is the easiest for me but he’s a hard character to get moving. Nadya’s voice is a little more difficult but she’s so ready to fight everything all the time that it makes it fun. Malachiasz is just…. so convoluted and has so many moving parts to his character that he is his own particular challenge, even though actually writing him is never easy because he just does what he likes. I’m just along for the ride with him.

⚔️ Q: What gave you the inspiration to write Wicked Saints?

I was playing Skyrim! It was, obviously, a long and multifaceted journey to actually writing it, as the idea came three years before the first draft, but it all started when I was avoiding writing a paper in college and my character in Skyrim fell off a mountain.

⚔️ Q: What was the hardest part about writing Wicked Saints?

Nothing happened like it was supposed to. I never have an outline, but I had a plan with this book that was blown to pieces when Malachiasz showed up. Which, in hindsight, it’s fine, the book was never working without him, but it was a challenge to have finally finished a draft and realized it wasn’t so much a story as a collection of loosely tied together garbage fires. It took a lot of revision to get this book into shape.




Hopefully between the excerpt and the Q&A you will have enough Wicked Saints related content to last you until your copy comes! I know I cannot wait to start reading this one and will be back soon with a review.

Don't forget to preorder or request from your library as Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan comes out April 2nd 2019 and its definitely a fantasy that you're not going to want to miss!