Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Bleikovat Event by Hawk MacKinney

 

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Book Details:

Book Title:  Inanna Phantom, Volume III - The Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series by Hawk MacKinney
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  270 pages
Genre:  Science Fiction
Publisher:  Sage Words Publishing
Release date:  Sep 2019
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.

Book Description:

The threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Murian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory. An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe. The Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc. Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated. As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.

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Book Details:

Book Title:  The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Bleikovat Event (Volume 1) by Hawk MacKinney
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  228 pages
Genre:  Science Fiction
Publisher:  Sage Words Publishing
Release date:  Oct 2012
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic. 

Book Description:

From a rocky outcrop a battle-widowed Etkaa, gazed down at the death and upheaval. Rancid green Murian blood stenched the dusklit breezes from the haze-dimmed river marshlands. Nothing has been spared by the Green Dragon forces of Bleikovia. In skirmishes along the Feldon River, Etkaa’s mate is fatally wounded with deadly selvon poison. Through a gruesome mountain trek of icy blizzards, they elude the Green Dragon. The battered starving Feldovats reach the coast at Eedov City only to be confronted by their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded Maalon freighters, the refugees escape toward a new life among their Maalon hosts. Enraged Bleikovats move against the Klarvkons, bringing indiscriminate bloodshed. War once again surfaces, as it did in the muddy filth along the Feldon River of Malfesov, and becomes a different kind of war.

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Book Details:

Book Title:  The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Missing Planets (Volume 2) by Hawk MacKinney
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  228 pages
Genre:  Science Fiction
Publisher:  Sage Words Publishing
Release date:  Oct 2012
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.

Book Description:
Generations after the great Murian upheaval of the Malfesian War against the Bleikovats, the Accords between planets Terato and Myr are signed. Provisional Outpost Terato is under construction near a farm where Teratoan orphan Eklam a’Qoc lives with his uncle and cousin.

Inquisitive strong-minded Eklam, Ek to everyone in the village, is captivated by the off-worlders technology, and becomes an apprentice to the Outpost Terato’s Murian commander, Grand Duke Korvo. Uncle a’Qoc disapproves; wants nothing to do with these outlanders, wants their shimmering doorway portals-of-travel banned from Terato. As Outpost Terato becomes operational it seems to become a harbinger stirring ageless secrets of The Old Ones and their frightful weapons, of ancient Teratoan ruins, mysterious glowing lights, unexplained killings, a sacred book in a language no Teratoan can read, a moon that doesn’t behave like a moon in its wobbly orbit.

From cosmic reaches beyond space and time the ominous secrets of Terato’s ancient ruins become more threatening. Ek and Korvo realize both their worlds face extinction with any hope buried somewhere in unknown galaxies far beyond a pastoral Terato or the sophisticated star-empire of the Murians; of missing planets in a star system with its single star in a galaxy far-removed unknown to Terato or Myr. They travel across the universe to a place long forgotten to fight this unknown foe with weapons only dreamed of. Together they face the beast that wishes to consume the entire universe.

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Meet the Author:

Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.

With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.


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Guest Post:

Thank you for hosting the three volumes of The Cairns of Sainctuarie Sci-Fi series. We sci-fi readers/writers are a picky bunch. Some of us want action. Some of us want a heavy dose of the technical, others only a hint of it. It’s a fine balance across the genre-readers with satellite & probe research and discoveries of particle physics/theories changing faster than results can get published.

Vol I, The Bleikovat Event opens on verge of a Bleikovat invasion of the Feldon domains. The Malfesian War ravages homes and villages, splinter families and shatter ancient customs of Myr’s Feldovat clan bloodlines, ultimately reshaping the destiny of the Murians. Generations pass. Most memories of the great Malfesian upheavals become tales of legendary heroes – but not all.

Vol II, The Missing Planets, Myr has become an interstellar empire with a constitutional autocracy under the Clan Klarvkon Dynasty, expanding beyond the Murian home world system into unimaginable intergalactic reaches, On remote agrarian Planet Terato Murians reach an covenant with elder leaders to establish a Murian relay outpost for archeological studies. The thought-to-be extinct Lantaraan culture of the single-star system on the far side of known Murian star maps proves to be inhabited, along with a powerful unknown adversary determined to erase all traces of Terato and Myr. Only the massive Lantaraan defenses on Jupiterr manage to stop the onslaught.

Vol III, Inanna Phantom, the threat returns. Urban centers devastated; populations displaced; civil disruption erupts; Eorthe government breakdowns with the ascendency of Teran League.

Hawk MacKinney

www.hawkmackinney.net

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Tour Schedule:

Jan 27 – Rockin’ Book Reviews – series spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Jan 28 – Delilah Bluette - book review of The Bleikovat Event - Volume I
Jan 29 – Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of The Bleikovat Event - Volume I / giveaway
Jan 30 – Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of The Missing Planets – Volume II / giveaway
Jan 31 – Nighttime Reading Center – book review of The Bleikovat Event - Volume I / giveaway
Feb 3 – Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of Inanna Phantom – Volume III / giveaway
Feb 4 – Delilah Bluette - book review of The Missing Planets – Volume II
Feb 5 – Locks, Hook, and Books – book review of The Bleikovat Event - Volume I / guest post / giveaway
Feb 6 - Turning the Pages - book review of The Bleikovat Event - Volume I / author interview / giveaway
Feb 6 – Locks, Hook, and Books – book review of The The Missing Planets - Volume II / giveaway
Feb 7 – Nighttime Reading Center – book review of The Missing Planets / giveaway
Feb 7 - Delilah Bluette - book review of Inanna Phantom / guest post
Feb 11 – Turning the Pages - book review of The The Missing Planets - Volume II / giveaway
Feb 12 – Turning the Pages - book review of Inanna Phantom – Volume III / giveaway
Feb 13 – Locks, Hook, and Books – book review of Inanna Phantom - Volume III / giveaway
Feb 14 -  Nighttime Reading Center – book review of Inanna Phantom – Volume III / giveaway

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My Review:

The Bleikovat Event begins Hawk MacKinney’s series, The Cairns of Sainctuarie. Science fiction or fantasy fiction is not one of my normal or favorite genres to read. It is quite different from what I am used to. However, it is a good thing to go outside of my comfort zone and read something new and unique. It is not a light read. It did take about quarter of the way through to get used to the writing style of the author. It is full of some complex characters and events throughout the book. There is a lot going on in the story that made me have to keep focused on what was going on. I did have to reread a few scenes to grasp what was happening. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and learning about their world around them. There is some action and adventure that I thought was intriguing and had no way of predicting the following pages at all. I never knew how each scene would end or where the characters would end up. 

I am The Bleikovat Event three and a half stars. I do look forward to the next installment from The Cairns of Sainctuarie, The Missing Planets. I am curious as to what happens to the follow up to this one. I believe readers who enjoy science fiction or fantasy genre would enjoy this one. I, also, believe even readers who do not normally read those genres would want enjoy this one, as well. 

I received this book from the publisher. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.