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Delilah S. Dawson

Author of Kill the Farm Boy

80+ Works 4,551 Members 284 Reviews 3 Favorited

About the Author

Delialh S. Dawnson is an American author whose works have been published since 2012. She writes fantasy under the pen name Lila Bowen and erotica as Ava Lovelace. She is the writer of Star Wars: Phasma and two Star Wars short stories "The Perfect Weapon" and "Scorched". Her work also includes the show more Blud series, novels of steampunk paranormal romance. She has a few novellas such as The Mysterious Madam Morpho (2012) and The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance (2013). Delilah is the winner of the 2015 Fantasy Book of the Year from RT Book Reviews for Wake of Vultures and the 2013 Steampunk Book of the Year and May Seal of Excellence forWicked as She Wants. She has earned stars from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal for Wake of Vultures, as well as a star from Library Journal for the Blud e-novella The Damsel and the Daggerman. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Lila Bowen, Ava Lovelace

Also includes: Delilah Dawson (2)

Disambiguation Notice:

"Lila Bowen" is a pseudonym (see http://www.whimsydark.com/about/)

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Series

Works by Delilah S. Dawson

Kill the Farm Boy (2018) 705 copies
Wake of Vultures (2015) 502 copies
Phasma (2017) 502 copies
Wicked as They Come (2012) 342 copies
No Country for Old Gnomes (2019) 236 copies
The Violence (2022) 199 copies
Servants of the Storm (2014) 164 copies
The Princess Beard (2019) 156 copies
Conspiracy of Ravens (2016) 149 copies
Hit (2015) 126 copies
Ladycastle (2017) 118 copies
The Perfect Weapon (2015) 91 copies
Wicked as She Wants (1751) 90 copies
Malice of Crows (2017) 85 copies
Mine (2021) 77 copies
Death & Honey (2019) 57 copies
Wicked After Midnight (2014) 52 copies
The Mysterious Madam Morpho (2012) 45 copies
Treason of Hawks (2018) 42 copies
Strike (Hit) (1802) 34 copies
Camp Scare (2022) 27 copies
Wicked Ever After (2015) 27 copies
Sparrowhawk (2019) 26 copies
Midnight at the Houdini (2023) 24 copies
Minecraft: Mob Squad (2021) 23 copies
Bloom (2023) 16 copies
Wellington (2020) 15 copies
Star Pig (2020) 13 copies
Ladycastle #1 (2017) 12 copies
Adventure Time Vol. 15 (2018) 12 copies
Sparrowhawk #1 (2018) — Author — 5 copies
Scorched 4 copies
Star Wars Adventures #6 (2018) 4 copies
The Violence (2022) 3 copies
Jim Henson's Labyrinth 2017 Special #1 (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Three Lives of Lydia (2014) 3 copies
Ladycastle #2 (2017) 3 copies
Ladycastle #4 (2017) 2 copies
Star Pig #4 (of 4) (2019) 2 copies
Star Pig #3 (of 4) (2019) 2 copies
Star Pig #2 (of 4) (2019) 2 copies
Ladycastle #3 (2017) 2 copies
Star Pig #1 (of 4) (2019) 2 copies
Sparrowhawk #3 (2018) 1 copy
Sparrowhawk #2 (2018) 1 copy

Associated Works

Carniepunk (2013) — Author — 397 copies
Violent Ends (2015) — Contributor — 245 copies
Robots vs Fairies (2018) — Contributor — 222 copies
Three Slices (2015) — Author, some editions — 137 copies
Unfettered III: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy (2019) — Contributor — 97 copies
Unbound (2015) — Contributor — 95 copies
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life (2016) — Contributor — 60 copies
Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against (2018) — Contributor — 56 copies
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling (2016) — Contributor — 55 copies
The Best of Uncanny (2019) — Contributor — 53 copies
Stories of Jedi and Sith (2022) — Contributor — 37 copies
The Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time (2022) — Contributor — 35 copies
Hath No Fury (2018) — Contributor — 27 copies
Uncanny Magazine Issue 5: July/August 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 16 copies
Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 13 copies
Out of Tune - Book II (2016) — Contributor — 11 copies
Uncanny Magazine Issue 26: January/February 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 9 copies
Apex Magazine 104 (January 2018) (2017) — Contributor — 6 copies
All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology (Frozen Anthology, 10) (2023) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Other names
Bowen, Lila
Lovelace, Ava
Birthdate
20th century
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
USA
Places of residence
Georgia, USA
Agent
Kate McKean (Howard Morhaim Literary Agency)
Short biography
Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the Blud series for Pocket and the upcoming YA, Servants of the Storm, with Simon Pulse. She's a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Georgia Romance Writers and is an Associate Editor at www.CoolMomPicks.com and www.CoolMomTech.com. Find her at www.delilahsdawson.com.
Disambiguation notice
"Lila Bowen" is a pseudonym (see http://www.whimsydark.com/about/)

Members

Reviews

This was barely a 3 for me. It is not nearly as funny as it thinks it is. I was amused from time to time but I am not sure I am going to be reading the next book. I talked myself into this one so I won’t rule it out.
 
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cdaley | 6 other reviews | Nov 2, 2023 |
As per usual no stars for a book I gave up on. I really wanted to like it. I even violated my own rule of giving up on a book by page 50 if I wasn’t digging it. I read over half the book in fits and starts. Then I picked up a Barry Eisler and finished it a day. That told me it was time to leave this one behind.
 
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cdaley | 40 other reviews | Nov 2, 2023 |
Predictable but still a fun read in the end
 
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MYvos | Oct 20, 2023 |
Yes, all the characters are stereotypes come to life. The abused daughter raises an abused daughter who raises a daughter that just escapes from abuse because external forces brought the abuse to "light". I don't know how women stay abused, nor how women who are abused find their way out of it... but both do occur.

What does it say about our society that we all recognize abused women is a common enough occurrence that it is a stereotype?

I think the story is well told, well paced, engaging, and we can tell the characters apart from one another.

What was the instigation of the change? Was it believable? That might be on the subjective side: The rationale behind Patty's change(s) is pretty slim, the daughter... a bit thicker, but still... bit deus ex machina overall.

I kinda like when justice is served, so I am okay with the way the story resolved. Would it happen IRL? Well... it IS fiction, so whatevs. The narration is very good.
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Statistics

Works
80
Also by
22
Members
4,551
Popularity
#5,525
Rating
½ 3.7
Reviews
284
ISBNs
227
Languages
5
Favorited
3
Touchstones
26

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