Book Tour: Guild of Tokens (Guild of Tokens #1) by Jon Auerbach Review + Giveaway









Guild of Tokens by Jon Auerbach
Published: June 25, 2019
Genre: (Unconventional) Urban Fantasy
Age Group: Adult
Pages: 410

Blurb:

SHE WANTS TO LEVEL UP HER HUMDRUM EXISTENCE. BUT HER NEXT QUEST COULD SPELL LIFE OR DEATH.

Jen Jacobs’s nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.

Except Jen isn’t playing a video game.

It’s all real and happening right in New York City.

After a particularly harrowing quest pairs her up with Beatrice Taylor, a no-nonsense and ambitious mentor, Jen hopes she’s on the path to becoming a big-time player. But as she dives deeper into the game’s hidden agenda, she realizes Beatrice has her sights set on the Guild, the centuries-old organization that runs the Questing game. And the quests Jen loves are about to put both of them in grave danger.

Will Jen survive the game before powerful forces cut her real life short?

Guild of Tokens is a thrilling new twist on conventional urban fantasy. If you like determined heroines, gritty cityscapes, and vampire-free adventures, then you’ll love Jon Auerbach’s rollercoaster tale.


Check it out on Goodreads





Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Review:

So wow, what a ride.

Meet Jen, a 28 year old New Yorker who has a coding job at a start up, a boyfriend she never sees because he works in Hong Kong; and friends who are shelf adsorbed, shallow and catty but are her longest friends and all she has. Her life is normal albeit lackluster. Until the emails come with 
"Epic Questers wanted!"  

Little did Jen realize what she was getting herself into when she clicked the link and was sent to the Quest Board. Lists of quests to retrieve items, drop offs with rewards, wooden tokens. A video game come to life. But what Jen doesn't know is that this click was going to send her spiraling down the rabbit hole and everything she thought was real is much more then it seems. 

There is SO much going on this this novel.from the action and adventure of the quests to the real world/life toll it takes on the actual lives of our MC. Her normal life before the quests wasn't the best but little did she realize just how much her reality was going to be shaken to it's core. 

I absolutely thought that this book was fantastic. We are tossed in from the start and wow. Like I stated earlier there is more going in this book then I could have even imagined. A mixing of the past and present, so many geeky references that my little heart was a giddy for. My geek flag happily flying.  This definitely is NOT your typical urban fantasy and I am here for it, sign me up and take my money. Sinister at times, we have some darker moments, while Jen leads her two lives. Twists up on twists and turns up on turns....and that ending....

Fans of well written science fiction and fantasy will be in for a roller-coaster ride when they crack open the Guild of Tokens. 


Now Jon Auerbach I would really love book 2!


Book Links

•    Goodreads

Print Book:
•    Amazon
•    Barnes& Noble
•    Book Depository
•    IndieBound


Audiobook:
•    Audible
•    Apple Books
•    Google Play
•    Nook
•    Kobo


Meet the Author:


Jon Auerbach’s love of fantasy began at the tender age of six, when his parents bought him the classic 1977 animated version of The Hobbit (the less said about the recent trilogy, the better). His passion for sci-fi developed from nights watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and from his dad’s old paperback copies of Foundation and I, Robot.

Jon writes in both genres and hopes to pass on his stories to the next generation, including his kids, who have their own copy of The Hobbit that they lovingly call “the Bilbo book.”


Author Links

Website
Twitter
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Instagram
Goodreads


Giveaway
                                                          Giveaway

We’ll be running a tour-wide giveaway during this tour, and invite you to participate by adding the widget or direct URL to your posts.

Prizes: Two winners – One (1) physical copy (International), One (1) audiobook code (US/CA/AU)

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