I love it when everyone wins. Well not in sports so much, because there can only be one superbowl champion, and should be only one, even if it isn't who I want this year, but in giveaways I love it when everyone gets to take something home.

And I have to say that my readers are awesome. Many of you retweeted the contest, but only a handful of you actually entered. I hope that was your intention, otherwise, doh! So after the verification of entries, everyone wins!  Thank you to everyone who participated, retweeted and facebooked.

Wittygrittyinvisiblegirl, Jasmine, Misty and brad5277 please email me your snail mail address to Suepafly(at)hotmail(dot)com within seven (7) days to claim your prize. Thanks for playing and if you love Resurrection let you can let Arwen Elys Dayton know at http://www.arwendayton.com/ or @arwenelysdayton.

Check back soon for more contests! You won't want to miss, more swag from San Diego including a Ringer stool, a signed special edition True Blood comic, and lots more!

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Format: Paperback                                          442 pages
Publisher: 47North; Reprint edition
Released: January 24, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1612182179

Total obliteration is on the horizon, and the Kinley race have no choice but try to recover what was lost on a far and distant planet, Earth. Long before the war that has left their planet devastated they possessed the technology to travel at lightspeeds, a group of scientist used it to come to Earth, and now that technology is their only hope to escape the total and utter destruction that will come at the hands of the Lucien. Pruit is sent to recover those secrets, to save everything she’s ever known and loved.

But she isn’t as alone in her quest as she would hope. The Lucien are hot on her trail, and seek to take the technology for themselves.

Resurrection is an intelligent and gripping story, which strives for greatness, and achieves it at nearly every turn. Dayton spin’s her tale, of the alien Kinley scientist who sought out to study Earth, but ended up impacting it in greater ways than they could have ever anticipated. She gives a very plausible explanation for the great pyramid’s of Egypt, the course of beliefs of the Gods, and even how such great technology was so easily lost for not only the humans but the Kinley.

Pruit, Eddie, Adaiz and the rest are fully developed characters, each very different from the other. Their actions and motives are greatly fleshed out and believable. The great details that Dayton pours not only the diverse cultures of the Kinley and Lucien, but also ancient Egypt make each come to life.

The only real negative thing I can say is at first the changing in perspectives and time are disorienting, and take away from the story. But if you stick with it, the story not only progressively picks up, it becomes hard to put down. The characters and story will captivate, and the lesson of tolerance is delivered in such a way that its not preachy or hard to swallow. As someone who doesn’t read Sci-fi books very often, I found myself pleasantly enthralled. It’s definitely one I’d recommend!

If you’re at all interested in checking this one out we have a contest running until tomorrow Jan 14th. You can click here for all the details!

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I have the absolute pleasure of offering four (4) prizes for this next contest. The lovely folks of Facet and Amazon have provided me with some Advanced Readers Copies, and I'm giving them away before you can even buy the book!

I'll be posting the review in the next few days, before I draw a winner or four. But I will tell you that the book is phenomenal!

To Enter: Just two simple steps:

(1) Make sure you follow us here at Muse Led. It's quick and easy, and if you haven't already done it, what are you waiting for? We don't sell your address or spam you. In fact I don't send you anything unless you win and you tell me where to send the stuff!

(2) Leave me a comment. If you don't leave a comment I'm going to just assume that you like us and are not being bribed by swag.

And if you want to up your chances of winning, you know you do, if you post about this contest somewhere else and you tell us about it in the comment section you'll get a bonus entry! Don't forget to include the link in your post so we can validate your entry. Limit one per site, so you can't post a million times on facebook or twitter and have each count as an extra entry!

If you like us on facebook you get two bonus entries! But again let me know in the comments, or I won't even know to look for those bonus entries.

You can also check out the author at http://www.arwendayton.com/ and follow her on twitter @arwenelysdayton

Rules: All entries must be in by Saturday, January 14th 2011 at 11:58 pm PST. This contest is only open to blog followers. All entries are validated against follower list. Entries by non-followers will be disqualified. Contest is open worldwide. Winner will be chosen randomly from valid entries and will be posted here, on the MuseLedBlog facebook page as well on twitter. So don't forget to check back, if I have not received notice from winner within 7 days I will announce a new winner. Void where prohibited.

About:  The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet—a primitive place called Earth. It’s mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. They buried remnants of their technology deep beneath the desert and sent a last desperate message home…

Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction. An enemy that nearly obliterated their race has risen again—now with the ability to destroy them for good. A lone Kinley soldier named Pruit is sent on a desperate mission: to follow the ancient beacon back to Earth and recover the secrets to faster than light travel.

It is their last hope. Technology that once allowed them to cross vast reaches of space might allow them to outrun their enemies and find a safe world to call their own. But Pruit’s mission will be harder than she can imagine. Her quest will draw her enemies after her and will awaken ancient foes on Earth. As she gets closer to what she seeks, she will find each adversary willing to risk everything to stop her. Each hoping to steal the knowledge for themselves. The rivals will meet in modern-day Egypt and their struggle will alter the fate of worlds.

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