Carissa Broadbent
Carissa Broadbent is a fantasy author known for dark, romance-forward epic fantasy. She is best known for the Crowns of Nyaxia series, including The Serpent and the Wings of Night, and the War of Lost Hearts series, beginning with Daughter of No Worlds. She is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
Biografia e Jornada do Autor
Carissa Broadbent came to fiction early. By her own account, she was writing dark stories in childhood and posting a first novel online in her early teens. She later studied graphic design and digital media at UMass Dartmouth and moved into marketing and technical marketing work. In her early twenties, dissatisfied with a conventional corporate path, she returned seriously to fiction, treating the craft as something to be learned through repetition, failed drafts, and persistence. ((https://carissabroadbentbooks.com/about/))
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"Romantasy author Carissa Broadbent had spent much of her career writing about magic and kissing"
— ELLE ((
"Danger, intrigue and a hell of a lot of blood are splashed across the pages of Carissa Broadbent's gripping fantasy romance"
— BookPage ((
"Emotionally intense and richly detailed... Broadbent proves this series has legs"
— Publishers Weekly ((
"Carissa Broadbent's latest book is her first released through a major publisher — but she's already a New York Times best-selling author"
— ABC News ((
"Their story and that of the broader world of vampires continues throughout Carissa Broadbent's majorly addicting Crowns of Nyaxia series"
— Marie Claire ((
"Broadbent ratchets up the action, treachery, and romance in the second installment of the Crowns of Nyaxia series"
— Library Journal ((
"Carissa Broadbent marries a thoughtful look at religious and family trauma with epic adventure and romance"
— BookPage ((
"Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night has all the fun of A Court of Thorns and Roses, but it will also appeal to Twilight fans"
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"Broadbent has a solid technical grasp on writing action and romance scenes"
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
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