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Eye in the Blue Box

Book One of Eyes of Awakening

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Book 1 of Eyes of Awakening
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Pub Date 18 Oct 2025 | Archive Date 8 Oct 2025

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Description

NO DREAMS. JUST NIGHTMARES.

ABOUT:

Eye in the Blue Box is an adult, dark fantasy novel that’s filled to the brim with action and adventure. Readers searching for exhilarating battles, eerie and surreal creatures, intricate world-building, and strong character development will enjoy this book. This book is NOT a romantasy.

THEMES:

Friendship, family, self-discovery, and Asian American culture.

CONTENT WARNING:

Violence, gore, intense scenes.

SUMMARY:

James Mun likes his internship, his daily doses of instant ramen, and late mornings when he can roll around in bed. He dislikes the gym, people who take up parking spaces, his sister’s annoying family get-togethers, and anything else that gets in the way of his chosen pace of life.

When he’s born into “the Flowering,” a surreal dimension that select humans enter each time they fall asleep, needless to say, he is not happy. He’s not exactly thrilled, either, to travel throughout the Flowering with Crew Blue, a group of humans who follow a giant, blue wolf as their guide. Above all, though, he dislikes the crew’s leader. She’s always forcing him to battle the nightmarish monsters that prowl the Flowering’s many planes, which change as swiftly and unpredictably as sweet dreams morphing into nightmares. It’s hard enough simply surviving every night without risking getting eaten!

But as James becomes entangled in the return of an ancient evil spawned within the Flowering, he discovers that what he’d once deemed as nuisances aren’t so troublesome after all. His dark and harrowing adventures open his eyes to see how the bonds forged between friends and family can change the fate of everything.

READING ORDER:

Eye in the Blue Box: Book One of Eyes of Awakening

Tree of Eyes: Book Two of Eyes of Awakening

NO DREAMS. JUST NIGHTMARES.

ABOUT:

Eye in the Blue Box is an adult, dark fantasy novel that’s filled to the brim with action and adventure. Readers searching for exhilarating battles, eerie and...


A Note From the Publisher

Available in paperback and ebook.

Available in paperback and ebook.


Advance Praise

"The cast ... forms a strong bond as they engage in exhilarating battles ... Individual backstories further complicate both the plot and characters, and the sublime final act will leave readers itching for the sequel. This extraordinary, energetic opening installment is not to be missed."—Kirkus Reviews

"Kim's debut fantasy adventure (the first volume of her Eyes of Awakening series) doesn't merely construct another parallel world; it transforms sleep itself into a battlefield ... EYE IN THE BLUE BOX offers readers an intricate portal fantasy that refuses easy allegiances between good and evil...."—IndieReader

“Kim delivers a world that is beyond intriguing … Between the eerie nightmares of the Flowering, James’s bewilderment, and the monsters he’s forced to fight, Eye in the Blue Box is a thriller that never lets up—but still shows humanity threading the Flowering’s inhabitants together ... and Kim constructs plenty of touching connective moments amid the chaos.”—BookLife

"The cast ... forms a strong bond as they engage in exhilarating battles ... Individual backstories further complicate both the plot and characters, and the sublime final act will leave readers...


Available Editions

EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9798992555523
PRICE US$1.99 (USD)
PAGES 415

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