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Kinsmen Trivia Quiz

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Will you ever write any more in the Kinsman universe? I love those books and read them like reward cookies/ treats at the end of particularly hard days. S

I can take this one! I love delivering good news first thing in the morning šŸ¤©.

Fated Blades, the new novella in the Kinsmen series, is coming out this fall.

If you havenā€™t read the Kinsmen series yet, first of all please do because they are delicious morsels that play with romance tropes in the most delightful House Andrews way and I want to talk to more people about them. Secondly, donā€™t worry, if you canā€™t catch up whilst weā€™re all waiting for the preorder link, the novellas can be read independently, there isn’t much overlap.

::record scratch::

BDH: HANG OOON! Youā€™re not waiting for the preorder, you Meanie Meanieson McHordeTraitor the IIIrd! Youā€™ve already read the book šŸ˜¤

Hey, hey.

Meme of Johnny Bravo saying : Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

To atone, Iā€™ve made you a Kinsmen Trivia Quiz based on Silent Blade and Silver Shark! ā¤ļø

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If you want more incentive for Fated Blades, look at this cover omg and all the snippets that we got so far: snip 1, snipperoo 2, snip 3 , snipperee 4. Now I’m just twisting the knife in Dick Van Dyke rhythm šŸ˜…, Mod R out.

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  1. ???? This is going to be so good. Thx so much for returning to the Kinsman Universe. I am off to to a re-read! Hv a good one!!!

  2. Dick van Dyke rhythm??? Is this a new rapper or the iconic comedian?
    I’m not hip, I can’t do pop culture references, you get me, bredrin. (This is my best attempt, my brother thinks it’s hilarious rubbish when I try it on the phone.)

      • Facepalm emoji me. And hah. But maybe someone should do a rap now and credit us; do you think Stormzy reads the blog?

          • I’ve read the book (slightly different characters to the film btw, especially Bert) and even seen the original Disney film many times (big fan) but am also living in a world where there’s a rapper called Bugzy Malone and I have brain farts.
            Did not get that the snippet endings were meant to be referencing that song.
            Stranger things have and will happen. I once failed to spot that navy blue walls had been painted sunshine yellow. I thought I was supposed to be noticing the furniture had moved. ????

    • I tanked it too. Clearly haven’t read those too in a long long time. I love both novellas.
      A Mere Formality is one of my top favorites.

      Also loved Grace of Small Magics from The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance. And of Swine and Roses. šŸ™‚ Both those aren’t listed on the website I think.

  6. You have reached 8 of 13 points, (61.54%)

    So, obviously in time for a re-read. But the most important thing I learned is that Scarlet Sails is a real book!! I did not know that! Added to my TBR

  7. I just got the Kinsmen books on Kindle, and I can’t wait to read them. I have read everything else, except Kinsmen and Alphas:Origins. Can’t wait for Fated Blades!

    • Oooh, two very different moods there, from Kinsmen to Alphas, but still envy you getting first chance at them :). Enjoy!

  8. I love Kinsmen!! Innkeeper and Kinsmen have a special place in my bookshelf ????

    Off to challenge myself with the quiz!

    • I could have sworn Kinsmen could get chip enhancements šŸ™

      Excuse to reread instead of applying to grad school? I think so!

      • They absolutely can ????, but technological enhancements die with the person who has them implanted and donā€™t create enhanced descendants who continue the Family. Itā€™s the genetic component that makes them ā€¦kin ????.

        • Ohh, thatā€™s a good distinction! Also love a good pun šŸ™‚

          I shall keep going on my reread regardless!! ????
          *cough* chronic procrastinator *cough*

          At this rate, not sure Iā€™ll ever make it to grad school ????

            • Having gone through grad school, good luck with your classes, and anything else (like a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation).

              It feels like your slogging through the coursework, but before you know it, you’ll be asking yourself “where did the time go?”

  9. Love the quiz, wondering when fall starts in Texas, pondering what kinsmen religious elite would encompass.

    • +1!
      Itā€™s been a few years since I last read them! I want to be prepared for the new novella ????

      • I think that copy sold out when it was offered to the Horde last year. You might want to look at Subterranean’s website to check to see if it’s still available.

        I have a copy of the print book. The illustrations are gorgeous!

  13. I got 100% on the quiz! Go me! I am welcomed as part of the Families in New Delphi. šŸ˜€

    I read the Kinsmen series when I randomly pick out a book to read. The stories may not overlap, but it’s always good to read Silver Blade first. šŸ˜‰

    Thanks Mod R for the quiz. It was fun.

  16. LOL Mod R. No incentive needed. I will be preordering Fated Blades as soon as I get to the computer after it goes up! I cannot wait for this new Kinsman novella. I adore the setting.

  17. 10/13

    But honestly. How many terraces? Iā€™m supposed to know that?

    And the son. Heā€™s mentioned like once.

    • No, you donā€™t have to know any of it ????, itā€™s just a bit of fun and pretext for a recap.

      • Iā€™m not mad at you!

        Iā€™m mad at myself. I love those books and I thought I would do much better than 10/13.

  19. Definitely need a reread! But I’m very happy to nuture dahlias! Now I’ve got Baby shark stuck in my head!

  20. I just listened to the books again about 2 weeks ago and only got 6 correct. So sad.
    Maybe I’ll read them this time when I get done with my latest.

  21. I must hang my head in shame. 6/13 on my first try (shouldn’t have changed my first choice answers for 3 questions, would’ve been 9/13) and 10/13 on my second try. Sigh. Oh well, time for a re-read, woohoo! And I can’t wait for Fated Blades!

  23. Thank you, I did not grow up in the Provinces.
    I have learned how to navigate them through diligent study. I have learned how I may be of use to the families I respect. My knowledge of the past of the families I seek & how it may effect my approach is weak & requires study.

    Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

  24. I am just finishing re reading all the other books so Iā€™ll put Kinsmen series at the top of the TBR pile now because I did horribly on that! Oh the shame! Haha.

  26. That was fun! Thank youā€¦ a million times thank you! I just finished rereading the Kate Daniels series again. I think Iā€™ll pull up Kinsmen for a nice evening pick me up.

  27. Oh I love the Kinsmen! These were my first forray into the Andrews madness (I mean this in the best of ways). I cannot wait for the new one and the quiz was fun! ā˜ŗ

  28. I feel that Of Swine and Roses gets neglected here – would have rocked the quiz if that one were includedā€¦

    • I always felt “Of Swine and Roses” was in something like the “Hidden Legacy” world, maybe an early envisioning of what that world looks like if not at the highest levels (and set in a smaller town than Houston).
      Kinsman feels more of a technological world.
      I agree, “Of Swine…” is a fun story.

  29. That was a difficult quiz — nice job!
    (Sadly, only got 11 of 13 correct).
    Looking forward to pre-order link and book release.

  30. Oh well, considering I haven’t read these stories for a very long time, I’ll take my 3 points. I seconded guessed myself and missed an extra 5. I should know better by now.

  32. Dear Mod R, please go to the KINSMAN link in this post and check out the first sentence…… I want a perfect score because I LOVE this series.

    • “Some enhancements were technological in nature: an array of implants with various functions. Their effect ended with the death of the person who carried them. Other improvements were biological and these enhanced capabilities persisted, lingering in the bloodline, changing and mutating into new abilities in the offspring of the original carrier. It was quickly realized that the advantage of these biological enhancements lay in their exclusivity. Thus, the biologically enhanced united and shut down all further biological modification.

      Collectively known as kinsmen, these exceptional beings gave rise to several dozen families, which now form the financial elite of the colonized planets.”

      Andrews, Ilona. Silent Blade and Silver Shark Prologue, Kinsmen Series. NYLA Publishing, 2018. Kindle edition

      Emphasis mine šŸ™‚

  33. 12/13, shows how much I’ve revisited Kinsmen ????

    Ironically, the question I got wrong was the ‘who are the kinsmen’ question LOL.

    Side note, it was surprisingly jarring to see all names written down since I’ve only ever heard them in audio!

  35. Having just re-read them I should have done better.( Hangs head in shame.)

    I’m excited and primed for the order button.

    What world is Technomancer in?
    I still haven’t gotten over that.

    In the meantime I am going to day dream about what werewolf courting methods Derek will employ for his Princess. Or Hugh’s seduction tactics for getting into his wife’s bed.

    Sigh.

    • Oh, I never even thought to ask about where Technomancer would belong! My favourite is Emily, I still hope the scavenger dystopia world will make it in somewhere šŸ™‚

      • ???? HA, of course, you have all the right to not link *every* last one of your stories to a world. But goodness! ModR makes all the good points!!! ????

    • Why do I get the feeling Derek is going to do what Curran did to Kate by breaking into Julie’s house, getting his smell all over the place, possibly eating something (or making iced tea) in her kitchen, and then leave? Then when Julie goes after Derek, Derek will look at her and basically say “who me?” innocently.

  36. Thank you!???????????? The test was awesome! Happily waiting for the new book????Meanwhile, have to re- read the previous 3… Only knew half of the answers. Lol

  37. Love these quizzes! Thank you Mod R! They’re challenging and hilarious all at the same time – I’ve read the Kinsman novellas a million times and still got 2 wrong!

  38. Thanks for building the quizzesā€”nothing like being spanked into a reread! No, really, I enjoy them a lot. On the list of the reasons I read this blog.

  39. Life in New Delphi is too cut-throat for you. You head to the Provinces to nurture dahlias and promise yourself to try again after you reread the Kinsmen records.

    It has been a long time. Time to reread ????. Thanks for the quiz Mod R

  40. 10 out of 13
    Not too bad, I guess all those re-reads where worth it.
    (The first one I got wrong I knew I picked the wrong answer right as I was clicking down *head shake*)

  42. New Kinsman! Oh, Wow. 2022 is going to be fabulous! Is it the “forger thing” mentioned in the Fan Teaparty December 2020 blog post? Or is that a different something to look forward to? Can’t wait for February!

    • Hey Ona,

      Fated Blades is coming out this fall (as in sometime in the next 3 months), and itā€™s not the forger project ???? – good memory though!
      To my knowledge there is no February release from House Andrews ????.

  43. I did better on this quiz than on the Innkeeper quiz. šŸ™‚ Not too surprising since I adore Silver Shark, it’s totally a comfort read.

  44. Mod R, you took me out with that Daddy Shark one!! I laughed waaay harder than I should have.
    I got 11/13!!!! If I literally wasn’t reading the book right now, I’d have bowed out of this one. Can I choose my family? Cuz…Venturo. I mean, I can’t take Claire, buuut…Venturo.

  46. Is it possible to purchase the Novella “A Mere Formality” separately outside of the Kinsmen bundle that is on Kindle, I already have the first 2 books?

  49. Haven’t read them in so long that half my answers were complete guesses. I only missed three, and two of those I second guessed my first guess which was correct. Even so, my score was better than I deserved. I will have to read them again before the new one arrives.

  50. If you hold a book signing, or launch party, or just toast with some sort of libation on launch day, *please* call it Feted Fated Blades šŸ˜€

  51. 12/13 in in 02:57 – just slipped up thinking the Kinsmen might also be political! Looking forward to the new one. And thanks Mod R and Authorlords, these posts are a high point in my day šŸ™‚

  54. ???? what a treat! Thank you ModR! Blissfully delighted at the option of Commet in Moominland (my little house is called MoominHollow). Also, too funny to miss only Ramiroā€™s name ????.

  56. Let me first off say how excited I am for Fated Blades. Can’t wait for the book – not “I’m 100ks away from the nearest rest stop and really need to pee” wait – more the “By my sainted granny’s panties THERE’S A NEW BOOK” kind of wait.

    That said I now have a rant completely off topic.

    I’m in Sydney Australia and we are in a hard lockdown as in need a negative covid test and an essential worker permit to go to work kind of lockdown. This is okay. It needs to be done.

    But in our house, this means lots and lots of reading.

    So my 15 yo baby girl and I are talking about books and reading habits and what we like and how much money I’m spending during the lockdown on books.

    And then she drops a bombshell on me and says with all seriousness

    “Why do you pay for books? Why don’t you just download them from the internet for free?”

    Now my child would never go into a store and shoplift a hard copy book. Especially after I made her return a small item her grubby little hands picked up at target when she was 3 (very embarrassed and scared after that). So I tried to explain to her that what she was doing was theft, that it went against everything I had taught her as a human being. You DO NOT steal. She had no concept of the fact it was stealing. It was on the internet and you didn’t have to pay for it and if it’s there why can’t you take advantage of it?

    Pointing out all of the relevant details of property, of plagiarism, of what would happen if she stole someone’s intellectual property, of how authors would not be able to make a living and therefore we would have less and less interesting things to read seemed to fly right over her head. She’s a smart girl, so why is this concept so hard for her?

    Is it that the internet has made everything easier for her? Want to watch a movie? Illegally download it. Want to read the latest book from her favourite author? Someone will copy and paste the book and she’ll get it for free.

    There are so many good things about the internet. THIS is not one of them.

    I’m off to bang my head against the brick wall of teenage complacency. Hopefully, if I talk enough it might make a hole in it.

    • Many books are available through my library system (in the USA), as physical books, audio books, Kindle, or Hoopla. So if she’s short on cash, that’s one legal way to read “for free”.
      Or perhaps give her a budget for ordering books online or your local bookstores.

  57. Reading through “A Mere Formality” and “Questing Beast”,(under Other Fiction).
    Questions: 1) is the character Sean Kozlov in both stories? 2) are these two stories set in the same universe?
    Thanks!!

  58. 10/13 Ehā€¦didnā€™t get planet district city; incorrect Celino quote (smacks self on side of head) was thinking ahead not beginning; level of terraces (I knew, I read, I let information go whoosh)

    Thank you Mod R, that was fun. Love the novellas.

  59. 13/13ā€¦So much fun, thanks for the early birthday (9/3) giftā£ļø I love the Kinsmen Universe ????ā€¦like I love all the worlds of House Andrews. Iā€™ve reread the first two books twice since the snippets started popping up. Iā€™m eagerly awaiting Fated Blades.

  60. As much as I love the books, I absolutely adore the blog posts… and this one! Thank you Mod R you made a shitty day turn all shiny! Yes… I understand that this leaves me with shiny shit… I’m like a magpie, if it shines I’ll take it!

  61. Awww you made my night by using my comment here (here being my favorite blog and the only one I religiously read), just like you made my day by telling me about Fated Bladesā˜ŗļø… Great going House Andrews. You already have my eternal allegiance.

    Going to take the quiz now…

  63. Whoohoo, something new coming up.

    Thanks, ModR.

    I just bought Kinsmen Universe (in the hope to get all in one book) on amazon.
    Bought, not borrowed. Because, who is borrowing an eBook anyway? HA-Books are made for thousands of re-reads.

    It’s only available in English language, is it?

      • Good to know that. So my obsession is satisfied to have a new HA Book all of my favorite Languages. And I just realized there are a lot of new words to learn for me. Brugmansia, never heard that before.

        *sighs happily & reads instead of starting to work*

        Good morning, everyone šŸ˜€

  64. Got only 3 questions right! Shame on me!! šŸ™ Time to re-read Kinsmen..

    But hey, why no quiz question from ‘A mere formality’? That one’s my favourite!! šŸ™‚

    • I was thinking of that too when I took the quiz yesterday. I braced myself for questions from A Mere Formality. šŸ™‚

  66. Donā€™t hate me cuz I know that this is a Pantene catchphrase. Mary knows.
    Thereā€™s justā€¦ something about Mary

  69. I got 9 right. I have reread these books a lot. The stuff I got wrong are things that obviously didnā€™t impact my enjoyment of these small bites of goodness. Also can I say I absolutely love ā€œA Mere Formalityā€

  70. One of the questions has a vague answer. The kinsman have “combat implants” i interpreted that has implanted tech

  73. I want to read this series. Do you know how I can get my hands on a paper copy. Not into ebooks, it just does not feel the same. Audio is better, I just can’t always take the time to fully focus on it.

  74. Ohhhhhhhh it was the Kinsmen universe ????????????????
    So intriguing ! Can’t wait to revisit this world
    I feel like reading them again now hahaha

  75. Hmmm, 6 of 13. Clearly I need to re-re-re read these books. CLEARLY. I am ashamed. However, I loved the Daddy Shark answer. šŸ™‚

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