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J.R. Kendiro

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https://kendiro.com/

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, David Gemmell, Brandon Sanderson

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November 2025

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For ARC Readers: my novella Ravenous Mother - A Healer is available for free right now: here

I've done a lot of things in my life. Some I'm proud of, some I'm not. But they all taught me the same thing: wasting time is a mortal sin.

That’s why I try to write honest, well-crafted books — so I don’t waste my own time writing nonsense, and I don’t waste yours by making you read it.

Ravenous Mother is my first saga. It’s set inside a massive biological organism where humanity survives in a rigid caste system — and reaching forty means you feed the Mother.

It’s about people trapped in impossible systems, without hope, yet who never give up. Exactly like real humanity.

The Mother feeds the readers,

The readers feed the Mother.

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Betrays is ready for its first readers!

Hello, enemies of antibodies!

Betrays is finally ready for its first readers!

Join the beta readers:
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Ravenous Mother: Betrays by J. R. Kendiro

Ravenous Mother: Betrays by J. R. Kendiro

Cover illustration by Thea Magerand. Thank you, Thea, for giving Thandie a face.

It's Book 1 of Ravenous Mother, the first full-length novel of the saga, and I'm looking for beta readers.

Humanity lives inside the Mother. Its rulers decide who she eats.

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