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I like both but agree that the second one is vague. So what if you combined them?

For instance, what if you took the beginning part of the second one from “You may hate me…” to “I am a hero. They say.” Then put the first blurb starting with the second paragraph (“Exton hunts for redemption”). I say that because the second blurb intrigued me more, but I liked how informative the first one is. By combining them, you get the best of both (and on the back cover the first part could be in italics, and the rest in regular font). One pulls the reader in, the other clarifies in general what’s going to happen.

I feel like I’ve seen something like that done a lot on fantasy books. Like with The Way of Kings, my paperback has a blurb that’s a lot more like your second one. But Amazon has a more informative one like your first blurb.

Randomly, if you chose to go with the first blurb, and if your book doesn’t have a prologue or a brief preclude, the second blurb would work really well for that. Because it hooked me very, very quickly. 🙂