Can’t Wait Wednesday: At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce
23 October 2024
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Tags: At the Bottom of the Garden, Camilla Bruce, Can't Wait Wedesday, Wishful Ending
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce. Here’s the cover and description:
A dark gothic adult fairytale with a murderous aunt, witches and a vengeful housekeeper.
Clara Woods is a killer. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace – or so she always thought. Until the girls arrived.
Lily and Violet are her adolescent nieces, recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but her funds are drying up and the girls come with a hefty sum attached.
There is only one both girls are untrained witches, with newly heightened powers which they inherited from their mother when she died. Lily can literally see how people feel and knows when they lie. And young Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see all the dead, and call them back.
Soon Clara is surrounded by apparitions, and at war with the gifted girls in her care. The latter have become a liability – and know far more than they should. There is a war waging in this house, and only one side can win…
Expected publication : January 2025
Can’t Wait Wednesday : The House of Frost and Feather by Lauren Wiesebron
16 October 2024
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Tags: blogging, Books, Can't Wait Wedesday, fiction, Lauren Wiesebron, The House of Frost and Feather, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: The House of Frost and Feather by Lauren Wiesebron. Here’s the cover and description (basically I was hooked by that opening sentence!)
SPINNING SILVER meets HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE in this beautiful debut Slavic folklore fantasy.
Marisha’s life is not going as she expected. With the sleeping plague only a few months away, she’s as desperate for money as she is to escape her aunt’s torturous marriage prospects. Leaving all that she’s known behind, Marisha accepts a job working with the notorious koldunya, Baba Zima in her house that glides on chicken feet through the snow.
But Baba Zima is renowned for being both clever and cruel. And most difficult of all is her current apprentice, Olena, who wants nothing to do with Marisha. Despite her fears and Olena’s cold demeanour, Marisha finds herself drawn into the magical world of koldunry and delves further into Olena’s research – a cure for the sleeping plague.
Accompanying Olena on an increasingly dangerous, seemingly impossible search for a cure, she finds hidden connections between the sleeping plague, her own family’s history, and her bizarre, recurring dreams: dreams of a masked ball where the deep sleepers are trapped endlessly dancing – and a monstrous beaked man haunts her every step . . .
Expected publication : January 2025
Can’t Wait Wednesday: White Line Fever by KC Jones
2 October 2024
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Tags: Can't Wait Wedesday, KC Jones, White Line Fever, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: White Line Fever by KC Jones. (I absolutely loved Black Tide and constantly recommend it to people I know). Here’s the cover and description for White Line Fever:
From Bram Stoker Award finalist KC Jones comes a haunting road trip-gone-wrong, where four friends must drive for their lives to escape The Devil’s Driveway.
At a passing glance, Country Road 951 is an entirely unremarkable stretch of road, a two-lane scar across central Oregon’s high desert landscape. But CR-951 goes by another name, coined by those who’ve had to clean up after all those scenic detours went horribly The Devil’s Driveway.
When Livia and her childhood friends (the self-proclaimed Scoundrels) take CR-951 to bypass congestion on their way to a girls’ weekend getaway, the would-be shortcut quickly becomes anything but. Soon, they’re driving for their lives, hunted by a horror beyond anything any of them have ever imagined.CR-951 might only be 15 miles long, but it will take the Scoundrels to the very limits of their friendships and their sanity.
Expected publication: March 2025
Can’t Wait Wednesday: Wooing the Witch Queen (Queens of Villainy #1) by Stephanie Burgis
25 September 2024
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Tags: Books, Can't Wait Wedesday, Fantasy, fiction, Queens of Villainy #1, Stephanie Burgis, Wishful Endings, Wooing the Witch Queen
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: Wooing the Witch Queen (Queens of Villainy #1) by Stephanie Burgis. I’m loving her work and highly recommend her Regency Dragons series. Anyway, here’s the cover (which is absolutely gorgeous) and the description (which is absolutely captivating):
In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alliance to protect their lands from invasion…and love turns their world upside down.
Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.
When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…
Little does Saskia know that the “wizard” she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he’s in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?
Expected publication : February 2025
Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North
18 September 2024
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Tags: Alex North, Book Review, Books, Can't Wait Wedesday, Fantasy, reading, The Man Made of Smoke, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North. Here’s the cover and description:
Neil Garvie can’t move on from a thing he didn’t do, back when he was twelve. He saw the boy. He knew he needed help. But all he could do was hide.
Now with a successful career as a criminal psychiatrist, Neil pours himself into his work, understanding the very darkest of human behaviour. Because, despite what he saw that day, Neil knows there’s no such thing as a monster.
But now he’s got a call. His father, John, a retired police officer, has disappeared, last seen approaching a high cliff, known locally as a suicide spot. Neil can’t believe he didn’t see the signs.
It’s just, the more he looks, the more it seems like there weren’t any signs. In fact, John seemed to be conducting some kind of off-the-books investigation, into the mysterious murder of an unidentified woman.
Why didn’t John go to his former colleagues? What did he uncover? Did it drive him to take his own life, or did it drive him into the hands of a killer?
But the most important questions of all are the ones that Neil doesn’t know to ask. How does this modern-day murder connect back to what happened that day when he was twelve? And, this time, when he comes face to face with the darkest killer he’s ever faced, will he have the courage to step out of the shadows and save the people he loves?
Expected publication: January 2025
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