Waiting on Wednesday: Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
21 December 2016
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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme created by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire. I’m loving SMcG at the moment. I’m reading her Toby Daye series at the moment and can’t get enough of it and absolutely adored Every Heart a Doorway.
When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline.
But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way.
Due out 10th Jan – not long now!
Waiting on Wednesday: With Blood Upon the Sand (The Song of the Shattered Sands #2) by Bradley P. Beaulieu
14 December 2016
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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : With Blood Upon the Sand (The Song of the Shattered Sands #2) by Bradley P. Beaulieu. You may have noticed that I featured this in my recent list of books that I’m looking forward to reading in 2017. This gives a bit more information. the book is due out June 2017 and is the second in series. The first, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai was an excellent read that was on my year end ‘best of’ list for 2015. Highly recommended (my review here). Anyway, to the detail, starting with two dramatically different and yet equally gorgeous covers:
Çeda, now a Blade Maiden in service to the kings of Sharakhai, trains as one of their elite warriors, gleaning secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She knows the dark history of the asirim—that hundreds of years ago they were enslaved to the kings against their will—but when she bonds with them as a Maiden, chaining them to her, she feels their pain as if her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but with the power of the gods compelling them, they find the yokes around their necks unbreakable.
Çeda could become the champion they’ve been waiting for, but the need to tread carefully has never been greater. After the victory won by the Moonless Host in the Wandering King’s palace, the kings are hungry for blood. They scour the city, ruthless in their quest for revenge. Unrest spreads like a plague, a thing Emre and his new allies in the Moonless Host hope to exploit, but with the kings and their god-given powers, and the Maidens and their deadly ebon blades, there is little hope of doing so.
When Çeda and Emre are drawn into a plot of the blood mage, Hamzakiir, they sail across the desert to learn the truth, and a devastating secret is revealed, one that may very well shatter the power of the hated kings. They plot quickly to take advantage of it, but it may all be undone if Çeda cannot learn to navigate the shifting tides of power in Sharakhai and control the growing anger of the asirim that threatens to overwhelm her.
Waiting on Wednesday: The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy #1) by Jen Williams
7 December 2016
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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : Waiting on Wednesday: The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy #1) by Jen Williams. I absolutely love Jen Williams Copper Cat series and can’t wait for this to be released. Fortunately, not too long a wait: February 23rd 2017.
The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces – talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza ‘Vintage’ de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind.
But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure’lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall…
I can’t wait for this book! Literally, I’m jumping up and down! It sounds so good.
Waiting on Wednesday: The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley #RRSciFiMonth
30 November 2016
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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley. I haven’t read this author yet but this book sounds amazing and could be the perfect starting place!
Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.
Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation – the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan’s new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion’s gravity well to the very belly of the world.
Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion’s destruction – and its possible salvation. But can she and her ragtag band of followers survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?
In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about tragic love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre’s most celebrated new writers.
Expected publication: February 2017
Sci Fi Month organised by Rinn Reads and Over the Effing Rainbow is a fun event that celebrates all things sci fi and runs for the whole of November.
Waiting on Wednesday: Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner #RRSciFiMonth
23 November 2016
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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. My book this week is : Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. Basically, I’m being a bit premature with this one as it doesn’t seem to have it’s final cover yet and the publication date isn’t set but I was so happy when I read about this one that I had to feature it. Patience is not a virtue that I seem to possess.
Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe join forces in a tomb-raiding race on a newly discovered planet to unravel the secrets of an ancient, long-extinct civilization — only to uncover a revelation that could spell the end of the human race.
…and, okay, it doesn’t really have a full-on blurb yet either … but I don’t care. I like the sound of it – tomb raiding, extinct civilisation, newly discovered planet – oh yes!
Sci Fi Month organised by Rinn Reads and Over the Effing Rainbow is a fun event that celebrates all things sci fi and runs for the whole of November. Check it out and come and join the fun and discussion. You know you want to 😀
Books and travelling with Lynn 