Wishlist Wednesday: Giving it another shot

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Featuring books that I really want to read but haven't actually made it to my embarrassingly large TBR pile yet. Join me the first Wednesday of the month to see how bad an influence the book blogging community has been.

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I enjoyed the first two InCryptid books, and while the third wasn't bad, I lost interest in the series. But book 5 picks back up with my favorite ninja ballroom dancer, so I might give this another go. Is it bad that I'm skipping book 4?

Seanan McGuire Chaos Choreography InCryptid

Author: Seanan Mcguire

Release Date: March 1, 2016

Verity Price is back on the West Coast and getting back into the swing of the family business: cryptozoology. She’s rescuing cryptids from bad situations, protecting them from monster-hunters, and generally risking life and limb for the greater good, with her ex-Covenant partner/husband, Dominic, by her side. Her ballroom dance career is behind her—or so she thinks. When Verity gets the call from the producers of Dance or Die, the reality show she almost won several years before, she finds the lure impossible to resist, and she and Dominic are off to L.A. for one last shot at the big time.

Of course, nothing is that simple. When two contestants turn up dead, Verity will need every ally she can find with the investigation, without blowing her cover…

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Dream Magic by Joshua Khan

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Title: Dream Magic
Series: Shadow Magic, book 2
Author: Joshua Khan
Genre: Middle Grades, Fantasy
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Date: April 11, 2017
Length: x pages

This book was free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

A fabulously exciting sequel to the fantasy adventure SHADOW MAGIC.
People throughout Gehenna are disappearing, even the feared executioner Tyburn. Many of the nobles believe the kidnappings to be the work of the northern trolls, raiding south for the winter, and when Baron Sable and others head off to fight them, Castle Gloom is left guarded by only the squires.
Lily is struggling with her growing necromantic powers. The castle fills with ghosts, drawn like moths to a flame by the brightness of her magic. Zombies roam the country, some left over from those raised in SHADOW MAGIC, others awakened by Lily. Families are troubled by the returning dead, so Lily tries to incorporate them into day-to-day life, much to the resentment of the living.
Then Lily is attacked in her own castle by a mysterious sorcerer known as Dreamweaver, a young man determined to conquer Gehenna using jewel-spiders, strange crystalline creatures whose bite doesn’t kill, but sends victims to sleep. Lily soon discovers that Dreamweaver is harvesting dreams to fuel his magic.
Lily enters the realm of sleep known as the Dream Time, in an attempt to awaken all the captive dreamers. Instead she finds herself trapped within a dream, one where her family is still alive. With the help of Thorn and the ever loyal Hades, she must somehow overcome the evil Dreamweaver by using his own magic against him – and reclaim her kingdom.

Description from Goodreads

The world of Dream Magic is like a junior version of Game of Thrones set in Halloween Town. Replace dragons with zombies and Lily would be Khaleesi fighting to save her kingdom with magic and possibly a political marriage.

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Letter 44, Vol. 1: Escape Velocity by Charles Soule

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

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Title: Letter 44, Vol. 1: Escape Velocity

Author: Charles Soule

Illustrator: Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque

Genre: Graphic Novel, Science Fiction

Publisher: Oni Press, March 29, 2017*

Length: 144 pages

*The NetGalley publication date differs from the Goodreads date of 2014.

This book was free through NetGalley in return for an honest review

On Inauguration Day, newly elected President Stephen Blades hoped to tackle the most critical issues facing the nation: war, the economy, and a failing health care system. But in a letter penned by the outgoing President, Blades learns the truth that redefines "critical": seven years ago, NASA discovered alien presence in the asteroid belt, and kept it a secret from the world. A stealth mission crewed by nine astronauts was sent to make contact, and they’re getting close - assuming they survive the long journey to reach their destination.
Today, President-elect Blades has become the most powerful man on the planet. This planet.

Description from Goodreads

Part political thriller, part science fiction adventure, part alien invasion story, Letter 44 rockets forward from page 1!
If you'd just been elected President of the United States, you certainly wouldn't believe it if the outgoing President left you a letter stating he had started two foreign wars and driven the economy into the ground to fast track weapons development for an alien invasion. Neither did Stephen Blades. But that's just the start of this fast paced and tense political science fiction graphic novel. For the last half of the book I was literally curled over my computer scrolling through the e-galley as quickly as I could. It was great! And while current president numbers are off by one, starting this book right after the inauguration meant I was starting it almost simultaneously to the events of the book. It definitely gave the story a surreal feel.