My thoughts and observations on the rise of multiple special editions of books that are yet to be released. Why is this happening and does it matter?
Blog Posts
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before a masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
Gemina – Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion..
July Monthly Wrap Up
Wrap up of my reading highlights this month! What book did you enjoy this month?
Can You Solve the Murder? – Antony Johnston
There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death. Now everyone is a suspect and you need to figure it out…
The Tombs of Atuan – Ursula K. Le. Guin
Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth. She is now known as Arha, the Eaten One, and guards the Tombs of Atuan. Until a wizard comes to steal a hidden treasure and tells Tenar tales of world she has never known.
Us Against You – Fredrik Backman
As the big match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up and their mutual contempt grows deeper. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent.
The Examiner – Janice Hallett
The mature students of Royal Hastings University’s new art course have been nothing but trouble. But finally they are given their last assignment: to build an art installation for a local manufacturer. With six students who have nothing in common except their clashing personal agendas, what could possibly go wrong? The answer is: murder..
Written on the Dark – Guy Gavriel Kay
Thierry Villar is a well-known–even notorious– tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies.
The Tropic of Serpents – Marie Brennan
Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes, and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics.