This is a blog meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine to spotlight upcoming books. This week we're featuring picks chosen by SQT and Jim.
SQT's can't wait to read selection is:
City of Dark Magic: A Novel
by Magnus FlytePublisher: Penguin Group
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Pages: 464
Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative, this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspense
Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood.
Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide.
City of Dark Magic could be called a rom-com paranormal suspense novel—or it could simply be called one of the most entertaining novels of the year.
~My Thoughts
Tantric sex in a public fountain? Who wouldn't want to know what that's all about?
Jim's can't wait to read selection is:
Higher Earth vol 1
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Date: January 1, 2013
Pages: 128
When the final frontier proves to be a desolate wasteland, mankind turns
its sights toward exploring -- and conquering -- a different sort of
territory: alternate Earths. HIGHER EARTH, written and created by Sam
Humphries, takes place in a universe of interconnected Earths, with many
falling under the empire of the titular throne world.
I think I've mentioned this graphic novel before in one of my Raves, but it's got an interesting premise. At least one of the main characters is from a "lesser" Earth, one of those under the rule of Higher Earth, and therefore essentially a non-citizen. Are there others who feel as helpless and hopeless, and is there anything they can do against such an advanced empire?
0 comments:
Post a Comment