I give in!
Instead of buying more books to add to the ever-growing TBR piles and electonic ion storms, I’m joining On My Wishlist, a terrific meme that’s hosted by Book Chick City.
So instead of putting it on my Nightstand and buying it, I’m listing it here and saying why I want it. It doesn’t even have to be a new book. I just have to want it.
So not at problem! My problem is that I want to read more books than I have hours in the day.
Crystalfire by Kate Douglas
DemonSlayers #4
April 3, 2012
Kensington Zebra
Paranormal Romance
This is book four of the DemonSlayers series. I loved books 1, 2 and 3 (Demonfire, Hellfire, Starfire). Any time a sword talks back, and it’s snarky, I’m laughing. (Swords with attitude are fun, if you don’t believe me, read Mercedes Lackey’s Tarma and Kethry books in the Valdemar universe) But I’m also a pushover for romances and fantasies that cross over from a magic universe to ours.
Worldsoul by Liz Williams
June 6, 2012
Prime Books LLC
Science Fiction
This one had me at the opening of the description. I’ve got to find out what’s going on. Besides, I love Liz Williams’ Snake Agent/Detective Inspector Chen series, even if (ahem) I’m not caught up. I have The Iron Khan and haven’t gotten around to it yet.
What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world?
Worldsoul, a great city that forms a nexus point between Earth and the many dimensions known as the Liminality, is a place where old stories gather, where forgotten legends come to fade and die—or to flourish and rise again. Until recently, Worldsoul has been governed by the Skein, but they have gone missing and no one knows why. The city is also being attacked with lethal flower-bombs from unknown enemy. Mercy Fane and her fellow Librarians are doing their best to maintain the Library, but… things… keep breaking out of ancient texts and legends and escaping into the city. Mercy must pursue one such dangerous creature. She turns to Shadow, an alchemist, for aid, but Shadow—inadvertently possessed by an ifrit—has a perilous quest of her own to undertake.
The Seduction of Phaeton Black: Paranormal Investigator by Jillian Stone
April 1, 2012
Kensington
Paranormal/Steampunk/Erotic Romance/Urban Fantasy/All of the above???
This is the one that got away at the Public Library Association Convention March 14-16. The cover looks so incredibly cool. And I tried to convince the folks at the Kensington booth to just let me have the display copy to review, but they weren’t having any of it. (I did cart away oodles of review copies, this was my only turndown). Now I want to find out if the book is half as good as the cover.
There’s an additional thing on my wishlist that is not a book. We came back from the conference last night to discover that there’s a water pipe wonked out in our subdivision. We have no water. So the biggest thing on my wishlist today is for the plumbers to fix the pipes!
Calloo! Callay! We have water again!
I have way more books I want to read than hours in the day. I think it’s certain conclusion when you’re a book blogger.
I love the look of Worldsoul. I haven’t read her other books, but this one is intriguing enough.
The Detective Inspector Chen series is urban fantasy in an Asian parallel world where heaven and the demon dimensions are just other places one can visit. The Inspector’s partner is a demon.
But Worldsoul, ah! The Library! It sounds like that one episode of Doctor Who, except that the Librarians are the heroes. I think I’m in love.
These sound really good and they are new to me. Thanks for the leads.
I want to read all of these as well especially the one by Jillian Stone. I just read An Affair With Mr. Kennedy by her and adored it, so I can’t wait to get my hands on this one as well. Great choices!
Worldsoul sounds great and The Seduction of Phaeton Black is on pre=-order from Amazon. Some many books, so little time. I am retired and still cannot get to all of them.
I left my card with Kensington to see about getting a review copy. I hope they send me one. It’s not like I don’t have enough other books to read! But that cover just reached out and sucked me right in.
Marlene,
If you don’t receive a copy from Kensington by April 1 (as in Fools day) e-mail me and I’ll send one right out to you! 😉
Jillian, Thank you so much! It’s on my calendar to email you if I haven’t heard from them. I will review it, I promise! 😉