Reader’s Corner: Books I’m Excited About

I haven’t been read­ing much lately because I’m work­ing on a project, so in lieu of a graphic novel review, here are a few books that I am antic­i­pat­ing and please, feel free to share some of your own!

Holly Black –The Good Neigh­bors, Kin: Book One, Octo­ber 2008, YA hard­cover. Another series fea­tur­ing faeries and I can’t wait to read it! A young girl’s mother is sent back to the faerie world because her father broke a promise to their faerie grand­fa­ther and she has to go save her. Added to that, there’s an evil faerie that threat­ens the mor­tal world. Sounds good!

Kel­ley Arm­strong –The Sum­mon­ing, July 2008 hard­cover. I’ve never read Kel­ley Arm­strong but I am more likely to since she is writ­ing a YA novel fea­tur­ing a hero­ine who can see ghosts. The plot doesn’t sound all that orig­i­nal but, it sounds good like it’s worth a look.

Chelsea Cain — Sweet­heart, Sep­tem­ber 2008 hard­cover mys­tery. I enjoyed Heart­sick and was intrigued with its hero, Archie Sheri­dan. He’s a dam­aged cop, who quite hon­estly was the key to my enjoy­ment of Ms. Cain’s debut novel. The story fea­tures a femme fatale who is the equiv­a­lent of Han­ni­bal Lecter. Gretchen is a mas­ter manip­u­la­tor who man­ages to infil­trate the task force that was search­ing for her and she kid­naps and tor­tures the lead inves­ti­ga­tor. I can’t wait to see what hap­pens next for Archie and Gretchen as theirs is a com­pli­cated rela­tion­ship that nobody seems to under­stand (me included).

Cather­ine Asaro — The Night Bird, pub­lished by Luna, July 2008. Admit­tedly, I’ve never read any of Asaro’s Luna titles with Har­le­quin because of the mixed reviews. I love her Ruby Dynasty nov­els (and I am really behind in read­ing them, too). I think I’ll give this one a try. This novel sounds inter­est­ing, about a hero­ine who is an enchantress who man­ages to cap­ti­vate the Nomad war­rior who steals her from her home­land and threat­ens her peo­ple. The story seems to promise plenty of action, pol­i­tics and romance! It’s the start of a new series. There’s also an excerpt of the book on the Ama­zon page as well.

Stephe­nie Meyer — Break­ing Dawn, Book Four in the Twi­light saga. My feel­ings on this book is a mixed bag: antic­i­pat­ing and dread­ing the con­clu­sion of this series. I’m not even cer­tain if this is the end for Bella and Edward. I’ve been dis­ap­pointed thus far in the books fol­low­ing Twi­light. I’m sure Bella will be granted her wish by the Cullen fam­ily but how will she resolve the Bella/Edward/Jacob mess? And hon­estly, I can’t recall the events in the last book. So, I’m excited but fear­ful. Ms. Meyer has proved that she can spin a good story. I thought she did good with The Host, her first stand alone sci-fi novel.

I’m sure there’s more that I am miss­ing but this list is just a start. What are some of your antic­i­pated reads?