Random Books I’m Excited About

The next couple weeks are gonna be GOOD weeks for books!  I’ve got a few pre-orders lined up and a few recent releases stacked up on my desk and all in all, I’m loving all the reading I’m going to be doing!

First off, my recent purchase: Mind Games by Carolyn Crane.  From her website:

Mind Games heroine Justine Jones isn’t your typical kick-ass type – she’s a hopeless hypochondriac whose life is run by fear.

She’s lured into a restaurant, Mongolian Delites, by tortured mastermind Sterling Packard, who promises he can teach her to channel her fears. In exchange, she must join his team of disillusionists – vigilantes hired by crime victims to zing their anxieties into criminals, resulting in collapse and transformation.

Justine isn’t interested in Packard’s troupe until she gets a taste of the peace he can promise. Soon she enters the thrilling world of neurotic crime fighters who battle Midcity’s depraved and paranormal criminals.

Eventually, though, she starts wondering why Packard hasn’t set foot outside the Mongolian Delites restaurant for eight years. And about the true nature of the disillusionists.

I’m totally reading this right now and it’s awesome. Witty, funny and such a neat world.  Looks to be an excellent addition to my urban fantasy collection.

Okay, Moon Called is still one of my favorite werewolf books of all times.  Adam is one of my favorite werewolves of all times, too.  I tend to have a breaking point on series with the same first person POV character, but whatever that breaking point is, I’ve yet to reach it with Mercy.  I’m still super excited to get my hands on this!

From Barnes & Noble (the first place I tracked down a blurb, which reminds me I haven’t even read a blurb yet, which I guess is the definition of auto-buy…)

When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she’d previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.

It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn’t take enough of Mercy’s attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam’s life forfeit.

All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn’t careful, she might not have many more to live…

I am such a Kelley Armstrong fangirl. I’ve been glomming her books since I fell in love with Paige & Lucas. Yes, this is my one unforgivable offense as a werewolf fangirl: I only recently developed any sort of tolerance for Clay…it took 10 books for me to warm to him.  Luckily I love everyone else enough that I read the series like a junkie. (Karl! Hope! Paige! Lucas! OMG JEREMY!)

Ann Aguirre got me the first two books in Armstrong’s YA series, The Summoning & The Awakening for my birthday, and I read them both in three days.  I am so glad that the third book will be out soon, because man I wanna know what happens next! (Love triangle? What love triangle? Clearly Derek is the awesomest awesome that ever awesomed. I refuse to hear a counter-opinion.)

I tried to find a blurb for this book in a few places, and finally gave up out of supreme laziness.  But this is such a close knit series that no one should start with the 3rd book anyway, but if you haven’t read the first two you totally should because they’re as awesome as any Armstrong book should be.

Speaking of Ann Aguirre… Book #2 in her Corine series is coming out on April 6th! Not that I’m excited to read it, because I’ve already read it. HA! (I rarely get to say that, so I’m gonna savor it.)

That means there’s still time to get your hands on Blue Diablo so you’re all caught up!  Trust me, guys, I’ve read book #3 too and it is so awesome, and if you haven’t read the first two when it comes out, everyone will make fun of you.  You heard it here first.

From Ann’s website: As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It’s too bad she can’t seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow—lending his particularly supernatural brand of luck—Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother’s death and the origins of her “gift.”

But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find that something is rotten in the state of Georgia. Just a few miles away, no one seems to know Kilmer exists. And inside the town borders there are signs of a dark curse affecting the town and all its residents—and it can only be satisfied with death…

So, there you have it. Four books I’m excited about.  Obviously I’m also excited about the fact that Sanctuary is officially on sale on April 6th, too, but this is my fangirl reader post so I’ll flail about that later.

What books are y’all excited about over the next couple weeks? (Or over the past couple!) I can always use more books to buy.