My Upcoming Reads & Listens over the Coming Weeks

I have been away from reading and blogging for a little while (Christmas time at my workplace is incredibly busy). Some days I classed it as a massive accomplishment if I managed to read ten pages a day!

But, with that lovely festive period out of the way, I fully expect to get a lot more books read and audio books listened to. Here’s a short list of what I’m hoping to get reviewed over the next few weeks (in no particular order). Both of the books were ones I picked up in October at Comicon. I had the chance to meet both of the authors and get them to sign my books.  Both were great to talk to. I especially like Daniel Polansky’s attitude. Awesome guy.

There would have been more than just two audiobooks … but Black Ocean was a staggering 85 hours long!

Books:

The Straight Razor Cure by Daniel Polansky (Low Town Book One)

Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, the inviting murmurs of working girls. Here, people can disappear, and the lacklustre efforts of the guard ensure they are never found.

Warden is an ex-soldier who has seen the worst men have to offer; now a narcotics dealer with a rich, bloody past and a way of inviting danger. You’d struggle to find someone with a soul as dark and troubled as his.

But then a missing child, murdered and horribly mutilated, is discovered in an alley.

And then another.

With a mind as sharp as a blade and an old but powerful friend in the city, he’s the only man with a hope of finding the killer.

If the killer doesn’t find him first.

 

Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames: (The Band Book Two)

Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.

When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam jumps at the chance to sign on as their bard. It’s adventure she wants-and adventure she gets as the crew embark on a quest that will end in one of two ways: glory or death.

IT’S TIME TO TAKE A WALK ON THE WYLD SIDE

 

Audiobooks

Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions , 1-16.5 by J.S. Morin

Carl Ramsey is an ex-Earth Navy fighter pilot turned con man. His ship, the Mobius, is home to a ragtag crew of misfits and refugees looking to score a big payday but more often just scratching to pay for fuel. The crew consists of his ex-wife (and pilot), a drunkard, four-handed mechanic, a xeno-predator with the disposition of a 120kg housecat, and the galaxy’s most-wanted wizard.

Along the way, the Mobius crew crosses paths with the Black Ocean’s vilest scum, from pirate fleets to criminal syndicates, and most law-abiding scum, including Earth Interstellar Enhanced Investigative Organization, ARGO high command, and the Convocation of Wizards.

Time and again, riches lie just out of reach, because for all the talents Carl Ramsey and his crew possess, they’ve also got an outlaw’s greatest weakness: a conscience.

 

Ravencry by Ed Mcdonald: (The Raven’s Mark Book Two)

For Ryhalt Galharrow, working for Crowfoot as a Blackwing captain is about as bad as it gets – especially when his orders are garbled, or incoherent, or impossible to carry out.

The Deep Kings are hurling fire from the sky, a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady had begun to manifest in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power while the city burns around them.

Galharrow may not be able to do much about the cult – or about strange orders from the Nameless – but when Crowfoot’s arcane vault is breached and an object of terrible power is stolen, he’s propelled into a race against time to recover it. Only to do that, he needs answers, and finding them means travelling into nightmare: to the very heart of the Misery.

 

What are you looking forward to reading or listening to over the coming weeks?