New Release Tuesday

The fourth book in the enormously popular graphic novel series, the latest collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics explores the evils of procrastination, the trials of the creative process, the cuteness of kittens, and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger. When it comes to humorous illustrations of the awkwardness and hilarity of millennial life, Sarah's Scribbles is without peer.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sundays

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend Cora King and sentenced to death. Now the highly debated Accelerated Death Penalty Act passes and gives Frankie thirty final days to live. From the Kings’ own family rises up the one who will challenge the woefully inadequate evidence and potential innocence of Francis Quick.

The at-first reluctant and soon-fiery Nyla and her sidekick (and handsome country island boy), Sam Stack, bring Frankie’s case to the international stage through her YouTube channel Death Daze. They step into fame and a hometown battle that someone’s still willing to kill over. The senator? The philanthropist? The pawnshop owner? Nyla’s own mother?

Best advice: Don’t go to family dinner with the Kings. More people will leave the dining room in body bags than on their own two feet. And as for Francis Quick, she’s a gem . . . even if she’s guilty.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

A new Slayer for a new generation...

Frankie Rosenberg is passionate about the environment, a sophomore at New Sunnydale High School, and the daughter of the most powerful witch in Sunnydale history. Her mom, Willow, is slowly teaching her magic on the condition that she use it to better the world. But Frankie’s happily quiet life is upended when new girl Hailey shows up with news that the annual Slayer convention has been the target of an attack, and all the Slayers—including Buffy, Faith, and Hailey’s older sister Vi—might be dead. That means it’s time for this generation’s Slayer to be born.

But being the first-ever Slayer-Witch means learning how to wield a stake while trying to control her budding powers. With the help of Hailey, a werewolf named Jake, and a hot but nerdy sage demon, Frankie must become the Slayer, prevent the Hellmouth from opening again, and find out what happened to her Aunt Buffy, before she’s next.

Get ready for a whole new story within the world of Buffy!

Why I'm Waiting: This combines two of my favorite things: Buffy and Kendare Blake!

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

Do you dare read this collection of terrifyingly gruesome tales? In this gripping volume, author Jen Campbell offers young readers an edgy, contemporary, and inclusive take on classic fairy tales, taking them back to their gory beginnings while updating them for a modern audience with queer and disabled characters and positive representation of disfigurement.

Featuring fourteen short stories from China, India, Ireland, and across the globe, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is an international collection of the creepiest folk tales. Illustrated with Adam de Souza’s brooding art, this book’s style is a totally original blend of nineteenth-century Gothic engravings that meets moody film noir graphic novels. Headlined by the Korean tale of a carnivorous child, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is a truly thrilling gift for brave young readers.

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Book Haul

Hello again! As promised I've interupted the regularly scheduled programs for this book haul! This one was over the course of a week with two different book stores involved. It was very nearly three because there is a book store between me and my bus stop. Which is a problem in the winter months when it's cold outside and so warm in the book store. But, I digress!

The first stop was the brand new comic store that opened a few towns over! It just opened in October, and I've been excited to visit. And, while I took a buddy to make sure I didn't go overboard, said buddy got sidetracked and I went a tad a wild. Gotta support new and queer owned businesses!

The second, and last stop, was one of my favorite local bookstores that I could, and have, spend hours in. This time however my shopping buddy wanted to get and out. So I had to get what we came for quickly. I only got side tracked once!

 

I good haul all around. Only one book is missing, Swamp Thing: Twin Branches. It was the first I read (review is here). I already found it another forever home! And, yes All of Us Villians came with a dust jacket, but I'm currently reading that I don't like reading hardback with the jackets on. 

I'll wait until I can't take it anymore to read the last Squad 312 book because I'm just not ready. My roommate has already read and finished it. I dream of reading as fast as they do. I fear for Finn and I hate time travel. It messes with the tenses!

Anyhow, let me know in the comments which you're excited to read, or already read?

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sundays

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but he remembers everything.

He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps.

He remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone.

He remembers: something was waiting for them...

But it isn’t just the memory of the accident that haunts Nick. Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him…

It’s one thing to lose your life. It’s another to lose your soul.

HAPPY READING!!

The Survival of Molly Southbourne - Review

Author: Tade Thompson

Genre: Novella/Horror

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

These novellas were a great library find. I'm enjoying this series and I'm excited that book 3 is out in May of 2022. Which will be here before I know it, and I'm excited to see how Thompson is going to tie this series up. Also for anyone who hasn't read this series I can't promise that what follows doesn't contain spoilers. So, if this series is on your TBR read with caution. I do my best to avoid spoilers, but this is one of those books that makes it hard!

The Survival of Molly Southbourne started just minutes after this book ends with the team set to watch over Molly Prime showing up. From there it follows that Molly she learns basically how to be human without any guiding help. This means that for a few pages there it's a bit of a wild ride as this molly loses both her mind and herself. 

What broke my heart about this book is how this molly was left out in the wild without any sense of direction. Because she looks like an adult but is in fact hours old and is not only learning how to be human, but how to be Molly Southbourne without giving anything away about how she's just a "molly". So there is a wild chapter where it all sort of blows on her, and it's kind of sad. But, there is also something about this Molly, she keeps on going and trying and learning, and by the end of this book, I feel she was starting to find out who she was.

Now, what I love about this book is we get a closer look at how exactly Molly Prime was able to create duplicates. We get a little bit of the backstory of the who, the what, and how. We also meet another woman with this power, only her doppelgangers don't try and kill. Somehow her's are tame and they've learned to live together. Something the mollys were still learned at the end of the book. 

We also get a little bit of a harder look at the people that were originally set to protect Molly Prime, but now seem to after the doppelganger that's taken over in her place. Tables are turning now that Molly has changed the game. Something it sounds like the next book is going to touch on a little more.

The other part I really liked about this book was the small little interludes with got with Professor as the molly inside of him grew. I thought they were interesting, and while as a whole they didn't serve a real purpose to the story itself, he was a big part of the first book. So I'm glad he got a small part in this book, even it was just his death.

Despite all the good and the fact I devoured this book, it still took me two days to read. While I enjoyed it, The Survival of Molly Southbourne suffers from sophomore syndrome. It's not as good as the first book, but it serves as a point of setting up the third, and I think final, book in the series. It's not terrible or boring, it's just lacking after the rollercoaster of emotions of the first book. This is more subdued, and it's a hundred percent because this is a different Molly. They are the same, but not.

So at the end of the day, I enjoyed the book and I'm excited for the next book to see how it's all going to wrap up. Probably in tears and so much blood.

HAPPY READING!!

Book Mail

Well hello there! It's been a long time since I've done a post that was a theme or a review. Work got a little crazy when our of the members of cooking staff fell ill, and our already small staff was even smaller. So I was doing what little I could to help back them up until our sick member was back. In that time I got some really amazing book mail from Quirk Books and treated myself to a small book shopping trip. The latter I'll post about later! But, first the book mail. I was really excited when Quirk Book asked if I wanted to read this book for review. It sounded so adorable and a nice break from the more spooky books I've been reading the last few months. 

As most of you know, just because you say yes to an ARC doesn't always mean you'll get approved. However, I got an amazing surprise last week in my mail box. Book mail is always one my favorite kind of mail, followed by snailmail from Mim, but I digress. I was super excited to find Hunters of the Lost City by Kali Wallace in mail box!

Synopsis: 

Packed with shocking twists, frightening monsters, and dark magic, this is a page-turning fantasy adventure for middle-grade fans of Holly Black and Tamora Pierce.

Twelve-year-old Octavia grew up believing the town of Vittoria was the only one left in the world. The sole survivors of a deadly magical war and plague, the people of Vittoria know there’s no one alive outside the town walls—except the terrible monsters that prowl the forest.

But then the impossible happens: Octavia meets another girl beyond the walls, someone who isn’t Vittorian. Everything she’s ever believed is thrown into question, and there’s no going back.

In her quest for the truth, Octavia discovers a world full of lies, monsters, and magic. She’ll have to use every scrap of her skill, wits, and courage to uncover what’s real about Vittoria and the rest of the world.

Despite having already started another book, I'm already two chapters into this one and I'm hoping to finish it over my long weekend next week. 

Hunters of the Lost City hits shelves April 26th, 2022!

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Swamp Thing: Twin Branches - Review

Author: Maggie Stiefvater 

Genre: Graphic Novel

Format: Paperback

Pages: 199

I was excited for this one because while I who Swamp Thing was, and I've read a few cross-overs with him. However, I've never read any of the comics about the character. I don't know why I've never read them, one of my favorite old-school creature movies is Creature from the Black Lagoon. This is something I should correct in the coming new year. I mention that because I felt this would be a fun way to dip a toe into the Swamp Thing world seeing how this is an origin story. 

As a whole, I wasn't disappointed in this book as an origin story like it seems quite a few other people seemed to be. I really liked Stiefvater's writing style and Morgan Beem's artwork. I love when artists, for lack a better way to describe it, has for Mike Mignola kind of aesthetic. The art is rough and angular, but colorful as well. Personally, I like it, and I thought the color palette Beem chose worked perfectly with the story.

I understand that a lot of people were expecting less science and more action, but I like that we got the opposite. I felt like we got to know Al through his love of plants, and I didn't mind how science-heavy it was. Al was a mature botanist and he had a love of plants. It made sense that a lot of his narration included that love. He saw the world as a plant and that's how he explained his world. Did I have to Google a handful of things as I read, yup sure did. But, honestly, that doesn't bother me. It means the author deep dove into science to show us who Al was before he becomes the Swamp Thing. On top of the fact I learned something and seeing that is geared for younger readers, I like that gives them something to research along with the story.

Swamp Thing is a very common coming-of-age trope in the superhero genre. It's funny at times, at others times frustrating, but as an adult reading YA sometimes I have to roll my eyes at the ridiculousness. Because I was full of drama then too. I really liked the side characters of friends Al made, especially the teacher in the lab he was borrowing. I think they were pulling him out of his shell far better than his brother, but I do love the end pages where they stand up for each other. I think it's great.

My only real complaint is the cousins  I found the characters of the cousins annoying and really overly terrible. They didn't really fit into the story all that much. Personally, I think they could have not been in the book and no one would have noticed. The only purpose they serve was to introduce the bullies and sort of egg them on. Something I think Al's twin could have done on his own, or with only one cousin. Sitting here, I don't remember either of their names.

But as a whole, I really like the one. It was fun and a great way to introduce a lesser-known DC character. I'm glad I picked up finally to read, and I know the perfect home it where it can introduce other young readers to Al and his love of plants.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—he’s led to a place many believed to be only a legend.

Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it… he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.

Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis’s abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there’s a risk of bringing a disease—rot—into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn’t as safe as they believed—and that darkness takes many forms.

Why I'm Waiting: You had me at a hidden cult and mysterious disease.

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

TwiceFar station is at the edge of the known universe, and that's just how Niko Larson, former Admiral in the Grand Military of the Hive Mind, likes it.

Retired and finally free of the continual war of conquest, Niko and the remnants of her former unit are content to spend the rest of their days working at the restaurant they built together, The Last Chance.

But, some wars can't ever be escaped, and unlike the Hive Mind, some enemies aren't content to let old soldiers go. Niko and her crew are forced onto a sentient ship convinced that it is being stolen and must survive the machinations of a sadistic pirate king if they even hope to keep the dream of The Last Chance alive.

HAPPY READING!!

The Murders of Molly Southbourne - Review

Author: Tade Thompson

Genre: Novella/Horror

Format: Paperback

Pages: 115

I don't even know where to begin with this novella. It was weird right out of the gate and got weirder with every single page, but I couldn't put this book down. I really tried to. I kept telling myself I'll get a snack once I finish this chapter. Only, when I finally got to the chapter I was like I mean there's only forty pages left, I can wait. Nex thing I devoured the whole novella and was thankful the second book had come in first so I already had it. Because I mean... Why would you end it there?!

The reason I picked up this is that the concept for this book had my attention. Every time that Molly Southbourne bleeds a doppelganger appears and tries to kill her. It's sounded like a real cook take on the lore, I was all in.

Not only was this a great take on the lore, but I love that Thompson used Molly as the storyteller throughout the entire story. It makes her a little unreliable at times, but it definitely adds to the scare factor at times seeing this happen to a little girl. Then of course finding out the whole truth as Molly gets older to explain some of the spooky stuff away. I felt like hearing the story through Molly's eyes was what made this hard to put down, especially the further into the story you get and the background of Molly's parents is being told.

I felt like Thompson did a great job of building this story in just over a hundred pages. The facts build on top of the gore and the horror, and all three components keep you going. The reader is learning along with Molly about what is happening to her, and how she ended where she was at the beginning of the novella. I love that ending makes you another book, but at the same time, I felt satisfied that the story in this book was finished. 

My favorite thing bout novella authors is when they are able to give you so much information in so few pages, but never make it feel like an information dump. I was never overwhelmed with what I was learning about Molly and her condition. There were enough breaks from facts and real-life moments to information was never overloaded.

Also, the thing about what happened to her boyfriends was pretty cool. I read that section maybe three times to make sure I read, what I thought to read it. So it's not just Molly's blood that calls forth the doppelgangers. Just saying, I should have questioned that the section about her flu.

But, I digress.

This was a weird read, but I enjoyed every second of it. I thought the story came together in a believable way, even a little tinfoil hat-like but I'm down for that. I thought the ending set us up nicely for the second book, which I'm excited to jump into.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.

Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin.

Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding her family’s estate, Margaret Harlowe grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated her uncanny power. Soon, whispers of “witch” dogged her footsteps, and Margaret’s power began to wind itself with the tendrils of something darker.

One hundred and fifty years later, Augusta Podos takes a dream job at Harlowe House, the historic home of a wealthy New England family that has been turned into a small museum in Tynemouth, Massachusetts. When Augusta stumbles across an oblique reference to a daughter of the Harlowes who has nearly been expunged from the historical record, the mystery is too intriguing to ignore.

But as she digs deeper, something sinister unfurls from its sleep, a dark power that binds one woman to the other across lines of blood and time. If Augusta can’t resist its allure, everything she knows and loves—including her very life—could be lost forever.

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The Montague Twins Vol 1 - Review

Author: Nathan Page

Genre: Graphic Novel/Mystery/Young Adult

Format: Hardback

Pages: 352

This was my second read-through of The Witch's Hand. I put it on hold last summer not long after it originally came out. It was one of the books I had forgotten about due to Covid and life changes, but quickly remembered when I saw I sequel was due out this December. I remembered liking the book and the characters, and a little about the plot itself. Kind of like vague flashes of what happened. So before the new volume dropped on shelves I wanted to do a quick re-read to catch myself back up.

One of the biggest things I had forgotten about this book was how much I not only loved the main characters but all of the supporting cast characters as well. They all fit together nicely and are easily likable in their human ways. I like that none of them are perfect characters and in a lot of ways those faults are celebrated. Even the villains are easy to hate for all the right reasons.

This was a pretty classic witch story, one I've seen before, but there wasn't anything wrong with that. While the trope was one I've read before and will read again, I liked that the background story was familiar ground. This gave room for other stories to be told throughout the pages. It allowed the readers to meet our main characters, to hear Rachel's story, and solve the mystery of exactly what is happening in this town. I felt Page's use of this trope was perfect and a little different than how we normally see it. 

I also really enjoyed the artwork that Drew Shannon does for each panel as the story unfolds. It allows the reader to get a feel for the town and the characters, and the little details help push the story right along. There's something about this series that I don't think I'd enjoy as a traditional novel. Shannon adding the visual panels gives a bit more life and color that makes this story not only easy to read but easy to follow. I great compliment to Page's writing.

If I had to choose one thing that still bugs me about this series, is that we didn't get to spend a lot of time learning about how magic works in this world. I feel like Page sets up the conspiracy of how magic is taught, I wished we'd get at least one more lesson before everything hit the fan. But, knowing there was a second volume coming I have my fingers crossed we'll see a little more about the way the magic in this world works.

Also, I have to note this takes in 1969 right after the Stonewall riots, and one of the twins, Pete, does come out in the middle of the story. I thought the moment between the brothers was handled well. I bring it up because I've seen lower reviews saying that the book makes it seem like this town was accepting of Pete, but the truth is throughout the whole story only Al and Charlie know the truth. And though I assume David and his wife (apologies her name escapes me) I feel would be accepting, it's not a point brought up. But it's made quite clear that Pete has a crush on Rowan right out the gate, and honestly who doesn't. 

I just felt the above needed said after seeing a handful of reviews knock this book down for that, and I felt it unfair. Though I adore Al even more for how he handled Pete's coming out in the diner. 

But, I recommend this for anyway who grew up loving Scooby-Do, Nancy Drew, or the Hardy Boys. It's got elements from all of those and all the drama and sarcasm of the supernatural CW shows. So if any combo of those is your jam, I say pick this book up and give it a try.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White outraged all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem’s influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen.

A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne—who knew several of the accused—observed and wrote.

Here, using source materials not available previously, Edward J. Renehan Jr. provides a riveting narrative of the cold-blooded murder, intense investigations, scandal-strewn trials, and grim executions that dominated headlines nearly two hundred years ago.

Why I'm Waiting: I've never heard of this case until now, so I'm excited for this hold to come in from the library!

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

Is this the end?
What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course.
Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast.
When we last saw Squad 312, they worked together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally.
But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the te4am has one last chance to rewrite their own. Maybe two. It's complicated.
Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure, no problem
Cue Tyler, Kal, and Auri: uniting with two of the galaxy’s most hated villains? Um, okay. That, too.
Actually saving the galaxy, though?
Now that will take a miracle.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

A GHOST SHIP.
A SALVAGE CREW.
UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right.

Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.

HAPPY READING!!

November Spotlight

I am both excited and little, read a lot, not emotionally ready for this last book. There is a long laundry list of reasons why I'm nervous. Mostly because I don't like time travel, it's dangerous and we should all learn from Barry Allen. It should be messed with. But, I don't know what I'm worried about because I'm the worst at finishing series especially from authors who tend to kill off the characters I love. Basically, if I don't read the book they aren't dead and that's the hill I'm willing to die on. Though, it's a bad hill because I still haven't finished the Illumiae Files because I'm really afraid of what happens to Nic. But that is a whole different can of worms. I've really enjoyed the first two books and while the main character of this series by Amie and Jay isn't my favorite, I adore all the side characters and the rest of Squad 312!

The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.

Is this the end?
What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course.
Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast.
When we last saw Squad 312, they worked together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally.
But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the te4am has one last chance to rewrite their own. Maybe two. It's complicated.
Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure, no problem
Cue Tyler, Kal, and Auri: uniting with two of the galaxy’s most hated villains? Um, okay. That, too.
Actually saving the galaxy, though?
Now that will take a miracle.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

Alastair, Pete, Charlie, and Rachel aren't just magical teen detectives in their coastal town of Port Howl--they are also members of a local teen rock band. Before a show one night, Charlie and Rachel meet a famous rockstar, Gideon, and invite him to their show. He'll never come, but why not try, right?

Little do they know, Gideon does show up, and he brings the threads of his dark past with him. In fact, he might even be the source of the rumored Devil's Music, a limited-release song that entrances all of its listeners in deadly hypnosis.

When Pete quickly gets drawn into Gideon's web, it's up to his brother and friends to save him. But Pete might not be the only Montague Twin at risk for Gideon's spell...

Why I'm Waiting: I loved the first volume, and I'm so excited that we're getting more of the Montague brothers!

HAPPY READING!!