In Pursuit of My Own Library

Now available on store shelves, Diana’s first book for readers eight and up is a thrilling adventure story, perfect for people who like their books with a side of rocketships and hidden treasure. Find out what secrets are hidden beneath the Maryland countryside in… Omega City Gillian Seagret doesn’t listen to people who say her father’s a crackpot. His conspiracy theories about the lost technology of Cold War-era rocket scientist Dr. Aloysius Underberg may have cost him his job and forced the family to move to a cottage in the sticks, but Gillian knows he’s right, and plans to prove it. When she discovers a missing page from Dr. Unerberg’s diary in her father’s mess of an office, she thinks she’s found a big piece of the puzzle–a space-themed riddle promising to lead to Dr. Underberg’s greatest invention. Enlisting the help of her skeptical younger brother, Eric, her best friend, Savannah, and Howard, their NASA-obsessed schoolmate, Gillian sets off into t

What a whirlwind spring it has been! With the huge gaps in sunshine and rain, I have had my hands full keeping up with the lawn. But those rainy days have given me a great chance to get some new ARCs. Another new author and new category for me courtesy of Netgalley. I have really appreciated being able to open my reading horizons. This time around I tried to see what Urban Fantasy was all about. Figured it was time to move my reading timeline up from the age of Arthur and Victorian era to the age of technology. City of Fae  will be released on May 7, 2015. City of Fae by Pippa DaCosta The start of this novel was a little hard for me to really get pulled in to the story. The premise seemed to be pretty obvious and the characters had some disconnect for me. Like any good show, the pilot cannot judge the series. Actors need time to mold to each other before you can really decide if the show is any good. This novel had the same affect. Once the characters seemed to find their strid

I have been really impressed with my experience from Angry Robot Books. They certainly pick authors that fit my reading palate. Last year I was swept away with Rod Duncan's Gas-Lit Empire. You can catch my review here  for The Bullet Catcher's Daughter  to get introduced to this wonderful steampunk world. Coming May 7th is the second novel. In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life – as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. Witnessing the brutal hanging of someone very close to her, Elizabeth resolves to throw the  Bullet Catcher’s Handbook  into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy! There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. But something doesn’t feel right to Elizabeth. Perhaps it is time for her fictional brother to come out of retirement for one last case? Her unstoppable curiosity leads her to a dark world of body-snatching, unseemly experimentat

I have been reading some excellent new books on Netgalley this month. Some have been new authors, others have been new avenues for old favorites. Like next month's release from Naomi Novik. While I have been eagerly awaiting the final novel in the Temeraire series, I must admit that I am not disappointed to have an in-between novel distraction. This way I do not have to let the amazing series go just yet. And let me just say, this standalone Polish fairy tale for modern storytelling, whew... “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Ag

Yet another new category brought to me by Netgalley. I just finished up reading City of Fae  by Pippa DaCosta. It releases on May 7th from Bloomsbury Spark. For now, here are some tidbits on the book with my full review to follow later this month. Days to live. Hours to love. Seconds to kill.  From the moment Alina touches London’s hottest fae superstar, breaking one of the laws founded to protect all of her kind, her fate – and the fae – close in.    Below ground, the fae High Queen plots to claim the city as her own and places her pawns, ready for the battle to come. A battle she cannot lose, but for one small problem – Alina. There are four ancient keepers powerful enough to keep the queen in her prison. Three are dead. One remains … And to fight back, Alina risks sacrificing everything she has come to love.  This New Adult urban fantasy is packed with action and suspense and will have you yearning for more forbidden fae romance. Not to leave you completely