Hi Cara,
Summer is now over and its time to get into ready for autumn with lots of new books.
3rd September
Book: Vendetta in Death (In Death #49)
Author: J.D Robb
Publisher: Piakus
ISBN13:9780349422039
Synopsis: The predator becomes the prey in the newest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring homicide detective Eve Dallas.
She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless.
The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company’s human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims—but they don’t know that his crimes go far beyond workplace harassment. Lady Justice knows. And in one shocking night of brutality, she makes him pay a much steeper price.
Now Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, are combing through the evidence of McEnroy’s secret life. His compulsive need to record his misdeeds provides them with a wide range of suspects, but the true identity of Lady Justice remains elusive. It’s a challenging case, made even more difficult by McEnroy’s widow, who reacts to the investigation with fury, denial, and threats. Meanwhile, Lady Justice’s criminal crusade is escalating rapidly, and if Eve can’t stop this vigilante, there’s no telling how much blood may be spilled…
Gems Thoughts: I love the In Death series, so It will always be on my list.
Book: Sword and Pen (The Great Library #5)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Allison and Busby
ISBN13:9780749024574
Synopsis: The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble.
Gems Thoughts: Sword and Pen is the final book in the Great Library series, it a great book to end the series on. See my full review here.
5th September:
Book: The NightJar
Author: Deborah Hewitt
Publisher: Pan Macmillian
ISBN13:9781509896462
Synopsis: What if your dreams become your reality
All her life, Alice has been haunted by visions of birds. But when a mysterious man named Crowley appears at Alice’s door, he reveals she’s been seeing nightjars – the miraculous birds which guard our souls. But now a shadowy faction wants to use her rare gift for their own dark motives. Forced to go on the run, Alice follows Crowley to an incredible alternate London, to hone her talents. But in a world of betrayal, twisted loyalties and magic, who can she really trust?
Gems Thoughts: I love the idea of an alternate London, and Alice gift sounds really interesting
Book: The Wayward Girls
Author: Amanda Mason
Publisher: Zaffre
ISBN13:13: 9781785767135
Synopsis: THEN
1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead, the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment . . .
NOW
Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
Gems Thoughts: This book is perfect to read next to a roaring fire, on an autumn night so you truly great the creeping feeling. My full review can be found here.
12th September
Book: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Author: Alix. E. Harrow
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN13:9780356512440
Synopsis: In the summer of 1901, at the age of seven, January Scaller found a Door. You know the kind of door–they lead to Faerie, to Valhalla, to Atlantis, to all the places never found on a map.
Years later, January has forgotten her brief glimpse of Elsewhere. Her life is quiet and lonely but safe on her guardian’s estate, until one day she stumbles across a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds in its pages, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. A book that might lead her back to the half-remembered door of her childhood.
But, as January gets answers to questions she never imagined, shadows creep closer. There are truths about the world that should never be revealed.
Gems Thoughts: This book is magical, the idea of doors to different worlds is fascinating. My full review can be found here.
19th September
Book: Kingdom of Souls
Author: Rena Barren
Publisher: HarperVoyager
ISBN13: 9780008302238
Synopsis: Magic has a price—if you’re willing to pay.
Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval.
There’s only one thing Arrah hasn’t tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom’s children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit.
She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned Demon King is stirring. And if he rises, his hunger for souls will bring the world to its knees… unless Arrah pays the price for the magic to stop him.
Gems Thoughts: This is one of my favourite books of the year so far. I have even ordered a special edition copy of the book. My full review can be found here.
Book: The Sword of Silence
Author: Shaun Curry
Publisher: Harper Inspire
ISBN13:9780310101307
Synopsis: Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country’s military dictator, the Shogun, is shutting his country down to any outside influences.
Father Joaquim Martinez, who left Portugal to make Hizen Province, Japan, his home, has been tending quietly to the lives of his villagers, but everything is about to be thrown into turmoil, as the Shogun has outlawed Martinez’s beliefs. Those who won’t recant or accept banishment, face a death sentence.
With the threat of a massacre looming, and the Shogun’s samurai closing in, Father Martinez must decide, if he is willing to risk everything, to save those he has sworn to protect.
Gems Thoughts: I found out about The Sword of Silence though twitter. I am interested in the idea of how people deal with being control, as with the current affairs seems relevant.
26th September
Book: Archangel’s War (Guild Hunter #12)
Author: Nalini Singh
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN13:781473224599
Synopsis: Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal Heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .
The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s power, Elena and her archangel are irrevocably changed… .far beyond the prophecy of a cursed Ancient.
At the same time, violent and eerie events around the world threaten to wipe out entire populations. And in the Archangel Lijuan’s former territory, an unnatural fog weaves through the land, leaving only a bone-chilling silence in its wake. Soon it becomes clear that even the archangels are not immune to this deadly evil. This time, even the combined power of the Cadre may not be enough. . .
This war could end them all.
Gems Thoughts: I need my fix of the Seven Also the cliff hanger from Archangel’s Prophecy, I don’t want to have to wait any longer to find out what happened.
Synopsis and book covers from goodreads.com
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