I have eight books planned to read for May, plus I'm finishing up three that I started in April.
Reading at Fantasy Buddy Reads-
Last of the Dragorn (The Echoes Saga #8) by Philip C. Quaintrell
THERE IS NO WAR. THERE IS ONLY REBELLION.
Alijah's
reign sweeps from Erador to Ayda. Those who would stand against the
king are few, their numbers cast across too many battlefields. Does hope
lie in the east? Can the elves turn the tide and keep The Rebellion
alive?
The weight of Dhenaheim now rests on Doran's shoulders.
Chained and imprisoned, the clans are shattered and spread across the
realm. On the island of Qamnaran, they build to the heavens. In The
Moonlit Plains, they dig down into the dark. Only the Heavybellys have
the mettle to do what must be done.
Astride the mighty Athis,
Inara Galfrey fights for The Rebellion as both sword and shield. With
blood and sweat she has kept Alijah's forces at bay, but Inara knows
there is only one way to defeat her brother. Following this path,
however, will take her far from the front lines and into lands long
forgotten.
After ten thousand years, the future that was foretold looms near. But Fate has one last hand to deal...
LAST OF THE DRAGORN IS THE PENULTIMATE CHAPTER IN THIS UNMISSABLE EPIC FANTASY SERIES.
Dragons of the Dwarven Depths (Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles #1) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Companions are back! In an untold story
from the War of the Lance, the companions have saved the refugees of Pax
Tharkas and led them to a hidden valley. For a time, they are safe, but
the forces of the Dragon Army are in pursuit.
As Tanis and Flint
seek out a haven in the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, the rest of the
companions face their own challenges. Raistlin is strangely drawn to the
haunted fortress known as Skullcap. Sturm seeks the legendary Hammer of
Kharas, the forging tool of the fabled dragonlances, while Tika Waylan
must make a perilous journey to rescue those she loves from certain
death.
Disturbing the Dead (A Rip Through Time #3) by Kelley Armstrong
Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1890s and the other in the present day. The A Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
Victorian
Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective
Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be
unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actually housemaid
Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in
the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant
to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true
friends―and feelings―in this century.
So, understanding the
Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn't that surprised when she
and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir
Alastair Christie. When their host is missing when it comes time to
unwrap the mummy, Gray and Mallory are asked to step in. And upon closer
inspection, it’s not a mummy they’ve unwrapped, but a much more modern
body.
My Pick It For Me book-
Isabelle by Sophia Holloway
Isabelle Wareham, whilst caring for her beloved
widowed father, has not seen much of the world. After his death,
Isabelle finds she is no longer her own mistress but under the
guardianship of her unscrupulous brother-in-law, Lord Dunsfold, who sees
her as a way to improve his own fortunes.
The outlook looks
bleak until events throw Isabelle and the impoverished Earl of Idsworth
together. However, Dunsfold is determined to force her into a more
lucrative match and Isabelle will need to rise above her circumstances
to reach her chance of happiness.
My Book Club Read-
Monster Menu by Terrell Garrett
An LA taco truck chef is transported to a
fantasy realm where bad reviews are the least of her worries in this
cozy culinary LitRPG adventure.
For Renee “Nay” Favreau, food
is life. She’s the owner of a Los Angeles taco truck who dreams of
becoming a respected chef and expanding her fleet, and whose greatest
enemy is an unhappy food critic. Always hunting for her next great dish,
the search eventually leads her to a near-fatal encounter with an
interdimensional spider.
Awaking in a strange world where words
appear before her eyes, a talking tentacle befriends her, and people are
trying to kill her, Nay learns she has the ability to become an one of
the special chefs who prepare the magical meals that power the enigmatic
Marrow Eaters.
Soon, Nay is working in a remote village, where
she wins the hearts—and stomachs—of the locals. But when evil threatens
to destroy the place, she’ll have to employ all her wit and newfound
skills to survive and save her new friends . . .
Reading with The Mystery Book Club-
The Winter Girls (Agent Tori Hunter #2) by Roger Stelljes
Gazing out the cabin window at the raging
blizzard, fear suddenly floods through her as she feels a stranger’s
hand clamp across her mouth. No one can hear her stifled screams as she
is dragged from the couch by the fire out into the snow.
When
seventeen-year-old Savannah Devenish vanishes from her family’s remote
vacation cabin in Minnesota, FBI Agent Tori Hunter races along
treacherous icy roads to be first on the scene. Savannah’s parents are
frantic with worry for their beautiful, carefree girl. Haunted by
memories of her own missing sister, Tori vows to do whatever it takes to
reunite this family.
When the police uncover that Savannah’s
father Jacob was having an affair, they suspect his involvement, but
Tori is convinced his despair is genuine. Her close relationship with
the chief detective means the team won’t listen, so Tori strikes off
alone, persuading Savannah’s distraught best friends to share their
secrets. It seems this ‘good girl’ was sneaking out to parties to meet
up with a mysterious man…
Then another teenager is snatched from
the street, snowy footprints and a discarded hot chocolate cup the last
trace of her. The girls are the same age, strikingly pale and blonde. Is
a twisted collector stealing them away? And what chance is there that
they are being kept alive?
With a deadly snowstorm closing in,
Tori battles the elements—and her own team—as she follows the trail to
an abandoned cabin by a frozen lake. In the basement are bedrooms filled
with clothes for teenage girls. Tori was too late to save her own
missing sister twenty years ago, but can she find these girls before
they disappear forever?
The Icarus Coda (The Icarus Saga #6) by Timothy Zahn
For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian
partner Selene have worked for the ultra-secret Icarus Group, hunting
for the mysterious Icari teleportation portals so valued by the
Commonwealth.
But their job has now come to a wrenching end. The
two of them are fugitives, sought by the Commonwealth, the rival Patth,
and the remnant of the ancient Ammei who once controlled the portals and
who hunger for a return to those days of glory. All three groups want
Selene and her unique ability to understand and deal with Icari
technology.
Or is it unique?
In the shadow of an Ammei
stronghold they stumble across an unfamiliar and badly confused alien
named Bubloo who has the same ultrasensitive sense of smell as Selene
and her fellow Kadolians. If the Ammei get hold of him, can they achieve
their goal of domination without Selene?
Roarke doesn’t know. But he doesn’t dare take that chance.
Things
are looking grim, with multiple puzzles and questions intertwined
around Bubloo and the portals, and the future of the Spiral hanging in
the balance.
And then, the Patth assassination squad arrives . . .
Reading for NetGalley-
A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
The brilliant detective Ana Dolabra may have finally met her match in the gripping sequel to The Tainted Cup—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy.
In
the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an
impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into
thin air—abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained
locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all
under constant guard.
To solve the case, the Empire calls on its
most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her
side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.
Before
long, Ana’s discovered that they’re not investigating a disappearance,
but a murder—and that the killing was just the first chess move by an
adversary who seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a
ghost, and who can predict every one of Ana’s moves as though they can
see the future.
Worse still, the killer seems to be targeting the
high-security compound known as the Shroud. Here, the Empire's greatest
minds dissect fallen Titans to harness the volatile magic found in
their blood. Should it fall, the destruction would be terrible
indeed—and the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic
that allows its wheels of power to turn.
Din has seen Ana solve
impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever
and Ana seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, he fears
that his superior has finally met an enemy she can’t defeat.
