Books I’m looking forward to
by kimharrison on Jun.02, 2009, under Kim Harrison
Dane asked me what I’m looking forward to, and I’ve got a couple beyond the usual suspects. I don’t have a lot of time to read, so I tend to read for cover quotes within the urban fantasy genre. My favorte authors here are Jocelynn Drake (bad vampires, no sparkles here) and Vicki Pettersson (bad-ass superheros in Vegas) but I had the chance to read Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. (anti-hero from hell) It’s due out late July, and I can’t wait. –Kim
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June 2nd, 2009 on 6:51 pm
Definitly The strain from G. DelToro. That seems to get really great.
An btw for the new Rachel Morgan Novel *cough*
June 2nd, 2009 on 7:00 pm
Kim,
Thanks for the mention of Sandman Slim. Sounds very intriguing and will definitely check out when it releases in July.
I’ve never heard of Vicki Pettersson before. Does she write with male and female writers in mind?
As for The Strain, I read the first 200 pages and lost the book. I was really getting into it too. How does a 400 page book go missing?
June 3rd, 2009 on 9:43 am
Hi, Dane,
Vicki’s work would click with both male and female readers, I think. She has a good SF feel to her pacing, and the relationships she develops are not fluff, but gritty. Yeah, she’s gritty. (grin) –Kim
June 3rd, 2009 on 10:11 am
Really looking forward to the next volume in Naoki Urasawa’s 20TH CENTURY BOYS manga series. Not quite horror, but closer than you might think with charismatic cult leaders, mysterious symbols, weird hemoragic murders and Uri Geller bent spoon tricks all thrown together with a murder mystery.
Also can’t wait to see what the rest of the world thinks of Seanan McGuires ROSEMARY AND RUE, which I loved