Coming soon…

Books coming out that I’m crazy excited about.

After Potter 7 a few friends asked me, what are you going to do now?  What will happen when there’s nothing left to wait for.  Because Potter fans, like Cubs fans, are champion waiters.  There was a very easy answer.  A few weeks after Potter debuted came Eclipse and shocked everyone by knocking Potter out of the top spot, at least at Borders.  Everyone who know my love of YA came up to me, have you read Twilight?  It’s awesome.  Yes friends, I said sagely, it tis. Or maybe I said duh.  Hard to remember.

So it wouldn’t be another summer if there wasn’t another round of book releases that are making me foam at the month in anticipation. 

First up on May 6th is The Battle of the Labyrinth the next Percy Jackson book from Rick Riordan.  So what if I find that I’ve developed a slight crush on our half god/half mortal hero Percy.  There is so much to love.  He’s like a young Indian Jones, a bit cocky but still gets knocked down once and awhile.  His best bud Annabeth is one kickass goddess in training.  And Percy’s aunts, uncles and other assorted relations crack me up.  That’s the charm of the series, Greek gods and goddesses messing around in modern New York.   I can’t wait to see who pops up in the new book.  It’s going be awesome.

Also on May 6th (busy day) Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fireby Derek Landy.  I don’t really care what the next book is about.  It could involve Skulduggery and Stephanie, now Valkyrie, fighting some crazy, fantasy cross-over fight with Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl and I’d still read it.  Landy writes like Stephen King, only funnier.  Seriously, this guy’s awesome with mood, sarcasm, impending senses of doom.   Again, I’m all over it.  With one caveat.  I knew this would happen.  Talked about it with others who love a good cover.  I adored the hardcover art for the 1st book.  It was awesome.  It visually matched what the book was about.  Dark, dangerous, deadly, cool.  It was the coolest cover I had seen in a while and I knew I had to read this book.  So what did they do to the paperback?  THEY POTTERED IT!!  Now I give full blessing to Potter rip-offs out there.  The money’s there, soak it up I feel.  They aren’t all terrible.  But Skulduggery is not a Potter rip-off.  It is in it’s own world, doing it’s own awesome thing.  The new book also has a Pottered cover.  I’m so upset.  They had their audience right the first time, pre-emo kids (or premos, either way)  I get it, I do.  Publishers need books to appeal to a broad range of people, namely adults buying books for their kids.  This book did that though, with the old cover.  The content was mild enough for middle school, but the cover was cool enough for junior high, screw it, even high school.  And now, le sigh.  Okay, I’m done. 

And rounding out my summer reading, Stephanie Meyer.  The woman herself from the opening para.  She’s got her first adult (whatever that means) novel coming out in May.  And a movie based on Twilight that’s already getting some buzz from MTV and E!.  Yeah, whatever.  Breaking Dawn’s coming out.  Freaking last book in the Twilight Saga.  My sister’s going nuts.  She has no patience.  She’s already told me this is what she wants for her birthday.  Yeah, as soon as I get my copy of Twilightback we’ll talk.  I’m in the Jacob camp.  Just cause I don’t think Edward is badass enough.  I’m sure he is.  But with Bella, sorry to say, he’s kinda a puss.  I have no clue how she’s going to end this. 

On a side note, Nora Roberts is coming out with #2 in her new trilogy The Hollowor whatever.  Does it matter?  I’m going read it.  And then wait for #3.  Her books are crack.  Another author I can’t quit, Laurell K. Hamilton has another Anita Blake mess Blood Noir.  Again, I say I’m done, I don’t need you.  And I go right back.  But I mean it this time.  Something better happen in this one besides Anita getting laid.  Or I’m out.  Until Hamilton’s next Merry Gentry novel.  DAMN YOU! 

 

Borders is giving away a weekend with Beedle the Bard that hand written book of tales by JK Rowling if you write a 100 word essay by April 22nd.  I’m so there. Screw my end of semester papers.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6577252_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000207461&pf_rd_m=AKEVKO7DR4RA&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1FX85V3VSNWFJ17TD5G9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=382816101&pf_rd_i=283155