(p)review forecast June part 2
1. India Black by Carol K. Carr, Titan
When Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, Madam India Black is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. Blackmailed into recovering the missing documents, India finds herself dodging Russian agents, seducing spies and embarking on midnight sleigh rides.
2. Peacekeeper by Marianne de Pierres, Angry Robot
Virgin Jackson is the
senior ranger in Birrimun Park - the world's last natural landscape,
overshadowed though it is by a sprawling coastal megacity. She maintains
public safety and order in the park, but her bosses have brought out a
hotshot cowboy to help her catch some drug runners who are affecting
tourism. She senses the company is holding something back from her, and
she's not keen on working with an outsider like Nate Sixkiller.When an imaginary animal from her troubled teenage years reappears, Virgin takes it to mean one of two things: a breakdown (hers!) or a warning. Dead bodies start piling up around her, so she decides on the latter. Something terrible is about to happen in the park and Virgin and her new partner, U.S. Marshall Nate Sixkiller, are standing in its path...
3. The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gollancz
For over half a century,
multiple award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin's stories have shaped the way
her readers see the world. Her work gives voice to the voiceless, hope
to the outsider and speaks truth to power. Le Guin's writing is witty,
wise, both sly and forthright; she is a master craftswoman.This two-volume selection of almost 40 stories selected from her glittering career was made by Ursula Le Guin herself. She has chosen to organise them thematically, splitting the stories into the nominally realistic and fantastic.
WHERE ON EARTH focuses on Ursula Le Guin's interest in realism and magic realism and includes 18 of her satirical, political and experimental earthbound stories. Highlights include WORLD FANTASY and HUGO AWARD-winner 'Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight', the rarely reprinted satirical short, 'The Lost Children', JUPITER AWARD-winner, 'The Diary of the Rose' and the title story of her PULITZER PRIZE finalist collection 'Unlocking the Air'.
4. The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher, OrbitOnly five still guard the borders between the worlds.
Only five hold back what waits on the other side.
Once the Oversight, the secret society that policed the lines between the mundane and the magic, counted hundreds of brave souls among its members. Now their numbers can be counted on a single hand.
When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, it seems their hopes for a new recruit will be fulfilled - but the girl is a trap.
As the borders between this world and the next begin to break down, murders erupt across the city, the Oversight are torn viciously apart, and their enemies close in for the final blow.
5. Deadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin, Solaris
Cassidy Kincaide owns
Trifles & Folly, an antique/curio store and high-end pawn shop in
Charleston, South Carolina that is more than what it seems. Dangerous
magical and supernatural items sometimes find their way into mortal
hands or onto the market, and Cassidy is part of a shadowy Alliance of
mortals and mages whose job it is to take those deadly curiosities out
of circulation.Welcome to Trifles & Folly, an antique and curio shop with a dark secret. Proprietor Cassidy Kincaide continues a family tradition begun in 1670—acquiring and neutralizing dangerous supernatural items. It’s the perfect job for Cassidy, whose psychic gift lets her touch an object and know its history. Together with her business partner Sorren, a 500 year-old vampire and former jewel thief, Cassidy makes it her business to get infernal objects off the market. When mundane antiques suddenly become magically malicious, it’s time for Cassidy and Sorren to get rid of these Deadly Curiosities before the bodies start piling up.
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I am enjoying a vacation the these two week, I will be trying to host the review of these books but don't pin me down on it! Else they will follow in July.
What will you be reading these coming weeks?
Cheers,
Jasper
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