Taking a Break

So, if you haven’t figured it out, I was on a bit of a hiatus last week. I went home to help out with my sister’s wedding planning and was WAY busier than I had expected. I barely got any reading done! I made a small dent in Inkdeath, so I hope to finish that up soon. I also finished Kate Elliot’s Shadow Gate last week, but as a series of seven (SEVEN!!) I’m not sure whether to bother writing anything or perhaps do a write up when the series is complete. It wasn’t bad, I liked it much better than the first book, Spirit Gate. I will also have a review posted of Jim Butcher’s latest, TURN COAT when the book drops April 7!

I also heard all about Cemetary Dance, so I decided to gather all the Preston/Child books while I was home for a re-read marathon (given the size of my apartment, I keep most books at my parents’). I’m currently in the middle of Relic, which also had a movie spin off. They aren’t particularly fantasy based, but often deal with the supernatural/what seems to be the supernatural. I love Southern Gent/Special Agent Pendergast, and the whole series is *somewhat* reminiscent of the X-Files. Relic is the opener to a series of books that is set in the same world, with occasional “crossover” characters.

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum’s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human…

But the museum’s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.

Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who–or what–is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

Pretty tempting read, huh? This series is one of my favorites in the ‘non-fantasy’ category. I’m also pretty excited because the book tour will also be stopping in my hometown! Authors NEVER come here!!!