Finally! Here you can see photos from the new HBO series, True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series. For those not in the know these books are urban fantasy with a romance angle about a rural mind reader in Louisiana who falls for a vampire and ends up getting sucked into the supernatural world (no pun intended).
I just finished this. Like JUST finished it. Wow. Seriously. Wow.
If you like fairy tales or werewolves or just plain amazing stories go buy it now.
“Days grow hotter and life grows shorter.
Time is somehow running out.
She flips her pillow
so she won’t have to sleep on her tears.”
It’s not until the last moments of the book that Harry Dresden wonders if someone is trying to kill him. But readers of Fool Moon, the second book in the Dresden Files series, will wonder it nearly right away.
Despite still being upset with Harry for giving her just enough information about the Nevernever to believe in it, but not enough to face its creatures in her mundane job as a cop, Special Investigations’ lead Karrin Murphy calls Harry to a crime scene with all the horrifying hallmarks of a werewolf perp. The problem is that there are multiple kinds of werewolves in this magicked up version of Chicago and Harry isn’t sure which kind is out killing people.
While the number of shape shifters and the evidence are piling up nothing seems to fit and the Chicago PD’s efforts are hampered by Murphy being under an IA investigation, a group of FBI agents playing dominance games with the crime scenes, a local mob boss who thinks he’s the next target trying to force Harry into protecting him, not to mention the humans’ stubborn refusal to take the supernatural seriously.
Fool Moon has a complexity that is not typical found in urban fantasy. Not only are there hints at the past that are never expounded on, but there are also hints at a mysterious person or persons being behind the villains of the first book, and this book. More like a noir, supernatural tinted true crime story than other books Fool Moon could easily bring the fantasy, mystery and horror crowds together under the Dresden banner.
Yep, I’m jealous. This is what John Scalzi got in the mail today (according to: this entry)
The Iron Hunt has been recommended to me by a trusted source, but the big one? Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre. I’d kill for an ARC of this book (likely it would be something with six legs, or something small furry and not-domesticated, but I’d still kill for it.)
I certainly wouldn’t say no to any of the others either. So, Ace… Del Rey… How about showing a girl some love?
