Book Pimpin

Blood Kin (The Half-Light City, #2) by M.J. Scott
Imagine a city divided. A city where human and Fae magic rests uneasily next to the vampire Blood and the shapeshifting Beasts. A city where a fragile peace is brokered by a treaty that set the laws for all four races… a treaty that is faltering day by day. 
I didn’t plan on becoming a thief and a spy. But options are limited for the half-breed daughter of a Fae lord. My father abandoned me but at least I inherited some of his magic, and my skills with charms and glamours mean that few are as good at uncovering secrets others wish to hide. Right now the city has many secrets. And those who seek them pay so well… 
I never expected to stumble across a Templar Knight in my part of the city. Guy DuCaine is sworn to duty and honor and loyalty — all the things I’m not. I may have aroused more than his suspicion but he belongs to the Order and the human world. So when treachery and violence spill threaten both our kind, learning to trust each other might be the only thing that saves us. 
But even if a spy and a holy knight can work together, finding the key to peace is never going to be easy…
Drops June 5, 2012


Chrysanthe by Yves Meynard
Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician and exiled in a Made World that is a version of our present reality. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle"(actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy, through which she is forced to remember childhood rape and abuse by her parents and others. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at seventeen discovers it is all a lie. Christine escapes with a rescuer, Sir Quentin, a knight from Chrysanthe, in a thrilling chase across realities.
Once home, the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken, and a war begins, in spite of the best efforts of her father, the king, and his wizard, Melogian. And that war, which takes up nearly the last third of the work, is a marvel of magical invention and terror, a battle between good and evil forces that resounds with echoes of the great battles of fantasy literature.
Drops March 13, 2012

Link Love

Posting will be a little light here at So I Read This Book... for the next week or so.  But once things are up and running at work, I'll be back with lots o' book fun.  In the meantime, here's some links. Prepare to have your mind blown.
Or your interest piqued.
And try not to miss me too much.

• Ways of Struggling with Gender

• 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing (Right Fucking Now)

• Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking About the Future

• Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business

• Goodreads Reviewers Attacked by Authors

• In The Flame Alphabet, children kill their parents with language

• JRR Tolkien's Nobel prize chances dashed by 'poor prose'

• Kindle case maker M-Edge sues Amazon for patent infringement, unfair competition

• Amazon Ends Lawsuit Over Kindle Fire

• Romantic fantasy, fiction and reality

• James L. Sutter: The Gray Zone: Moral Ambiguity in Fantasy

• Bryan Thomas Schmidt: The Problem with Moral Ambiguity in Fiction

• A form of blindness where you can see everything but recognize nothing

• The Ten 'Sexiest' Stories of 2011

• Dave Eggers Publishes Shower Curtain

• Christopher Hitchens: Charles Dickens's Inner Child

• 2012 List of Banished Words

• Archie Comics Feature First Ever Gay Wedding

Book Pimpin

God, there are too many books that were written in 2011 that I still haven't read yet but I keep looking ahead to this year's upcoming releases to add to my mountainous TBR pile.  If I don't get moving, I'll have to change the name of this joint from So I Read This Book... to So I Didn't Read This Book But I Will As Soon As I Get Some Time But Don't Ask Me When I'll Actually Have Time To Write The Review.  
Hope I can fit that in the header.  
Anyway.  Here are a few upcoming releases to stick on your radar.


Tricked (Iron Druid Chronicles, #4) by Kevin Hearne
Druid Atticus O’Sullivan hasn’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they’ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.
But the mischievous Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon finds that he’s been duped into battling bloodthirsty desert shapeshifters called skinwalkers. Just when the Druid thinks he’s got a handle on all the duplicity, betrayal comes from an unlikely source. If Atticus survives this time, he vows he won’t be fooled again. Famous last words
Drops April 24, 2012


Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12) by Charlaine Harris
With Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), in town, it’s the worst possible time for a body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.
Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
Drops May 1, 2012