I’ve been on a book buying binge. I blame Amazon recommendations – which were actually spot on for a change instead of suggesting books based on presents I bought for other people. I came back from Wales to a heap of oblongs all for me:
- Wither by Lauren DeStafano (I’ve already greedied this one up, first of a trilogy in which women die at 20 and boys at 25)
- Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough (Tamsin should be a powerful witch but appears to have no magic at all)
- Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (re-imagining of the 12 Dancing Princesses)
- Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh (I’ve never read Brideshead, shocking – I know)
But that’s not all of it. More oblongs are eagerly expected including:
- Wired by Robin Wasserman
- Crashed by Robin Wasserman (both are sequels to Skinned, which is awesome)
- Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce
- Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce (more in the Tortall universe in which I already have 3 other series about Alanna, Daine and Keladry respectively)
It’s not as though I’ve finished my “to read” pile which is actually more of a “to read” shelf nowadays. I think I’m going to have to have another clear out, always painful, to fit the new stuff in. And now I’m going to have to get the sequels to Wither as well. I am being sucked into a vortex of books.