On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It’s where I list all the books I desperately want but haven’t actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It’s also an event that you can join in with too – Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own ‘On My Wishlist’ post. If you want to know more click here.
Zombies – nuff said.
Dead Mann Walking (Hessius Mann #1)
Stefan Petrucha (Roc)
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombie
Goodreads Summary:
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Zombies…umm bit of a theme going here!
Mind Over Monsters (A F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation #1)
Jennifer Harlow (Midnight Ink)
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies
Goodreads Summary:
Very few people know the truth about Beatrice Alexander. She’s no ordinary schoolteacher with a fondness for classic movies. Beatrice can move objects with her mind, an embarrassing and dangerous skill that she’s never learned to master—or embrace. After nearly killing her brother by accident, she joins F.R.E.A.K.S. The Federal Response to Extra-Sensory and Kindred Supernaturals is a top-secret offshoot of the FBI that “neutralizes” ghouls, trolls, and other monsters threatening humanity.
Beatrice has no desire to become Buffy the vampire slayer. But F.R.E.A.K.S. offers training to control her power. Also, she doesn’t feel like such a freak next to the other supernatural members, including a cute former detective who’s a werewolf and an unbearable vampire determined to seduce Beatrice. Despite a natural instinct to flee from hideous, bloodthirsty zombies, Beatrice must prove herself on her first mission to find a cunning necromancer.
This sounds pretty good, although a bit heavy, but I love the cover and the premise is intriguing.
Queen of Kings
Maria Dahvana Headley (Bantam Press)
Publication Date: July 2011
Genre: Historical | Paranormal
Goodreads Summary:
Once there was a queen of Egypt…a queen who became through magic something else…
The year is 30 BC. Octavian Caesar and his massed legions are poised to enter Alexandria. A messenger informs Egypt’s queen, Cleopatra, that her beloved Mark Antony has died by his own hand. Desperate to save her kingdom, resurrect her husband and protect all she holds dear, Cleopatra turns to the gods for help. Ignoring the warnings of those around her, she summons Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction, and strikes a mortal bargain. And not even the wisest of Egypt’s scholar could have predicted what would follow…
For, in return for Antony’s soul, Sekhmet demands something in return: Cleopatra herself. And so Egypt’s queen is possessed. She becomes an immortal, shape-shifting, not-quite-human manifestation of a deity who seeks to destroy the world. Fighting to preserve something of her humanity, Cleopatra pursues Octavian back to Rome: she desires revenge, she yearns for her children…and she craves human blood.
It is a journey that will take her from the tombs of the Pharaohs to the great amphitheatres of imperial Rome and on, to Hell itself where, it seems, the fate of the world will finally be decided.
This sounds interesting – can’t wait to get a copy of this one.
Incubus (Fairwick Chronicles #1)
Carol Goodman (Ebury Press)
Publication Date: July 2011
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Goodreads Summary:
Dr. Callie McFay’s travels to the small college town of Fairwick in New York State for a job interview. Despite it being her second choice she finds herself talked into accepting a job offer from the Folklore Department to teach a class on demons and vampires. She also finds herself drawn to an old house in the woods where Gothic novelist Dahlia LaMotte used to live and buys it on a whim, despite the seeming reluctance of the estate agent to sell it to her.
But on the night of her job interview, she had a very vivid erotic dream about a man made out of shadows and moonlight, and this dream becomes a regular occurrence when she moves into her new home. Callie starts to feel like a heroine in one of the gothic novels she teaches as slowly it dawns on her that things at the college – and in her home – are not what they seem. She learns that her house is supposed to be haunted by LaMotte’s former lover and her new – and rather strange – colleagues tell her an unfamiliar fairy tale about an incubus-demon with a human past who was enchanted by a fairy queen…
So that’s what’s on my wishlist this week – what’s on yours?
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I really like the sound of incubus.
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I need to add Incubus to my wishlist!
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That's an eclectic wish list! I also have Queen of Kings on my list…hope to read it soon!
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Queen of Kings and Incubus look great! I'm certainly going to check them out.
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Incubus look brilliant – definitely one I would read.
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I love the covers of your choices this week
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Mind Over Monsters has such a cool cover!
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Oooooh Incubus has just gone straight on my wishlist. Bring on pay day for pre-ordering goodness!
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I love all your covers!!!
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I've added Incubus to my "I want to buy" list.
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All of those covers are gorgeous! Hope you get to read them soon!
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I love the cover of Mind over monsters! Really cool and different.
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I'm loving the look of Mind Over Monsters, paranormal action? Count me in! And Incubus looks right up my street.
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AWESOME list this week… And I think we should make a deal… you send me all your zombie books and I'll love you forever!
Sound good?
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This is my very first time with this blog hop! I'm alredy lining up next week's books, too.
Of the four books you've featured here, I feel most intrigued by "Queen of Kings". I love anything Egyptian! So I'll be adding this one to my TBR list. The cover is absolutely gorgous, too!
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