The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig (Mookie Pearl #1) Angry Robot (May 2013) Ebook, 400 Pages Urban Fantasy The Blue Blazes is an urban fantasy novel by Chuck Wendig and is set in a version of New York that has a literal Hell below it. The eponymous Blue Blazes refers to a mineral compound, cerulean, found down below that allows users to see demons and half-breeds as they really are, it also makes the user stronger and more resilient. The protagonist is Mookie Pearl, a mob enforcer and user. He…
Each month we’ll be sharing our best reads from the previous month. Theses books won’t be limited to new releases, but they will be books we loved and want you guys to know about. So here are our May recommendations. CAROLYN This month hasn’t been the best reading month for me. But I did finally read Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione, the second book in the Lords of Deliverance series, which is my one and only recommendation for May. I read and loved Eternal Rider when it was first released,…
I would like to extend a big welcome to Chuck Wendig to the blog today. I really enjoyed the first novel of the Miriam Black series, Blackbirds and was very lucky to receive an early copy of Mockingbird. Needless to say I am very interested where Wendig will take Miriam next on her journey and I have just recently purchased Double Dead which I am looking forward to reading. Hi Chuck, welcome to Book Chick City. Is your thought process or planning different from when you are writing novels than when…
DOUBLE DEAD (Double Dead #1) by Chuck Wendig PUBLISHER: Abbadon Books RELEASE DATE: 15 November 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 320 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead—but not dead like him, oh no. See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He’s smart….
Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig (Miriam Black #2) Angry Robot Books (Aug 2012) Ebook, 416 pages Urban Fantasy Firstly, I disagree with the Goodreads summary. Miriam isn’t trying or maybe she did for about 2-3 sentences on page 1 and then she promptly returns to her unlikable, chaotic and danger prone-self. Mockingbird starts a year after we left Miriam after the end of book one. She is working as a checkout girl in a touristy store in Long Beach and hating her trailer park lifestyle. Louis is still in the picture but only barely as he continues…
BLACKBIRDS (Miriam Black #1) By Chuck Wendig PUBLISHER: Angry Robot RELEASE DATE: 3rd May 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 358 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be gruesomely murdered while he calls her name. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes…
