It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!
I’m not doing well lately of actually posting on Monday. Sorry about that. :)
What Did I Read This Last Week?
Wolf Instinct by Paige Tyler
#9 SWAT
Paranormal, Romantic Suspense
In a need to prove himself, Zane goes with a team to capture a traitor and unearths a whole lot of woo-woo. An FBI agent is also there and she’s an expert on woo-woo and her radar is screaming about Zane’s secrets. Exciting, series game-changer.
Sweet Tea and Spirits by Angie Fox, Narrated by Tavia Gilbert
#5 Southern Ghost Hunter
Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
Verity and Frankie take on high society and restive spirits at the historical museum that used to be the old widows and orphans’ home.
The Mist of Her Memory by Suzan Lauder
Historical, Romantic Suspense, Austenesque
Amnesia, misunderstandings, and villains that cover their tracks in this tension-wrought P&P Variation.
Risky Behavior by LA Witt and Cari Z
#1 Bad Behavior
M/M Romantic Suspense
Opposites in all ways, a detective team goes up against big city power. Loved the work partners becoming more. Great deeper elements that come out with their personal secrets.
Blissed by Jamie Farrell
#1 Misfit Brides
Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit
Overwhelmed by the ‘Wedding’ setting 24/7 and underwhelmed by the characters. Fun parts, but a lot to irritate.
Conagher by Louis L’Amour, Narrated by Jason Culp
Western Fiction
A courageous pioneer woman surviving on the frontier and a hard-bitten tarnished cowboy who is a true knight are connected by the tumbleweed notes. Loved it!
We are so excited to have Baker’s Magic free for you to download as part of AudiobookSYNC this year! Hop over to the site to learn more about the audiobook, try a sample, and download your own free copy you can keep forever. There are a whole slew of narrators bringing this story to life, and definitely listen with a fresh warm-from-the-oven pastry in hand.
Hurry, because this audiobook disappears on May 31!
#Audiobooks: @WNPRColin asks 'What Makes for a Good Audiobook?
As someone who periodically writes audiobook reviews, I often have to consider the question:
What makes for a good audiobook?
It is a question that is more complicated than it might sound. The audiobook comes in many different forms. Some are read by a single narrator and some are read by more than one or a full cast. Some feature a lot of acting on the part of the narrator and some are quite…
#Audiobooks: @WNPRColin asks 'What Makes for a Good Audiobook?
As someone who periodically writes audiobook reviews, I often have to consider the question:
What makes for a good audiobook?
It is a question that is more complicated than it might sound. The audiobook comes in many different forms. Some are read by a single narrator and some are read by more than one or a full cast. Some feature a lot of acting on the part of the narrator and some are quite…
Kristen Harnish, Tavia Gilbert Discuss 'The Vintner's Daughter' Audiobook
Kristen Harnish and @TaviaGilbert Discuss 'The Vintner's Daughter'
A few days ago, audiobook narrator, writer and director Tavia Gilbert posted a blog on her official website about how she and ‘The Vintner’s Daughter’ author Kristen Harnish came together on that project.
The post, which gives an overview of how they came to meet and work together, also features Gilbert interviewing Harnish about ‘The Vintner’s Daughter’ and what might be in Harnish’s writing…
The scathingly funny, horrific WE ARE NOW COMPLETELY FINE is now available as an audiobook
“Daryl Gregory’s We Are All Completely Fine is bitchin’ fun and as wicked and strange as a motorcycle leap through a ring of fire without your pants on. Loved it.”
—Joe R. Lansdale, author of Cold in July and the Hap and Leonard series
Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. Martin never takes off his sunglasses. Never. No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within—and which are lurking in plain sight.
“[STARRED REVIEW] This complex novel—scathingly funny, horrific yet oddly inspiring—constructs a seductive puzzle from torn identities, focusing on both the value and peril of fear. When enigmatic Dr. Jan Sayer gathers survivors of supernatural violence for therapy, she unwittingly unlocks evil from the prison of consciousness. Harrison, a cynical monster-hunter, wallows in lethargy. Suicidal Barbara burns to read the secret messages inscribed on her bones. Cantankerous Stan is the lone survivor of a cannibal feast. After paranoid Martin sees slithery spirits lingering around volatile Greta, a powerful young woman decorated with mystically charged scars, ancient evils usher the rag-tag survivors to a battle with the Hidden Ones, exiled deities trapped in prisons of flesh. Gregory’s beautiful imagery and metaphors bring bittersweet intimacy and tenderness to the primal wonder of star-lit legends. Isolated people, both victims and victimizers, are ghosts in a waking world, blind to their encounters with living nightmares. Blending the stark realism of pain and isolation with the liberating force of the fantastic, Gregory (Afterparty) makes it easy to believe that the world is an illusion, behind which lurks an alternative truth—dark, degenerate, and sublime.”
—Publishers Weekly
“…a clever and creepy horror tale…”
—Library Journal
“Clever, and filled with the creeping dread of what’s in the flickering shadow next to you and what’s just around the corner that suffuses the best horror. I loved it.”
—Ellen Datlow, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and International Horror Guild award-winning editor of The Best Horror of the Year series
“Charming and horrifying—you won’t be able to stop reading it.”
—Tim Powers, award-winning author of Declare and The Stress of Her Regard
“Daryl Gregory is a writer I would happily follow into any dark place he wanted me to go. This is a labyrinth of a story, intricate as a spider’s web—and like a spider’s web, each piece informs the whole. Beautiful.”
—Seanan McGuire, author of the October Daye series and Half-Off Ragnarok
“A superb, haunting tale by one of our very best writers. Gregory’s characters are already in therapy; you may want to join them after reading this spicy, disturbing mélange.”
—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Red Planet Blues
“Lovecraft meets Cabin in the Woods in this tale of survivors of various supernatural horrors who come together in a support group to try to heal….fascinating”
—Fantastic Reads
“Gregory (Pandemonium, The Devil’s Alphabet, et. al.) has done it again with yet another singularly unique, genre-blending masterwork about a support group of victims of paranormal violence who realize that their nightmarish traumas are all related. This creepy concoction of supernatural fiction, mystery, and horror is a dark little literary gem that readers will absolutely cherish.”
—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble.com
“[Gregory’s] most tightly constructed and compulsively readable novel to date, and a small gem of what we might call post-horror horror.”
—Locus
“. . . funny in that dark and sarcastic way only people faced with unstoppable horror can be funny, and when you’re finished you’ll wish there was more.”
—Daytona Beach News Journal
“We Are All Completely Fine is something refreshing and unique—a short horror novel that is as much about relationships and people learning from one another as it is about the horrors that they are ultimately facing. . . .”
—LitReactor
“…a little horrific, quite deep, and plenty surprising.”
—Bookworm Blues
“We Are All Completely Fine is a remarkably seductive piece of supernatural horror, drawing the innocent reader into the web by dealing with a familiar situation. . . .fascinating and engrossing. . . ”
—Thinking About Books
“This book is fast-paced, creepy, suspenseful, and yet surprisingly uplifting, with fleshed out characters I genuinely cared about. . . . This book is seriously awesome. Someone chain [Gregory] to a desk so he stops doing anything other than write.”
—SF Book Reviews
“I’ve not encountered many authors in the horror genre who flex literary muscle as well as Gregory. His approach was perfect for the story vehicle.”
—Out of My Mind
“Not for the faint of heart, We Are All Completely Fine is a great read!”
—Bibliophilic
“Gregory does a masterful storytelling job here….”
—MT Void
“A must read”
—Buzz Feed
For information on We Are All Completely Fine the audiobook visit Audible.
For information on We Are All Completely Fine the book, visit the Tachyon page.
