It’s Wednesday! While TGIW doesn’t have the same ring as TGIF, I’m always glad to see Wednesday evening, because I know the work week is more than halfway over. Sixty percent, actually.
What are you currently reading? The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. This is the second book of the Fourth Realm Trilogy, and I’m quite engrossed. Maya is a Harlequin, destined to protect people called Travelers, who can visit other realms, from the Tabula, a secret brotherhood that wants to destroy Travelers and put the world under global surveillance (think Bentham’s Panopticon). Gabriel and Michael are brothers, the sons of the last known Traveler. When they discover their powers, they part ways, one coming under Maya’s protection and one falling prey to the Tabula’s influence. Also, people get killed with guns and swords. It’s pretty great.
What did you recently finish reading? Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell, a destined-for-awards short story collection that I abandoned after three stories. Before that, The Dinner by Herman Koch, a well-reviewed literary novel translated from the Dutch, which I abandoned about a third of the way through. And before that, The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks, the first in the trilogy featuring a healthy helping of gruesome deaths, of which book I read every word. My taste of late has eschewed the literary for the genre. I am unrepentant.
What do you think you’ll read next? The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks. The final installment in the trilogy, of course.
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