New Releases ~ week of 08/14/2017

A Family for the Farmer by Liz Isaacson (#4 Brush Creek Brides)

Bad Boy Done Wrong by Kylie Gilmore (#5 HappyEndings Book Club)
Call of Fire by Beth Cato (#2 Breath of Earth)
Cat Shining Bright by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (#20 Joe Grey)
Criminal Enchantment by Shanna Swendson (#0.5 Enchanted, Inc.)
Crystal Blade by Kathryn Purdie (#2 Burning Glass)
Dog Dish of Doom by E J Copperman (#1 Agent to the Paws Mystery)
Don't Call Me Sweetheart by Codi Gary (#1 Something Borrowed)
Exposed by Lisa Scottoline (#5 Rosato & DiNunzio)
Gathering the Threads by Cindy Woodsmall (#3 Amish of Summer Grove)
Great Escape by C Alexander London (#3 The Wild Ones)
Heaven and Earth by Joe Hill (#8 Locke & Key)
Home Stretch by Jenna Bennett (#15 Savannah Martin Mystery)

Illegal Contact by Santino Hassell (#1 The Barons)
Kane by Sinclair Jayne (#6 American Extreme Bull Riders Tour)
Of the Divine by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (#2 Mancer)
Rituals by Kelley Armstrong (Cainsville #5)
Rule Changer by Sienna Snow (#3 Rules of Engagement)
Seeing Red by Sandra Brown
Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson (#24 Inspector Banks)
The Crafty Camp Crisis by Charise Mericle Harper (#2 Crafty Cat)
The Dinosaur Princess by Victor Milan (#3 The Dinosaur Lords)
The Ginger Cat by Lucia Ashta (#4 Witching World)
The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes by David Handler (#9 Stewart Hoag & Lulu Mysteries)
The Hummingbird Heart by A. G. Howard (#2 Haunted Hearts Legacy)

The Rat Catchers' Olympics by Colin Cotterill (#12 Dr. Siri Paiboun)
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth #3)
Without Fear or Favor by Robert K. Tanenbaum (#29 Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi)

Review ~ Locke & Key Volume 1

Locke & Key Volume 1, Welcome to Lovecraft

by Joe Hill
illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez
published by IDW Publishing
genre: graphic novel, Adult, Horror

Summary (Goodreads): Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...

My Thoughts: This series of graphic novels have shown up on several lists of must reads. I also have wanted to check this author out and this was a good way to get a feel for his writing style without committing to a full novel.
That said, I really enjoyed this. It was dark right from the start and didn't let up. Plenty of blood and gore (used correctly) along with an interesting story that kept my attention throughout.
Gabriel Rodriguez was able to bring the feelings of both the story and characters out in his drawings. There was not a time when I felt that the graphics were out of place with the story being told.
Overall, this will be a series that I definitely plan on finishing. While there was a resolution to this GN, there are even more questions that I have to find out the answers to.

Rating: 5

Some Thursday Randomness

Thursday Randomness

How did I miss this? Not just the movie news but the book it is based on. Daniel Radcliffe is staring in this adaptation set to come out this Halloween. The trailer looks great and I actually want to see this (been awhile since I've wanted to see a horror movie). More importantly I want to read the book.

Horns Trailer

Horns by Joe Hill (Goodreads)

Summary: Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.
At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge. . . . It's time the devil had his due. . .