Waiting on Wednesday is held over at Breaking the Spine every week, and every week you get the chance to see what new releases bloggers are looking forward to. This week I chose:
Technically, this is book 2 of the Missy Masters series, but really, go check out book 1 anyway. This series is about Missy who inherits the powers of her estranged, superhero grandfather Mr Mystic.
In Book 1, she heads to China to find her grandfather’s mentor and get some training, but once there she gets involved in the trainer’s, Lung Huang’s, family politics and the next thing she knows she has to save China. How’s that for the first day on the job?\
Blurb for book 1: Missy Masters inherited more than the usual genetic cocktail from her estranged grandfather. She also got his preternatural control of shadows and his enduring legacy as the legendary vigilante superhero, Mr. Mystic.
After a little work, the costume fits OK, but Missy is far from experienced at fighting crime, so she journeys to China to seek the aid of Lung Huang, the ancient master who once guided her grandfather. She becomes embroiled in the politics of Lung Huang and his siblings, the allegedly mythical nine dragon-guardians of all creation.
When Lung Di—Lung Huang’s brother and mortal enemy—raises a magical barrier that cuts off China from the rest of the world, it falls to the new Mr. Mystic to prove herself by taking down the barrier.
It’s a superhero novel, a pulp fantasy novel, with lashings of kung fu, immense kick-ass dragons and an unfailingly sympathetic heroine—yes, it’s another wonderful Angry Robot title.
In The Conclave of Shadow (out in July this year), a friend of hers asks for her help to find an ancient artifact, and that’s when she travels realms to the source of her power.
Blurb for book 2: In the sequel to The Dragons of Heaven,Missy Masters teams up with her friend and fellow Argent Ace, Abby Trent, to retrieve a stolen magical artifact, taking them into the realm of the Djinn and to the shadow realm which is the source of Missy’s powers.
I absolutely love that it’s a grand-daughter following in her grandfather’s footsteps and, from the looks of it costume and all. Does anyone remember The Shadow with Alec Baldwin? That’s who Mr Mystic reminds me of.
Such a gorgeous cover !! I’ve never heard of this series, but I will definitely check it out, thanks !
I love this cover more and more, esp when I realise that’s a woman dressed up like that! Book 1 also has a gorgeous cover too!
Sounds tempting! Another new-to-me series. Enjoy…and here’s mine: “THE PERFECT GIRL”
I know, I keep finding all these new books and series and no time to read them all!! I reviewd The Perfect Girl recently. It’s not perfect, but it’s GOOD. I hope you enjoy it!
This is the first I’ve heard of this one but it does sound interesting! I hope you enjoy it! 😀
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Me too Tracey — I’m such asucker for a gorgeous cover and a good blurb 😉
This series sounds great! You honestly had me at superhero and then you added dragons…I want!
Great pick! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hii! It does sound amazing, doesn’t it?? I have some high hopes for it now!
Wow. I never heard of this series but it sure does sound interesting. Thanks for putting it on my radar, even if my TBR is long enough.
TBRs are never long enough Barb 🙂
I hadn’t heard of this series before, but it sounds really interesting. I’ll have to look for the first book on Goodreads. Thanks for sharing and thanks for visiting my WoW!
I hope you get to read it, Kim! I am so hopeful this is amazing!