#5Books: Happy days is not missing these book recs

Don’t you love it when a publisher is starting a new genre (or is this an old one that completely missed me?) like literary thriller. What exactly is that? I don’t particularly care, I do care that it’s a good book, which this first book rec promises to be. I hope. Maybe.

Then, there’s the mystery of a mother accused of killing her children, but an intrepid reporter doesn’t believe that the story is that simple. Set in Brooklyn in 1965 with all the outdated expectations of women you’d expect in a time like that, but still I want to know the secrets the mother is hiding.

Ahh, come to be urban fantasy set in the future in a world filled with magic — which, wait, have you read any futuristic urban fantasy where magic rules and not tech? But I digress, the two agents at the core of this story are about the oddest odd couple that ever did couple. Nods.

My fourth book rec is so new the publisher/imprint was just announced, there’s no cover and it’s about an autistic kid. Who wants to get kidnapped.

AND FINALLY. GARY OLDMAN. VAMPIRES. SERIOUSLY.

Two Days Gone: But really, what does literary page-turner mean? To me it kind of says the publisher is trying very hard not to say an author famous for his or her literary work is venturing into GASPS the thriller genre. Just say it’s a thriller, you know? I mean, this one sounds bloody good: Thomas is a successful author and college professor who is accused of murder when his family is killed. It doesn’t help that he’s disappeared as well. Ryan, a cop investigating the murder begins to go through Thomas’ notes for his new book and discovers Thomas’ secret life. Apparently, it must be the most literary secret life ever lol. Is this an attempt to start a new genre, you think? After all this, I hope it’s good!

Little Deaths: The death of children is always a tough thing to consider reading, especially when their mother is accused of killing them. Little Deaths is the story of Ruth, accused of killing her children, and being a bad mother, loose woman and a drunk to boot. Everything a woman shouldn’t be for 1965. However, a reporter starts digging into the case and believes there’s more to the case. However, the blurb says he becomes “obsessed” with Ruth… so is Pete, the reporter seeing what he wants to see? Or is Ruth innocent? In addition to those very interesting questions, here’s a another something about this book: it’s inspired by true events.

The Interminables: It’s 2020, and a wizard’s cabal is running the East Coast of the US, keeping the peace. Their top agents are a ghost and a nearly immortal mystery man. So, right there, I am interested – a future world where magic rules? I haven’t seen that in awhile … or ever come to think of it – has anyone else? But the mission their agents, Edmund and Istvan, they find out a a shadow war has been raging since the world went under a magical cataclysm which shattered reality and their own friendship is complicated too – but how? And has their villain, who’s about to commit mass murder, been messing with their memories?

The Improbable Flight of Ginny Moon: this one is a mystery to me. I was actually reading about Harlequin starting a new literary imprint and this is going to be one of its first publications. All I could find out about it was that it’s about Ginny — d’uh — who is autistic. And despite the fact that she’s about to be adopted into a loving family, she tries to get kidnapped by her drug addicted birth mother. I’ve started noticing authors who are venturing into the lives of characters with mental illnesses more and more, so I am very curious about this one. The cover isn’t even out yet, but I am going to be keeping an eye out for this one. 

Blood Riders: It’s HERE! Almost. Gary Oldman co-wrote a vampire western fantasy. Yup. In 1882 a boy ventures into a cave and finds himself stuck with a body that happens to have a stake in its heart. He removes the stake to help him escape – tsk tsk – and so Magnus Blackwell rises to rejoin the world. He’s a vampire, a gentleman and apparently civic minded. Who knew! And the boy. This is unexpected because when the boy comes out, it seems it’s been 20 years since the boy got stuck in the cave. So how’d that happen? And what about the ghost town, and voodoo curse?

What are you looking forward to this week?