Waiting on Wednesday (105): Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander
Publish Date: May 22, 2012
Publisher:  St. Martin's Paperbacks

Publisher's Description
From debut author Cassie Alexander comes a spectacular new urban fantasy series where working the nightshift can be a real nightmare.

Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond… 

Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed.  But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this…

Oh, I love the sound of this one.  The fact that I'm in nursing school adds to my interest!- Jessica

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In My Mailbox (75)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

All of this weeks books are for review.

Lexapros and Cons by Aaron Karo

The Wealding Word by AC Gogolski

Etiquette For An Apocalypse by Anne Mendel

Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

Until I Die (Revenants #2)by Amy Plum

Hemlock (Hemlock - Trilogy)by Kathleen Peacock

Something Strange and Deadlyby Susan Dennard

Drain You by M. Beth Bloom

Park Lane (Vintage) by Frances Osbourne

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories by Charles Yu

Unspoken: The Lynburn Legacyby Sarah Rees Brennan

Animal Man Vol. 1: The Hunt (The New 52) by Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman, Dan Green

Justice League Vol. 1: Origin (The New 52) by Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Scott Williams

Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo

Green Lantern Vol. 1: Sinestro (The New 52) by Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke

Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks (Issue #1) by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez

Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes (Issue #1) by Chris Roberso

The Cape (Issue #1) by Jason Ciaramella, Zach Howard, Nelson Daniel, Joe Hill

Danger Girl: Revolver (Issue #1) by Andy Hartnell and Chris Madden

What would you read first?

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Thanks to Macmillan, Farrar Straus and Giroux, IDW, DC Comics, Bostick Communications, Harper Collins, Greenwillow Books,  Harper Teen, Katherine Tegen Books, Vintage, and Pantheon for this weeks books for review!

Waiting on Wednesday (104): Hopeless, Maine, Book One: Personal Demons by Nimue Brown and Tim Brown

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Hopeless, Maine, Book One: Personal Demons by Nimue Brown and Tim Brown

Publisher: Archaia Entertainment

Publish Date:  May 15,2012

Publisher's Description
 Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with every day that passes. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. This is not the stuff of happy, careless childhoods, it is instead fertile ground for personal demons. In Hopeless, the demons are not always abstract concepts. Some of them have very real teeth, and very real horns.

The island has been isolated for a very long time. Partly because of being small and forgotten, partly because the rocks and currents do not encourage visitors, Hopeless is surrounded by fog and overrun with nightmarish creatures, from small things with tentacles to demons and vampires. It’s a peculiar place. Here, almost anything can happen, from the weird and unsettling to the darkly funny. With a cast of freaks, nutters and the odd power crazed psychopath, life in Hopeless is seldom dull.

Hopeless is also about who you choose to be. The tale is a protest against apathy, and against the small evils that everyone takes for granted. The worst monsters frequently aren’t the ones with the obvious teeth—who are merely dangerous by nature—but the apparently ordinary people who choose to do hideous things.

I love the storyline on this one and the art for the webcomic is great.  Can't wait to read it all in book format!- Jessica

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In My Mailbox (74)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

FOR REVIEW

The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda

The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe



Courtney Crumrin, Vol. 2: Courtney Crumrin & The Coven of Mystics (Courtney Crumrin Tales) by Ted Naifeh


Art of the Mass Effect Universe



Gary Gianni's MonsterMen and Other Scary Stories by Gary Gianni


Abe Sapien Volume 2: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories by Mike Mignola


Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne


Don't Expect Magic by Kathy McCullough

What would you read first?

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Thanks to Bantam, Oni Press, Dark Horse, Library Thing, and St Martin's Griffin for this weeks books for review!