Waiting on Wednesday 07/15/15

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!

Mogsy’s Pick:

Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older: January 5, 2016 (Roc)

Last year I read Half-Resurrection Blues and was delighted by Older’s rich portrayal of a New York City inhabited by a diverse population of both the living and dead alike.  It was also his writing that charmed me, a style infused with fierce, primal rhythms that brought to mind a very intense and powerful dance. The Bone Street Rumba series is quite aptly named, to say the least, and book number two seems to be following the same tradition. Gotta love that title.

“The author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel—a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death.

The streets of New York are hungry tonight…
 
Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This time it’s a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals—and is bound to take more.
 
The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie’s botánica, where she worked. But the closer they’ve gotten, the more she’s seeing the world from Carlos’s point of view. In fact, she’s starting to see ghosts. And the situation is far more sinister than that—because whatever is bringing out the dead, it’s only just getting started.”

Tiara’s Pick:

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson: September 1, 2015 (Tor)

I just read an excerpt of this book like right this second on Tor’s website. I knew I had to have it. I’m a sucker for demigods, gods, mythology, and all that.

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors’ artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned the Earth for Heaven, and they will need all the gifts those divine ancestors left to them to keep their caravan brothers alive. The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. Demane may have to master his wild powers and trade humanity for godhood if he is to keep his brothers and his beloved captain alive.

Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, a striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death that will reshape how you look at sword and sorcery.