Waiting on Wednesday 08/11/21
Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
Last Exit by Max Gladstone (February 22, 2022 by Tor Books)
While browsing Amazon the other day, I was pretty excited to see this cover and description of an upcoming release by Max Gladstone, whose Craft Sequence books I really enjoyed. And it sounds pretty awesome too1
“American Gods meets The Amber Chronicles in Max Gladstone’s Last Exit: A hitchhiker wizard gathers her estranged friends to defend the world from her long lost lover—and the monsters that return with her.
Imagine that the American highway system is a vast magical network binding city to city. By soaking up magic from intentionally directionless travel, initiates can slip into alternate realities. Stray too far from our America, though, and things get weird. And dangerous. And terrifying.
When visionary mathematician Zelda Qiang was in college, she learned how to travel from one alternate reality to another. Her response was to take her friends on a road trip to strange new worlds. Six of them set out. Only five returned. Zelda’s lover, Sal, betrayed them: she walked into the jags—sharp cutting shadows like cracks in space—and didn’t come back.
Now Zelda still walks the road alone, a wandering magus keeping the jags from breaking through. But now Sal is coming back—with Dark Things in tow.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Oh I didn’t know he had a new book
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It’s pretty exciting!
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Ooh that sounds intriguing! I’ll have to keep an eye on this one! Hope you enjoy it once you get to read it!
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Have a GREAT day!
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“American Gods meets The Amber Chronicles” doesn’t really catch my attention, but damn the rest of that blurb sounds fantastic!
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I’m usually wary of any comparison to Neil Gaiman, since he’s so hit or miss for me, but American Gods was actually one of his better books so I’m okay with this one, lol!
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I just saw this yesterday! I’m definitely curious about it. I missed out on his last book for some reason, but I’d love to try this.
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I think I missed out on his last one too, but I read the novella he co-wrote.,
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This does sound interesting, and it reminds me vaguely of R.S. Belcher’s Brotherhood of the Wheel and possibly some of his other books in the same world, at least in how the highway system has magical connections. I’ve yet to try anything by Max Gladstone so I’d certainly be up for trying this one.
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Oh I hope it’ll be similar to that, since I loved Belcher’s Brotherhood of the Wheel!
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THis sounds good!
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I’ve always wanted to try this author! This sounds really interesting and thanks for sharing.
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This does sound good and I love the Brotherhood of the Wheel comparison in the comments above.
Lynn 😀
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