On My Wishlist #62

This is a meme from Book Chick City. There are so many books out there that I want to read that this is the only way I can keep track! I'm back on my Urban Fantasy kick this week...

Eye of the Tempest (Jane True 4) - Nicole Peeler

Publisher: UK - Orbit

Nothing says "home" like being attacked by humans with very large guns, as Jane and Anyan discover when they arrive in Rockabill. These are professionals, brought into kill, and they bring Anyan down before either Jane or the barghest can react. Seeing Anyan fall awakens a terrible power within Jane, and she nearly destroys herself taking out their attackers. Jane wakes, weeks later, to discover that she's not the only thing that's been stirring. Something underneath Rockabill is coming to life: something ancient, something powerful, and something that just might destroy the world. Jane and her friends must act, striking out on a quest that only Jane can finish. For whatever lurks beneath the Old Sow must be stopped...and Jane's just the halfling for the job.

I've really enjoyed the Jane True series so far and I can't wait until I get my hands on this. Unfortunately I've put myself on a bit of a book buying ban for this month so this is one wishlist book that may not be making it's way into the flat for a while!

Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles 2) - Kevin Hearne

Publisher: UK - Orbit

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty—when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II. With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor’s rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.

Okay, okay, I know I have a habit of picking up the first book in a series and then not reading it for ages. And I'll be honest I haven't read Hounded yet, but I feel so sure I will enjoy it so I want the second one to start on straight away!

Royal Street - Suzanne Johnson

Publisher: Tor Books (April 2012)

As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond. Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters. While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering soldiers sent to help the city recover. To make it worse, Gerald St. Simon has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and the killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.

I love New Orleans. Okay, I've never been there but I want to go so badly. I read Anne Rice as a teenager and I think the gothic atmosphere got into my blood. This book sounds great and I love the cover. Can't wait for it to come out!

What are you wishing for this week?