The Leaning Pile of Books is a feature where I talk about books I got over the last week – old or new, bought or received for review consideration (often unsolicited). Since I hope you will find new books you’re interested in reading in these posts, I try to be as informative as possible. If I can find them, links to excerpts, author’s websites, and places where you can find more information on the book are included.
This week brought a few finished copies. I’m very curious about the first one listed below, which sounds amazing!
Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence #3) by Max Gladstone
Full Fathom Five is available now in hardcover and ebook. You can read the first five chapters on Tor.com.
This novel is set in the same world as Max Gladstone’s debut, Three Parts Dead, and there is one other novel that takes place in this setting, Two Serpents Rise.
The third novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead.
On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren’t conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods—perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the divinely controlled Old World. When Kai sees one of her creations dying and tries to save her, she’s grievously injured—then sidelined from the business entirely, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and starts digging into the reasons her creations die, she uncovers a conspiracy of silence and fear—which will crush her, if Kai can’t stop it first.
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner #1) by James Dashner & Inside the Maze Runner: The Guide to the Glade
With the upcoming release of the movie The Maze Runner on September 19, movie tie-in editions of the book are being released on August 5 (hardcover, trade paperback). A movie companion book containing over 100 color photos from the film with a little information on places and characters, Inside the Maze Runner: The Guide to the Glade, is also being released on that date (trade paperback).
There are two more books in The Maze Runner trilogy, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure, and a prequel, The Kill Order.
A sample chapter from The Maze Runner is available on the publisher’s website.
Perfect for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games, this special movie tie-in edition of the New York Times bestseller The Maze Runner features an eight-page full-color insert with photos from the film. The Maze Runner movie, featuring the star of MTV’s Teen Wolf, Dylan O’Brien, as Thomas; Kaya Scodelario as Teresa; Aml Ameen as Alby; Will Poulter as Gally; and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt, hits theaters September 19, 2014! And look for James Dashner’s newest novel, The Eye of Minds, book one in the Mortality Doctrine series.
If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
Everything is going to change.
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Remember. Survive. Run.
