WWW Wednesday: What Am I Reading? #amreading

On By Teri PolenIn WWW Wednesdays

WWW Wednesday is a meme from Sam at Taking On A World Of Words

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

I’m nearly finished with Eventide (Hode’s Hill #3) by Mae Clair.  While I’m sad this series is ending and know I’ll miss these characters (Dante!), I’m happily engrossed in this eerie supernatural suspense novel.  All three books in the series can be read as a standalone – get started now!

The darkness is coming . . .

The old house near Hode’s Hill, Pennsylvania is a place for Madison Hewitt to start over—to put the trauma of her husband’s murder, and her subsequent breakdown, behind her. She isn’t bothered by a burial plot on the property, or the mysterious, sealed cistern in the basement. Not at first. Even the presence of cold spots and strange odors could be fabrications of her still troubled mind. But how to explain her slashed tires, or the ominous messages that grow ever more threatening?
 
Convinced the answer lies in the past, Madison delves into the history of the home’s original owners, only to discover the origin of a powerful evil. An entity that may be connected to a series of gruesome attacks that have left police baffled. No matter where she turns—past or present—terror lingers just a step away, spurred on by a twisted obsession that can only be satisfied through death…

I just finished Hard Wired by Len Vlahos.  This brought up so many questions regarding existentialism.  The story wasn’t exactly what I expected, but I’m thinking about it before writing my review.

From Morris finalist Len Vlahos comes a contemporary sci-fi story about a boy who might not be human—for fans of Westworld and Black Mirror.

Quinn thinks he’s a normal boy with an average life. That is, until he finds a trail of clues the father he barely knew left behind.

After Quinn unravels his father’s puzzles, he “wakes up” … and realizes his world was nothing more than a virtual construct. In reality, he’s the first fully-aware A.I. in the world, part of an experiment run by a team of scientists—including the man he thought was his father.

As the scientists continue to study him, Quinn’s new existence becomes a waking nightmare. Determined to control his own destiny, he finds allies in other teens—including crush Shea—and plots his escape. But what does true freedom look like when you’re not human?

Acclaimed Morris Award finalist Len Vlahos pens a high-stakes contemporary-rooted sci-fi that asks big questions about humanity. 

Next, I’ll read Last Girls by Demetra Brodsky.  I’m always up for a good survival story, and this looks like an interesting one.

No one knows how the world will end.

On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own.

Prepare for every situation.

But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life, and only one thing is certain:

Nowhere is safe.

52 thoughts on “WWW Wednesday: What Am I Reading? #amreading”

  3. I just finished reading Mae’s delightful book, In Search of McDoogal and loved it. She is a good writer. I’m now reading Danny the Dog by Andrew Wheeler/Danny, also very much fun. Need something to make me laugh these days. xo

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  17. I enjoyed Mae’s series too, and have one more book to finish in her Point Pleasant series. Hard Wired sounds great since I’m a Black Mirror/Westworld fan. And Last Girls sounds good too (the cover did nothing for me, but the blurb has a great hook. I hope you’re doing well, Teri. Take care.

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    1. For some reason, I’ve read the last two books in the Point Pleasant series, but not the first, even though it’s on my Kindle. Not sure how I managed that. The cover for Last Girls isn’t one that would grab my attention, Diana – it was absolutely the blurb. We’re hanging in there – hope you are too!

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