Waiting on Wednesday (#2)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights an upcoming release or releases that readers are eagerly anticipating.

For this Waiting on Wednesday I've picked Dan Brown's Inferno, which is released on May 14. I'm not a huge Brown devotee - I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, but have never seen the film and much preferred Digital Fortress. However, I find Brown's books are enjoyable because they're easy to read, and take you away into another world for a few hours. Inferno was purchased by a friend for mine for my birthday back in January, so I have been waiting months to claim this present! It'll be a teensy bit like being the Queen, with two birthdays since getting a present again definitely counts as a second birthday. Okay, maybe it won't be like being the Queen. I'm looking forward to it anyway.

From Amazon:
 

Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces.

As Dan Brown comments: "Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm.a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways."

 

Waiting on Wednesday (#1)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights an upcoming release or releases that readers are eagerly anticipating.

For my first ever Waiting on Wednesday I've picked Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which, depressingly, isn't out until June 18. I don't know too much about it, but what I do know is that I've never met a Neil Gaiman book I didn't like very, very much (Stardust is one of my favourite books ever, Coraline scares me silly, The Graveyard Book is beautiful and so on).

From Amazon:

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman.

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.

His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

 What is your waiting on pick this week?