WWW Wednesday -- 27 October 2021

 

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

My Current Read : 

Published by Berkley in 2014, Queen of Hearts is the eighth book in the Royal Spyness Mystery series by Rhys Bowen. It starts in 1934 and Georgiana is still at Kingsdowne Place in Kent where we left her at the end of Heirs & Graces. Her mother, former actress Claire Daniels, shows up out of the blue to whisk her off to America. Claire wants to marry mega-rich German Max von Stroheim but first needs to be UN-married from Texas oil tycoon Homer Clegg. It should be easy. Leave Kent. Spend a couple of days in London. Take a luxury liner to New York. Take a train to Reno. Get a quickie divorce. Go home. Of course, nothing is every that easy. The "quickie divorce" has a waiting period so Claire and Georgie head to Hollywood to stay with the movie producer they met on the ship, Cy Goldman. Cy ends up dead. There's a jewel thief who may or may not be involved ... and good ol' Darcy O'Mara just happens to be the one investigating that end. We also have to deal with Queenie and her total lack of progress at being Georgie's maid, Belinda constantly appearing wherever and whenever the wind blows as long as there may be men and money involved, a lot of new faces and some not so new, and a rather bothersome Charlie Chaplin ... and me wondering why and how I've managed to stick through eight books. I have about 15% left right now and it might very well be my last 15% of the series.

Recently Finished :

I stayed up ridiculously late Friday and Saturday night in order to finish the amazing Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza in the wee small hours of Sunday morning. I rambled quite a bit about it on Sunday as part of a new blog feature and I highly highly recommend it -- especially if you like thrillers and serial killer tales and, perhaps, even if you don't think that you do. At least go read the ramble.

What's Next :

It is, after all, Halloween Week and I have two letters left for the Alphabet Soup Title Challenge -- V and Z. 

Vampires and Zombies for the win!

But. Because there's almost always a but.

I was undecided about whether I would do Kristen Painter's The Vampire's Fake Fiancée or Kirsty Dallas's Zombie Playlist first. I was I'm leaning towards Zombie Playlist because the Painter is the fifth in her Nocturne Falls series and I think I have only read the first three. I never blogged any of them and they were victimized by the killed off Goodreads account ... but I do remember that I loved them, and that they were fast and fun reads. I really need to read the fourth before the fifth so if I can sneak in The Professor Woos The Witch, the two together would likely make for a fun Double-Feature Friday. So Painter it shall be. Zombie Playlist will also happen if I have time but the most adorable hotel guest (who happens to be about 11 years old) recommended another book that she is quite enjoying ... and it happens to start with Z ...