Can't Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday #628: In Her Exquisite Clutches by Auston Habershaw

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that had been hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine where we spotlighted upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating. I'm now linking up with Can't Wait Wednesday hosted over at Wishful Endings.

From the publisher: An art-collecting dragon and a reformed delinquent team up to solve a seemingly unsolvable museum heist. Will they crack the case, recover the paintings, and make a tidy profit? In this delightful new mystery, the most infamous art theft in Boston history is recast with both human and supernatural players.

Every dragon needs a man on the inside.

Angharad Stoneweaver is a dragon with exquisite taste and the finest reputation in the art world for recovering lost masterpieces. What she lacks is the ability to fit through a doorway.

Ex-lowlife Sam Braun has landed the job as Stoneweaver’s right-claw man, working as her eyes and ears on the ground. Sam’s pay is good, the perks are better, and he has no regrets about trading the gutter for the good life.

But when the mobster (and friend of Sam’s late father) Carmine Delucci turns up dead, Stoneweaver’s latest investigation hits a little too close to home. Everyone knows Delucci was behind the largest heist in American history, but nobody knows what happened to the stolen paintings.

For Stoneweaver, it’s a mystery she cannot resist. For Sam, it’s an unraveling of his father’s seedy past, and a possible answer to an impossible question: What, exactly, is the power of art?

In Her Exquisite Clutches by Auston Habershaw is expected out March 2, 2027 from Tachyon Publications.

Why am I waiting on this book? I like the idea of using a real life mystery as a basis for a fantasy mystery. The power dynamic between the dragon and her assistant reminds me potentially of the relationship between Ana and Din in their mysteries by Robert Jackson Bennett. To be honest, I also like the title and the cover. 

What book are you waiting on this week? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out and maybe add it to our evergrowing TBR lists. Thanks for coming by and Happy Reading!

Teaser Tuesday: If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw

 

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR! You can also just share what you are currently reading. We make it very easy to play along. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at the Purple Booker.

1: Grab your current read. 2: Open to a random page. 3: Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author so that other people can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teaser!

"That's bullshit." Alex said, belatedly aware that she probably shouldn't have said "bullshit" twice during a job interview, but that ship had definitely sailed by now. "He had a genie. Couldn't he just have wished for all the beggars to have money or whatever?"

If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw was released June 17, 2025 from Tachyon Publications.

Can't Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday #627: The Traveling House by Kristin Cashore

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that had been hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine where we spotlighted upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating. I'm now linking up with Can't Wait Wednesday hosted over at Wishful Endings.

From the publisher: 
A woman returns home and begins unraveling long-buried family secrets in this captivating novel of time travel, love, and legacy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series.

In her mid-thirties, newly single and at loose ends, Matilda Frost has come home again—to the family whose history was forever changed by her grandfather’s invention of time travel. Settling back into a life she thought she’d outgrown, all she wants to do is hide from the world and devote her attention to building the miniature house she has been meticulously at work on.

Around her, things are largely the same. Her sister is still a force of nature. Her brother is still estranged, his whereabouts unknown. And her relationship with her best friend, Max, is still complicated; now back in each other’s orbit, old feelings might be resurfacing. But most familiar of all, Grandfather Winthrop’s shadow—and his legacy of time travel—still looms large over the house and the town. His miraculous time-box stopped working when he died, and scientists have yet to figure out why.

When her beloved Uncle Ant disappears, Matilda realizes that in order to find him, she may need to dig into some of her grandfather's deepest-held secrets. But Grandfather Winthrop might not be the only family member with things to hide. . . .

The Traveling House by Kristin Cashore is expected out February 16, 2027 from Dutton.

Why am I waiting on this book? Can you come home again when it comes to small towns? It seems like a character driven story with the possibility of time travel. If they follow in their grandfather's footsteps successfully, what would they do? When and where would they travel to?

What book are you waiting on this week? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out and maybe add it to our evergrowing TBR lists. Thanks for coming by and Happy Reading!

Teaser Tueday: Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire

 

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR! You can also just share what you are currently reading. We make it very easy to play along. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at the Purple Booker.

1: Grab your current read. 2: Open to a random page. 3: Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author so that other people can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teaser!

 

"I have always enjoyed the company of dangerous women. Fortunately for me, many of them seem to enjoy the company of dangerous men." -Thomas Price

p.165 of the paperback edition of Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire published in 2014 by DAW Books. This is the third book in the InCryptid series.

Happy Halloween!

 

Trick or Treat? Treat of course! What are you reading today/tonight? 

I'm planning on dipping into some Halloween Anthologies like Blood Lite edited by Kevin Anderson. I also enjoy Halloween and Horror anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. Lisa Morton is also a good editor when it comes to the topic of Halloween and things that go bump in the night. All Hallows Eve edited by Ellen Datlow is new this year.

Novel wise, I am currently reading Hallowed Bones by Lucy Smoke. It's the first in the Sons of Salem series. The jury is still out on it. It's not exactly what I thought I was getting, but it's not bad.

And if you prefer nonfiction, the History Channel has plenty of information on Halloween.

Also if you search my blog for Halloween, you will find articles I've done in the past on the topic.

Whatever you do, whatever you read, I hope you have a Happy Halloween. Stay safe and Happy Reading!

Can't Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday #626: Pride and Poltergeists by Seanan McGuire

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that had been hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine where we spotlighted upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating. I'm now linking up with Can't Wait Wednesday hosted over at Wishful Endings.

From the publisher: Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues in this sixteenth exciting adventure, following the Price family as they struggle to protect the cryptological world around us.

Normal, adjective:
1. Confirming to an established standard; not sick or unlike oneself.

Abnormal, adjective:
1. Deviating from what is normal.
2. Of or pertaining to that which is irregular; in particular, behavior that deviates from norms of social propriety.
3. See also “weird.”

For James Smith―now James Price―normal was never going to be an option. The only son of a sorcerer who died before she could teach him how to use his abilities, he was miserable in the town of New Gravesend, Maine...at least until Antimony Price declared him her adopted brother and swept him off to a new life. Among the Prices, James stands out less for being a sorcerer, and more for his poor cryptid-wrangling and hand-to-hand combat skills.

Becoming a Price didn’t come with an instruction manual, and James is still trying to figure out how he fits in this chaotic new family. How can he be a good brother, son, and, maybe―given the looks he's been getting from the cute guy who owns his new favorite waffle truck―boyfriend? And how can he balance it all when poachers and poltergeists refuse to leave him alone, and when the old family mystery of what happened to Aunt Laura starts calling?

Maybe he should have stayed in New Gravesend after all.

Pride and Poltergeists by Seanan McGuire is expected out March 2, 2027 from Tor Books.

Why am I waiting on this book? I've read some of the series. I've enjoyed what I've read. I like the premise of the series and the characters. And the books have all been well-written. 

What book are you waiting on this week? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out and maybe add it to our evergrowing TBR lists. Thanks for coming by and Happy Reading!

Teaser Tuesday: Hallowed Bones by Lucy Smoke

 

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR! You can also just share what you are currently reading. We make it very easy to play along. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at the Purple Booker.

1: Grab your current read. 2: Open to a random page. 3: Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author so that other people can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teaser!

Aunt Trisha harrumphs and clutches her designer handbag tighter to her chest as if a spider is going to jump out at random and steal it right from her grasp. "Well, they obviously don't know how to manage their money," she huffs.

(Aunt Trisha on the state of the buildings on the Ipswich College campus. 1% through on my kindle)

Hallowed Bones by Lucy Smoke was published October 6, 2026 by St. Martin's Griffin.