WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam on Taking on a World of Words. Anyone can participate by answering the three questions below and then posting a link to your post from your blog on Sam’s website, or just answer the questions on her post, if you do not have a blog.

The three questions (Ws) are:

1.) What are you currently reading?
2.) What did you recently finish reading?
3.) What do you think you’ll read next?

So without any further ado, let’s get on with it, shall we?

 

At the moment, I’m reading European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss, which is the sequel to The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. I’m actually listening to it on audiobook, as I did with the first one, and I absolutely love Kate Reading as the narrator. She does such an amazing job of voicing all of the different characters! I think the only downside to this book – at the moment – is that the audiobook is 24 hours long (which definitely made me apprehensive to start reading it). However, I’ve actually flown through it pretty quickly. I’m already on 13 hours and I’ve only been listening to it the past couple of days!

Mary Jekyll’s life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the Whitechapel Murders. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary’s sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. At least they can always rely on Mrs Poole.

But when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time?

Racing against the clock to save Lucinda from certain doom, the Athena Club embarks on a madcap journey across Europe. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It’s time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies.

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I actually just finished RE-READING Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton. I’m going to be reading the final book in the trilogy – Hero at the Fall – very soon, and because I haven’t read Rebel of the Sands and Traitor to the Throne in a very long time, I decided to give them a re-read. I actually decided to listen to them on audiobook as I read them the first time around with the physical copies. I really enjoyed re-visiting this world as I love Alwyn’s writing style, and I love all of the characters!

Gunslinger Amani al’Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime—the Sultan’s palace—she’s determined to bring the tyrant down. Desperate to uncover the Sultan’s secrets by spying on his court, she tries to forget that Jin disappeared just as she was getting closest to him, and that she’s a prisoner of the enemy. But the longer she remains, the more she questions whether the Sultan is really the villain she’s been told he is, and who’s the real traitor to her sun-bleached, magic-filled homeland.

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I’ll probably end up reading Dawn by Octavia E. Butler next. I say probably because it just depends if I feel like it. I have to read this for my science fiction class for university and even though I don’t start until the end of September, I want to try and get ahead with the reading. This is so that I’m not rushing through it whilst doing my dissertation and other assessments at the same time. But yeah, this is a ‘probably’. Depends if I can be bothered I guess!

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.

The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.

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So there we have it! That was my first ever time doing WWW Wednesday, and I definitely think that I’ll be doing it again. It’s nice to keep you guys updated on what I’m reading, and even though I do an end-of-the-month wrap-up, you never get to see what I’m reading during the week.

Until next time…