But before you go and call the cops, let it be known that I am simply checking out the competition.
Last trip, a kindly middle aged shopgirl asked me if she could help me find what I was looking for. I swallowed the first dozen inappropriate responses that sprang to mind.
"Could you recommend a fantasy or supernatural book with a female lead where romance is not the main plot?" I said after the awkward pause where I wrestled my dirty mind for control.
And that's how I got onto Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier, the first book in a trilogy by one of Australia's own.
Now, I'm not the biggest reader at the best of time, and I have the attention span of a one-finned guppy, but the shopgirl was so convincing that I went to the counter with the book without even cracking it open first (or reading the last time of the book, which is usually the first thing I do when I pick up a book).
I bought it. $17.99 - make it rain, motherflippers.
There was a brief moment afterwards when I thought very loudly "Augie, what have you done? You're not going to read this." From the odd looks the other people in the bookshop gave me as I left, I think I may have been thinking aloud.
Anyway, I did read it.
And it's really cool.
And before I know it, I'm a quarter way through Black Sun Light My Way, because let's face it, even though it's marketed as 'Book Two', it's really just one seamless story. They had to break it up into parts otherwise people would use the brick of a book as a bludgeoning weapon. I've got the third book sitting on my kitchen counter. Once I finish that one (and if it's not like being stabbed in the guts... I hate books where the good guys don't win), I might do a review. So watch this space. :)
Not pictured in the book, but will likely feature in the movie adaption:
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