The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles #6) by Kevin Hearne + 50/50 Friday

On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by Freda's Voice, Book Beginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader, and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader and Laura @ Blue Eye Books. For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook. Post it and share your post's url on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post. As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader. Then, for 50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the hosts blogs.

This week I'm spotlighting one of my current #BeatTheBacklist reads, Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles #6) by Kevin Hearne.  Anyway, I'm so excited to be back with Atticus and Granuaile so soon after finished up the fifth book in the series.  If you love urban fantasy and are into mythology, you need to try this series if you haven't already, especially if you like The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.

Beginning:

It's odd how when you feel safe you can't think of that thing it was you kept meaning to do, but when you're running for your life you suddenly remember the entire list of things you never got around to doing.  

I always wanted to get blindly drunk with a mustachioed man, take him back to his place, do a few extra shots just this side of severe liver damage, and then shave off half his mustache when he passed out.  I would then install surveillance equipment before I left so that I could properly appreciate his reaction (and his hangover) when he woke up.  And of course I would surveil him from a black windowless van parked somewhere along his street.  There would be a wisecracking computer science graduate from MIT in the van with me who almost but not quite when all the way once with a mousy physics major who dumped him because he didn't accelerate her particles.

56:

"Oberon, what do you smell?" Granuaile asked.

His nose twitched for a few moments before he gave a mental shrug. <You guys.  Swampy birchy grassy stuff.  Nothing to eat.>

50/50 Friday: First/Last ___ Book You've Read (specific genre, etc)

For this prompt, the genre I've selected is noir - I love the genre, but I always feel like I don't talk about it enough. 

First (that I can specifically remember, anyway) - The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - I loved it and I haven't looked back from there!

Last - Revival, Deluxe Collection Volume 1 by Tim Seeley - Rural noir horror - with zombies! As soon as I caught wind of this from Chew I knew I needed it in my life.  Now, I absolutely need to continue the series.

Have you read any of these books?  What are you reading today?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!