WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words.  

To play, answer the three ‘W’ questions listed below. Be sure to link back to her or to put the link to your post in the comment section of her blog so that others take a gander at your answers and maybe find new reads to throw in their TBR mountain.

The Three W’s are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

 

What I’m Currently Reading

“1924 Chicago is a turf war: the North Side against the South Side. Booze, guns, money, and blood are all currency here. 

Prohibition is a breeding ground for the rise of organized crime in America, and for the ambitious, it means building a fortune. 
  
Mia Scalisi, a street-smart showgirl, has big dreams of leaving behind the small-time supper club she performs at night after night. She wants to see her name in lights—and maybe even on the silver screen. And her brother Nick, an ambitious Mafia capo determined to be the next underworld prince, promises to use the spoils of his new liquor deal to make it happen. 

With a promising career within her reach and friends like Al Capone and Johnny Torrio, Mia’s future has never looked brighter, and she can turn a blind eye to Nick’s criminal activities and morally bankrupt ways…until it all catches up with them. 

Too late, Mia discovers ambition always comes with a price, and that price must be paid—in blood. 

When her world implodes, there’s only one thing she cares about after the dust settles. 

Revenge.”

***Not too far into this one but enjoying it so far. I love historical fiction, and the Prohibition era fascinates me.

 

What I Recently Finished

“In the fifth and last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed….

Three talismans adrift.
Two mad kings.
One poisonous crown.

As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife. The twisted creature pulling the Vatras’ strings is holed up in the deepest level of the Dominion—and only she has the power to follow him there, though at the potential cost of her own soul.

Prophecy claims the three daeva clans must unite to face their greatest enemy again, but two of the talismans have vanished and the third is a child more used to skulking in the shadows than leading an army. Meb the Mouse might be their last hope—if anyone bothers to take her seriously.

And within the confines of the Rock, a dying king makes a pact with the devil, setting in motion a chain of events that could spell doom for friends and foes alike.

WARNING: This book contains twists and turns, richly deserved comeuppances, shocking revelations, knock-down, drag-out fights, obsessive stalkers, some very nasty monsters…and, of course, true love.”

****I was soooooo excited for this book! I’ve fallen in love with the world and the characters. Now I can finally read the Fourth Element series.

 

What I Hope to Read Next

“Good Will Hunting slams into Pulp Fiction at 500 mph.”

Tripsy South is a super-smart and thinking seventeen-year-old girl with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. This Indigo child’s special knowledge is accompanied by a caustic and devastating wit that often draws blood from nearby souls.

She’s pissed off at everyone well beyond her kill radius because America’s teen-suicide epidemic isn’t just growing, it’s actively fueled by BigPharma and BigMedia, and America’s government, corporate and civic leaders, who very clearly don’t give a damn. Worse, they all encourage the epidemic to continue.

These sad facts drive Tripsy even nuttier than she already advertises.

Don’t be quick to feel sorry for Tripsy, though: this young brainiac has a master plan to shake things up.

One day, out of the blue, she descends into the office of Dr. Jon Moore, a middle-of-the-road psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, California, who treats troubled children and suicidal teens. She then begins a year-long series of in-depth psychiatric sessions that test Dr. Moore’s last raw nerve.

He has written his own unpublished manuscript about this taboo subject, and he gets schooled on every level by this precocious expert on all elements of teen suicide.

Unsure about how to react to Tripsy’s unusual behavior, let alone how to treat her, Dr. Moore embarks on a deep emotional journey that forces him to examine his own past, present and future, not only as a psychiatrist but as a human being. Structured as doctor’s personal notes, WTF, Dorkus! takes you on a wild roller-coaster ride of emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and introduces some hard facts about American teens in the throes of anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior. Will Dr. Moore survive this young girl’s storming into his life and educating him in ways he never imagined?

What will become of Tripsy who, as she informed Dr. Moore, has only one year left in her?

In the end, we can’t help but look around in disbelief and go, “WTF just happened!?”

****This book has been renamed Suicide Tango. Personally, I like that title over WTF, Dorkus.