Friday Finds! (7)

Friday Finds are books I've heard about during the past week. Credit goes to MizB from Should Be Reading

Found this @ The Crowded Leaf

The Gates: A Novel by John Connolly
Publisher: Atria
Pub. Date: October 6, 2009
304 pages

Blurb:
THE GATES OF HELL ARE ABOUT TO OPEN. MIND THE GAP.
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.

The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a hole in the universe, a hole through which can be glimpsed a pair of enormous gates.

The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out... (From author's website)


Found @ Reading Extensively

Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Publisher: Bethany House
Release Date: July 10, 2010
368 pages

Blurb:
The Dragon King Seeks His Princess--Who Dares to Stop Him?

Princess Una of Parumvir has come of age and will soon marry. She dreams of a charming prince, but when her first suitor arrives, he's not what she'd hoped. Prince Aethelbald of mysterious Farthestshore has travelled a great distance to prove his love--and also to bring hushed warnings of danger. A dragon is rumored to be on the hunt and blazing a path of terror.

Una, smitten instead with a more dashing prince, refuses Aethelbald's offer--and ignores his cautions with dire consequences. Soon the Dragon King himself is in Parumvir and Una, in giving her heart away unwisely, finds herself in his sights. Only those courageous enough to risk everything have a hope of fighting off this advancing evil. (From publisher's website)