May the month of May bring you plenty of great reads, and to help you with that, we’ve compiled a list of some of this month’s great new releases!
From Victoria Aveyard’s final instalment in the Red Queen series, to new books by popular YA authors Jay Kristoff, Julie Murphy, Sarah J Maas and Rick Riordan! Then there’s a new novel from the king of horror, Stephen King! If you’re after a little fantasy, try Raymond E. Feist’s King of Ashes, or perhaps if sci-fi is more your speed, Claire North’s 84K will be perfect for you.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us in the comments below if you will be checking any out!
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
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In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard’s stunning Red Queen series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power… for all will be tested, but not all will survive. War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?
LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff
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Eve isn’t looking for secrets. The robot gladiator she spent six months working on is a wreck and now she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are building a coffin her size. But when Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic conscience, Cricket, in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, infiltrate towering megacities and scour the graveyard of humanity’s greatest folly to save the ones Eve loves, and learn the dark secrets of her past.
The Outsider by Stephen King
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An eleven-year-old boy is found in a town park, hideously assaulted and murdered. The fingerprints (and later DNA) are unmistakably those of the town’s most popular baseball coach, Terry Maitland, a man of impeccable reputation, with a wife and two daughters. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland is taken to jail, his claim to innocence scorned. Maitland has a foolproof alibi, with footage to prove that he was in another city when the crime was committed. But that doesn’t save him either.
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas
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The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we’d have a High Priestess do some odious ceremony, as lanthe had done the year before. A year. Gods, nearly a year since Rhys had called in his bargain, desperate to get me away from the poison of the Spring Court to save me from my despair. Had he been only a minute later, the Mother knew what would have happened. Where I’d now be. Snow swirled and eddied in the garden, catching in the brown fibers of the burlap covering the shrubs My mate who had worked so hard and so selflessly, all without hope that I would ever be with him We had both fought for that love, bled for it. Rhys had died for it.
84K by Claire North
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What if your life were defined by a number? What if any crime could be committed without punishment, so long as you could afford to pay the fee assigned to that crime? Theo works in the Criminal Audit Office. He assesses each crime that crosses his desk and makes sure the correct debt to society is paid in full. But when Theo’s ex-lover Dani is killed, it’s different. This is one death he can’t let become merely an entry on a balance sheet. Because when the richest in the world are getting away with murder, sometimes the numbers just don’t add up.
The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
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When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder… Brett’s the fan favorite and the object of jealousy and vitriol from her cast mates; Kelly, Brett’s older sister is dismissed as a hanger-on by veteran cast and shares a shocking secret with her sister; Stephanie, the first black cast member and the oldest, is a successful bestselling author of erotic novels; Lauren, the start-up world’s darling whose drinking has gotten out of control, is Goal Diggers’ recovery narrative; and Jen, made rich and famous through her cultishly popular vegan food line plays a holistic hippie for the cameras, but is perhaps the most ruthless of them all when the cameras are off.
Puddin’ by Julie Murphy
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It is a companion novel to Dumplin’, which follows supporting characters from the first book in the months after Willowdean’s star turn in the Clover City pageant. Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl, but this year she has new plans to chase her secret dream—and to kiss her crush, Callie Reyes. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they will surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realising they might have more in common than they ever imagined.
The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
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This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—places today’s headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis
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Tiffany Sly lost her mother to cancer and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the rich biological dad she’s never known and his four other daughters. She doesn’t fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home except the only thing that is bearable is the strange boy across the street, Marcus McKinney. But Tiffany has a secret. Another man claims he’s Tiffany’s real dad—and she only has seven days before he shows up to demand a paternity test and the truth comes out.
King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist
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The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by another king with ambitions to rule the world. The remaining kingdoms remain on the brink of war, but rumour has it that the newborn son of the last king of Ithrace survived, taken by a secret society whose members are trained to infiltrate and spy upon the rich and powerful throughout Garn. On the island of Coaltachin, the secret domain of the Quelli Nacosti, three friends are being schooled in the deadly arts of espionage and assassination: Donte, son of one of the most powerful masters of the order; Hava, a serious girl with fighting abilities that can set any opponent on their back; and Hatu, a strange, conflicted lad in whom fury and calm war constantly, whose hair is a bright and fiery shade of red.
The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
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The Trials of Apollo series continues in the third instalment, which is about the formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg.
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
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This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job, he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together. It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his emails or phone calls. It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus. It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play. If Mike watches V closely, he’ll see the signs. If he keeps track of her every move he’ll know just when to come to her rescue…
