Dive into a world of fantasy or science fiction in one of this month’s book releases! Be enchanted by elemental magic in Furyborn or by the craft of bespelling plastic in The Plastic Magician. Or discover the art of shamanism in MEM or arcane magic in Witchsign.
If you’re after a magical world, Raymond E. Feist will transport you in King of Ashes and Sarah J Maas continues the adventures in Prythian with A Court of Frost and Starlight. Perhaps some science fiction is more your speed, if so, then check out 84K by Claire North or Side Life by Steve Toutonghi.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us in the comments below what new releases you will be reading!
Furyborn by Claire Legrand
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Rielle Dardenne exposes her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic, which only a pair of prophesied queens should posses: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic or be killed. A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When Eliana’s mother and other women begin disappearing, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission. Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia with connections between them that will determine the fate of their world.
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 Plastic Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
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Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking—a new form of magic to bespell plastic. Even though she is only an apprentice, Alvie is an inventor at heart, and she is determined to make as many discoveries in the new discipline. Studying under world-renowned magician Marion Praff, Alvie’s enthusiasm reinvigorates her mentor’s work, and together they create a device that could forever change Polymaking—and the world. But when a rival learns of their plans, he conspires to steal their invention and take the credit for it himself.
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.
Bandwidth by Eliot Peper
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A rising star at a preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag Calhoun represents the world’s most powerful technology and energy executives until a close brush with death makes him a target. Like everyone else, Dag relies on his digital feed for everything—a feed that is as personal as it is pervasive, and may not be as private as it seems. As he struggles to make sense of the dark forces closing in on him, he discovers that activists are hijacking the feed to manipulate markets and governments.
Whisper by Lynette Noni
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For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes, Subject Six-Eight-Four or ‘Jane Doe’ has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. As Jane’s resolve begins to crack under the influence of her new and unexpectedly kind evaluator, she uncovers the truth about Lengard’s mysterious ‘program’, discovering that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot … and one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.
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.
What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
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Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch. Living on the edge of a mysterious forest, Maisie’s father warns her to stay away as men disappear and emerge with addled minds and strange stories. He doesn’t tell her that for over a millennium her female ancestors have also vanished, never to emerge—for she is descended from a long line of cursed women. But one day Maisie’s father disappears, so she must venture beyond where she encounters a strange world filled with wonder and deception where she can finally reckon with her power and come to understand the wildest parts of herself.
Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
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Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. When Vin decides to climb into one of the caskets to see what happens, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that asks fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
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When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shocked everyone that a peasant girl got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan. But now she’s targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school. A Third Poppy War is just a spark away and Rin’s powers may be the only way to save her people.
MEM by Bethany C. Morrow
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Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source ― zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault.
Witchsign by Den Patrick
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It has been seventy-five years since the dragons’ rule of fire and arcane magic over Vinkerveld was ended, and the Empire was born. Since, the tyrannical Synod has worked hard to banish all manifestations of the arcane across the lands. However, children are still born bearing the taint of the arcane, known to all as witchsign, and they are being hunted. Steiner believes his sister Kjellrunn bears witchsign until he’s mistakenly taken. Except it is not death which awaits Steiner, but an Academy where the children with witchsign learn to master their powers and he’s determined to protect his sister from this fate.
