Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Three cover reveals spotted this week!
A young witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.
In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother — a witch — attempts to cast a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly summons a demon, binding her daughter to both the artist and this supernatural being for all time. Juliet is fated to re-live her affair and die tragically young lifetime after lifetime as the star-crossed lovers reincarnate through history.
The demon — who appears to Juliet in all her reincarnations as a mysterious, handsome, and worldly benefactor — has been helplessly in love with her since 19th century France, even though she forgets him each time she dies. He falls for her in 1930s Hollywood, in 1970s Los Angeles, and finally in present-day Washington D.C. — where she begins to develop powers of her own.
In this life, she starts to remember her tragic past lives. But this time, she might have the power to break the cycle…
A Witch in Time is perfect for fans of A Secret History of Witches, Outlander, and The Time Traveler’s Wife.
A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers. Releases in February 2020 from Redhook. I love the “witch” trend I’ve been seeing in publishing lately, and here’s another one to add to the list! This sounds so good, especially since it’s being compared to Outlander and The Time Traveler’s Wife.
A fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that’s also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment
Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult’s father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues. As history’s least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult’s mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check.
As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
The Unsuitable by Molly Pohlig. Releases in April 2020 from Henry Holt & Company. I spotted this book on NetGalley recently, and even though this isn’t one of the publishers I usually follow, I am very interested in finding out more about this book. I love the cover, and the story sounds so different!
The second book in the acclaimed Carter Archives noir fantasy series returns to the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner.
The city of Titanshade pulses with nervous energy. The discovery of new riches beneath its snowfields has given residents hope for prosperity, but it also means the arrival of federal troops, along with assurances that they are only there to “stabilize the situation”.
Newcomers flood the streets, dreaming of finding their fortunes, while in the backrooms and beer halls of the city, a populist resistance gains support, its leaders’ true motives hidden behind nativist slogans. And in an alley, a gruesome discovery: the mutilated body of a young woman, a recent immigrant so little-regarded that not even her lovers bothered to learn her name. But in death, she’s found a champion.
Detective Carter single-mindedly pursues the killer as he navigates political pressures and resists becoming a pawn in the struggles tipping the city toward anarchy. But when more innocent lives are lost and time runs short, he’s forced to decide if justice is worth sparking all-out war in the streets during the biggest celebration of the year: Titan’s Day.
Titan’s Day (The Carter Archives #2) by Dan Stout. Releases in April 2020 from DAW Books. I had to check with the publisher to see if I could share this cover, and I’m so glad she said yes, because I’m beyond excited for this follow up to one of my favorite books of 2019, Titanshade! I love this cover, too. The painting on the wall is the cover of the first book:-)
The Unsuitable sounds incredible. I went to Netgalley immediate to wish for it haha!
A Witch in Time caught my attention too. I’m quite pleased with the current witch trend also. And, oh, The Unsuitable! I love the sound of that one too. I will have to look for Titanshade. These l sound like winners to me. I hope enjoy them! Have a great week.
I just love witch stories and I’m so happy to see publishers putting out more of them. Hope we both get the chance to read this one!
I hope you get it!
Gosh, that cover for A Witch in Time is super haunting! And I love the simple, yet intricate design of the scissors on The Unsuitable. Happy. Wednesday, Tammy!
Happy Wednesday to you too, Jennifer! I agree, I found some really good covers this week:-)
You nailed me with all three! A Witch in Time – I’m a sucker for anything witch. The 2nd Titan Shade – well I just know I’ll love the first if I ever get around to it. And The Unsuitable got me with the word Gothic. Man, you are killing me!
Sorry not sorry Barb??
Oooh, the sequel to Titanshade!
Yes!! I’m glad I’m not the only one excited:-)
I’ve heard such good things about Titanshade… I have to read the first one.
I absolutely loved Titanshade, it was such a cool mash up of noir/police action and fantasy.
I’ve got on my TBR… just waiting for an opening.
The first two have pretty good covers. Thanks for sharing!
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The do have good covers, and I think the stories sound good too:-)
Oh wow, I love the cover for A Witch in Time!
It really pretty, isn’t it?
The first two sound great – especially A Witch in Time (which, let’s be honest, has a fantastic cover).
I know, I just love the cover too:-)
Oooooh! A Witch in Time has my name written all over it. Really would love to read that one. I’m pretty sure I’d love it. ♥
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Me too! I love everything about it, the cover, description, everything!
A Witch in Time is next, I like that one a lot. And Titan’s Day as well. That’s cool that the wall painting is the first book cover !
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I thought it was a very clever design, to put the first book cover on the wall. I wonder what it means??
A Witch in Time sounds fantastic and I love the cover for it too!
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I know, the cover is really mysterious and makes me think this will be a good one:-)
Hope you enjoy these when you get the chance to read them, Tammy. Titan’s Day looks awesome! When you say you had to verify if you could share the cover, does it mean you found it somewhere super secret? 😛 Now, Tammy, where could that be, besides Edelweiss? Or is that where you find it? 😀
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Ha ha, yes my sooper sekret place I find unrevealed covers is Edelweiss!! LOL. Since it wasn’t on Goodreads yet, I figured I should ask the publisher first. I got in trouble once so I’ve learned my lesson.
I can’t tell you how long I’ve stared at the cover of The Unsuitables. It’s phallic and not (whatever the opposite of phallic is)… reproductive?! I don’t particularly love it but I can’t unsee any of it and I can’t look away. Lol
But either way these all sound like great picks!
OMG until I read your comment I didn’t realize how much symbolism there is in this cover! It’s actually pretty cool. All I saw was a lovely pair of old fashioned scissors:-)
Lol!! Is that what it’s supposed to be? I never even saw that. I have no idea what that says about me.
I’m actually reading Titanshade right now! Though progress has somewhat stalled due to the Gideon readalong, but as soon as I finish I hope to be looking forward to Titan’s Day right with you!
I can’t wait to hear what you think of Titanshade. It’s literally one of my favorite books so far this year.
Wait, book two of Titan shade is on the horizon already?!?! (Also the cover for Unsuitable is brilliant!)
I hadn’t looked very closely at the cover of Unsuitable until someone else mentioned it, but you’re right!
I can’t wait for Titan’s Day! That cover is awesome – I’m glad they let you share it. 🙂
Me too, I’m always nervous when I find covers that aren’t up on Goodreads yet:-)
Eenie, meanie….which should I read first? LOL These all sound so good!
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Ha ha, I know what you mean:-)
The first two sound great and depending on if I like Titanshade the second book looks cool! I will have to suggest to Barb we buddy read Titanshade before the second one comes out!! 🙂
That would be cool if you two did a buddy read of Titanshade. Hope you enjoy it!
You’ve done it again… I’m trying to be sooo good and then I swing by there! A Witch in Time sounds fantastic and yay for Titan’s Day, given that I, too, loved Titanshade:)). I’m tempted by The Unsuitable, but it does sound more than a tad grimdark and I don’t need any more nightmare fodder. Thank you for sharing:))
I have high hopes for Titan’s Day, I can’t wait:-)
I want that witch book. And I still need to pick up the first Titan Shade book. I was hoping it would be availability for kindle but so far nope.
Lynn
Me too, I want it now!! Oh shoot, Titanshade isn’t on Kindle? That’s just wrong. I hope they change that soon.
Oh, these all look pretty good, but that witch book is especially intriguing. That’s for shining a light on them!
I’m always excited to find new “witch” books:-)
Same! I think I like witches almost as much as vampires. Almost. 🙂
All of these look and sound really interesting. I hope you get to read them and enjoy them all!
Thanks Tressa:-)
The first one sounds interesting, especially if it’s being compared to the Time Traveler’s Wife! I’m still kinda freaked out by whatever that thing is on the cover of the Titan’s one lol, but I hope you love it!
I’m always a sucker for Outlander comparisons! Here’s hoping it lives up to it. 🙂
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