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
And the fantasy titles just keep coming!
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.
Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia’s life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they’re more likely to discuss the FBI’s recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.
But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club’s meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he’s a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she–and her book club–are the only people standing between the monster they’ve invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. Releases in April 2020 from Quirk Books. I’m a huge Grady Hendrix fan and I’m so excited about his next book! This sounds so funny, and hey, you’ve got book clubs and vampires in the title:-D
Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming.
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.
In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings under a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.
Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison. Releases in June 2020 from Tor Books. This sounds AMAZING. I have yet to read Addison’s beloved The Goblin Empire, which is something I need to rectify as soon as possible. But I definitely don’t want to miss out on her next book, so excited!
Return to a twisted version of Jazz Age New York in this follow up to the critically acclaimed fantasy Westside, as relentless sleuth Gilda Carr’s pursuit of tiny mysteries drags her into a case that will rewrite everything she knows about her past.
Six months ago, the ruined Westside of Manhattan erupted into civil war, and private detective Gilda Carr nearly died to save her city. In 1922, winter has hit hard, and the desolate Lower West is frozen solid. Like the other lost souls who wander these overgrown streets, Gilda is weary, cold, and desperate for hope. She finds a mystery instead.
Hired by a family of eccentric street preachers to recover a lost saint’s finger, Gilda is tempted by their promise of “electric resurrection,” when the Westside’s countless dead will return to life. To a detective this cynical, faith is a weakness, and she is fighting the urge to believe in miracles when her long dead mother, Mary Fall, walks through the parlor door.
Stricken with amnesia, Mary remembers nothing of her daughter or her death, but that doesn’t stop her from being as infuriatingly pushy as Gilda herself. As her mother threatens to drive her insane, Gilda keeps their relationship a secret so that they can work together to investigate what brought Mary back to life. The search will force Gilda to reckon with the nature of death, family, and the uncomfortable fact that her mother was not just a saint, but a human being.
Westside Saints: A Tiny Mystery by W.M. Akers. Releases in May 2020 from Harper Voyager. I read Aker’s Westside earlier this year and really loved it. I had no idea it was going to be a series until I spotted this book on Edelweiss, so this is a pleasant surprise!
I didn’t even read the blurb of the Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires before hitting the pre-order button – that title and cover has me SOLD! Awesome find!
Ha ha, I know just what you mean, Sia. The title and cover are just amazing!
I can’t wait to read more Hendrix and Akers!
Me too, Hendrix especially!
All great picks this week! I’m thinking of reading Grady’s for my Popsugar prompt “book about a book club” (there aren’t many SFF books about book clubs out there), and The Angel of Crows sounds awesome!
I need to take a closer look at the Pop Sugar challenges, thanks for reminding me!
All of these look and sound great. Book clubs and vampires are an awesome combination. I’m glad vamps are making a comeback as long as they don’t start sparkling again 🙂 I didn’t know Westside would have a sequel. Thanks for sharing.
I want more vampire books too! And I think the sparkly ones are gone for good, ha ha.
“Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula,” Wow, there’s a pitch I never, ever, thought I’d see. LOL
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Right? Now if it lives up to that pitch, it will be amazing:-)
I really need to try Grady Hendrix! So I think I need to go find Westsides because that Westsides Saints one sounds good! 🙂
I think you’d love Grady Hendrix!
Grady Hendrix always has some of the best covers!
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He really does. I love this new one:-)
This is a fun mix! The Angel of the Crows and The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires both sound like they need to be on my TBR list!
I hope you get the chance to read them when they come out!
Ooh, interesting! I am DYING to get a copy of the Grady Hendrix books. He’s so amazing. Horrorstor still freaks me out! Like you, I haven’t read The Goblin Emperor yet, which feels like a huge oversight. I need to fix that!
Hendrix’s last book was my top book of the year in 2018, so I have high hopes for this new one:-)
I kind of want to read The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires as a book club book now, because how perfect would that be? I mean, the rest of the ladies in my book club would probably hate it, but I can’t resist the irony (plus, it sounds amazing!).
Welp, I’m completely sold on Angel of the Crows now. Gimme. Wait. It doesn’t come out until JUNE of next year?! You’re killing me, Tammy. D:
Ha ha, I know, June seems REALLY far away, right?
You have some really great picks! I’m especially drawn to The Angel of the Crows. That sounds really different. Now I’m headed to find out more about all these books and add them to my future books list!
Thanks Jan!
Aaaand Angel of the Crows goes instantly on my TBR. I hadn’t heard of this one yet, thanks for the heads up!
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I was surprised by it too!
Um, a vampire book okay I need that. Darn my book buying ban next year!
Ha ha, you might want to rethink that ban…
I really liked The Goblin Emperor, so Angel of the Crows goes on my list right now.
I’m excited to someday catch up with The Goblin Emperor:-)
I like the sounds these! The Angels of the Crows especially sounds good.
The Angel of Crows is very high on my “can’t wait” list:-)
All of them sound good. I love the cover of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
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Isn’t that a great cover??
I was scrolling down and greedily thinking I want all these books preciousss, then I saw the Westside book. This makes me very happy. I didn’t know a second one was in the pipeline but I hoped so. I loved the first book. This has just about made my day
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I can’t remember where I saw Westside Saints, maybe on Edelweiss? I was really surprised too!
The Southern Book Club’s Guide looks fun. 🙂
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I’d try The Angel of the Crows, sounds very interesting. I’ve yet to read anything by any of these authors, though I remember being curious about Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix.
Grady Hendrix is one of my favorite authors, and all his books are so different from each other. I think that’s what I like most about him.
These covers! I was just reading about the top one and all its quirkiness! It sounds so fun. I hope you love all of these, Tammy.
Thanks Jennifer, I have high hopes for all of them:-)
OMG! I think I saw The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires the other day in a Quirk newsletter or something, but immediately dismissed it thinking it was one of their many humor guides. No idea that it was a new novel by Grady Hendrix, which you can bet I’m adding to my TBR right now lol!
It sort of snuck up on me too:-)
Hmmmm… The Angel of Crows sounds interesting. Different. I’m excited to read some reviews.
I just read an amazing book with a crow and now I want to read ALL the crow books:-)
omg I NEED NEED NEED to read The Angel of the Crows! it has everything I love! starting with the cover! 🙂
Isn’t that cover beautiful???
“Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula” totally sold me on that first book. That sounds like a fun read to me!
It should be fun, Hendrix always surprises me with his books:-)
I can’t wait for the new Grady Hendrix!
You and me both!
Congrats on reaching 50 Future Fictions! 😀 And Angel of the Crows sounds awesome!