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
Happy New Year’s 2020, everyone! I’m so excited to start a new decade, as well as a new year. 2020 already has a lot of new books to drool over, and here are three more:
A sparkling debut fantasy set in a diverse world, featuring dead gods, a pirate queen, shapeshifting mages, and a Sherlockian teenager determined to upend her society.
Heroes for hire. If you can pay.
Buc:
Brilliant street-rat
Her mind leaps from clues to conclusions in the blink of an eye.Eld:
Ex-soldier
Buc’s partner-in-crime.No. Not in crime–in crime-solving.
They’ve been hired for their biggest job yet–one that will set them up for a life of ease.
If they survive.
Buc and Eld are the first private detectives in a world where pirates roam the seas, mages speak to each other across oceans, mechanical devices change the tide of battle, and earthly wealth is concentrated in the hands of a powerful few.
It’s been weeks since ships last returned to the magnificent city of Servenza with bounty from the Shattered Coast. Disaster threatens not just the city’s trading companies but the empire itself. When Buc and Eld are hired to investigate, Buc swiftly discovers that the trade routes have become the domain of a sharp-eyed pirate queen who sinks all who defy her.
Now all Buc and Eld have to do is sink the Widowmaker’s ship….
Unfortunately for Buc, the gods have other plans.
Unfortunately for the gods, so does Buc.
The Sin in the Steel (The Fall of the Gods #1) by Ryan Van Loan. Releases in July 2020 from Tor Books. Really, you had me at that glorious cover! But the story sounds right up my alley too—pirates, crime solving and a pirate queen? And are there maybe steampunk elements to this as well? I am so excited about this book:-D
An epic fantasy by Hugo Award–winning author Matt Wallace about a utopian city with a dark secret…and the underdogs who will expose it, or die trying.
They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place.
Evie is not a Savage. She’s a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire’s poor and wretched.
But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do.
Savage Legion (Savage Rebellion #1) by Matt Wallace. Releases in July 2020 from Gallery/Saga Press. You may remember Matt Wallace from his Sin du Jour novellas, which are hysterically funny, by the way. I’m thrilled to see he has a new series coming out this year, and it sounds really good!
A spellbinding novel of bloodlines, self-discovery, and redemption by the author of the Washington Post bestseller The Vine Witch.
Abandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris, Yvette Lenoir has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers. But what brave and resourceful Yvette has done to survive the streets has made her a fugitive. With a price on her head, she clings to a memento from her past—what she believes to be a grimoire inherited from the mother she never knew. To unlock the secrets of her past, Yvette trusts in one woman to help solve the arcane riddles among its charmed pages.
Elena Boureanu is the vine witch of Château Renard, noted for its renowned wines. Even as she struggles with her own bloodline—and its poisonous threat to her future—Elena can’t ignore a friend on the run. Joined by a cunning thief, the proprietor of an enchanted-curio shop, and a bewitching black cat, Elena and Yvette are determined to decode Yvette’s mysterious keepsake. But what restless magic will be unleashed? And what are Yvette and Elena willing to risk to become the witches they were destined to be?
The Glamourist (Vine Witch #2) by Luanne G. Smith. Releases in June 2020 from 47North. I enjoyed The Vine Witch, and I’m loving the sound of this new adventure set in a world where witches are able to produce amazing wines with their magic.
All three of these sound pretty good! Real interested in the first one!
The artwork on the cover of the first book immediately grabbed me:-)
These all sound wonderful – it’s the final series that has really piqued my interest. I’ve heard so many good things about it… Thank you for sharing, Tammy!
The Vine Witch was really good, and the sequel sounds just as good:-)
They all sound good — but I’d be especially interested in The Sin in the Steel — yes to pirate queens!
I agree, it’s been a while since I’ve read a good book with pirates:-)
Savage Legion sounds pretty good to me. Poor Evie, the odds are stacked against her in her world.
I know, right? Great premise for a story:-)
The Sin in the Steel sounds like it’s going to be amazing. Thanks for sharing!
I’m super excited for it!
The Glamorist cover is just stunning. These all look amazing, I will have to add them to my TBRT
I do love that cover as well:-)
The Vine Witch series is one I’d love to try, if I can ever finish some of the ones I still have lingering on my TBR.
I know what you mean…so many books, it’s hard to choose:-)
I just saw The Glamourist on another blog a little earlier and it caught my eye, I need to get those I guess!
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That series is pretty good!
*dances* I’ve got an ARC of The Sin in the Steel! I actually got it before the cover reveal, so when I went to check my ARCs list and saw the cover I was like … who dis? But oh my gosh, it sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? I’m so excited to read it. I’m definitely feel that cover for Savage Legion, too.
Oh you are so lucky!! Don’t you love the cover?
Yeeeaaaah, The Sin in the Steel! I don’t know if I like the cover as much as you do though, I find the character’s dead gaze kind of unsettling 😛 And I’m still on the fence about reading the Vine Witch sequel. I’ll have to see what my reading schedule is like in June to decide!
I love the art style of the cover, for some reason:-)
Should have known you would add three more books to the wishlist today. Starting off the new year great!
It’s going to be a great year, I think. Already there are so many 2020 books I want to read!
I think i’d like the second one 😀 Gonna keep it in mind!
It sound so good, doesn’t it?
The last one is my favorite and looks most like one I might read. You can check out my Wednesday post in the link below!
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I think The Glamourist is going to be really good:-)
Savage Legion sounds like a breath-taking adventure! And while I have not managed – yet – to read Matt Wallace’s fun series, I’m very intrigued by this new story. And that cover…. ah, that cover!
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I agree! I will read anything Matt Wallace writes, so I’m so excited. It sounds very different from his Sin du Jour series:-)
This is going to be a broken refrain this year but man I am really regretting my book buying ban. Going to have to start a list of books to buy for next year, haha!
You are much braver than I am! Good luck:-)
As usual, all of these are new to me but they sound so good and I am especially loving the covers. The first one definitely intrigues me most because we have shapeshifters and a Sherlockian teenager. Sold, sold, sold!
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I have high hopes for the first book:-)
Wow, those covers are gorgeous! Here’s hoping that the stories are just as beautiful!! :O Thanks for sharing, Tammy! 😀
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Thanks Lashaan, I agree, I love these covers:-)
I’m cautiously excited about Savage Legion and The Sin in the Steel. I feel like they both have the potential to be great but The Sin in the Steel mentions so many different things it sounds like it could be a little chaotic? And Savage Legion sounds too perfect. Trying not get my hopes up too high I guess.
I think The Sin in the Steel is a debut, so you know those are always a 50/50 chance of being good. But I’ve read Matt Wallace in the past and I’m super excited he finally has something new out:-)
All of these sound good. I’m particularly drawn to the Glamourist.