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 new YA fantasy/horror books, take a look:
Eleanor has not seen or spoken with her family in years, not since they sent her away to Saint Brigid’s boarding school. She knows them only as vague memories: her grandfather’s tremendous fanged snout, the barrel full of water her mother always soaked in, and strange hunting trips in a dark wood with her sister and cousins. And she remembers the way they looked at her, like she was the freak.
When Eleanor finally finds the courage to confront her family and return to their ancestral home on the rainy coast of Maine, she finds them already gathered in wait, seemingly ready to welcome her back with open arms. “I read this in the cards,” her grandmother tells her. However, Grandma Persephone doesn’t see all, for just as Eleanor is beginning to readjust to the life she always longed for, a strange and sudden death rocks the family, leaving Eleanor to manage this difficult new dynamic without help.
In order to keep the family that abandoned her from falling apart, Eleanor calls upon her mysterious other grandmother, Grandmere, from across the sea. Grandmere brings order to the chaotic household, but that order soon turns to tyranny. If any of them are to survive, Eleanor must embrace her strange family and join forces with the ghost of Grandma Persephone to confront the monstrousness lurking deep within her Grandmere-and herself.
What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo. Releases in February 2021 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I sincerely hope this story is amazing, because I freaking love everything about the cover and the blurb! “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children meets The Addam’s Family”, I mean come on!!
“Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead. We both know he is safer that way.”
In a walled city of a mile-high iron guild towers, many things are common knowledge: No book in any of the city’s libraries reveals its place on a calendar or a map. No living beasts can be found within the city’s walls. And no good comes to the guilder or foundling who trespasses too far from their labors.
Even on the tower rooftops, where Errol Thebes and the rest of the city’s teenagers pass a few short years under an open sky, no one truly believe anything uncommon is possible within the city walls.
But one guildmaster has broken tradition to protect her child, and as a result the whole city faces an uncommon threat: a pair of black iron spikes that have the power of both sword and needle on the ribcages of men have gone missing, but the mayhem they cause rises everywhere. If the spikes not found and contained, no wall will be high enough to protect the city–or the world beyond it.
And Errol Thebes? He’s not dead and he’s certainly not safe.
City of the Uncommon Thief by Lynne Bertrand. Releases in November 2020 from Dutton Books for Young Readers. Here’s another cover that I absolutely LOVE, and I’m hoping the story lives up to it. I’d love to take a chance on this YA fantasy, it sounds very good.
The Revenant meets True Grit with a magical twist in this thrilling and atmospheric debut fantasy about two teens who must brave a frozen wasteland and the foes within it to save their loved ones and uncover a deadly secret.
The answer to what freezes first is the eyes. That ain’t what most people would guess.
Everyone in Shadow Springs knows that no one survives crossing the Flats. But the threat of a frozen death has never deterred the steady stream of treasure hunters searching for a legendary prize hidden somewhere in the vast expanse of ice. Jorie thinks they’re all fools, which makes scavenging their possessions easier. It’s how she and her sister, Brenna, survive.
Then Jorie scavenges off the wrong body. When the dead man’s enemy believes Jorie took something valuable from the body, he kidnaps Brenna as collateral. He tells Jorie that if she wants her sister back, she’ll have to trade her for the item he thinks she stole. But how can Jorie make a trade when she doesn’t even know what she’s looking for?
Her only source of information is Cody, the dead man’s nephew and a scholar from the South who’s never been hardened by the harsh conditions of the North. Though Jorie’s reluctant to bring a city boy out onto the Flats with her, she’ll do whatever it takes to save her sister. But anything can happen out on the ice, and soon Jorie and Cody find they need one another more than they ever imagined—and they’ll have to trust each other to survive threats beyond their darkest nightmares.
The Girl From Shadow Springs by Ellie Cypher. Releases in February 2021 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Who would think I could find three YA fantasy books in one week that sound so good? I honestly cannot wait for this one:-D
Ooooo great choices! I pretty much want to read them all now. And City of the Uncommon Thief definitely has an intriguing and beautiful cover!
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I can’t tear my eyes away from the cover for What Big Teeth! 😀
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I am already in love with What Big Teeth! That blurb has me drooling for it and that cover!!! Also, The Girl From Shadow Springs is gonna go on my TBR too because I love the story!
All of these sound excellent and are going on my tbr. I’m especially sold by Miss Peregrine’s meets The Addams Family!
For me YA is usually very hit or miss. And yet all three of these really do sound promising. I like the title and cover for City of the Uncommon Thief. And the setting for The Girl From Shadow Springs sounds great, perhaps almost like a character, that cold desolate place.
Interesting picks! I would have had no idea City of the Uncommon Thief was YA – that’s pretty grimdark stuff right there!
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City of the Uncommon Thief sounds super interesting. And the cover for The Girl from Shadow Springs is stunning – it doesn’t sound as much my cup of tea, but I can’t get over that cover!
Wow! All the three look gorgeous. Once again, looking forward to your reviews for all of them.
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So The Girl From Shadow Springs and What Big Teeth are already on my wishlist but City of Uncommon Thief is totally new and I agree, that cover rocks. I may just have to add it as well.
These all look great! I really love the cover of the second book and that first cover is just disturbing! LOL
Of the three, I think I’d most like to read the 3rd… but man, that 1st cover! Creepy!
The Girl From Shadow Springs sounds awersome – and the others also are clearly strong reads. But that’s not a surprise – they’re on your TBR pile! Happy reading, Tammy:))
Thanks Sarah:-)
That first one is so good! So creepy! The last book sounds like it might be really good too. Great picks this week! I’ve got the link to my post below.
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I love the creepiness of the first cover, I’ll admit that’s what attracted me to it:-)
I laughed so hard at the title/cover of What Big Teeth. All three sound like fab reads!
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Ha ha right? It really sounds unique:-)
I hope you enjoy them! They all sound excellent. I LOVE the cover of What Big Teeth.
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Me too, it definitely makes me want to read it!
Yea… I’m definitely adding What Big Teeth to my TBR. The description makes it sound like my kinda read.
I hope it’s as good as it sounds:-)
That cover for what Big Teeth kills me! And The Girl From shadow Springs is a very nice cover!
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I know, I can’t look away from the cover of What Big Teeth!
I had What Big Teeth and City of the Uncommon Thief on my watchlist, but I’m wary about a lot of YA these days. I think I’ve fallen into another YA rut, so hopefully these will be good!
I know what you mean, I’m usually hesitant these days with YA, but there’s got to be really good YA out there, right?
I like the look of all of these but the cover for the Uncommon Thief is gorgeous.
Lynn 😀
It’s one of my favorite covers too:-)
The Girl from Shadow Springs looks interesting. They had me at ‘The Revenant meets True Grit’ lol.
I like that combo too. Hopefully it works!
I am loving these covers, Tammy, especially the first. I also love the snowy last one. It almost makes me wish for cooler weather!
Me too, maybe if we stare hard enough at the snowy cover…
Great finds this week. The Girl from Shadow Springs sounds amazing!
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These all sound fabulous! Great picks!!
Oooh my that cover for City of the Uncommon Thief is so beautiful. It also sounds really good! 😉 Really interested in The Girl from Shadow Springs as well!
I hadn’t heard of City of the Uncommon Thief, definitely keeping an eye out now!
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City of the Uncommon Thief takes my breath away — and the blurb is just fascinating!! Great pick, Tammy!!
Not gonna lie, I kind of hate the cover for What Big Teeth because it looks so off that it just freaks me out. xD I dunno, I just want the dang monster teeth to line up and make it look like it actually fits in her mouth, because it makes me twitchy that it doesn’t line up like that lol. Ooh, City of the Uncommon Thief sounds really good, though!