I’ve seen several bloggers recently do “five star prediction” posts, and I thought I’d jump in and do one myself! I’ve chosen ten books that will release January – June, books that have a strong chance of being five star reads for me. It will be fun to check back at the end of June to see if a) I’ve managed to read the book and b) what my rating was. I will note that all of these except two are authors I’ve already read and loved before, hence my confidence in my predictions. So I’m taking a chance on two new authors! These are arranged alphabetically by title. Here we go:
The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory is a no brainer. I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Gregory and I have no doubt I’ll love this too.
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. I have only read one book by Buehlman but it’s one of the most memorable horror stories I’ve ever read (The Suicide Motor Club). He’s tackling fantasy this time and I just know he’ll do it well!
Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill. I missed out on Sea of Rust, but lots of bloggers I know loved that book. So I’m betting I’m going to love him too.
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Gailey’s latest, and I’m hoping it’s all true:-)
The Fall of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #3) by M.R. Carey. I gave the first two books in the series five stars, so I’m pretty sure this will be another five star read for me.
The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers. This is Sayers’ sophomore novel and I just know it’s going to be just as good as her first book.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I’m hoping this will be another awesome story along the lines of The Marian. In any case, I love Weir’s books and I have high hopes!
Titan Song (The Carter Files #3) by Dan Stout. This is book three in Stout’s super fun, retro urban fantasy, and I’m READY for it!
Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman. I couldn’t be more excited for this book, and I trust Chapman to deliver the 80s horror goods.
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell. Maxwell is a debut author so it’s pretty amazing that she’s even on this list! I keep hearing lots of good things about this book, and I will be reading it soon since it comes out in a couple of weeks.
Fingers crossed! This is a great lineup.
Thanks, I think so too:-)
I, too, have high hopes about Day Zero, The Fall of Koli and Hail Mary – and I’m curious about the Buehlman book since I read a couple of his works and found them delightfully scary… 🙂
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I hope our “high hopes” come true:-)
I’m calling two five stars and at least two three or lower. But I’m an optimist
Ha Ha I notice you didn’t specify which are 5 star and which are 3 star. Should I guess?
I haven’t heard of these books, but they all look amazing! I’ll definitely have to check some of these out. Hope your five star predictions come true!
Thanks Allison!
The Blacktongue Thief is the one I’m most curious about. After that perhaps Day Zero. And I still need to catch up with Koli. Here’s hoping for a series of solid five stars! 🙂
That would be amazing if all three Koli books got 5 stars:-)
I’ve got Winter’s Orbit and will be reading it shortly. I’ve also requested The Fall of Koli and am keeping toes and fingers crossed that I get an arc – I’ve loved the series to date. I would also love the Cargill under normal circumstances – I loved Sea of Rust – but right now, I can’t face it:(. Titan Shade is a series I would like to read – and of course the Andy Weir. Daryl is also a fine writer – I reckon you’ve a stunning lineup here and I think you’d be entitled to be disappointed if any of these didn’t make your 5 star prediction, Tammy:)
I do have good feelings about all of these. If not 5 stars, then maybe 4.5. It will be fun to find out!
I’m looking forward to The Blacktongue Thief & The Echo Wife. I’ve heard nothing but good things about both.
Me too, fingers crossed!
The Ladies of the Secret Circus has been on my list since I discovered it here on your blog on another post. 😀
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I have a feeling it’s going to be excellent:-)
I’d lost touch with so many of these authors! Daryl Gregory (after Afterparty) and Sarah Gailey (after Magic for Liars) and Andy Weir. Thanks for bringing these up! ~ Lex (lexlingua.co)
Daryl Gregory hasn’t had a book out in like four years, so maybe that’s why!
I hope these books are all as good as you are hoping/expecting them to be!
I actually haven’t heard of a single one on this list which is unusual! I am going to check them all out on Goodreads and no doubt ill end up with a good few added to the TBR!
I hope some of them look interesting to you, Louise!
YES LOVE THIS THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD
Thanks Erin!
I’m really looking forward to Hail Mary, his other books have been brilliant and I’ve very high hopes for this one.
I hope it’s as good as The Martian:-)
Ooh, so many books I’m excited for! Definitely agree that the Koli book will just have to be 5-star, and I have high hopes for a lot of the others too.
I’m expecting an epic and maybe heartbreaking conclusion to the Koli series!
What a fun idea! I hope all of these will be 5 star reads for you when you get to them! I have high hopes about some of my upcoming reads too. The Ladies of the Secret Circus being among them.
Chances are they won’t all be five star reads, but I’m hopeful:-)
I have The Echo Wife coming up too!
I can’t wait!
I’m definitely reading Titan Song. I hope to get to the Koli books but haven’t yet. I think Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells will be a 5 heart for me.
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I completely forgot about Fugitive Telemetry!
I’m too scared to hype myself up with lists like this, lol! But I do hope many of these will end up getting five stars from you, since many of them are on my tbr too!
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Yeah, this post could totally backfire on me:-)
Hope you enjoy all these. I really need to start the Koli series, and The Ladies of the Secret Circus is definitely going on to my TBR list I think 😀
Thanks, now I’m eager to read them all so I can see if my predictions were right:-)
It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I hope you love them all of course. 🙂 I think Day Zero would be one of my own predictions–super excited for that one!
I have a really good feeling about Day Zero, I mean just look at the cover!
I think Winter’s Orbit will be in one of my book boxes LOL
Oh cool! I can’t wait to see it:-)
My expectations are through the roof for Titan Song!
Me too, can’t wait:-)
Fun post! I’ll be curious to see how many of your predictions are accurate. 🙂
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Me too, I’m always optimistic before I pick up the book, lol.
I hope all of these are 5* – wouldn’t that just be amazing!
Lynn 😀
It’s probably a long shot but hey, I can dream:-)
There are so many interesting books in there! I really hope you would love them all!!!
I hope all of these live up to your expectations. I’m really excited for The Echo Wife as it sounds like such an interesting and unique blend of sci fi & thriller.