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
Let’s look ahead to summer 2022!
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher. Releases in July 2022 from Tor Nightfire. There are so many reasons to be excited for this book. First, it’s T. Kingfisher, whose books I love dearly! Second, it’s a Gothic retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher, because how good does that sound! Finally, this glorious cover (cover art by Christina Mrozik) is one of my all time favorites. Just give it to me now!
Read the breathtaking sequel to FOR THE WOLF, the instant NYT and USA Today fantasy bestseller. Red’s sister Neve is trapped in a mysterious land of twisted roots, lost gods, and mountains made of bone, and the only clues to her rescue are a magic mirror and a dark prince who wants to bring the whole thing crumbling down.
The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf…Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red’s beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally–though it’s one she’d rather never have to speak to again–the rogue king Solmir.
Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods’ dark, twisted powers for themselves.
For the Throne (Wilderwood #2) by Hannah Whitten. Releases in June 2022 from Orbit Books. OK, I’ll admit I wasn’t blown away by the first book in the series, For the Wolf. But I’m still curious to see what happens next. Plus I just had to share this beautiful cover!
A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fables series.
Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues.
Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can’t handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person trapped in a story they didn’t choose. Snow White’s Evil Queen has found out how her story ends and she’s desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it’s too late for everyone.
Will Zinnia accept the Queen’s poisonous request, and save them both from the hot iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables #2) by Alix E. Harrow. Releases in June 2022 from Tor.com. Having recently read and reviewed A Spindle Splintered, I thought I’d share the cover of the next book in the series. I love that Zinnia is also in this story, but now it’s a take on Snow White. Should be fun!
I’m stupid excited for What Moves the Dead! Never read the firsts in the other books but I gotta say I’m intrigued in both!
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Me too Bonnie. “Stupid excited” is exactly what I’m feeling:-)
I didn’t know about the Kingfisher, Tammy, and wow! That cover is amazing, and I literally just re-read The Tell-Tale Heart and re-reading Usher and then this sounds perfect right about now!
Oh that is perfect timing!
AAAAAH, the new T Kingfisher! Just looking at the cover gives me the creeps, in all the best ways! I plan to read A Spindle Splintered next week, and I’m sure I’ll want the next book too. Great picks!
Ha ha it is creepy but in a good way:-)
What Moves the Dead is going on my tbr right now!
It sounds so good, right?
It seems there’s an increasing number of retellings out there. Not sure if that’s actually true or I’m only just noticing them more than I did in the past.
I’ve noticed it too, they seem to be everywhere:-)
I am really curious about T. Kingfisher’s new book and that cover is kind of freaky but I like it…lol.
Ha ha it is freaky!
I just went GASP out loud because The Fall of the House of Usher is my favorite work of Poe. So What Movies the Dead is going straight on my wishlist!
WOW! I hadn’t seen the cover for the second Wilderwood book yet and it’s really stunning. I wasn’t blown away by the first book either but I was still left intrigued enough to wanna read the second book.
Ooooh and a Snow White retelling? Sounds good to me. Gotta read book one first though.
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I think a Poe retelling is going to be fantastic:-)
Sign me up for What Moves the Dead!!
Right? It sounds awesome:-)
All of these covers are great, but that first one is really awesome! Thanks for sharing these!
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It’s my favorite too:-)
The Kingfisher book I just saw over at Mogsy’s and Harrow- I need to read her. been wanting to…
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Yes you should!
I wasn’t blown away by the first Hannah Whitten book either, but I guess I’ll give the sequel a chance if I have time! I just finished A Spindle Splintered as well, so the Snow White one can now go on the list, and of course I am psyched for the T. Kingfisher!
Exactly, if I have time is my feeling about the Whitten book as well. I think the cover is so pretty, though:-)
Oooh I’m so excited for the T. Kingfisher book! It sounds amazing, and I’ve begun to dive into Kingfisher’s work and love it as well. This one sounds so good!
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I love her so much, and I’m very curious about how she handles a Poe retelling:-)
Ohhh, A mirror Mended is fantastic! What a great, different POV into stories we know so well. Also COVERRRS! They are all rather striking but T. Kingfisher’s is just WOW. How do they come up with a cover like that!
I know, I could stare at that cover all day!
Gah why do I find that creepy rabbit cover so appealing!? Idk, but I added it to my list hah. I am also SO excited that the Fractured Fables series is, well, a series! I really enjoyed the first installment, so yay!
That Kingfisher cover is so strange isn’t it. And I definitely want to pick up a copy if possible.
I’ll probably given the sequel to ‘for the wolf’ a miss , it didn’t quite work out for me. And Alix E Harrow – does she have her own personal genie in a bottle or a time turner or something – she is really hitting it out the park at the moment. I haven’t read the first book yet though – so much catching up.
Lynn 😀