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
I’m very picky about YA, but I’ve found three upcoming books that sound irresistible!
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run–especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts. With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the spirit disappear, to a fate that remains mysterious to Georgia. To cope with her deep anxiety about death, she does her best to fulfill the final wishes of the deceased whose ghosts she briefly revives.
Then her classmate Milo’s body arrives at Richter–and his spirit wants help with unfinished business, forcing Georgia to reckon with her relationship to grief and mortality.
Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland. Releases in September 2022 from Lerner/Carolrhoda Lab. I think I spotted this on NetGalley last week, and I was immediately drawn to this awesomely creepy cover. And then I read the story description and knew I had to share it!
Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine?
These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile, Cori is a homecoming queen, hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the bubblegum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns—still twelve years old while his best friends are now seventeen—Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery of what really happened to Sam the night he went missing. Beneath the surface of that mystery lurk secrets the friends never told one another, then and now. And Sam’s is the darkest of all . . .
Award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Here to Stay Sara Farizan delivers edge-of-your-seat terror as well as her trademark referential humor, witty narration, and insightful characters.
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan. Releases in August 2022 from Algonquin Young Readers. Yes, it was the cover that first grabbed my attention, but then I read the blurb and I was like “hell yes!” I love any kind of blast from the past SFF fiction, and this one is set in the 1990s and sounds like a ton of fun.
Dark Room Etiquette by Robin Roe. Releases in October 2022 from HarperTeen. I don’t read a lot of YA thrillers, but wow, this already has so many rave reviews from people in the publishing industry, it’s hard to ignore. I hope it’s as good as it sounds!
Even though YA is not usually my cup of tea, I’m fascinated by your description of Dark Room Etiquette, and the dramatic potential of its core concept…
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It takes a strong concept to get me to read YA these days, and I agree, Dark Room Etiquette is calling to me…
I had my eyes set on Dead Flip, but you just introduced me to Funeral Girl! I love any book that deals with afterlife .
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I just requested Funeral Girl on NetGalley, I couldn’t resist:-)
Dark Room Etiquette sounds frightening to me as an adult. It’s hard to believe that’s a YA book, but maybe I’m reading more into the book description than I was meant to.
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I thought the same thing, the subject matter screams “adult.” But the reviews are what’s making me want to read it…
Dead Flip is giving me Stranger things vibes from he cover — and I am liking the premise. Funeral Girl is indeed a creepy cover, but haha what an awesome premise that is!
I think the blurb of Dead Flip compares it to Stranger Things so you are right on the mark:-)
All of these are going on my tbr! Thanks for introducing me!
Of course! I agree, they are all tempting…
Funeral Girl sounds all kinds of fantastic!
Doesn’t it? I need to go request it on NetGalley:-)
Interesting, very interesting. 🙂
Yes! I agree:-)
The Funeral Girl cover does something for me. Like I hated it at first glance and then like 5 seconds later I loved it? But it also sounds really good so thanks for sharing!
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Ha ha I know, it’s very plain but when you look closer it makes you wonder about the story!
Nothing can beat a supernatural pinball machine! 🙂
Right?? I really need to know more about it:-)
Dead Flip looks interesting! I’m so picky about my YA these days but that one actually sounds so good!
Yes, I’m very picky because I’ve been disappointed so many times. But Dead Flip is worth considering!
I’m leaning towards Funeral Girl. I’m a push over for eye catching covers and I like the title.
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I love the title of Funeral Girl, it’s simple yet effective:-)
I was deff drawn to the Funeral Girl cover too!
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There’s something about it, right?
The synopsis of Funeral Girl made me chuckle. “feels CONFLICTED about the funeral home her parents run–especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts” I would personally feel more than conflicted but OK :’)
Dead Flip sounds good already because yessss the 1990’s! I feel like more and more books are set in the 90s lately and I love it.
Dark Room Etiquette’s blurb makes me feel creeped out because it sounds also a lot like some true crime cases I’ve heard about. I am curious about it though!
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I agree, Dark Room Etiquette sounds like it’s going to be really disturbing!
Funeral Girl sounds pretty great! Can’t wait to hear more about it!
I just requested it on NetGalley, I couldn’t resist:-)
Dead Flip sounds so cool!
It does, right?
Gah, you always find the BEST STUFF. Funeral Girl has been on my list for a minute, but the others are new to me! Well- I think I saw Dark Room somewhere but had no idea what it was heh. But now I am curious! I also love the sound of Dead Flip (and the cover!) so that one probably needs to be on my list too!
Yes, that cover for Dead Flip is pretty cool:-)
I’m definitely on the ‘being picky about YA train’ these days. These do look good, particularly Dead Flip but I think I will remain on the fence for now.
Lynn 😀
Probably a smart move:-)