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
Today I found three very different books to share, take a look:
Being a vampire is far from glamorous…but it can be pretty punk rock.
Everything you’ve heard about vampires is a lie. They can’t fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ridiculous. In fact, vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it’s also lonely, since she swore off family ages ago.
At least she’s gone to decades of punk rock shows. And if she can join a band of her own (while keeping her…situation under wraps), maybe she’ll finally feel like she belongs, too.
Then a long-lost teenage relative shows up at her door. Whether it’s Ian’s love of music or his bad attitude, for the first time in ages, Louise feels a connection.
But as Ian uncovers Louise’s true identity, things get dangerous—especially when he asks her for the ultimate favor. One that goes beyond just family…one that might just change everything vampires know about life and death forever.
Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen. Releases in January 2023 from Mira. I have yet to check out Mike Chen’s books, so maybe this will be a good place to start. This sounds so good, and I love the idea that there might be a punk rock element to it.
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker; his pregnant wife, Frida; and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds to search for them. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before.
As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.
Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Releases in December 2022 from Grand Central Publishing. I’ve been drawn to more literary speculative fiction lately, and I think this will really work for me. Has anyone read the author’s last book, Good Morning, Midnight?
The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.
Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.
A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Cloisters by Katy Hays. Releases in November 2022 from Atria. As leery as I am of comparisons to other books, anything that’s compared to The Secret History is definitely a book to keep an eye on. I think this sounds fantastic!
Mike Chen is a must read author and I can’t wait for Vampire Weekend. The Cloisters looks interesting so thanks for introducing me to it.
I’m so excited to try out a Mike Chen book:-)
Unsurprisingly, I’m quite intrigued by Vampire Weekend, and the added element of the musical scene might turn this into a “must read”… Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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I hope we both get to read it!
I’m intrigued by all three, but I must admit that I got particularly fascinated by the punk rock element in Vampire Weekend, and now I’d like to discover more about that!
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That’s what’s drawing me in as well, the punk rock element:-)
Both The Light Pirate and The Cloisters look interesting. The Light Pirate could easily go either way for me, but the description is enough I might give it a chance. And I love the idea of the gothic museum and the strange group within it.
The Cloisters is really calling to me:-)
The Light Pirate sounds unique and very interesting even though it’s not my typical kind of read.
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Me too, not my typical read, but it’s definitely intriguing!
These all sound great! I’ve been wanting to try something by Mike Chen too — this sounds pretty different from his other books, but I’d like to read it!
It does sound different! I like when authors don’t repeat themselves:-)
I hope you like Mike Chen- I thought Here and Now and then was fabulous. And vampires plus punk rock? I’m in.
I wanted to read Good Morning Midnight- same author? Chaching. Sounds unique.
These all look amazing.
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I can’t wait to try Mike Chen, and I’ll definitely read Here and Now at some point:-)
So the first two are on my absolute must-read list. The first, because Mike Chen. His books are AMAZING, I think you will like them- my favorite is The Beginning at the End, but Here and Now and Then is a close second! And The Light Pirate just sounds like my kind of book heh. I own Good Morning Midnight, but I haven’t gotten to it yet, but it’s another one I really need ASAP! The Cloisters is new to me but it sounds really good too- and the cover is lovely!
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I’m so excited to try Mike Chen!
I am soooo curious about Vampire Weekend, but I’ll probably wait for reviews to start rolling in before I pick it up! I have too many books to read already
Ha ha I know what you mean;-)
All of these sound good but The Cloisters is definitely the one that calls to me the most with those comparisons to The Secret History and Ninth House.
OMG – someone give me that Katy Hays book right now. I need it.
Lynn 😀
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