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
This week, an eclectic group of books, take a look:
One of Us is Lying meets A Deadly Education in this fantasy thriller that follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.
Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she’s one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. If being rich were a sin, he’d already be halfway to hell. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before holidays—Theo’s punishment is to travel home with the scholarship kids. Which doesn’t sit well with any of them.
A fight breaks out. In the chaos, the portal spell malfunctions. All six students are snatched from the safety of the school’s campus and set down in the middle of nowhere. And one of them is dead on arrival.
If anyone can get them through the punishing wilderness with limited magical reserves it’s Ren. She’s been in survival mode her entire life. But no magic could prepare her for the tangled secrets the rest of the group is harboring, or for what’s following them through the dark woods…
A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen. Releases in March 2023 from Margaret K. McElderry Books. Despite my YA hesitation, I have to admit this sounds pretty good. And that cover is pretty magical!
A powerful feminist fairy tale of four women each cursed by the same abusive man. Gripping and essential, it will captivate readers of Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne, Heather Walter’s Malice and Menna van Praag’s The Sisters Grimm.
Four women. Four enchantments. One man. But he is no handsome prince, and this is no sugar-sweet fairy tale. Jo, Abony, Ranjani, and Maia all have something in common: they have each been cursed by the CEO of their workplace after he abused his power to prey on them. He wants them silent and uses his sinister dark magic to keep them quiet about what he did. But Jo, Abony, Ranjani and Maia are not fairy-tale princesses waiting to be rescued. They are fierce, angry women with a bond forged in pain, and they’re about to discover that they have power of their own.
In this sharply written, bitingly relevant modern fable, the magic is dark and damaging, and the women are determined to rescue themselves.
Silenced by Ann Claycomb. Releases in April 2023 from Titan Books. I do like a good feminist fairy tale, and I love the sound of this. I also like the author comps that they’re comparing this to. I’m definitely going to check it out!
Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart.
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.
Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.
Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang. Releases in May 2023 from Tordotcom. I have yet to read anything by Huang, but I’ve heard all sorts of good things about her Cas Russell series. Isn’t this cover gorgeous? The blurb is making me very curious:-)
Silenced certainly caught my eye!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
It’s an eye catching cover!
You’re right It is an eclectic list this week. The Water Outlaws sounds particularly interesting.
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I’m so curious about it:-)
These covers are all amazing! Based on the descriptions, I’d probably be most drawn to A Door in the Dark, but honestly, all three sound great!
I’m definitely keeping my eye on A Door in the Dark:-)
These look like great picks and it seems that despite my blogging absence, BookSnake is still alive and well!
LOL booksnake will never die!
These all sound so good! I am in love with the covers for A Door in the Dark and The Water Outlaws.
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Me too, they are so different but both gorgeous:-)
You always feature the most unique books! Enjoy
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Thanks Emma:-)
I haven’t been reading a lot of YA but yeah the first one…
It does sound good!
I need A Door In the Dark! The books sounds great and the cover is soooooo beautiful! But the other two books sound intriguing too, thanks for sharing them!
A Door in the Dark has everything I like but arrrrgh why does it have to be YA!? So tempted though, maybe I’ll check it out 🙂
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All these covers are amazing. I especially like the first, and I think that’s probably the story I’d be most interested in too 😀
All these covers are amazing. I especially like the first, and I think that’s probably the story I’d be most interested in too 😀
They are all intriguing – but A Door in the Dark particularly caught my eye! Given how much I LOVED A Deadly Education – I’m definitely going to look out for this one – thank you for sharing, Tammy:).
The Water Outlaws and A Door in the Dark sound awesome. Thanks for the introduction!
The Water Outlaws could be one I’d read!
The Water Outlaws is one I’d like to try, or at least learn more about. I’ve also never read anything by the author (yet).
A Door in the Dark and Water Outlaws have caught my interest, mostly because of the covers. It would be so cool if that figure on A Door in the Dark is an actual candle.
So funny. As I was looking at A Door in the Dark, I was immediately like YES, I need to read this! Then I got to the author and realized I’d already heard about this book and added it to my TBR and had just forgotten. xD Oops. So many good books coming out, it’s hard to keep track of them all! I can’t wait for it, though!
Ah yes I have The Water Outlaws in my Sept wrap up cover love section because it is STUNNING! I am also curious about the blurb! Love the cover for Door of thr Dark too, though I am a little on the fence because Idk if I care about wizards heh. Great choices as always!
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A Door in the Dark sounds very interesting and the Water Outlaws’ cover is gorgeous.
What Mogsy said! I love the sound of Door in the Dark but I’m a bit off YA. Dilemmas!
Lynn 😀