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
Cults, witches and weird horror, take a look at this week’s picks:
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep.
Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.
When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison. Releases in September 2023 from Berkley. After loving Such Sharp Teeth last year, I’m beyond excited to read another book by Rachel Harrison. I don’t even care what it’s about, lol.
Mothtown is weird, horrifying and latches hold of you. Sometimes it grows from within you.
David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school. David doesn’t really know because his parents turn off the news whenever he might get a handle on what is happening around him and his older sister just doesn’t seem interested in sharing.
Most importantly for David the centre of his world – his grandfather – is gone. His parents say he is dead but why is his grandfather’s backpack and jumper missing from the house? Alongside this we have a man abandoned in a hostile landscape and trying out run nature itself to get back home with some information.
Mothtown is weird, horrifying and latches hold of you, sometimes it grows from within you.
Mothtown by Caroline Hardaker. Releases in November 2023 from Angry Robot. I loved Hardaker’s Composite Creatures a couple of years ago, and this sounds just as weird as that book was! Which you know is catnip for me:-)
Thorns, Tides, Embers, Storms, and Ores. All five covens are bound in servitude to the tyrant High Warden of Halstett.
Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death, keeping it safe and whole. Each night, one thorn witch—and only one—must cross the veil by burning at the stake. Each morning, that witch returns with the help of their magical lifeline. Failure to follow the rules of Death risks them all.
But one morning, Penny’s favorite sister Ella doesn’t return. And that night, determined to find her, Penny breaks the rules. She burns in secret.
What she finds in Death is a manor that shouldn’t exist, home to the devastating Lord Malin, who shouldn’t be there. Malin offers Penny a dangerous deal: Ella’s freedom in exchange for information about the High Warden.
But all isn’t as it seems in Life or Death. Penny’s bargain leads her to Alice, a mysterious captive prophet… and to a rebellion brewing in the shadows of their city. And as Penny’s world splits between her growing love for the ethereal Alice in Life and her attraction to the seductive Malin, in Death, she’ll face a devastating choice.
Because it’s not just her sister’s life that hangs in the balance. It’s the fate of all magic.
All it takes is one witch—and one spark—to set the world ablaze.
Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. Adams. Releases in November 2023 from Orbit Books. Whoa this sounds amazing. I need this now! I believe this is a debut and also the start of a trilogy.
All these covers are eye-catching and unique in their own ways, especially the first two!!
I have to agree, the covers are all so different, right?
I really need to read a book by Rachel Harrison soon. I love the sound of the witch book too, always on the lookout for those. I hope you enjoy all of these.
Me too, I usually have good luck with anything witchy:-)
You’ve sold me on all three this week. I love the cover of Black Sheep and really enjoyed Cackle so hopefully I’ll like this one just as well, if not better. I’ve not heard of Tonight I Burn but I’m always looking for more witchy books!
I’m super excited for Black Sheep, and I already have a NetGalley copy so I’m pretty excited:-)
Black Sheep is definitely on my to-read list! I love the author, and the set-up sounds weird and creepy! Love the other covers too.
I’m sooo excited for Black Sheep:-)
I love the sound of Black Sheep – but the one that has really caught my eye is Tonight I Burn! which sounds amazing… Thank you for once more providing a wonderful selection of books, Tammy!
I know, that blurb for Tonight I Burn really sold that book for me:-)
Tonight I Burn and Black Sheep have grabbed my attention. Thank you for sharing them!
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With Black Sheep I’m already like no Vesper don’t do it don’t go back. I can already tell that it won’t be a good thing for her to go back to go to the wedding. But I am intrigued nontheless as to what will happen!
Mothtown already creeps me out. The name alone is making me shiver, to be honest. I am wondering about what everyone is protecting David from though.
And unsurprisingly I love the sound of Tonight, I Burn. Just mention witches and I’m in! This story sounds unlike any witchy story I’ve read so I may NEED to read this for this year’s spooky season!
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I guess is Vesper doesn’t go, there won’t be a story, lol. And yes, anything with witches has my attention!
I feel the same way, I LOVED Such Sharp Teeth.
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Rachel Harrison is so good, I still need to read Cackle.
Ooo Mothtown sounds creepy!
It really does, plus that cover is sort of hard to look at, lol.
Well, I am clearly going to need Black Sheep in my life! And Mothtown sounds sooo good. I will keep Tonight I Burn on my radar, too! Great picks as always!
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Tonight I Burn is the one that caught my attention!
It sounds amazing, right?