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
Three exciting cover reveals this week, take a look:
John Wick meets Dungeons & Dragons in the vein of N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark introduces an entirely new world
Eveen “the Eviscerator” has a pretty good career in Tal Abisi, considering she is very much dead. She gets her assignment, they get shipped nice and quick with her two curved knives, and she gets to keep walking and talking. The undead can’t sleep, but who needs that, really? It just makes her more efficient at the job. Besides, there’s plenty of entertainment at the rambunctious Festival of the Clockwork King.
Everything’s going swimmingly until her latest contract turns out to share a few two many things with Eveen, including her face. Eveen can’t remember her life before being an undead thrall–it’s part of the deal–but still, you can’t just murder someone who might be you! But the third rule of the goddess of assassins is to always finish the job. And the goddess always claims her due.
So Eveen’s left dodging competitor assassins, toppling innocent stepper birds, and high-tailing it through the winding streets of an ancient city full of traps, all while uncovering a conspiracy that takes her up to the goddesses themselves.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèli Clark. Releases in March 2024 from Tordotcom. I’m so excited for this book! I haven’t read any P. Djèli Clark since Ring Shout in 2020, so I’m overdue. Plus don’t you love that cover?
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of kidnapped kids try to stay true to themselves while serving time in a conversion camp from hell.
In the late 90s, five queer kids, whose parents want them “fixed,” find themselves thrown together at a secretive “tough love” camp deep in the scorching Utah desert.
Tormented and worked to the point of collapse by hardline religious zealots intent on straightening them out, they slowly become aware that something in the mountains north of the camp is speaking to them in their dreams, and that the children who return home to their families have…changed.
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Releases in March 2024 from Tor Nightfire. I didn’t read the author’s last book, but I’m so curious to try this one. The story sounds very dark, and the cover is a little disturbing!
From Hafsah Faizal, New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, comes the first book in a hotly-anticipated new fantasy duology about an orphan girl and her crew who get tangled in a heist with vampires, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows.
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it—and she can’t do the job alone.
Calling upon a band of misfits, Arthie formulates a plan to infiltrate the dark and glittering vampire society known as the Athereum. But not every member of her crew is on her side, and as the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it. Dark, action-packed, and swoonworthy, this is Hafsah Faizal better than ever.
A Tempest of Tea (A Tempest of Tea #1) by Hafsah Faizal. Releases in February 2024 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I happened upon this book on Instagram, since I follow the author. And I’m so glad I did! This sounds amazing. This is a YA, but it’s a heist story with vampires, and I need to read it.
John Wick meets Dungeons & Dragons does sound pretty damn good! 😀
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Ha ha I agree!
A Tempest of Tea sounds like fun!
I love that it’s a vampire story, even thought the cover doesn’t really say “vampire.”
I am VERY excited for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins!
Me too, and the cover is fantastic!
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins and A Tempest of Tea both look thoroughly enjoyable reads. Thank you for once again showcasing some fabulous upcoming reads, Tammy:)).
It’s not hard, there really are so many good sounding books coming out:-)
Honestly all I had to hear was P. Djèlí Clark!
Me too, I definitely need to read more Clark:-)
Clark’s title is so intriguing!
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It’s a great title, right?
John Wick meets Dungeons & Dragons. I really don’t know what to say to that. 🙂
Ha ha, should be interesting at least!
I’ve been interested in A Tempest of Tea since I heard about it, I think the release date was pushed back? This is my first time seeing the cover, it’s gorgeous!
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I’ve heard other people say the date was pushed on A Tempest of Tea, so you must be right. I’m excited to read it whenever it comes out:-)
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins sounds so good, and I love the sound of A Tempest of Tea as well. Also, they all have great covers which is a bonus 😀
I really love this set of covers too:-)
I was so excited to see that Tempest Of Tea finally has a cover although sad to see it pushed to 2024. Still hopefully it’ll be worth the wait as it sounds fantastic.
It really does. I’m very curious to try a book by this author as well.
That P. Djeli Clark book sounds so interesting! Cuckoo sounds good too, I really want to read Manhunt still because I’ve heard such great things about it.
I’ve heard mixed things about Manhunt but I’m curious as well!
I didn’t *love* Manhunt, but I liked it enough to want to try Cuckoo? It just sounds so interesting! Tempest of Tea has been on my list for ages too- though now that it is almost actually here, I am kind of like “do I *really* want to read another heist book?” so we’ll see! I am pretty curious about The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, as I have enjoyed the author’s other work, but I am a little intimidated by higher fantasy worlds. But I think the potential good outweighs my apprehension for this one! Great choices, as always!
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I was afraid of reading Manhunt, lol. But I think I can handle Cuckoo;-)
I love the cover to A Tempest of Tea!
I do too, it doesn’t really say “vampire” but I like the subtle blood in the tea cup:-)
I want to read more heist stories so Tempest of Tea sounds great!