Future Fiction #262 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

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

Are you sick of winter and already dreaming of summer? Here are three June releases to add to your TBR:

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.

Eileen Merriweather knows a thing or two about romance.
As a professor of literature, she teaches prestigious courses on history’s greatest romantics, but one week out of the year she abandons her dusty textbooks and makes a pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley with her best friend Pru to meet their Super Smutty Book Club in person, and celebrate the romance series that brought them together—Quixotic Falls. It’s a week of wine and happily-ever-afters.

Or it’s supposed to be.

Pru bails at the last minute, and Elsy winds up lost in Hudson Valley—alone. In a thunderstorm. When she takes shelter in a bookstore, she immediately gets on the bad side of its grumpy (and infuriatingly sexy) owner, and finds herself in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a book…

Because it is.

Eloraton can’t be real, and yet… she’s here. The town is everything she imagined from her favorite series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet, and the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It’s perfect. A place built on meet-cutes and storybook endings.

Except, there’s something off in Eloraton. Because nothing changes, nothing moves, trapped in the last place the late author of Quixotic Falls left them. Which must be why Elsy is to find an ending to this last story, the one the author never finished.

The only problem? The bookstore owner never wants the story to end, and he might be the one person who can help her imagine this final happily-ever-after.

And maybe find one for herself.

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston. Releases in June 2024 from Berkley. I was over the moon when I saw this on Suzanne’s blog, so of course it’s my featured pick for this week! I’m so glad Ashley Poston is writing another fantasy romance, because I absolutely loved The Seven Year Slip. This sounds fantastic, and I’m stalking NetGalley so I can get a review copy:-)

Equal parts steamy interstellar romance and sci-fi adventure, Constance Fay’s FIASCO is a perfect wild romp amidst the stars.

Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers.

She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs―but then a new client offers her a job she can’t a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias. One tiny little issue, she’s been given an additional deliver the oh-so-compelling medic, Micah Arora, to the treacherous Pierce Family or all her identities will be revealed, putting her estranged family in danger.

Hunting a kidnapper doesn’t usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent’s house, a local mystic predicting you’ll have an increasingly large number of children, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal, but, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it.

Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts #2) by Constance Fay. Releases in June 2024 from Bramble. I had so much fun with Calamity, the first book in the series, and I love that this is being released so quickly after that book. This follows one of the characters from the first book, so it should be a lot of fun!

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every “Can I go inside your heart?”

When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the same question, over and over . . . Bela understands that unless she says yes, soon her family must pay.

Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is on the brink of unraveling.

But Other Mommy needs an answer.

Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror told by the child Bela. A story about a family as haunted as their home.

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. Releases in June 2024 from Del Rey Books. This sounds like a very creepy haunted house story, and the fact that it revolves around a child makes it even creepier. I can’t wait to read it!

What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted January 17, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 38 Comments

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38 responses to “Future Fiction #262 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

  6. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

    Haha, I’m stalking NetGalley for the Ashley Poston book too! I want it!!!! Yikes, the Malerman book sounds great, but maybe too intensely creepy? Shades of Coraline and the other mother… but this sounds terrifying. Great choices!

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  18. Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight

    LOVE the Novel Love Story cover so much! I need to read Seven Year Slip, too. One of these days, when I am not collapsing under review books heh. Definitely excited for Fiasco, too, since Calamity was so fun! I also love the cover for Incidents Around the House, and it definitely sounds creepy, but Idk about the whole POV of the kid. I think I will wait to see what your thoughts are about this one!
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