Future Fiction #271 – 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

Two new books by favorite authors and a 2025 (!) release, take a look:

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.

Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway—not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she’d rather not confront, like her husband’s repeated infidelity.

But when they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind. She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloane’s and Naomi’s lives literally forever. The friends are forced to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences in this bloody, seductive novel about how it’s never too late to find satisfaction, even though it might taste different than expected.

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison. Releases in September 2024 from Berkley. I couldn’t believe it when I saw this cover reveal! I am beyond excited for Rachel Harrison’s next book, after Black Sheep made my top five books of 2023. I have a lot of blogging friends who are going to be excited about this too:-) Plus, another vampire book!

A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh

During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and takes a chance. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she’s been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine.

An orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him. He’s young, he’s hungry, and he’ll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats – nobody he eats – can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He adores her and wants to consume her, and will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves.

This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.

Eat the Ones Your Love by Sarah Maria Griffin. Releases in April 2025 from Tor Books. I had to do a doubletake when I saw the date. I believe this is the first 2025 cover I’ve shared, and wow it’s really far out there! Still, take a look at this cover and tell me you aren’t curious about this book;-)

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.

“Don’t talk to day about what we do at night.”

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she’s truly been deceiving and hiding from all along―is herself.

Eerie and empathetic, Haunt Sweet Home is a multifaceted, supernatural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, and into yourself.

Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker. Releases in September 2024 from Tordocom. I adore this cover, and I love Sarah Pinsker. I’m ignoring the low Goodreads ratings for now, because I think this sounds quirky and fun!

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

Posted March 20, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 39 Comments

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39 responses to “Future Fiction #271 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books”

    • Tammy

      She’s an amazing writer, so I expect So Thirsty to be very good, and probably a different take on vampires:-)

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  8. Barb @ Booker T's Farm

    You are killing it with all the horror picks week after week. I LOVE the cover of that Harrison book. I almost featured it today and probably will next week because I just love looking at it! And Killer plants, yes! But it’s sooooo far away!

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  15. Charlotte

    I really hope the books by authors that you’ve previously enjoyed live up to your expectations. I can’t believe you found a 2025 cover too; I’m still waiting for numerous 2024 ones to release

    Reply

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