Future Fiction #272 – 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


For fantasy lovers only! Today I’m (finally) stepping away from horror and I have three fantasy cover reveals to share, take a look:


A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.

Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells “small” whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…

Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they’re joined by a baker with a knead for adventure, and—of course—a slightly magical cat.

Tao sets down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past are closing in—and she’ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. Releases in November 2024 from Ace Books. Yes, the story sounds adorably cozy, but it’s the cover that made me immediately add this to my TBR. Isn’t this cover the best? Julie is a debut author and I can’t wait to get my hands on this!


New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, Songbird and the Heart of Stone, where A Court of Thorns and Roses meets Dante’s Inferno, in an epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods.

Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire—her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who turned her, redemption feels impossible.

But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she’s forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.

Yet, Mische’s punishment may be the key to her salvation. In a secret meeting, her sun god commands her to help Asar in his mission, only to betray him… by killing the god of death.

Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, facing trials, beasts, and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. Yet, most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness—and her forbidden attraction to Asar, a burgeoning bond that risks invoking the wrath of gods.

As her betrayal looms, the underworld closes in, and angry gods are growing restless. Mische will be forced to choose between the redemption of the sun or the damnation of the darkness.

The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia #3) by Carissa Broadbent. Releases in November 2024 from Bramble Romance. Next month I’ll be reading book #2 in this series, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King, so I was very excited to see the cover for the next book revealed this past week. I absolutely loved the first book and can’t wait to read more:-)


From the author of The Magician’s Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all—the ones that friends cast on each other. 

All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.

1921. Years after a rogue faerie broke free on the battlefields of WWI, killing hundreds and threatening to expose the magical world, the study of faerie magic is forbidden and the doors to faerie country are sealed. But for those who survived, their wounds cannot be fixed by bandages and bedrest. A magical curse requires a magical solution.

Clover is determined to find a way to save her brother, Matthew—one of the few survivors of the faerie attack. At Camford, England’s premier magical academy, she’s nobody, just a scholarship witch with no lineage and no connections. But when she catches the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that had been previously closed to her are flung open, and she finds herself enmeshed in the glittering and seductive world of the country’s magical aristocrats.

The summer she spends in Alden’s orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and old secrets are unearthed. Years later, when the faerie seals break again, Clover knows it’s because of what they did. And she knows that she must seek the help of people she once called friends—and now doesn’t quite know what to call—if there’s any hope of saving the world as they know it.

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry. Releases in October 2024 from Redhook. I’m drawn to anything that involves fae, and I think has sounds fantastic! I have yet to read anything by Parry, but I’ve heard really good things about her books.


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

Posted March 27, 2024 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 36 Comments

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36 responses to “Future Fiction #272 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. The Teller of Small Fortunes has an adorable cover, and I love the sound of the H. G. Parry, it reminds me of Emily Wilde and I really enjoyed that. Great picks 😀

  2. I actually added Teller Of Small Fortunes to my tbr last week but I haven’t seen the cover before and I love it. The colours work together so well and it really gives you those cosy fantasy vibes.

    I hope you continue to enjoy the Crowns Of Nyaxia books. I really need to pick them up one day.

    Snap on the intrigue with all things fae. I added the last one to my TBR for the title alone but the premise sounds incredible. I’ll definitely be checking it out.

    • Tammy

      I feel like it’s been a while since I read a good fae book, so the H.G. Parry book is one I’ll definitely check out.

  3. I love the sound of The Teller of Small Fortunes! I’ve put it on my wishlist and will be looking out for it – thank you for sharing, Tammy:)).

  4. The Teller of Small Fortunes has such a pretty cover. Absolutely adding it to the wishlist. I still need to read book #1 of the Nyaxia series but I did grab it after seeing you enjoyed it so much. Great choices this week!

  5. Sophie @BewareOfTheReader

    Well as a fantasy lover I’ll take all three this week thank you madame!

  6. Ahhhh how beautiful is the cover of The Teller of Small Fortunes??! And it also sounds really great 😀

    I’ve seen The Songbird & the Heart of Stone around today on other blogs and I just hope I can read the first book soon. I really want to but I’m also worried I won’t enjoy it as much as everyone else. Bookworm problems 😛

    The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is a totally new title to me but I really really love the synopsis. I think I will either totally devour it or not like it at all. No in between. But I can’t wait to find out!
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  7. That is a nice cover for The Teller of Small Fortunes, and I’m finding lately that I’m enjoying that sort of tale.

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