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
So many cover reveals lately, and I can only choose three…Here are two horrors and a fantasy, take a look!
Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is the latest harrowing novel from bestselling author Catriona Ward, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and the hit series Yellowjackets.
A refuge for lost children may also be their prison.
In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes―until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer.
It is rumored that the ranch nestled in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains is now home to group of feral children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. But the Nowhere Kids are fierce in defending their turf and their clan, and Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have left the devil they knew, this group is a new type of diabolical.
For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary…
Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward. Releases in October 2025 from Tor Nightfire. It’s been two years since Ward’s last book, so my excitement level is pretty high for this one! This sounds very creepy…
A gripping, genre-bending novel about a mysterious new drug plaguing a small town and one girl who must uncover the terrifying truth behind the haunting side effects—or she will be next.
At sixteen Kyra is still haunted by the horrors she saw as little girl living with her mother’s drug addiction. Years later, Kyra doesn’t always feel like she belongs—and disturbing dreams come to her at night.
When a new party drug makes its way to her high school, Kyra’s life becomes an actual nightmare. A challenge spreads among the students thanks to a few videos circulating—and Kyra is unable to escape the inexplicably strange side effects.
Everyone around her seems to be mysteriously changing, including the people she loves the most. Her brother has a new personality overnight. Her best friend suddenly feels like a stranger. The only other person who seems to be noticing the eeriness around them is Logan, the new boy at school. Like Kyra, he has steered clear of the party scene.
But as strange occurrences begin to turn sinister, Kyra can’t shake the feeling that something unnatural is at play . . . as if something deadly spreading is in their veins. With Logan’s help, she decides to find out exactly what is behind the mysterious drug—before they’re next. As they begin to get closer to the truth, the line between Kyra’s past and her present blurs . . . and she will need to face the terrors inside herself to save everyone.
Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman. Releases in November 2025 from Delacorte Press. Clay McLeod Chapman does YA! OK this will be interesting. Clay has written a drug-centric story before (Ghost Eaters, which I loved), and I’m excited for this one too.
A gorgeous, atmospheric debut fantasy that reimagines the Jewish myth of golem in a tale rooted in history, folklore, and sapphic romance—perfect for fans of Katherine Arden, Ava Reid, Hannah Whitten, and Naomi Novik.
The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark.
As the healer’s daughter, Malka has seen how the curse of the woods has plagued her village, but when the Ozmini Church comes to collect their tithes, they don’t listen to the warnings about a monster lurking in the trees. After a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka’s mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes a bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest. If she brings him the monster, he will spare her mother from execution.
When she ventures into the blood-soaked woods, Malka finds a monster, though not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself, but only after Malka helps her free the imprisoned rabbi who created her.
But a deal easily made is not easily kept. And as their bargain begins to unravel a much more sinister threat, protecting her people may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save—and face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.
The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez. Releases in September 2025 from Tor Books. I love this gorgeous cover, and the story sounds so good. I like the author comparisons too!
The Maiden and Her Monster sounds amaaaaaazing! I’ve had my eye on it for some time. “a tale rooted in history, folklore, and sapphic romance” just perfection!
I agree, it’s going to be fantastic:-)
The Maiden and her Monster is going right onto my TBR list, it sounds so good
I agree, and it has such a pretty cover:-)
Thanks for introducing me to The Maiden and Her Monster, Tammy!
It sounds so good, right?
The last cover is so pretty, enjoy!
It’s one of my favorite covers of this bunch:-)
Ooooo THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER looks very interesting! Plus a gorgeous cover! *adds to tbr*
I adore the cover:-)
I’m very excited for The Maiden & Her Monster and adore the cover. I’m pretty sure the first of these is on my TBR too. I hadn’t noticed the cover reveals as such, although I did find a few whilst checking to update my anticipated list, but I seem to be stumbling across fantastic new books everywhere lately
Yes, so many new books being announced and new covers popping up. It’s hard to keep up!
As soon as I saw the cover for Nowhere Burning, I thought of Yellowjackets — and then read the blurb! I guess the cover is effective
Sounds really scary, and so does Shiny Happy People. The Maiden & Her Monster is one I definitely will want to know more about. Great choices this week!
I think I’ve read all of Catriona Ward’s books and she has such crazy ideas! I love the Yellowjackets comparison too:-)
You always find so many interesting books! The one that is the most appealing to me is the third one, but all three of them sound interesting!
Thanks Susy!
I keep saying I need to read Catriona Ward. The second cover is the coolest of all of these to me though!
I love Catriona Ward’s books:-)
I LOVE the sound of The Maiden and Her Monster – and as ever, you’ve got the coolest selection of books, Tammy!
It sounds so good, right? I hope we both get the chance to read it:-)
Nowhere Burning and Shiny Happy People are headed straight to my wish list. But I have to admit, I now have that REM song going through my head. Great picks!
Ha ha I didn’t even think of that song for some reason, but you’re right, now it’s stuck in my head!
These are all gorgeous covers and the book sound good too. The Maiden and Her Monster especially interests me of the three. I am adding that one to my wish list.
The Maiden and Her Monster is going to be a must read for me!
Cool covers, enjoy!
Thanks Stormi:-)
Nowhere Burning sounds so good! I’ve loved Catriona Ward’s writing in the past. I need to add this to my tbr.
Ooh, a new Catriona Ward. Nice.
Lynn
Well I might read Nowhere Burning Tammy!
I could be way off here but the description of Nowhere Burning kept bringing to mind aspects of Peter Pan. Is this a horror with that as inspiration?
Okay maybe I’ll give Chapman another chance with this!