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
The cover reveals keep coming, and here are my three favorites from last week:
The Bear meets horror in this tale of rare and bloody revenge set in the world of fine dining as only horror sensation Craig DiLouie can write it, perfect for fans of Nothing Tastes as Good and Tender Is the Flesh.
Matt Landry is one of fine dining’s hottest new stars. He’s the head chef at a Michelin starred restaurant. Then his job goes up in flames, literally. And despite his notoriety in the industry, he’s dead broke.
But then an actual billionaire reaches out to him, and offers him a second chance at restaurant few believe even exists. The Smoking Mirror is a myth. An exclusive dining club for the wealthiest of the wealthy. The kind of place that spins up dark conspiracies and hides darker truths.
The gig promises the security he’s been missing. But the job is exacting. The other chefs are maniacally focused. His NDA is a mile long. His superiors demand utmost secrecy. And the meat they cook with – tender, delicate, marbled – is unlike any he’s worked with before.
As he plunges deeper into the cutthroat world of fine dining, he discovers that there is no glory without sacrifice. And once he gets the taste of success, even unspeakable horrors become palatable.
People With Taste by Craig DiLouie. Releases in July 2027 from Run For It. Yay, more Craig DiLouie! I do love a good “food horror” story, and I think it could really work in DiLouie’s hands. When I look at the cover, I’m seeing red velvet cake, for some reason, but I have a feeling I’m way off base, lol. Cover rating: A
From the acclaimed author of Every House Is Haunted comes a terrifying supernatural novel about a family desperate for a new beginning, a dwelling with something already waiting inside—and the horrors we carry home with us.
The Bennetts need a fresh start. After a devastating year leaves Jack badly injured, Laura’s career in ruins, and teenage Jessica expelled from school, the family packs up their lives and moves into a brand-new house amid a quiet suburban development. It should be the perfect place to begin again…until twelve-year-old Stanley discovers the strange stain spreading across his bedroom wall.
Soon Jack is losing time and witnessing impossible things. Laura is stalked by a frightening creature no one else can see. Jessica begins losing control in ways that echo the violent incident she thought she’d left behind. And Stanley’s fears about his own health take on increasingly alarming manifestations. Each of them keeps what they’re experiencing a secret, even as the family dynamic starts unraveling. Because whatever has found the Bennetts knows exactly where their deepest wounds are buried. And as the inhuman terror closes in, they must discover what is haunting them before the one thing they came here to save—the bond that ties them together—is destroyed for good.
Family by Ian Rogers. Releases in May 2027 from Gallery Books. This is such a simple yet extremely creepy cover, and it’s what first drew me to this book. I love that each member of the family is experiencing a different kind of haunting and keeping it to themselves. Can’t wait! Cover rating: A+
Twilight meets Saltburn in this delicious new novel from bestselling author Sydney Shields, which follows scholarship grad student Sumner Caldwell as she agrees to spend the summer at a classmate’s decadent coastal estate—but when she starts suspecting she’s surrounded by vampires, it’s kill, be killed, or perhaps fall in love…
When her summer teaching job falls through at the last minute, Sumner Caldwell is desperate. She can’t afford to stay in university housing, but she’ll do anything to avoid returning to her suffocating backwoods hometown. So, when her eccentric classmate Tripp Caraway invites her to join him at his swanky estate on Hilton Head, she reluctantly becomes his charity case.
But Sumner has spent her time at school hiding the truth about her Lowcountry roots and troubled family—a task that might prove more difficult at Evermore, a home that is as beautiful and strange as its inhabitants: the group that calls themselves the Evers.
There’s Ellis, cold and unfriendly, who has an enigmatic bond with Tripp. Priscilla, fun, outgoing and timeless as a Hollywood starlet. Declan, their uncle, who is mysteriously absent yet somehow controls everything. And Henry—the gorgeous, brooding writer who takes Sumner’s breath away, the two of them drawn to each other from the moment she bumps into him in Evermore’s library.
As Sumner loses herself in Henry and the seductive whirlwind of the Evers’ lifestyle, she starts to realize there’s a sinister underside to their decadence, things about their life that don’t make sense—and that the reason for her invitation might be much darker than simple charity.
Then again, Sumner isn’t who she seems, either. And she might not be a vampire, but she knows how to bite back…
Immortal Summer by Sydney J. Shields. Releases in July 2027 from William Morrow. Oooh vampires! I think this has a lot of potential, and although I’m still not sure this author is for me, I’m willing to give this a try. The cover is so eye catching right? Cover rating: A
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