Curious what new books are releasing? I am highlighting the new releases that caught my eye for this week. Let me know if you see anything new, interesting or any must reads! I am sure I missed some worthy books as well, so please feel free the share!
FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION HORROR
FANTASY
A Conversation in Blood (Egil & Nix, #3) by Paul S. Kemp Published by Del Rey on January 24th 2017
Pages: 288
Egil and Nix, the hard-fighting, harder-drinking fortune hunters of "The Hammer and the Blade" and "A Discourse in Steel, "are back to test their mettle and tempt fickle fate. Fantasy fiction has long welcomed adventurous rogues: Fritz Leiber s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, George R. R. Martin s Dunk and Egg, and Scott Lynch s Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen have all made their mark. In his Egil & Nix series, "New York Times" bestselling author Paul S. Kemp introduces a daring new duo to the ranks of fantasy fame or is it infamy? Nix is a nimble thief with just enough knowledge of magic to get into serious trouble. Egil is the only priest of a discredited god. Together, they seek riches and renown, but somehow it is always misadventure and mayhem that find them even in the dive bar they call home. And their luck has yet to change. All Nix wants to do is cheer Egil up after a bout of heartbreak. And, of course, strike it so rich that they need never worry about their combined bar bill. But when the light-fingered scoundrel plunders a tomb and snatches mysterious golden plates covered in runes, the treasure brings terrifying trouble. Pursued by an abomination full of ravenous hunger and unquenchable wrath, Egil and Nix find all they hold dear including their beloved tavern in dire peril. To say nothing of the world itself. Praise for Paul S. Kemp s thrilling Egil & Nix novels "" Most heroes work up to killing demons. Egil and Nix start there and pick up the pace. Elaine Cunningham, author of "Honor Among Thieves" Kemp delivers sword and sorcery at its rollicking best, after the fashion of Fritz Leiber s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. "Library Journal" "" Egil and Nix might not be the safest guys to go adventuring with, but they re sure good company. Ed Greenwood, bestselling creator of Forgotten Realms Did I mention how much fun Egil and Nix are? So. Much. Damn. Fun. " Tor.com""
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages Published by Tor.com on January 24th 2017
Pages: 131
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.
Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where mystery, science, and art intersect.
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Fifth Petal (The Lace Reader, #2) by Brunonia Barry Published by Crown on January 24th 2017
Pages: 432
Salem’s chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide dubbed “The Goddess Murders,” in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed one Halloween night. Aided by Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims who has returned to town, Rafferty begins to uncover a dark chapter in Salem’s past. Callie, who has always been gifted with premonitions, begins to struggle with visions she doesn’t quite understand and an attraction to a man who has unknown connections to her mother’s murder. Neither believes that the main suspect, Rose Whelan, respected local historian and sometime-aunt to Callie, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover what truly happened, will evil rise again?
SCIENCE FICTION
Department Zero by Paul Crilley Published by Pyr on January 24th 2017
Pages: 320
THE END OF THE UNIVERSE IS ONLY A HOP, SKIP, AND SLIGHT STUMBLE-THROUGH-A-WORMHOLE AWAY
Harry Priest just wants to make sure his ex-wife doesn’t take away his visitation rights, and his dead-end job cleaning up crime scenes for the past ten years isn’t doing him any favors.
But when Harry attends what he thinks is a routine death, he stumbles onto a secret multiverse of alternate realities all reachable through universe-hopping gates. Policing these worlds is Havelock Graves, the Interstitial Crime Department’s top agent for ten years running (according to him). When Harry accidentally messes with the ICD crime scene, Graves and his team are demoted as low as they can go: Department Zero. They’re recruiting Harry too—not because he charmed them, but because he just might hold the key to saving the universe…and getting their old jobs back.
To do this, Graves and his team set out to solve the crime that lost them their jobs. A crime that involves a cult planning to hunt down and steal the fabled Spear of Destiny in order to free the Great Old One Cthulhu from his endless sleep in the Dreamlands. (Because that’s another thing Harry soon finds out. Everything H. P. Lovecraft wrote is true. Like, everything.)
The team will have to fight its way through realities filled with Martian technology and evade mad priests (Harry’s favorite kind) in a realm of floating landmasses where magic really exists.
And Harry has to do it all in time to say good night to his daughter.
Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1) by April Daniels Published by Diversion Publishing on January 24th 2017
Pages: 276
Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, she was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But then her second-hand superpowers transformed her body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.
It should be the happiest time of her life, but between her father's dangerous obsession with curing her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and the classmate who is secretly a masked vigilante, Danny's first weeks living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined.
She doesn't have much time to adjust. Dreadnought's murderer, a cyborg named Utopia, still haunts the streets of New Port City. If Danny can't sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.
The Prometheus Man by Scott Reardon Also by this author: The Prometheus Man
Published by Mulholland Books on January 24th 2017
Pages: 352
A man with no identity... hunting a man without limits.
When a pile of bodies is found in Paris, CIA Agent Tom Blake hustles his way onto a major case: tracking a man with enhanced abilities, the test subject of a secret government program.
There's just one problem: the man using Agent Blake's identity is not Agent Blake. He's Tom Reese, a man without a family or a home.
Reese is searching for his brother's killer. He stole Agent Blake's identity two months ago and has bluffed his way onto the team investigating his only lead. But his time as a CIA agent is accelerating toward its expiration date.
Soon the CIA will find out that Agent Blake is in two places at once. Soon the augmented man will come looking for him. And soon both will discover that Tom Reese carries a secret even he doesn't know about.
He is the last test subject of Project Prometheus.
The Skill of Our Hands (Incrementalists, 2) by Steven Brust, Skyler White Published by Tor Books on January 24th 2017
Pages: 352
The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people; an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, a little bit at a time.
Now Phil, the Incrementalist whose personality has stayed stable through more incarnations than anyone else’s, has been shot dead. They’ll bring him back—but first they need to know what happened. Their investigation will lead down unexpected paths in contemporary Arizona, and bring them up against corruption in high and low places alike. But the key may lay in one of Phil’s previous lives, in Kansas in 1859, and the fate of a man named John Brown.
The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum #2) by Tom Toner Published by Night Shade Books on January 24th 2017
Pages: 432
It is the 147th century; the turning of the Amaranthine new year.
In the provinces of the Old World, the giant Elatine's war of liberation has come to an impasse, leaving the wicked monarchy of the First in possession of the throne.
In the Vaulted Lands of the Firmament, acolytes have risen up to execute their immortal masters. The opportunistic races of the Prism, intoxicated with greed, have arrived inside every Solar Satrapy to scavenge what’s left.
In the wild Investiture, on a forgotten water moon, a crew of shipwrecked Privateers come face to face with their greatest terror, and with it the most valuable treasure in all the galaxy.
Jatropha, legendary Immortal, must escort his precious charge through the exotic Westerly Provinces, knowing all the world would steal her if they could.
Sotiris, his mind fading fast, must set out to find his dear, drowned sister in a land previously unglimpsed by anyone but the dead.
Lycaste, now far from home, must journey in strange company to the edge of a tempestuous sea, to the lair of someone so dangerous that even the legendary Amaranthine fear his name.
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HORROR
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories by Kim Newman Published by Titan Books on January 24th 2017
Pages: 400
FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION HORROR
| Department Zero | Crilley, Paul | 1/24/2017 |
| A Conversation in Blood | Paul S. Kemp | 1/24/2017 |
| Anno Dracula 1899 & Other Stories | Kim Newman | 1/24/2017 |
| Dreadnought | April Daniels | 1/24/2017 |
| Passing Strange | Ellen Klages | 1/24/2017 |
| The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry | 1/24/2017 |
| The Prometheus Man | Reardon, Scott | 1/24/2017 |
| The Skill of Our Hands | Steven Brust and Skyler White | 1/24/2017 |
| The Weight of the World | Tom Toner | 1/24/2017 |
I that Passing Strange will be pretty good! Also excited to her about A Conversation in Blood, though, I don’t know who the first two book in series had escaped my attention these past years?
DJ (@MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape) recently posted…Author Interview: Ellen Klages
I havent started that series yet either!
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Raid by K. S. Merbeth
I have the first two books in Kemp’s series on my kindle and have still not ever started it. It has been three or four years now. I’m starting to think it isn’t going to happen.
Nathan (@reviewbarn) recently posted…Review: ‘The Bear and the Nightingale’ by Katherine Arden
yeah, I’ve sadly come to that conclusion with some of the books I own as well. Too many other books seem to take priority over them for one reason or another for years.
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Raid by K. S. Merbeth
oh many interesting novels there!
Melliane recently posted…The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
I’ve just Dept Zero and enjoyed it – very entertaining and Lovecraft fans will probably adore it.
Lynn 😀
heh…. so, that may not be me. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it!
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Waiting on Wednesday – Raid by K. S. Merbeth
Actually, how do you keep track on the new releases? Is there an easy way to find out what’s coming out?
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