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Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror January 2023 |
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A Restless Truth
by Freya Marske
Introducing: Maud Blyth, a passenger aboard the RMS Lyric who's distraught at the murder of her traveling companion and distracted by dazzling illusionist Violet Debenham.
Why you might like it: This 2nd novel in the Last Binding series (after A Marvellous Light) offers an Agatha Christie-esque shipboard murder mystery with magic and romance.
For fans of: C.L. Polk's Kingston trilogy; Celia Lake's Mysterious Charm series.
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The World We Make
by N.K. Jemisin
What it is: the highly anticipated sequel to The City We Became and the conclusion to the Great Cities duology.
What happens: New York City's human avatars -- Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek -- face off against a mayoral candidate who promises to "Make New York Great Again."
For fans of: Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Daniel José Older's Bone Street Rumba series, or Bryan Campbell's Crescent City novels.
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Cunning Folk
by Adam Nevill
What it's about: After Tom and his family move into a money-pit home in rural southwest England, hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, and he begins to suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly, malicious powers.
Why you might like it: A compelling folk horror story of deadly rivalry and the oldest magic from the four times winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.
Reviewers say: “Nevill has crafted some of the tensest scariest horror this reviewer has read in years” SFX
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The Spare Man
by Mary Robinette Kowal
What it's about: Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim
Why you might like it: Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery
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Ocean's Echo
by Everina Maxwell
Starring: scapegrace Tennalhin "Tennal" Halkana, a telepathic "reader" whose innate ability to navigate chaotic space is almost as strong as his gift for causing trouble.
What happens: Conscripted into the miliary for his misdeeds, Tennal is assigned to Lieutenant Surit Yeni, an "architect" who has orders to sync his mind with Tennal's. They opt to fake their mind-meld, but will their decision jeopardize their lives during a dangerous retrieval mission?
Why you might like it: At the heart of this standalone space adventure by the author of Winter's Orbit is a slow-burning romance.
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Hidden Pictures
by Jason Rekulak
2022 Goodreads Choice Award Winner: Horror
What it's about: Hired as nanny in an affluent New Jersey suburb, Mallory enjoys the stability of the job and bonds with Teddy, a sweet, five-year-old boy who is never without his sketchbook until his drawings suddenly become increasingly sinister.
Why you might like it: From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
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House of the Dragon: Season One
Set two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones, follows the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms
TV-MA
Action, Adventure, Drama
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Smile
After witnessing a traumatic incident, Dr. Rose Cotter begins to experience an overwhelming feeling of terror and frightening supernatural occurrences that she can not explain
Rated R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Halloween Ends
Four years after his Halloween night rampage, Laurie Strode prepares for a final showdown against Michael Myers
Rated R
Horror, Thriller
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Hatching
A young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.
Not Rated
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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She Will
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
Not Rated
Drama, Horror, Thriller
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