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Fantasy and Science Fiction - April 2024
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| A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. JensenMarked by the gods, Freya accepts her destiny as a shield maiden after she's sold to Jarl Snorri, who plans to use her power to increase his own and appoints his brooding son Bjorn to be her bodyguard. Inspired by Norse mythology, this steamy series opener boasts action-packed battles and angsty forbidden love. You might also like: Lilith Saintcrow's Black Land's Bane series; Aurora Ascher's Sanctuary of the Shadow; Elizabeth Bear's Edda of Burdens trilogy. |
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The sunlit man
by Brandon Sanderson
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
Series: Secret Projects (4)
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| The Mars House by Natasha PulleySet in the far-future Martian colony of Tharsis, this "exquisitely layered and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) novel by Natasha Pulley (The Half Life of Valery K) explores the often fraught marriage of convenience between anti-immigrant politician Aubrey Gale and dancer January Stirling, a refugee from Earth. Read-alikes: R.W.W. Greene's The Light Years; Derek Kunsken's Venus Ascendant series. |
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Sunbringer
by Hannah Kaner
Still reeling from the loss of Kissen, young noble Inara and her little god of white lies, Skedi, have set out to discover more about the true nature of their bond.
Series: Fallen Gods Tilogy (2)
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| The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose UtomiWhen Aleke and the Cult of Tutu attack The City of Truth, 17-year-old Junior Peacekeeper Osi uses a sacred artifact known as the God's Eyes to fight back. The Truth of the Aleke is the 2nd book in the Forever Desert series, which takes place 500 years after the events of The Lies of the Ajungo. |
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Empire of the damned
by Jay Kristoff
Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel de Le�n must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone.
Series: Empire of the Vampire (2)
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Big time
by Ben H Winters
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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The hidden queen
by Peter V. Brett
When the demons return with a vengeance, Olive, destined for a role as leader and savoir, and Darlin, struggling with his supernatural senses, strive to walk their own path, but are inextricably tied to the legacies of their parents and a fated confrontation with the demon king and his new, hatchling queen.
Series: Nightfall saga (2)
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In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes
'In Ascension' is an astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomably deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life.
Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.
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Song of the Huntress
by Lucy Holland
In 60AD Britain, Herla, desperate to save her lover, land and people from the Romans, makes a pact with the king of the Otherworld, becoming the Lord of the Hunt, but centuries later she meets a Saxon queen with ice-blue eyes on a bloody battlefield with the power to save her soul.
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| Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu BabalolaThis short story collection by British Nigerian writer Bolu Babalola (Honey and Spice) offers retellings of myths and folktales from various cultural traditions. You might also like: Aoko Matsuda's Where the Wild Ladies Are; Hanan al-Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights; or Gemmarose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break your Heart. |
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| The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-GarciaAn unexpected visitor upends the sheltered life of Carlota Moreau, whose father, mad scientist Doctor Moreau, keeps her isolated on their estate in 1870s Yucatán, Mexico, along with the human-animal hybrid creatures he has created. Try this next: Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau. |
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| Arch-Conspirator by Veronica RothIn the post-apocalyptic settlement of Thebes, the human race survives by extracting ichor, or genetic material, from the dead and storing it in the Archive for future use. When Thebes' authoritarian ruler Kreon bans Antigone's deceased brothers' ichor from the Archive, the young woman rebels. Unfolding from multiple viewpoints, this SF retelling of Sophocles' Antigone offers "a heroine to root for, a despot to revile, and a thought-provoking ending" (Library Journal). |
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