Are book covers, and the books within, getting darker, or is it just the books I’m picking up. Inquiring minds are starting to NEED to know!
The pretty covers in this batch are The Isle in the Silver Sea, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon, and When They Burned the Butterfly. The book I picked up for the title, AND because I’m really curious about it AND because I’m looking forward to reading it, is Slayers of Old. The premise reminds me a lot of Never Too Old to Save the World and I LOVED that collection SO MUCH. So I have big hopes for this one.
The other book I’m really looking forward to reading is The Dentist. It looks like the kind of investigative thriller that I can easily get caught up in and I’m all for that!
I think that A Christmas Witness and The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah should each get a ten-yard penalty for rushing the season, but I know it’s getting to be the right time for publishing holiday books even though it feels too early. Way too early.
And I’ve already read Psychopomp & Circumstance and it was lovely!
What about you? What’s piqued your interest in YOUR stack?
For Review:
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor
Cat Fight by Kit Conway
Cathedral of the Drowned (Lunar Gothic Trilogy #2) by Nathan Ballingrud
A Christmas Witness (Inspector Ian Rutledge) by Charles Todd
Death at the Door (Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries #2) by Olivia Blacke
The Dentist (DS George Cross #1) by Tim Sullivan
The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah by Jean Meltzer
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
The Havana Syndrome (Nathan Burke #1) by Jeffrey James Higgins
A Heart So Haunted by Hollie Nelson
A Hex for Hunger (Rune Tithe #2) by Alistair Reeves
A Holy Maiden’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped (Scandals of the Gifted #1) by Katy Nyquist
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom #1) by Naima Simone
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Go-Between #1) by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Yuki Tejima
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines
Taming the Perilous Skies by Phil Marshall
When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee
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They are quite dark covers. I find fantasy books have really dark covers these days.
I have been reading Christmas books since July. A publisher started to send them to me via Netgalley. I love a Christmas book so I was thrilled, but at the same time I wish it was later in the year…
Have a great weekend!
Awesome book haul. Happy Reading!
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I have the Jean Meltzer book to review too. It really does seem too early but I’m seeing more and more holiday books coming out around now.
I hope you enjoy your books. Have a great week!
Got a great selection of books.
Wow the cover for Cathedral for the Drowned really caught my eye so I ended up adding the first book in that series to my TBR, I want to read more sci-fi horror, and there’s a character with my name, I love when that happens! Also intrigued by A Heart so Haunted. I love your Stacking the Shelves posts because I always find new gems to add lol. 😀