I’m looking forward to several books in this batch, but in completely different ways. The Court War because the first book, The Godstone – which at the time wasn’t obviously the first of anything – was a compelling hot mess and I want to see where things go next. Mammoths at the Gates because the Singing Hills Cycle has been lovely and awesome and fascinating, and The Splinter in the Sky because OMG the protagonist is a TEA expert and I can’t wait to see how that works in a space opera.

Come to think of it, Mammoths at the Gates is also a contender for the prettiest cover of the week, right along with The Berry Pickers – especially because all those luscious blueberries look delicious as well as pretty.

For Review:
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed
Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy #1) by Ken MacLeod
Big Little Spells (Witchlore #2) by Hazel Beck
Blind Fear (Finn Thrillers #3) by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
The Court War (Godstone #2) by Violette Malan
Daughters of Muscadine by Monic Ductan
The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle
The Happiness Plan by Susan Mallery
The Horoscope Writer by Ash Bishop
Mammoths at the Gates (Singing Hills Cycle #4) by Nghi Vo
Marion Lane and the Raven’s Revenge (Marion Lane #3) by T.A. Willberg
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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After diving back into the Sebastian St. Cyr series a couple of weeks ago I decided to just go ahead and get the few in the middle that I had neither read nor already acquired. I know I’ll be getting around to them eventually so I figured I might as well just give in to the impulse.

The book I’m most looking forward to is, of course, Anna Hackett’s new SFR series opener, Knightmaster. I’ve already started and so far, so wonderful! I think the prettiest cover in this stack is Banyan Moon, but a case could certainly be made for The Witching Tide. We’ll just have to see whether the books inside those covers live up to them!

For Review:
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
Differ We Must by Steve Inskeep
The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat
Knightmaster (Oronis Knights #1) by Anna Hackett
The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb
Loot by Tania James
The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat
The People’s Hospital by Ricardo Nuila
Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Salt-Black Tree (Dead God’s Heart #2) by Lilith Saintcrow
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang
The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Where the Dead Lie (Sebastian St. Cyr #12) by C.S. Harris
Who Buries the Dead (Sebastian St. Cyr #10) by C.S. Harris
Why Kings Confess (Sebastian St. Cyr #9) by C.S. Harris

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This week’s stack is just chock full of really pretty covers, especially, Under the Tamarind Tree, Where Peace is Lost and Where There Was Fire. Also two books I’m already planning to read at the first opportunity, Payback in Death (In Death #57) and most especially Thornhedge because T. Kingfisher. Honestly, everything looks fascinating and I want to start them all right away but that’s not humanly possible. Dammit.

For Review:
Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella
Built from the Fire by Victor Luckerson
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Herald of the Black Moon (Dominion #3) by Stephen Deas
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39 edited by Jodi Lyn Nye and Dean Wesley Smith
Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur
Payback in Death (In Death #57) by J.D. Robb
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam
Where Peace is Lost by Valerie Valdes
Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias

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This time around the covers are mostly more interesting than they are pretty. But they are VERY interesting indeed. The book I’m most looking forward to reading is The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis. Some of her early books are among my all-time favorites, especially Bellwether – which I still reread every now and again. This one is supposed to be a return to her more lighthearted work – like Bellwether as well as To Say Nothing of the Dog, so I have pretty high hopes for it. The proof, as always is in the reading.

For Review:
All the Knowledge in the World by Simon Garfield
Almost Brown by Charlotte Gill
An Amerikan Family by Santi Elijah Holley
Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng
Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney #2) by Colson Whitehead
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa
Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle
Flight & Anchor (Firebreak) by Nicole Kornher-Stace
I Meant It Once by Kate Doyle
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
A Most Tolerant Little Town by Rachel Louise Martin
Paper Names by Susie Luo
The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
Thinning Blood by Leah Myers
Tropicália by Harold Rogers
You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenberg

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Fair warning, it’s looking a lot like the stacks are going to be getting bigger from here on out for a while. But the net will be cast wide over even more genres, so it should at least be interesting!

For Review:
Biting the Hand by Julia Lee
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
City of Bones by Martha Wells
A Darker Wilderness edited by Erin Sharkey
Dear Chrysanthemums by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Driving the Green Book by Alvin Hall
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
The New Guys by Meredith Bagby
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher
Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee
Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein
Walk Through Fire by Yasmine Ali
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Illuminations by T. Kingfisher
The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen
The Weight of Command by Michael Mammay

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This is a bit of an eclectic stack, particularly for being so short. I’ve had both Dual Memory and The Housekeepers for quite a while but the covers have just dropped. Also, in last week’s stack I included The Book that Wouldn’t Burn because I wasn’t sure whether the cover was final or not but figured that if I included it a final cover would be confirmed. Which turned out to be true so I’ve included the real cover here because it’s awesome.

I picked up Geometries of Belonging after finishing The Unbalancing this week because I really wanted more stories in the Birdverse – and there they all are! I grabbed My Roommate Is a Vampire because it just plain looks like fun!

For Review:
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn (Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence
Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Hiss Me Deadly (Cat in the Stacks #15) by Miranda James
The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
A Right Worthy Woman by Ruth P. Watson
The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries #3) by Nev March

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Geometries of Belonging: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse by R.B. Lemberg

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I’m not one hundred percent positive that the cover displayed for The Book that Wouldn’t Burn is the final cover. But I’m also not sure it’s not as it’s the one that’s been on both Amazon and Goodreads for several weeks. At the moment it’s the blandest bland, but it doesn’t say it’s not final, so we’ll go with it until something better comes along.

The book I can’t wait to start is Junkyard War by Faith Hunter to the point that I rushed through the end of the book I was listening to just so I could get it queued up over the weekend. I got into the series because the first book was Junkyard Cats and I was there for the cats. But I’ve stayed for Shining Smith and the harsh dystopia that made her and is trying to break her. And also for the cats.

For Review:
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn (Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence
Devil’s Gun (You Sexy Thing #2) by Cat Rambo
Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden
Flirting with Fire (Modern Love #3) by Jane Porter
The Jasad Heir (Scorched Throne #1) by Sara Hashem
March’s End by Daniel Polansky
Myriad by Joshua David Bellin
Nightwatch (Miranda Chase #12) by M.L. Buchman
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous #2) by Alexis Hall

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Junkyard War (Shining Smith #3) by Faith Hunter (audio)

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Looking at this list, I’m seriously trying to remember how it got to be quite so tall. Some of it is carryover because I don’t put titles in this post until I have something like a cover. After all, part of the point is to display the pretty cover. But it’s also clear that the holiday lull is very much over in the publishing world to the point that not just the spring books have ARCs, but even the stuff from fall is arriving.

Which leads to a couple of books in this stack that I’ve already been looking forward to, notably Contrarian by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Seven Girls Gone by Allison Brennan.

For Review:
And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Battle Drum (Ending Fire #2) by Saara El-Arifi
The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O’Keefe
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Capture the Sun (Starlight’s Shadow #3) by Jessie Mihalik
Contrarian (Grand Illusion #3) by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Evergreen Heir (Five Crowns of Okrith #4) by A.K. Mulford
The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick
Masters of Death by Olivia Blake
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (Doomsday Books #1) by KJ Charles
Seven Girls Gone (Quinn & Costa #4) by Allison Brennan
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
The Sword Defiant (Lands of the Firstborn #1) by Gareth Hanrahan
The Wayward Prince (Daughter of Sherlock Holmes #7) by Leonard Goldberg
World Running Down by Al Hess

Borrowed from the Library:
Tempests and Slaughter (Numair Chronicles #1) by Tamora Pierce

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A couple of weeks ago I discovered that I had a whole bunch Audible credits that were expiring on February 4, so I kinda bought my wishlist. I just hope that I have time to listen to all of them!

For Review:
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons
Ebony Gate (Phoenix Hoard #1) by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
Steel (Sentinel Security #4) by Anna Hackett
Welcome to Beach Town by Susan Wiggs
Wolfsong (Green Creek #1) by TJ Klune

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
A Broken Blade (Halfling Saga #1) by Melissa Blair (audio)
Cast in Conflict (Chronicles of Elantra #16) by Michelle Sagara (audio)
Cast in Eternity (Chronicles of Elantra #17) by Michelle Sagara (audio)
The Cradle of Ice (Moon Fall #2) by James Rollins (audio)
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (Celestial Kingdom Duology #1) by Sue Lynn Tan (audio)
Engines of Chaos (Age of Uprising #2) by R.S. Ford (audio)(preorder)
Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse (audio)
The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik (audio)
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights #2) by T.L. Huchu (audio)
She Who Became the Sun (Radiant Emperor #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan (audio)
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters (audio)
The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1) by C.L. Clark (audio)

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The stacks they are starting to get taller again. Now that the holidays are over it seems like the floodgates have opened. And isn’t it wonderful? (I also finally got covers for a couple of books I’ve had for awhile, so it’s great to see that logjam unjam as well.)

For Review:
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The Book of Gems (Gem Universe #3) by Fran Wilde
The Faithless (Magic of the Lost #2) by C.L. Clark
Five First Chances by Sarah Jost
Happy Place by Emily Henry
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
Sea Change by Gina Chung
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Translation State (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Orphans of Mersea House by Marty Wingate
Shmutz by Felicia Berliner

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