New Books : 21 May 2019

You’re a wizard! This week’s books include a street magician in post-Katrina New Orleans, Warlock Holmes, and courtesan’s use of forbidden magic.
New titles this week are by Bryan Camp, Jack Campbell, G.S. Denning, Cate Glass, Vylar Kaftan, Anna Kashina, and Patrick S. Tomlinson.


* Camp, Bryan : Gather the Fortunes
(John Joseph Adams 978-1-328-87671-3, $24, 384pp, hardcover, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Crescent City #2

Fantasy novel, second in a series following The City of Lost Fortunes (2018), about a street magician in post-Katrina New Orleans.
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s site has this description with an excerpt.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review, calling it “that rare, welcome sequel that can be enjoyed just as easily as a standalone story. … Camp crafts a journey through New Orleans’s spirit underworld that’s whimsical as well as grim and sometimes horrific.”
• Katherine Coldiron reviews it in the May issue of Locus Magazine: “I have good news: his second novel, Gather the Fortunes, is even better, and you don’t have to have read his first to enjoy this one.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Campbell, Jack : Triumphant
(Ace 978-1101988404, $27, 336pp, hardcover, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781101988411
The Genesis Fleet #3

Military SF novel, third in a series following Vanguard (2017) and Ascendant (2018), about the founding of the Alliance.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt
Publishers Weekly gave the first book a starred review: “Campbell’s skillfully constructed tale keeps a riveting pace, making each character’s personal stakes into fundamental threads woven into a high-energy whole.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Denning, G. S. : Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine
(Titan 978-1785659362, $14.95, 400pp, trade paperback, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Warlock Holmes #4

Fantasy novel, fourth in a series that began with Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone (2016), about Dr. Watson’s dimwitted but demonically powerful companion.
• Titan’s site has this description.
Publishers Weekly called the first book “delightfully absurd.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Glass, Cate : An Illusion of Thieves
(Tor 978-1-250-31100-9, $16.99, 352pp, trade paperback, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250310996
Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 9781250227874
Chimera #1

Fantasy novel, first in a series, about a courtesan and her brother’s use of forbidden magic.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Liz Bourke reviews it in the April issue of Locus Magazine, noting that Cate Glass is a pen name for Carol Berg; “I do love a caper story. An llusion of Thieves works its way up to a very tense and twisty caper indeed, one that plays fair with the reader and relies on what we’ve learned about the world…”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Kaftan, Vylar : Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
(Tor.com 978-1-250-22113-1, $11.99, 110pp, trade paperback, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250221148

SF novella about two telepathic prisoners held in the caverns of a prison planet.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “This invigorating, cleverly introspective novella is the perfect length for its plot and themes, and its ghost will linger in the reader’s memory.”

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Kashina, Anna : Shadowblade
(Angry Robot 978-0-85766-815-8, $12.99, 432pp, trade paperback, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857668165
UK edition: 9780857668158 (Tue 7 May 2019)

Fantasy novel about a sword prodigy who must impersonate a lost princess.
• Angry Robot’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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* Tomlinson, Patrick S. : Starship Repo
(Tor 978-1250302717, $18.99, 336pp, trade paperback, May 2019)
Nominal Publication Date: Tue 21 May 2019
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250302700

SF space opera novel about a person with the name “Firstname Lastname” who joins a crew of repomen.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

• Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound

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One thought on “New Books : 21 May 2019

  • May 23, 2019 at 11:45 pm
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    Thanks for the review! I really am proud of this one. I do feel I should add the politics in this book are absolutely necessary to include. There are Nazis literally everywhere and we need to revolt.

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