New Books: 30 January 2024
Chen, Mike: A Quantum Love Story
(Harlequin/Mira 9780778369509, $18.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
SF time-loop romance novel. Neuroscientist Mariana Pineda, working at a top secret particle accelerator, starts looping in time, the same four days over and over, with a man who also remembers the loop — for a while.
Gibson, Lena: Switching Tracks: Out of the Trash
(Black Rose Writing 9781685133641, $24.95, 359pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 02/01/2024)
Dystopian SF novel, the first in the Train Hoppers series. Elsa scavenges to survive in a 2195 SoCal controlled by a corporatocracy, but a big find makes her a target.
Golden, Christopher: The House of Last Resort
(St. Martin’s 9781250285898, $28.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 01/30/2024)
Haunted house horror novel set In a nearly abandoned town in Italy, where cheap home prices draw Italian-American Tommy Puglisi and his wife, but their new house has a bad history.
Harbour, Katherine: The Dark Fable
(Bloomsbury USA 9781547613748, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 01/30/2024)
YA fantasy novel. Evie Wilder is an orphan who has gone through most of her life unnoticed . . . until she’s caught up in a dramatic heist and captures the attention of the Dark Fable. They have chosen her for a reason: she can turn invisible. This skill would make Evie a treasured asset to the legendary group of thieves known for spiriting away obscure and occult artifacts.
Maas, Sarah J.: House of Flame and Shadow
(Bloomsbury USA 9781635574104, $32, 848pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
Fantasy romance novel, the third in the Crescent City series. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she’s going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that’s no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust.
Pearson, Mallory: We Ate the Dark
(Amazon/47North 9781662515408, $16.99, 443pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 02/01/2024)
Horror novel. Four women investigating the haunting murder of their friend discover more than they ever imagined in a terrifying novel about good and evil, love and death, and the spaces between.
Summers, Georgia: The City of Stardust
(Orbit US/Redhook 9780316561488, $29, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
Fantasy novel. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the family curse. When her mother never returns, their tormentor issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother, or she will take her place. Violet is the last of the Everly line, the last to suffer. Unless she can break the curse first. A first novel.
Sutherland, Krystal: The Invocations
(Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen 9780593532263, $20.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
Young-adult horror novel set in a world where only women can use magic, and someone — or something — is out to kill them.
Tanamachi, Cara: The Takeover
(St. Martin’s Griffin 9781250842282, $17.99, 304pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 01/30/2024)
Romance novel with a hint of fantasy. Nami, disappointed by the way her life has gone, wishes on her 30th birthday to find her soulmate — and instead gets her nemesis from high school.
