New Books, 27 February 2024
Bakis, Kirsten: King Nyx
(Norton/Liveright 9781324093534, $28.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Feminist gothic novel with possible fantasy elements, about Charles Fort’s wife in 1918, who investigates the disappearance of three girls, but can’t tell if she’s seen ghosts or her mind is unraveling.
Bishop, Anne: The Lady in Glass and Other Stories
(Ace 9780593639054, $28, 480pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Collection of short stories. All of author’s short fiction to date, including published and unpublished pieces, and two new stories written for this volume.
Chan, Eliza: Fathomfolk
(Orbit US 9780316564922, $19.99, 448pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Fantasy novel inspired by East Asian mythology. Revolution is brewing in the semi-submerged city Tiankawi, between humans and the water-dwelling sirens, sea witches, kelpies, and kappas. A first novel.
Greenlaw, Rachel: Compass and Blade
(HarperCollins/Inkyard Press 9781335012326, $19.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Young-adult fantasy romance novel. On a ship which sails out to the rocks to plunder shipwrecks, Mira’s job is to rescue any survivors. But the shipwrecks aren’t an accident. The locals set beacons to lure ships into the rocks.
Henry, Veronica G.: The Canopy Keepers
(Amazon/47North 9781662503801, $16.99, 365pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 03/01/2024)
Fantasy novel. A Black female fire chief at a national park discovers ancient forces of nature angered by continual destruction.
Jensen, Danielle L.: A Fate Inked in Blood
(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 9780593599839, $29.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Norse fantasy romance novel in the Saga of the Unfated series. Freya dreams of becoming a warrior, and gets her chance when it’s revealed she has a drop of a goddess’s blood, which makes her a shield maiden, but the region’s jarl is determined to control her.
Kristoff, Jay: Empire of the Damned
(Harper Voyager UK 9780008350482, $32, 736pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/29/2024)
Dark fantasy/vampire horror novel, the second in the Empire of the Vampire series. Illustrated by Bon Orthwick. Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone.
Mohamed, Premee: The Butcher of the Forest
(Tordotcom 9781250881786, $18.99, 160pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 02/27/2024)
Fantasy novella. Veris Thorn must enter a wild, dangerous forest to recover the missing children of the merciless foreign tyrant who rules her land.
Mooring, Meredith: Redsight
(Rebellion/Solaris UK 9781786189387, $27.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 02/29/2024)
Queer science fantasy novel. A blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time must choose between the Order that raised her or making her power her own.
Park, Soyoung: Snowglobe
(Penguin Random House/Delacorte 9780593484975, $20.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Young-adult dystopian SF novel, the first in a duology. Translated from the Korean by Joungmin Lee Comfort. People live inside the vast dome of Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that’s warm. Inside, the residents have everything. Outside, citizens face the icy wasteland to work at the power plant that Snowglobe needs, consoled only by a 24 hour stream showing the glamorous lives of the residents within.
Polansky, Daniel: Tomorrow’s Children
(Angry Robot UK 9781915202857, $18.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Post-apocalyptic SF novel. A noxious cloud settles over Manhattan, separating the island from the rest of the world and mutating the population.
Poranek, Ania: Where the Dark Stands Still
(Simon & Schuster/McElderry 9781665936477, $19.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
YA fantasy novel. Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Then she accidentally unleashes her own powers and is captured by the demon warden of the wood, the Leszy.
Rice, Waubgeshig: Moon of the Turning Leaves
(HarperCollins/Morrow 9780358673255, $30, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Post-apocalyptic SF novel, standalone sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow. A scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit Northern Ontario Indigenous community, more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.
Sambury, Liselle: Tender Beasts
(Simon & Schuster/McElderry 9781665903523, $19.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
Young-adult horror novel. Sunny has to take care of her youngest brother Dom after their mother’s death, but he’s accused of murder and bodies keep turning up.
Sides, Bradley: Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood
(Montag Press 9781957010335, $14.95, 142pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 02/6/2024)
Collection of magical realism short stories mixing the South and the weird and science fiction.
Skye, Jasmine: Daughter of the Bone Forest
(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 9781250872456, $20.99, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/27/2024)
YA fantasy novel, the first in a duology about a teen with the rare ability to shift into a powerful bone wolf, who reluctantly accepts a spot at a prestigious witch school.
Wells, Martha: The Book of Ile-Rien
(Tordotcom 9781250873132, $28.99, 752pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 02/27/2024)
Omnibus of two novels in the series: The Element of Fire and The Death of the Necromancer. This updated and revised edition is the author’s preferred text.
