If you’re new to Hide Your Wallet, this is where we list new releases we’re pretty excited for in the coming month.
Each reviewer has a book maximum (five per person), and we’ve separated HYW into two parts. The first HYW of the month will cover books that release from the 1st to the 14th. The second HYW will cover books released from the 15th to the end of the month.
We also think this will help us feature books from smaller publishers who don’t have buy links up as early as the bigger trade houses.
As always, if we missed any books that you’re particularly looking forward to, tell us all about them in the comments.
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The Close-Up
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Released: August 16, 2022 by 1001 Dark Nights Press
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Novella, Romance
Series: Hollywood Renaissance #1.5Set in the dynamic worlds of professional basketball and entertainment, two of Kennedy Ryan’s most critically-acclaimed series—HOOPs and Hollywood Renaissance—collide in this tale of forbidden romance.
I met Nazareth Armstrong when I was eighteen years old. From the beginning, my brother warned me to stay away from him. Told Naz to stay away from me.
Our hearts didn’t listen.
I shared one magical night under the stars with my brother’s rival, thinking it was the start of a once-in-a-lifetime something.
But one awful moment ended it all.Years later when we meet again, we’ve both pursued our dreams, lived a little, found success…but never found love. What began as a tiny flame when we were young now threatens to consume us. I’m more drawn to Naz than ever, but his complicated history with my brother makes whatever this could be…nearly impossible.
But Naz accepts impossible as a dare.
Through his clever maneuvering and dogged determination, I find myself on a yacht with him and his friends cruising through the Mediterranean. It’s a whirlwind set ablaze. Away from reality, surrendering to the tender heat of his touch, I forget that everything could burn.
This is the love story of Takira, who first appears in Reel, book 1 of the Hollywood Renaissance series. Characters from the HOOPS series also make appearances, but you do not have to read any of those books to enjoy this one.
Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you’ll enjoy each one as much as we do.
Aarya: Loved Reel and am super psyched for this crossover!
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Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Author: Alicia Thompson
Released: August 16, 2022 by Berkley
Genre: Contemporary Romance, RomanceTurns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she’s used to suspecting the worst.
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She’s even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It’s hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn’t had a relationship with for years.
It doesn’t help that she’s low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he’s clearly up to something). But it’s not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.
Amanda: This is giving me Finlay Donovan murder mystery vibes but with more romance and a Florida setting.
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A Duel with the Vampire Lord
Author: Elise Kova
Released: August 18, 2022 by Silver Wing Press
Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale Romance, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: Married to Magic #3On the night of the blood moon, the Vampire Lord must die.
Floriane’s position as the forge maiden of Hunter’s Hamlet is one of reverence, for it is her skill that arms and protects the vampire hunters. She knows her place and is a faithful servant to the Master Hunter and her community… until the night of the blood moon. Until her brother is dying at the hands of the Vampire Lord Ruvan.
Wanting to defend her home at all costs, Floriane fights the vampire lord, ready to give her life if it means taking his. But Ruvan doesn’t want to take her life… he wants her.
Kidnapped and brought to the vampire castle, Floriane is now blood sworn to the vampire lord. She is bound in mind and body to her worst enemy. But Ruvan isn’t the fiend she thought he was. She learns the truth of the vampires: They are not mindless monsters, but a proud people, twisted and tortured by an ancient curse.
Ruvan believes that Floriane might be the key to ending his people’s suffering. All Floriane wants is to defend her home. Loyalties are tested and the lines between truth and lie, hate and passion, are blurred.
When her dagger is at his chest, will she be able to take the heart of the man who has claimed hers?
A darkly-reimagined Snow White meets inspiration from Beauty and the Beast in an epic fantasy world of hunters, vampires, and curses that run deeper than blood. This stand alone is complete with a “happily ever after” ending. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon worthy, enemies to lovers story.
While it is set in the Married to Magic universe, readers can start with this book.
Elyse’s pick!
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The Hellion and the Hero
Author: Emily Sullivan
Released: August 23, 2022 by Forever
Genre: Historical: European, Romance
Series: League of Scoundrels #3Society darling Lady Georgiana Arlington spent years crafting her image as the ideal wife, but since her husband’s unexpected death, she has lived mostly for herself while making desperately needed improvements to the businesses she inherited––and gaining a mysterious enemy in the process. With few people she can trust, Georgiana must rely on Captain Henry Harris, a former fortune-hunter turned private investigator who once claimed to love the woman beneath her carefully polished veneer. Time and experience have left a heavy mark on the dashing young officer she used to know, but she finds herself even more drawn to the dark and complicated man he has become.
When Captain Harris left London eight years ago, he was heartbroken and nearly penniless. Now he has returned as a decorated naval hero with everything he could ever want. Everything except Lady Georgiana… As a careless young woman, she once shredded his heart when she married another man. But now she is as alluring as ever, with a newfound tenacity he can’t help but admire. And the more he uncovers, the more nothing is as it seems, especially the woman he once swore to hate forever.
Claudia: Second-chance romance by an author I’ve very much enjoyed in the past. Nuff said.
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Reluctant Immortals
Author: Gwendolyn Kiste
Released: August 23, 2022 by Gallery/Saga Press
Genre: Gothic, Horror, Science Fiction/FantasyFor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature–from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre–as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.
Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world.
Amanda: A revenge story set in the 60s with classic lit characters! Hello!
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Ruby Fever
Author: Ilona Andrews
Released: August 23, 2022 by Avon
Genre: Romance, Urban Fantasy
Series: Hidden Legacy #6#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews is back with the newest book in the exciting Hidden Legacy series—the thrilling conclusion to her trilogy featuring fierce and beautiful Prime magic user Catalina Baylor.
An escaped spider, the unexpected arrival of an Imperial Russian Prince, the senseless assassination of a powerful figure, a shocking attack on the supposedly invincible Warden of Texas, Catalina’s boss… And it’s only Monday.
Within hours, the fate of Houston—not to mention the House of Baylor—now rests on Catalina, who will have to harness her powers as never before. But even with her fellow Prime and fiancé Alessandro Sagredo by her side, she may not be able to expose who’s responsible before all hell really breaks loose.
Aarya: Surprising no one, my #1 anticipated read of 2022.
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The Scoundrel Falls Hard
Author: Sophie Jordan
Released: August 23, 2022 by Avon
Genre: Historical: European, Romance
Series: The Duke Hunt #3A devil’s bargain burns the hottest….
For years, fiercely independent Gwen Cully has worked as the village blacksmith, keeping her family’s business going. But when a local rival threatens her livelihood, Gwen has nowhere to turn … until a devastatingly handsome fugitive takes shelter in her shop and sparks fly.
Unrepentant rogue Kellan Fox’s entire existence has been a dangerous game of deception that leads him into a fight for survival–and straight into the arms of a tall, fiery beauty. When Gwen protects him from an angry mob of villagers, Kellan sees the perfect solution to both their troubles. A marriage–in name only–that will last a single year.
Only a marriage of convenience can’t hide their searing attraction. It glows hotter than Gwen’s forge and reaches deep below the tempting mask Kellan wears for the world. With every sizzling glance and scorching kiss, Gwen surrenders more of herself to the molten passion she finds in Kellan’s strong embrace. But can she ever truly trust her heart to a scoundrel?
Elyse: The heroine of this book is a blacksmith!
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Small Town, Big Magic
Author: Hazel Beck
Released: August 23, 2022 by Graydon House
Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: Witchlore #1For fans of THE EX HEX and PAYBACK’S A WITCH, a fun, witchy rom-com in which a bookstore owner who is fighting to revitalize a small midwestern town clashes with her rival, the mayor, and uncovers not only a clandestine group that wields a dark magic to control the idyllic river hamlet, but hidden powers she never knew she possessed.
Witches aren’t real. Right?
No one has civic pride quite like Emerson Wilde. As a local indie bookstore owner and youngest-ever Chamber of Commerce president, she’d do anything for her hometown of St. Cyprian, Missouri. After all, Midwest is best! She may be descended from a witch who was hanged in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials, but there’s no sorcery in doing your best for the town you love.
Or is there?As she preps Main Street for an annual festival, Emerson notices strange things happening around St. Cyprian. Strange things that culminate in a showdown with her lifelong arch-rival, Mayor Skip Simon. He seems to have sent impossible, paranormal creatures after her. Creatures that Emerson dispatches with ease, though she has no idea how she’s done it. Is Skip Simon…a witch? Is Emerson?
It turns out witches are real, and Emerson is one of them. She failed a coming-of-age test at age eighteen—the only test she’s ever failed!—and now, as an adult, her powers have come roaring back.
But she has little time to explore those powers, or her blossoming relationship with her childhood friend, cranky-yet-gorgeous local farmer Jacob North: an ancient evil has awakened in St. Cyprian, and it’s up to Emerson and her friends—maybe even Emerson herself—to save everything she loves.
Sarah: Bookstores + witches + small midwestern town = curious me!
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To Catch a Raven
Author: Beverly Jenkins
Released: August 23, 2022 by Avon
Genre: Historical: European, Romance
Series: Women Who Dare #3The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen Declaration of Independence.
Lying and cheating may be sins to some people, but for Raven Moreaux, it is a way of life. She comes from a long line of grifters and couldn’t be prouder…Until she’s forced to help the government.
A former Confederate official is suspected of stealing the Declaration of Independence, and Raven, posing as his housekeeper, is tasked with getting it back. Her partner is the too handsome Braxton Steel. Masquerading as a valet/driver, Brax is also supposed to be her “husband.” He has his own reasons for doing this job, but when their pretend marriage ignites into fiery passion, they’ll have to put everything—including their hearts—on the line.
Aarya: HISTORICAL HEIST!
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Author: Megan Bannen
Released: August 23, 2022 by Orbit
Genre: Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyHart Ralston is a demigod and a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria. The realm the exiled old gods once called home is now a forsaken place where humans with no better options or no better sense come seeking adventure or spoils, but more often end up as drudges: reanimated corpses inhabited by the souls of those who’ve died in Tanria before. Hart tells himself that his job is simple: neutralize the drudges with a quick zap to the appendix and deliver them back to polite society at the nearest undertaker’s, leaving the whys and hows of the drudge problem for men without the complexities of a god in their family tree. But working alone, Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder exactly those questions he’d most like to avoid.
Too much time alone is the opposite of Mercy Birdsall’s problem. Since her father’s decline, she’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son undertakers afloat in small-town Eternity—despite definitely not being a son, and in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart Ralston, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest. The work’s not the problem—Mercy’s good at it, better than any other Birdsall—but keeping all her family’s plates spinning singlehandedly, forever, isn’t how Mercy envisioned her future.
After yet another run-in with the sharp-tongued Mercy, Hart considers she might have a point about his utter loneliness being a bit of a liability. In a moment of sentimentality, he pens a letter addressed simply to “A Friend,” and entrusts it to a nimkilim, an anthropomorphic animal messenger with an uncanny connection to the gods, (and in Hart’s case, a bit of a drinking problem). Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born.
If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most–Mercy. As the two unlikely pen pals grow closer, the truth about Hart’s parentage and the nature of the drudges creeps in. And suddenly their old animosity seems so small in comparison to what they might be able to do: end the drudges forever. But at what cost?
Amanda: A romance with letter-writing and grumpy undertaker heroines! Sign me up.
Sarah: Epistolary romance and grumpiness, co-sign.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Released: August 23, 2022 by Berkley
Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale Romance, Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyA warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life.
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules…with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos “pretending” to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.
But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.
As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn’t the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn’t know she was looking for….
Sarah: I love every word of the title and am very excited to read this.
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A Taste of Gold and Iron
Author: Alexandra Rowland
Released: August 30, 2022 by Tor.com
Genre: LGBTQIA, Romance, Science Fiction/FantasyThe Goblin Emperor meets “Magnificent Century” in Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.
Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen’s new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation.
To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.
Susan: Came for the gorgeous cover, staying for icy bodyguard and anxious prince falling in love and solving crime.
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In the Event of Love
Author: Courtney Kae
Released: August 30, 2022 by Kensington Books
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance
Series: Fern Falls #1Fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur will adore this queer romcom that combines everything people love about Hallmark-style holiday romances with laugh-out-loud humor and a sweet and steamy love story between two women.
With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn’t headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another . . .
Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel’s sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm.
When Morgan discovers that the Reeds’ struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole town’s livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. She has all the inspiration for a spectacular event: delicious vanilla lattes, acoustic guitars under majestic pines, a cozy barn surrounded by brilliant stars. But she and Rachel will ABSOLUTELY NOT have a heartwarming holiday happy ending. That would be as unprofessional as it is unlikely. Right?
Aarya: Sapphic Christmas romance!
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Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book Five Omnibus
Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan find there’s little call for their job skills…among the living, that is!
But their unique talents allow them to work with the dead…carrying out the last wishes of those whose spirits are still trapped in their corpses, and can’t move on to the next life!
Book Five has the Kurosagi gang running into ever more bizarre incidents of modern horror, from mind-control mouse hats, to taxpayer-supported torture museums, to the most feared calamity of all…jury duty! Meanwhile, it seems a gang of corpse-clearing impostors is out to take away their meager business–and in America, someone’s made a cartoon series based off them…?! Plus, three previously unpublished stories: a client whose psychological syndrome makes her believe she’s dead; the mad robot scientist trio invents a zombie biker gang, and fugitives from a deadly cult hide out in the radioactive ruins of Fukushima!
Collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volumes 13 and 14, plus the previously unpublished volume 15.
Susan: I have been waiting for this book since 2015. Kurosagi is my favourite anthology horror series, and its English publication has been a rollercoaster. It’s lost publishing quality, it’s been cancelled, it’s been reissued in omnibus form, and after all that! *We’re finally getting volume 15!*
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Other Birds
Author: Sarah Addison Allen
Released: August 30, 2022 by St. Martin's Press
Genre: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction/FantasyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go.
Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways.
Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits—a stunning old cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe, and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.
When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment on an island outside of Charleston she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, two estranged middle-aged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary writer, and three ghosts. Each with their own story. Each with their own longings. Each whose ending isn’t yet written.
Amanda: Sarah Addison Allen is an auto-buy for me.
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Pack of Lies
Author: Charlie Adhara
Released: August 30, 2022 by Carina Adores
Genre: LGBTQIA, Paranormal, Romance
Series: Monster Hunt #1Werewolf meets human. Werewolf snubs human. Werewolf loves human?
Julien Doran arrived in sleepy Maudit Falls, North Carolina, with a heart full of hurt and a head full of questions. The key to his brother’s mysterious last days might be found in this tiny mysterious town, and now Julien’s amateur investigation is starting to unearth things the locals would rather keep buried.
Perhaps most especially the strange, magnetic manager of a deserted retreat that’s nearly as odd as its staff.
Eli Smith is a lot of things: thief, werewolf, glamour-puss, liar. And now the manager of a haven for rebel pack runaways. He’s spent years cultivating the persona of a flippant sophisticate to disguise his origins, but for the first time ever he’s been entrusted with a real responsibility—and he plans to take that seriously.
Even if the handsome tourist who claims to be in town for some R & R is clearly on a hunt for all things paranormal. And hasn’t taken his brooding gaze off Eli since he’s arrived.
When an old skeleton and a fresh corpse turn a grief errand into a murder investigation, the unlikely Eli is the only person Julien can turn to. Trust is hard to come by in a town known for its monsters, but so is time. As they’re trapped together in a crumbling mountain lookout, their secrets will have to come out…or both of them may end up buried.
Aarya: Sad that Cooper and Park’s arc have come to an end, but happy that the author is continuing the story with Eli.
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Suburban Hell
Bad Moms meets My Best Friend’s Exorcism in this lite-horror-comedy about a group of women in the Chicago ‘burbs, whose cul-de-sac gets a new neighbor: a demon.
Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and went full minivan, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, together snarking the “Mom Mafia” from the outskirts of the PTA mom crowd. So, one night during their monthly wine get-together, the newfound crew concoct a plan for a clubhouse She Shed in Liz’s backyard – the perfect space for just them, no spouses or kids allowed.
But the night after they christen the space with a ceremonial drink, things start to feel…off. What they didn’t expect was for Liz’s little home improvement project to release a demonic force that turns their quiet suburban enclave into something out of a nightmare. And that’s before the Homeowners’ Association gets wind of it.
Just as Liz is turned into a creepy doll face overnight, cases of haunting activity around the neighborhood intensify, and even the calmest moms can’t justify the strange burn marks, self-moving dolls, and horrible smells surrounding their possessed friend, Liz. Together, Amy, Jess, and Melissa must fight back the evil spirit to save Liz and the neighborhood…before the suburbs go completely to hell. But at least they don’t have to deal with the PTA, right?
Amanda: The tone is giving me Grady Hendrix vibes.
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I don’t read much SFF, but that cover for A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON is gorgeous!
I like the cover and the concepts A Taste of Gold and Iron is promising, but that is one of the worst book descriptions I’ve read in recent memory. It reads like a word processor’s automated doc summary of a two-page synopsis. I clicked through to a store to see if the version here was a remnant from ARC days, but no, that’s what they’re officially going with. I would be livid.
@Lena Brassard/Ren Benton: It took me over five extremely twitchy minutes before I figured out that it was Kadou’s sister who was the queen and not just a misplaced appositive comma in the sentence “To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility..” I would love to read this book except that I really fear running into similar messes. You actually helped me decompress with your post. Thank you! Seriously, I was beginning to wonder about my sanity. [Score one for ASD]
Ruby Fever is already is some bookstores. It is very good!
Can the Beverly Jenkins be in the next “Cover Awe” post? It is absolutely gorgeous! Looking forward to reading that and Ruby Fever!
I had some of these on my TBR list, and now I’ve added others. You are so bad for my book budget. I was going to wait on a library copy of Sarah Addison Allen’s new book but instead I hit my local indie’s website to order a copy.
I’d already pre-ordered Seanan McGuire’s new October Daye book, Be the Serpent, which from Goodreads previews isn’t going to be a peaceful postwedding hiatus for Toby and Tybalt (what a suprise). There are strong hints of a big reveal coming. I’ve also pre-ordered Susanna Allen’s new shifter romance, A Duke at the Door – a series that SBTB introduced me to.
What really set me off yesterday though was Victoria Goddard putting up a pre-order link for the new Lays of the Hearthfires book – all about Kip’s adventures while His Radiance is off on his quest. It’s not out til November, and I will be counting the days.
One day until The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri comes out!!!!!!
The first book in this trilogy (The Jasmine Throne) was my favorite read of 2021 and I’m beyond excited for this one.
I’m surprised not to see Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean (i believe it’s an 8/23 release) on this list as I know she’s a Bitchery fav!
I love love loved Sangu Mandanna’s The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches! It’s so warm and sparkly and romantic and full of found family. And The Undertaking of Hary and Mercy is so much fun!
I didn’t realize Sarah Addison Allen had a new book coming out! Adding that one to my TBR list, as well as THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY and LOVE IN THE TIME OF SERIAL KILLERS.
I’m also excited for LOVE ON THE BRAIN by Ali Hazelwood, which is releasing August 23.
I gasp audibly every time I see that Sophie Jordan cover. The boots! The tight breeches! Anvil and sparks! His hand on her thigh! Ok I’ll stop now. *fans self*
Kurosagi Corpseihin Delivery Service! Thank you for letting me know about this. I’d given up on ever getting more of the weirdness.
I requested that my library buy The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy and they did and I’m the first person on the list when it comes out! I was attracted to it based on this quote in the product description – “If you ever wished for an adult romance that felt like Howl’s Moving Castle, THIS IS THAT BOOK. – Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient.” Really hoping that’s accurate.
Can I make a request? I’d like to see some kind of follow up to the new releases posts. If the reviewers read any of the books that get listed, I’d like to know what they thought. It doesn’t need to be a full review. I’m thinking just a paragraph or so saying whether it lived up to expectations or turned out not to be worthy of the list.
Patricia Briggs’ SOUL TAKEN releases the same day as the IA book. People are in a dither as to which one to read first, lol.
All of these are on my TBR pile, though I’m still waiting for Sophie Jordan’s work to redeem itself after her last spate of books.
August 30 is going to be a big day for me. First a new Anna Lee Huber, A CERTAIN DARKNESS, has Verity and Sidney called on to work unrelated cases, or are they? Love the post WWW setting and the relationship now that the whole being dead thing as resolved. The champagne bubble of their wartime marriage may have popped, but a stronger bond has grown.
Next a new installment in Charlaine Harris’ Gunnie Rose series, THE SERPENT IN HEAVEN. Harris has done a fine job of world building here.. The mix of alt history and magic makes for a lively read.
Happy reading everyone!
Wow, I don’t think Beverly Jenkins has ever done a heist romance before!
@KitBee Your recommendation of Ali Hazelwood’s new book opened a rage rabbit hole for me – apparently the newest Amazon scam is people publishing expensive summaries of books that haven’t even been released yet!?!? Since I hadn’t paid close attention to the title when you recommended it and one of the summaries has a professional-looking cover, I almost pre-ordered one of them instead of the actual book. It made me mad that these people are obviously trying to trick consumers to make money, so I reported all three of them and messaged the author and am posting here. Has anyone else seen this happening with other books?
Small Town, Big Magic is so freaking good! Read the ARC.
So, apparently, Caitlin Crews is a coauthor of Small Town, Big Magic. From her newsletter: “Megan Crane is one author writing under two names, right? She’s also one half of Hazel Beck, the nom de plume for two authors writing under one name. Megan, with her friend Nicole Helm, delight readers with breathtaking magic, emotional romance, and stories of witches you won’t soon forget.”
Megan Crane is Caitlin Crews and half of Hazel Beck. Megan is her real name and she writes under all of them.