Hi booklovers
Contrary to last month I have 5 books I'm looking forward to this month.
May
This is the novella between the original trilogy and the rest of the series.
The Winter Solstice. In a
week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what
my formal role was to be. If we'd have a High Priestess do some odious
ceremony, as lanthe had done the year before. A year. Gods, nearly a
year since Rhys had called in his bargain, desperate to get me away from
the poison of the Spring Court to save me from my despair. Had he been
only a minute later, the Mother knew what would have happened. Where I'd
now be. Snow swirled and eddied in the garden, catching in the brown
fibers of the burlap covering the shrubs My mate who had worked so hard
and so selflessly, all without hope that I would ever be with him We had
both fought for that love, bled for it. Rhys had died for it.
A sumptuously magical, brand new take on a tale as old as time—read the Beast's side of the story at long last.
I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both.
I am the Beast.
The day I was cursed to this wretched existence was the day I was saved—although it did not feel so at the time.
My
redemption sprung from contemptible roots; I am not proud of what I did
the day her father happened upon my crumbling, isolated chateau. But if
loneliness breeds desperation then I was desperate indeed, and I did
what I felt I must. My shameful behaviour was unjustly rewarded.
My Isabeau. She opened my eyes, my mind and my heart; she taught me how to be human again.
And now I might lose her forever.
Lose yourself in this gorgeously rich and magical retelling of The Beauty and the Beast that finally lays bare the beast's heart.
They call her Traitor
Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he
tried to assassinate the high king years ago. Now Kate lives as an
outcast, clinging to the fringes of society as a member of the Relay,
the imperial courier service. Only those most skilled in riding and bow
hunting ride for the Relay; and only the fastest survive, for when dark
falls, the nightdrakes—deadly flightless dragons—come out to hunt.
Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: she is a wilder, born with magic
that allows her to influence the minds of animals. But it’s this magic
that she needs to keep hidden, as being a wilder is forbidden,
punishable by death or exile. And it’s this magic that leads her to a
caravan massacred by nightdrakes in broad daylight—the only survivor her
childhood friend, her first love, the boy she swore to forget, the boy
who broke her heart.
The high king’s second son, Corwin Tormane,
never asked to lead. Even as he waits for the uror—the
once-in-a-generation ritual to decide which of the king’s children will
succeed him—he knows it’s always been his brother who will assume the
throne. And that’s fine by him. He’d rather spend his days away from the
palace, away from the sight of his father, broken with sickness from
the attempt on his life. But the peacekeeping tour Corwin is on has
given him too much time to reflect upon the night he saved his father’s
life—the night he condemned the would-be killer to death and lost the
girl he loved. Which is why he takes it on himself to investigate rumors
of unrest in one of the remote city-states, only for his caravan to be
attacked—and for him to be saved by Kate.
With their paths once
more entangled, Kate and Corwin have to put the past behind them. The
threat of drakes who attack in the daylight is only the beginning of a
darker menace stirring in the kingdom—one whose origins have dire
implications for Kate’s father’s attack upon the king and will thrust
them into the middle of a brewing civil war in the kingdom of Rime.
Stephanie Garber’s
limitless imagination takes flight once more in the colorful,
mesmerizing, and immersive sequel to the bestselling breakout debut Caraval
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
After
being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has
finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a
disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella
isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious
criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver:
Caraval Master Legend’s true name.
The only chance of uncovering
Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the
legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir
to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her
sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice.
But now the game is asking for more. If Tella can’t fulfill her bargain
and deliver Legend’s name, she’ll lose everything she cares about—maybe
even her life. But if she wins, Legend and Caraval will be destroyed
forever.
Welcome, welcome to Caraval...the games have only just begun.
29th: Lifelik3 by Jay Kristoff
On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.
Eve
isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The
robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced
to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the
grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. To top it
off, she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her
mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are building a coffin her size.
If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it.
But when
Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap
pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best
friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic conscience, Cricket, in tow, she and
Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, infiltrate
towering megacities and scour the graveyard of humanity’s greatest folly
to save the ones Eve loves, and learn the dark secrets of her past.
Even if those secrets were better off staying buried.
I preordered ACOFAS in April and it was supposed to be delivered on Wednesday, but it still hasn't arrived :-s
I'm also definitely going to preorder Legendary (I enjoyed Caraval and I'm curious to see where the story will go) and Lifelik3. I love Jay Kristoff's Illuminae files and Nevernight trilogy (the books that are out yet, anyway).
Like with Caraval, the hardback versions of Legendary will come with four different covers under the dustjacket.
Which books are you looking forward to in May? Let me know in the comments.
Bye for now
Annelies
