Happy 1st of March!
It’s that time of the month where I get to talk about the books, that are being published this month that I am looking forward too.
1st March
Book: The Liar’s Girl
Author:Catherine Ryan Howard.
Publisher: Corvus
Genre: Mystery/ Thriller/ Suspense/ Crime
ISBN13:9781782398974
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College-and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enrol in St. John’s and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed … and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer-and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who’d been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back.
When a young woman’s body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess-but there’s only one person he’s prepared to confess it to. The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she’s worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn’t set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.
Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all.
I love the sound of this book the premise really interests me.
6th March
Book: To Kill a Kingdom
Author: Alexandra Christo
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Genre: Fantasy / Young Adult/ Mythology – Mermaids
Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.
The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?
This book is a YA book with royal siren in, so a must read for me.
Book: Children of Blood and Bone
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Publisher: My Kinda Book
Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781509871353
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers—and her growing feelings for the enemy.
I was lucky enough to get a proof copy of this book, and love it. You can find the review HERE.
Book: Lake Silence (The Other #6)
Author: Anne Bishop
Publisher: Ace
Genre: Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal
ISBN13:9780399587245
Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . .
After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki’s have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what’s out there watching you.
Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe–one of the shapeshifting Others–discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man’s death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous–and it’ll take everything they have to stay alive
The take on supernatural creatures and the relationship with human makes this series a must read for me. See my review on the last book in the series Etched in Bones (The Others #5) by Anne Bishop
Book: Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega #5)
Author: Patricia Briggs
Publisher: Orbit
Genre: Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal
ISBN13:9780356506005
They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok’s pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm.
With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such wildling. Heading into the mountainous wilderness, they interrupt the abduction of the wolf–but can’t stop blood from being shed. Now Charles and Anna must use their skills–his as enforcer, hers as peacemaker–to track down the attackers, reopening a painful chapter in the past that springs from the darkest magic of the witchborn.
I found this series last year, I enjoy Werewolves stories and like its take on Omega as I also enjoy the relationship between Anna and Charles.
See below for my previous reviews;
Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega) by Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega 2) by Patricia Briggs
Fair Game (Alpha & Omega #3) By Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega #4) By Patricia Briggs
20th March
Book: The Heart Forger (The Bone Witch #2)
Author: Rin Chupecco
Publisher: Soucebooks
Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult
In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection―now she’s after revenge…
No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life…and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. With the help of these terrifying beasts, she can finally enact revenge against the royals who wronged her―and took the life of her one true love.
But there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea’s dark power for their own nefarious ends. Because you can’t kill someone who can never die…
War is brewing among the kingdoms, and when dark magic is at play, no one is safe.
This books are interesting as the main character is not the normal good girl.
The first book in the series is called The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco.
Pictures and synopses are from Goodreads.
Thanks for reading
Gem x
