Fantasy Book Critic's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 (Part II) [by Caitlin G., Lukasz P. & Mihir W.]
Sins Of The Mother by Rob
J. Hayes
Series/Standalone: The War Eternal series
#4
Release date: May 4th 2022
Official Blurb:
In her darklight the world will burn.
Eskara Helsene is missing. She left her
queendom, her friends, her children, even her own name behind. No one has seen
the Corpse Queen for almost a decade.
Someone is murdering Sourcerers, forcing them
to reject their magic in order to tear open new scars in reality, places where
the boundaries between worlds stretch thin.
When an old acquaintance turns up out of the
blue, Eska has no choice but to investigate the scars left in the world. But
can she stop the murderer without revealing her true nature?
Kagen The Damned by Jonathan
Maberry
Series/Standalone: Kagen The Damned #1
Release date: May 10th 2022
Official Blurb: Sworn by Oath
Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of
the place guard, charged with protection the royal children of the Silver
Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is
killed, leaving the empire in ruins.
Abandoned by the Gods
Haunted and broken, Kagen is abandoned by his
gods and damned forever. He becomes a wanderer, trying to take down as many of
this enemies as possible while plotting to assassinate the usurper –the deadly
Witch-king of Hakkia. While all around him magic –look banished from the
world—returns in strange and terrifying ways.
Fueled by Rage
To find the royal children and exact his
vengeance, Kagen must venture into strange lands, battle bizarre and terrifying
creatures, and gather allies for a suicide mission into the heart of the
Witch-king’s empire.
Kings and gods will fear him.
Kagen the Damned
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
Series/Standalone: standalone
Release date: May 10th 2022
Phoenix Rising by J.
A. Andrews
Series/Standalone: The Keeper Origins
trilogy #3
Release date: May 11th 2022
Official Blurb:
In the epic conclusion of the Keeper Origins, Sable and the companions who’ve
become family to her come together again to face certain defeat at the hands of
the Kalesh Empire—assuming they can survive the political maneuverings of lords
and merchants and prioresses first.
The Fallout by Yrsa
Sigurðardóttir
Series/Standalone: Freyja and Huldar series
#6
Release date: May 12th 2022
Official Blurb: On a cold day in
Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes
up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to
have been realised.
Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and
child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the
same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must
remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body
is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find
themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens
to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol,
will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body
takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind
three separate families.
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea
Abdullah
Series/Standalone: The Sandsea Trilogy
#1
Release date: May 17th 2022
Official Blurb: Neither here nor
there, but long ago…
Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a
criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic.
When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his
powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp
that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all
jinn.
With no choice but to obey or be executed,
Loulie journeys with the sultan’s oldest son to find the artifact. Aided by her
bodyguard, who has secrets of his own, they must survive ghoul attacks, outwit
a vengeful jinn queen, and confront a malicious killer from Loulie’s past. And,
in a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie will discover
that everything—her enemy, her magic, even her own past—is not what it seems,
and she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
All the Seas of the World by Guy
Gavriel Kay
Series/Standalone: Set in the same, near-Renaissance
world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky
Release date: May 17th 2022
Official Blurb: On a dark night
along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their
purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men
alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the
consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great
and small.
One of those arriving at that beach is a woman
abducted by corsairs as a child and sold into years of servitude. Having
escaped, she is trying to chart her own course—and is bent upon revenge. Another
is a seafaring merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his
family from their home, for their faith, a moment that never leaves
him. In what follows, through a story both intimate and epic,
unforgettable characters are immersed in the fierce and deadly struggles that
define their time.
All the Seas of the World is a page-turning drama that also
offers moving reflections on memory, fate, and the random events that can shape
our lives—in the past, and today.
Hide by Kiersten White
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: May 24th 2022
Official Blurb: The challenge:
Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win—to
seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat
her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that.
It’s the reason she’s alive and her family
isn’t.
But as the people around her begin disappearing
one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than
she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.
Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to
hide but nowhere to run.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
The Origin Of Storms by Elizabeth
Bear
Series/Standalone: The Lotus Kingdoms
trilogy #3
Release date: May 24th 2022
Official Blurb: The Lotus Kingdoms are at
war, with four claimants to the sorcerous throne of the Alchemical Emperor,
fielding three armies between them. Alliances are made, and broken, many times
over—but in the end, only one can sit on the throne. And that one must have not
only the power, but the rightful claim.
For the Throne by Hannah Witten
Series/Standalone: The Wilderwood series
#2
Release date: June 7th 2022
Official Blurb: The First Daughter
is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...
Red and the Wolf have finally contained the
threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the
First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the
vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have
slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather
never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir.
Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands
and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that,
they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a
mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for
themselves.
The City Inside by Samit Basu
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: June 7th 2022
Official Blurb: “They'd known the
end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”
Joey is a Reality Controller in near future
Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of
Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to
be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s
too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to see this, or to figure out what
she wants from her life.
Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy
and powerful family who fled to an impoverished immigrant neighborhood where he
loses himself in video games and his neighbors’ lives. When his father’s death
pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey
becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted.
But no good deed goes unpunished. As Joey and
Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out
of control, complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and
the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. When a bigger picture
begins to unfold around them, they must each decide how to do the right thing
in a shadowy world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an
accomplishment. Ultimately, resistance will not—cannot—take the same shape for
these two very different people.
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Series/Standalone: Her Majesty's Royal Coven
#1
Release date: June 14th 2022
Official Blurb: If you look hard
enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the
trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance
fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger
than Mundanes, plain and simple.
At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of
the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the
oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a
covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still
reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the
organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in
the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal
housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick
animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected
to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now
Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has
been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC.
With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must
decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is
right.
Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting
nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy,
friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary
womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena,
Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the
sisterhood of the coven.
The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: June 14th 2022
Official Blurb: Asher Todd comes to live
with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher
knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and
herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and
terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge
in mind, Asher plans to make it choke. However, she becomes fond of her
charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be
able to execute her plan – and who will suffer most if she does. But as the
ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.
Dark magic, retribution and twisted family
secrets combine to weave a bewitching and beautifully written gothic fairy
tale.
In The Shadow Of Lightning by Brian McClellan
Series/Standalone: The Glass Immortals
#1
Release date: June 21st 2022
Official Blurb: Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power,
abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he
will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother
is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the
head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power
that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.
Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the
powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the
scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the
Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group
of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the
world knows it.
Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
Series/Standalone: The Founders trilogy
#3
Release date: June 21st 2022
Official Blurb: A god wages
war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the
Founders trilogy.
Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against
plenty of long odds in the past. But the war they’re fighting now is one even
they can’t win.
This time, they’re not facing robber-baron
elites, or even an immortal hierophant, but an entity whose intelligence is
spread over half the globe—a ghost in the machine that uses the magic of
scriving to possess and control not just objects, but human minds.
To fight it, they’ve used scriving technology to
transform themselves and their allies into an army—a society—that’s like
nothing humanity has seen before. With its strength at their backs, they’ve
freed a handful of their enemy’s hosts from servitude, even brought down some of
its fearsome, reality-altering dreadnaughts. Yet despite their efforts, their
enemy marches on—implacable. Unstoppable.
Now, as their opponent closes in on its true
prize—an ancient doorway, long buried, that leads to the chambers at the center
of creation itself—Sancia and her friends glimpse a chance at reaching it
first, and with it, a last desperate opportunity to stop this unbeatable foe.
But to do so, they’ll have to unlock the centuries-old mystery of scriving’s
origins, embark on a desperate mission into the heart of their enemy’s power,
and pull off the most daring heist they’ve ever attempted.
And as if that weren’t enough, their adversary
might just have a spy in their ranks—and a last trick up its sleeve.
Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald
Series/Standalone: The Redwinter Chronicles
#1
Release date: June 28th 2022
Official Blurb: Those who see the
dead soon join them.
Raine can see―and more importantly, speak―to
the dead. It’s a wretched gift with a death sentence that has her doing many
dubious things to save her skin. Seeking refuge with a deluded cult is her
latest bad, survival-related decision. But her rare act of kindness―rescuing an
injured woman in the snow―is even worse.
Because the woman has escaped from Redwinter,
the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians who answer to no king
and who will stop at nothing to retrieve what she’s stolen. A battle, a
betrayal, and a horrific revelation forces Raine to enter Redwinter. It becomes
clear that her ability might save an entire nation.
Pity she might have to die for that to happen…
The Martyr by Anthony Ryan
Series/Standalone: The Covenant of Steel
#2
Release date: June 28th 2022
Official Blurb: Times have changed for
Alwyn Scribe. Once an outlaw, he’s now a spymaster and sworn protector of Lady
Evadine Courlain, whose visions of a demonic apocalypse have earned her the
fanatical devotion of the faithful.
Yet Evadine’s growing fame has put her at odds
with both Crown and Covenant. As trouble brews in the kingdom, both seek to
exploit her position for their own ends.
Sent to the Duchy of Alundia to put down a
rebellion, Alwyn must rely on old instincts to fight for his new cause. Deadly
feuds and ancient secrets are laid bare as war erupts, a war that will decide
the fate of the Kingdom of Albermaine and, perhaps, prevent the coming of the
prophesied Second Scourge.
Descending Dragon (working title) by Richard
Nell
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: Second quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Unofficial Blurb: With a talking mace, and
a baby dragon, a dying innkeeper's son descends into hell to rescue his
friends...
The Sharded Few by Alec Hutson
Series/Standalone: Book 1 of a new series
Release date: Second quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Official Blurb: A thousand years ago the Heart of the World was shattered, its fragments scattered across the lands. In the chaos that followed, martial orders arose to gather the shards, for it was found that great powers were granted when these pieces were bonded to the flesh of the chosen. They are the Sharded Few, warriors imbued with the divine energies that once coursed through the Heart, driven to absorb enough fragments to claim immortality.
Death's Beating Heart by Rob
J. Hayes
Series/Standalone: The War Eternal series #5
Release date: Second quarter of 2022
No pre-order links yet
Unofficial Tagline: This is the fifth and final book in The War Eternal series, and everything ends when Eska becomes death, the destroyer of worlds!
Lightblade by Zamil Akhtar
Series/Standalone: Sungorgers #1
Release date: Second quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Unofficial Blurb: One day, Jyosh is going
to slice up dragons while skysurfing. But not today. He’s overworked, weak, and
hopeless. And he’s done the unthinkable: spent six month’s salary on a magical
dreaming stone so he can learn how to wield a lightblade while he sleeps. One
day in a dream is equal to one hour in the real world, but does he have enough
time to become strong before the real world unravels around him?
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: July 5th 2022
Official Blurb: What if the coolest girl
you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a
seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair
metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and
started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended
funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she
brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.
Okay, that part was a little weird.
So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious
bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were
other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around,
usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?
Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.
The Memory in the Blood by Ryan
Van Loan
Series/Standalone: Fall Of The Gods #3
Release date: July 12th 2022
Official Blurb: When her quest to
destroy the Gods began, Buc was a child of the streets. Now she is a woman of
steel, shaped by gaining and losing power, tempered by love and betrayal, and
honed to a fine edge by grief and her desire for vengeance.
A perilous, clandestine mission to a hidden
library uncovers information that is key to destroying both the Dead Gods and
their enemy, the Goddess Ciris. Ciris's creation, Sin, who lives inside Buc,
gives her superhuman abilities and tempts her with hints of even greater power.
With that power, she could achieve almost anything—end the religious war
tearing her world apart, remake society at a stroke—but the price would be the
betrayal of everything she has fought for . . . and the man she loved would
still be dead.
In the middle of this murderous, magical
maelstrom, a coded message smuggled out of the heart of the Dead Gods'
cathedral reveals that the Dead Gods intend to destroy Ciris—and much of the
world with her.
This. Will. Not. Stand.
If Buc has to destroy all Gods, eat the rich,
and break the world's economy to save the people, she will do it. Even if it
costs her everything.
Priest of Crowns by Peter McLean
Series/Standalone: War For The Rose Throne
series #4
Release date: July 19th 2022
Official Blurb: Praise be to Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows, and
blessed be the Ascended Martyr.' Those were the words on lips of the
faithful: Blessed be the Ascended Martyr, and woe betide you if you thought
otherwise. The word Unbeliever had become a death sentence on the streets in
those days.
Gangster, soldier, priest. Governor, knight,
and above all, Queen's Man!
Once, Tomas Piety looked after his men, body
and soul, as best he could. Then those who ran his country decided his dark
talents would better serve in the corridors of power.
Crushed by the power of the Queen's Men and
with the Skanian menace rising once more on the streets of Ellinburg, Tomas
Piety is forced to turn to old friends, old debts and untrustworthy alliances.
Meanwhile in the capital city of Dannsburg,
Dieter Vogel is beginning to wonder if the horror he has unleashed in the
Martyr's Disciples might be getting out of control.
With revolution brewing and tragedy and
terrorism running rife in the cities, Piety and Vogel must each weigh the cost
of a crown.
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: July 19th 2022
Official Blurb: Logan Ramsay can
feel his brain…changing.
And his body too.
He’s becoming something other than himself.
Maybe even something other than human.
As he sets out to discover who did this to him,
and why, his transformation threatens everything—his family, his job, even his
freedom.
Because the truth of what’s happened to him is
more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with
a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen—one that
could change our very definitions of humanity.
And the battle to control this unfathomable
power has already begun.
But what if humankind’s only hope for survival
lies in embracing this change—whatever the cost?
Which side will Logan take? And by the time it’s
over, will he—and the people he loves—even recognize him?
The Jaguar Path by Anna
Stephens
Series/Standalone: Songs of The Drowned
#2
Release date: August 4th 2022
Author tagline: “Expect more fights, more magic, more Drowned
and, maybe, a very good doggo.”
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: August 9th 2022
Official Blurb: Out on the
Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who
retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a
peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help
them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to
eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.
Devon is part of The Family, an old and
reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of
valor and adventure, and Devon―like all other book eater women―is raised on a
carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.
But real life doesn't always come with happy
endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of
hunger―not for books, but for human minds.
The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
Series/Standalone: The Burning Kingdoms
#2
Release date: August 16th 2022
Official Blurb: The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the
rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a blessing and curse. She is
determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the
strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side,
deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight.
The power of the deathless waters flows through Priya’s blood. Thrice born
priestess, Elder of Ahiranya, Priya’s dream is to see her country rid of the
rot that plagues it: both Parijatdvipa's poisonous rule, and the blooming
sickness that is slowly spreading through all living things. But she doesn’t
yet understand the truth of the magic she carries.
Their chosen paths once pulled them apart. But Malini and Priya's souls remain
as entwined as their destinies. And they soon realize that coming together is
the only way to save their kingdom from those who would rather see it burn—even
if it will cost them.
Darling by Mercedes M. Yardley
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: August 23rd 2022
Official Blurb: Darling has its demons.
Cherry LaRouche escaped the claws of Darling, Louisiana at
sixteen. When she is forced to return after her mother's death, Cherry and her
children move back into her childhood home where the walls whisper and
something sinister skitters across the roof at night.
While Cherry tries to settle back into a town where evil spreads
like infection, the bodies of several murdered children turn up. When Cherry's
own daughter goes missing, she's forced to confront the true monsters of
Darling.
Bonds of Chaos by Zack
Argyle
Series/Standalone: The Threadlight series
#3
Release date: August 25th 2022
Official Blurb: Sacrifices will be
made.
When all was lost, the Heralds returned, and the
world embraced them as gods and saviors. But there are some who know the truth:
the Heralds are not what they seem.
Now, in a desperate attempt to stop them, Chrys
and the others travel to Cynosure with hopes of enlisting the only Amber
threadweaver with the power to help.
Chrys, Laurel, Alverax, and those they love.
Together, they will stop the gods...or they will
die trying.
The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth
Lim
Series/Standalone: Six Crimson Cranes #2
Release date: August 30th 2022
Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: Third quarter of 2022
No pre-order
links yet
Unofficial Blurb: The founders built this city on
magic. But magic has a cost- and the collectors have come calling.
Exiles (tentative title) by D. P. Woolliscroft
Series/Standalone: Standalone set in the same
world of Kingshold
Release date: Third quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Official Blurb: Life on the
streets of Kingshold is tough when you’re on your own. That’s why Sharavin is
an extractor for the Twilight Exiles, the largest crime family in town; it
helps to have their backing with the type of trouble that she gets into with
her partner, Trypp. But when her family members turn up mutilated in back
alleys on their turf, it feels like they might be headed to war.
Florian knows a thing or two about war. The
things he did as a soldier still haunt his dreams. And as if life wasn’t bad
enough, he gets coerced into babysitting the spoiled and neglected teenage ward
of an ancient wizard.
Their lives are separate, destined to never meet, until a tug on a single thread brings their worlds crashing together. A coming of age story of murder, new friendship and broken bonds.
Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Series/Standalone: The Locked Tomb series #3
Release date: September 13th 2022
Official Blurb: Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She
lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the
beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago
she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.
The whole city is falling to pieces. A
monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart.
Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the
Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that
will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life
with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also
knows that nothing lasts forever.
And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a
skull-painted face...
The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
Series/Standalone: The Rages Trilogy #1
Release date: Fall 2022
No pre-order links yet
Official Blurb: High above a jungle-planet float the last
refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition,
technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered
above anyone else. If not for their ability to psychically manipulate the
architecture, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms
below.
Charismatic, powerful, mystical, Iravan is one such architect. In his city, his
word is nearly law. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his wife,
they are a way for survival to be reliant on the privileged few. Like most
others, she cannot manipulate the plants. And she desperately seeks change.
Their marriage is already thorny—then Iravan is accused of pushing his
abilities to forbidden limits. He needs Ahilya to help clear his name; she
needs him to tip the balance of rule in their society. As their paths become
increasingly intertwined, deadly truths emerge, challenging everything each of
them believes. And as the earthrages become longer, and their floating city begins
to plummet, Iravan and Ahilya's discoveries might destroy their marriage, their
culture, and their entire civilization.
Play Of Shadows by Sebastien De
Castell
Series/Standalone: The Court of Shadows #2
Release date: November 15th 2022
Official Blurb: Damelas Shademantaigne
picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel.
He has precious little hope of escaping the
wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he
stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks
his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides a temporary respite
from his troubles - until one night a ghostly voice in his head causes Damelas
to fumble his lines, inadvertently blurting out a dreadful truth: the city's
most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer.
With only the help of his boisterous and lusty
friend Bereto, a beautiful assassin whose target may well be Damelas himself,
and a company of misfit actors who'd just as soon see him dead, this failed son
of two Greatcoats must somehow find within himself the courage to dig up
long-buried truths before a ruthless band of bravos known as the Iron Orchids
come for his head.
Oh, and there's still that matter of the Vixen
waiting to duel him . . .
We Dream of Gods by Devin Madson
Series/Standalone: The Reborn Empire saga
#4
Release date: December 4th 2022
No pre-order links & blurb yet
Untitled book II of the Beyond Ash And Sand trilogy by Richard Nell
Series/Standalone: Beyond Ash And Sand
trilogy #2
Release date: End of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Unofficial tagline: Ruka, son of Beyla and Yacat of House Mar, fight to save their worlds from a dead god's shadow.
Kraken Rider Z by Dyrk
Ashton & Davis Estes
Series/Standalone: Kraken Rider Series
#1
Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Official Blurb: If there's one thing
dragons fear, it's a kraken.
Luckily for the dragons, and their riders,
no one has seen a kraken in a thousand years.
In a nautical society and world, royal
Dragon Knights guard the king's ships from pirates and hostile empires. They're
trained in an exclusive school only for the rich and well-connected.
Enter a poor teenager named Zee who has no
chance to get in - except Zee saved the life of a baby kraken when he was just
seven years old, and now may become the first Kraken Rider in history.
The Necessity Of Rain by Sarah
Chorn
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Release date: Sometime in 2022
No pre-order links yet
Official Blurb: The god-ruled city of Meadowsweet has been at
peace for a millennia.
Divided between deities Aether and Oceana, Meadowsweet thrives in harmony. In a
place where prayers are currency and worship is obligation, life is prescribed
and comfortable for most. However, when Father Luna, interloper god, arrives
with a strange girl in tow, the balance of power shifts. Suddenly, everything
is in peril.
Gambled away by a father she hardly knows, Rosemary finds sanctuary in Father
Luna. Soon, she is thrust into the center of a divine conflict. When everything
she loves hangs by a thread, Rosemary realizes she has the power to change the
game, but at the cost of her soul. To survive, she must reveal who she truly
is.
When gods go to war, the world trembles.
When the gods move, nothing is sacred.
Epoch’s End by Zamil Akhtar
Series/Standalone: Gunmetal Gods #3
Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022
No GR or pre-order links yet
Unofficial Blurb: The god who protected the
land is dead. A blood plague infests the soil and sea. Wicked angels vie for
dominion over hearts and minds. All while war simmers between four mighty
kingdoms. The line between truth and falsehood, good and evil, hope and
catastrophe is buried deep in blood-soaked sand.
Untitled
book IV of The Great Hearts series by David
Oliver
Series/Standalone: The Great Hearts series
#4
Release date: Fourth quarter of 2022
No GR, pre-order links or official blurb yet
There are also forthcoming
titles by Rachel Aaron, Ilona Andrews,
R.J. Barker, Gareth Hanrahan, Davis Ashura, Teresa Frohock, Krystle Matar, Angela Boord, Cam Johnston, Ilana C.
Myer, Django Wexler & John Connolly that we are eagerly awaiting but
have no details about.
NOTE: Header pic courtesy of Formatoriginal & Vecteezy.
12:00 AM | 
Posted by
The Reader |
Labels:
Anticipated releases 2022
.jpg)
0 comments: