Хлоя Пеньяранда показала обложку «The Night is Defying», продолжения «The Stars are Dying» ✨ Релиз намечен на январь 2025

Все еще красиво, но после первой читать уже не тянет

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«A Palace Near the Wind» by Ai Jiang
Релиз: апрель, 2025

Вроде выглядит любопытно. Главная героиня строит план по убийству людского правителя, чтобы прервать цепочку договорных браков между народами и спасти свою семью «ветроходов» и природу от пагубного влияния людей, набирающих власть.

Sometimes called Wind Walkers for their ability to command the wind, unlike their human rulers, the Feng people have bark faces, carved limbs, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads. Bound by duty and tradition, Liu Lufeng, the eldest princess of the Feng royalty, is the next bride to the human king. The negotiation of bridewealth is the only way to stop the expansion of the humans so that the Feng can keep their lands, people, and culture intact. As the eldest, Lufeng should be the next in line to lead the people of Feng, and in the past, that made her sisters disposable. Thankful that her youngest sister, Chuiliu, is too young for a sacrificial marriage, she steps in with plans to kill the king to finally stop the marriages.

But when she starts to uncover the truth about her peoples’ origins and realizes Chuiliu will never be safe from the humans, she must learn to let go of duty and tradition, choose her allies carefully, and risk the unknown in order to free her family and shape her own fate.

A powerfully imaginative, compelling story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her home, as well as a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for the sake of an industrial future.

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«I am Made of Death» by Kelly Andrew
Релиз: весна, 2025

Новинка от автора «Шепот тьмы».
Дико зацепило описание.

Главный герой устраивается сурдопереводчиком к юной балерине, которая отказывается говорить, поскольку ее голос подобен яду. В детстве она пропала в заповеднике во время семейной поездки, никто не знает, что с ней произошло, но после возвращения каждый, кто слышал ее голос, умирал мучительной смертью.

Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas -- the hearing child of a Deaf adult -- jumps at the opportunity.

But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission. She is not to deviate from her routine.

She is, most importantly, not to be out after dark.

A selective-mute, Vivienne Farrow hasn't said a word in years -- not since going missing in Red Rock Canyon when she was four years old. No one knows quite what happened to her out in the dark. They only know that the sound of her voice is now as deadly as a poison. Anyone who hears her speak suffers a horrible death.

Ever since that fatal family vacation, Vivienne has been desperately searching for a way to regain control of both her voice and her body. Because the face staring out of the mirror isn't hers. It's something with teeth.

Thankfully, Vivienne has a plan. She's finally found someone who claims to be able to perform a surgical exorcism. She just needs to find a way to get rid of Thomas first. But Thomas can't afford to walk away, nor is he willing to abandon the mysterious girl he's quickly falling for, no matter what dark powers threaten to swallow them both whole.

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«Dating and Dragons» by Kristy Boyce
Релиз: февраль, 2025

Наткнулась на любопытный анонс YA-ромкома от автора книги «Горячий британский парень». У меня мало за что цепляется взгляд в этом жанре, но тут стало интересно, т.к. в сюжете замешаны настолки. Да и обложка милейшая.

Главная героиня переводится в новую старшую школу и вступает в клуб D&D, где существуют строгие правила, главное из которых — не влюбляться в своих товарищей по игре. Разумеется, именно его она в итоге и нарушает.

В январе у автора уже выходила другая книга (вторая обложка), где тоже часть сюжета завязывалась на D&D.

After moving to a new high school, Quinn is desperate for friends, so she joins a D&D group with their own livestream and serious rules—most importantly: no dating fellow party members.

But when sparks fly with a cute but irritating player, and ex-friends from an old campaign start stirring up trouble, she’ll need to figure out where her loyalties—and heart—lie beyond the game.

В названии есть драконы, у нас бы, наверное, снова все подумали, что это фэнтези 🗿

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Кратко о том, как одни только арты способны продать мне книгу 😁 «When Stars Entwine with Flames» by Alexandra K.Sloane, выходит в декабре. Жду)

In the realm of Nyroria, there are only two superiors who truly have control:
Anslem & Dragons
The Supreme Being remains the only one with the power to bestow magick upon the citizens of the Continent, selecting which sector they each train in for the magickal military, the Penatrium.
He’s never once changed his mind . . .
Until now.
When a deadly attack on the training base leads their deity to bless Vesper Ardan with the rarest form of magick in existence, she single-handedly stops the enemy who covets their dragons.
Everything she expected for her future as a simple alchemist is instantly erased as Vesper is thrust into the elite dragon knights sector. Forced to navigate combat training, trying to control her magick, finding friends she can trust, and preparing to lead her comrades to victory, Vesper’s destiny now hangs on the edge of a very sharp blade.
And to further complicate matters, her literal soul becomes intertwined with the highest-ranking knight in history, Kyrin Casimir—who she is drawn to from the very moment they lay eyes on each other.
It could be a blessing . . .
Or just one massive onus she wasn’t ready for.

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Появилась обложка к «The Raven of Greystone Castle», анонс которой приносила ранее. Все еще интригует)

As the Heir to the Goddess of Night, Mila Kasper is destined to save the world…if only she’d known that before the day she, instead, set it on a course of destruction. Deemed too dangerous to be free while the God of Chaos and his vampyr armies wage war across the continents, she is imprisoned in Greystone Castle by a man whose name serves as a whetting stone for the rage-fueled blade she becomes.

A shadowborn son of a traitor and on a journey of redemption, Calix has always known his role when it came to the Night’s Heir. First, protect her secret and then the world if her truth ever comes to light. Though he imprisons Mila with a vow to release her when Chaos is defeated, a death promise blazes in her eyes, and a threat from her lips forges a pact between them that can only be broken with blood.

Seven years later, the sun has been stolen, the days grow darker and colder, and Chaos and the vampyr rule the Endless Night. A jaded Mila still walks the halls of Greystone, a caged enigma with nothing to do but watch the crumbled existence beyond its walls. That is until Calix returns and proposes a bargain just before she can drive a vengeful dagger through his heart. A bargain that could rescue their shattered world but will bind their souls, entwine their magic, and stoke a desire between them that could become near-impossible to resist. And though he doubts Mila will take the deal, she says yes.

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Я тут влюбилась в арт к «Wildblood», новой истории А.Дж.Врана 🫠 которая выходит в оригинале осенью. По ходу пора уже прочитать «Боги черной лощины», чтобы понять, нужна ли будет эта книга (она в рамках той же вселенной).

Kai Donovan has always had sharp teeth.

Earning his keep as an underground fighter in South Boston, he revels in well-earned notoriety. Wild. Irreverent. Vicious. His secret: he’s the monster from a fable.

But when Kai loses a match against a mysterious opponent whose ferocity rivals his own, he finds himself beholden to the underworld. What he owes isn’t money, but the recovery of an elusive prize coveted by the city’s most dangerous criminals.

His partner Miya—burdened with the ability to traverse dreams—spends her days investigating supernatural phenomena. When she receives a shadowy proposal to find a missing teenager, she’s confronted with the possibility that another like her exists.

As Kai and Miya chase ghosts, the threads of their pursuits weave into a menacing tapestry. Kai’s dark past returns to haunt him, threatening the bonds he believed to be ironclad. Unhealed wounds fester as he’s faced with a ruinous choice: unravel his blood-soaked history or lose himself and the life he’s scavenged together.

Bare your teeth. The nightmares are at your door.

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«A Dance of Flame and Shadow» by Sarah Batty
Релиз: октябрь, 2024

Дебют автора. Взгляд привлекла милая, сказочная обложка, но жду аннотацию, чтобы понять, а надо ли мне 👀

*от врагов к возлюбленным
*вынужденное сближение
*слоу-берн (куда ж без него)
*элементальная магия
*обретение семьи

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«Within the Darkening Woods» by Scarlett D.Vine
Релиз: вышла в июле

Полезла посмотреть новые анонсы/релизы и наткнулась вот на такую любопытную вещицу)

Однажды часть реального мира заменяется фрагментами фэнтезийного королевства. Главная героиня тщательно игнорирует тот факт, что теперь люди живут по соседству с существами из сказок и легенд, желая просто найти работу и жить привычной жизнью. Но когда ее кусает сбежавший из магического леса ядовитый паук, ей ничего не остается, кроме как принять новую реальность и пойти на сделку с королем эльфов, чтобы спасти себе жизнь.

Everyone Dreams of Fairy Tales, Until They Find Themselves in One

It’s been five years since the world was forever changed. Overnight, parts of the mortal world disappeared and were replaced by fragments from another realm, taking entire counties and countries and leaving the lands of fae, sirens, and other creatures out of legend in their place. People no longer have to imagine what it would be like to live in a fantasy world, because now they live in one. Amber, though, likes to pretend that these strange new neighbors don’t exist. And since the elven forest that replaced Saint Cloud, Minnesota is completely isolated from the surrounding world, that’s been relatively easy. She just wants to find a job with her degree in landscape design that will fulfill her enough to ignore how the rest of her life–especially her love life–is in a million pieces.

But when Amber is poisoned by a giant spider that escaped the forest, she has no choice but to acknowledge that she lives right beside magical creatures. Which is made even worse when she’s rescued by an elf—who turns out to be the king’s brother. He brings her into the forest to save her life. However, her healing comes with a cost–while the king permits Amber to be temporarily healed, he refuses to give her the full antidote until she agrees to bind with and strengthen the barrier around the elven wood, leaving her trapped in this new world. With no choice, she accepts.

However, Amber soon realizes that the Darkening Woods holds many secrets, not least the webs that the king is weaving. She and the far-too-handsome Eldrin must figure out how to survive the king’s schemes—and their growing feelings for each other—before the king decides she’s no longer worth saving and the poison kills her after all.

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«The Consulate» by Allison Carr Waechter
Релиз: октябрь, 2024

Плюс один в копилочку любопытных релизов. Городское фэнтези, в котором главной героине предстоит объединиться с некромантом, уничтожившим ее дом, ради возвращения магических мечей, дарующих силу ее сестрам-воительницам и в целом их народу.

«Бессмертная гвардия» встречает «Джона Уика» + романтика

An immortal warrior & the necromancer who burned her house down. Five missing swords. Three underworld dynasties at odds with the mundane world. One big heist.

Ember Verona’s immortal life is a mess. Her best friend just got out of prison and like the rest of their sistren, wants nothing to do with her. The swords that gave the guardians of Orphium their parapsych powers have been missing for hundreds of years.

Nothing seems able to change that, or to put the Orphium Maere back together again. Until Ares Necroline, the leader of Orphium’s necromancers, tips Ember off to the swords’ location. They are up for auction at the National Gallery’s annual Gala. Can Ember get the swords, and her sistren, back before tipping off the Authority?

Ember must choose. Work with the man who burned her house to the ground and ruined her life—or do this on her own and risk falling into useless obscurity.

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«A Goddess of Spring and Shadows» by Lena J.Castle
Релиз: ноябрь, 2024

Пробежалась по новым зарубежным релизам, выцепила себе несколько любопытных вещиц.

Вот, например, фэнтези-новинка для тех, кто соскучился по ретеллингам мифа про Аида и Персефону)

It’s not an abduction. It’s an escape.Persephone lives a life of obedience and isolation, trapped under her mother Demeter’s stifling control, with her magic suppressed. Desperate to break free, she defies the rules and flees to the shadowed realm of the Underworld. But what begins as a daring escape soon becomes a perilous bargain.Hades, the God of the Underworld, possesses a deadly touch that withers life itself. That should be enough to keep the Goddess of Spring far away, yet Persephone is irresistibly drawn to the dangerous god by a pull she can’t deny–one woven by the Fates. As she ventures deeper into his world, she finds herself questioning if she’s truly escaped or merely traded one captor for another.When her mother’s fury threatens to unleash famine upon the mortal realm, Persephone must confront an impossible choice: return to the life she fled or embrace her growing love for Hades, risking the lives of countless innocents in the process.A Goddess of Spring and Shadows is the first book in a new adult fantasy romance series retelling the timeless myth of Hades and Persephone. Immerse yourself in a world of fated mates, hidden agendas, magic, heart-wrenching betrayal, and scorching romance.

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