Can't-Wait Wednesday: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson & A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe

Can't-Wait is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings that spotlights exciting upcoming releases that we can't wait to be released! This meme is based off of Jill @ Breaking the Spine's Waiting on Wednesday meme.

October is yet another huge month for publishing releases, which means I'm going to once again be sharing three releases for my Can't-Wait Wednesday's this month!

This week's upcoming book spotlights are: 

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Publication: October 6th, 2020

Orbit

Hardcover. 576 pages.

Pre-order: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

From Goodreads:

"Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. 

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. 

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. 

Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written."

This sounds like such an interesting concept, and I tend to enjoy fictional eye-witness accounts so I'm hoping that works out well. I didn't care for another Kim Stanley Robinson book I read, but I have high hopes and can't wait to check this one out!

Edit to add: I set this post up at the beginning of September before I had a copy of this book..and I've now read it! It was completely fascinating and I'm still so excited for its release into the wild!

and...

A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe

Publication: October 13th, 2020

Wednesday Books

Hardcover. 320 pages.

Pre-order: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

From Goodreads:

"Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone—whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold—but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness. 

While combing through her mother’s notes, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. With the threat of the French Revolution looming, Thea is sent to Oxford for her safety, to live with the father who doesn’t know she exists. 

But in Oxford, there are alchemists after the Stone who don’t believe Thea’s warning about the curse—instead, they’ll stop at nothing to steal Thea’s knowledge of how to create the Stone. But Thea can only run for so long, and soon she will have to choose: create the Stone 

Look, anything with alchemy or "alchemist" is always going to catch my eye, so I'm absolutely here for this book (not to mention the rest of the premise sounds interesting, also!)! I just recently started an ARC, so I look forward to getting into it more.

What do you think about these upcoming releases? What are your anticipated upcoming releases?

Top Ten Tuesday: Some Favorite Quotes from Books I've Read This Year

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blog meme now hosted by Jana over at The Artsy Reader Girl!

This week's topic is:  Favorite Quotes

Picking favorite quotes is a tall order and would require a lot of time that I don't have right now, haha. This is also a little tricky since the majority of my physical books are being stored at my mom's house and I only have a certain amount here at my apartment. As such, I'm going to pick out some quotes from books I read and enjoyed from this year only, and most of those are going to be from books that I either read on my Kindle and therefore have access to highlighted notes or from the Goodreads quotes that other readers have uploaded. I have far more than ten listed, but I figured that way you're free to peruse any or all of these as you like. :)

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

 

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”

~

“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”

~

“ I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once." 

"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that’s the definition of 'family' right there.”

 

 

Red Queen by Christina Henry

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice. There were monsters inside Alice, but they only had power if she gave it to them, and other things had power too, like the laughter of children enjoying a picnic together and like the love she had for this terrible, wonderful, imperfect man, this man who hid inside the body of a wolf because he thought that was where he belonged.”

~

“So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.”

~

“I want to rest, “Alice said, and she meant it with all her heart. “Once I lived in a cage, and before that a different kind of cage. I tried to break free from the first one and they put me in one that was much, much worse. All I want is to find a place I have dreamed of, a little cottage in a green field by a lake.”

~

“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”

 

 

 

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”

~

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”

~

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”

~

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”

~

“Harold sighs. 'Jude,' he says, 'there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.'"

 

 

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

 "She taught me a long time ago that if I want to be big, I"m going to have to do big things. Big, strange, ugly things." 

~

"Sometimes I felt she had only learned to be herself by pretending."

 ~

"When I looked at the painting then, I thought: This is it. It wasn't gold that was the sublime material, the magic matter; it was the surface itself. The stuff in between. The birth of the world. I'd found it. It was here."

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

“What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.”

~

“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal, aren’t they?”

 

The Light of All that Falls by James Islington

“Evil men rarely convince others to their side by asking them to perform dark deeds for no good reason. They will always start with the lightest shade of gray. They so often use what seems like a good cause.”

~

“Faithful people suffer and evil people prosper all the time [...]. Besides, if our actions are driven only by reward or punishment--eternal or otherwise--then they are motivated by greed and selfishness, not faith or love. That is where so many people go wrong, even those who say they believe [...]. They obey because the think it will make their live better, rather than themselves. And that is very much the wrong reason.”

~

“The old saying is wrong, you know--a common enemy does not a friendship make. You can only ever be as good as the people you are willing to fight beside. [...] Alliances made from convenience only

 

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”

~

“Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”

~

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”

~

“Sometimes our prejudices color our thoughts when we least expect them to. If we can recognize that, and learn from it, we can become better people."

~

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”hat, and learn from it, we can become better people.”

Have you read any of these books? What are some great quotes from books you've read this year?

Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Tor Books

Publication Date: October 6th, 2020

Hardcover. 448 pages

About The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue:

"A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. 

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. 

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. 

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name."

V.E. Schwab can be very hit or miss with me, so I wanted to be excited for this book, but at the same time I was ever so slightly hesitant and skeptical of getting my hopes up. Fortunately, I really ended up enjoying this book and I think it was a really beautiful exploration of time, memory, and what it means to really live. 

 

This is a story about Addie LaRue, a woman who is cursed to never age and never die, yet also to never be remembered by anyone. It is also a story about a young woman who wants nothing more than to have her own free will and to live her life as she pleases without being tied to anything or forced to do anything she does not wish to. And then there is Henry, a bookstore owner who simple feels too much and is struggling to find his own place in life. The story is about a lot of things and begins at many points, but the point that really acts as a catalyst for this story is when Addie meets Henry and discovers that things with him aren't quite as they are with other people--because, first and foremost, he remembers her name.

 

Addie was such an interesting character and one of my favorite parts of this books was simply following her along in her many years of life and watching how she adapted to essentially being immortal while also never being able to make connections or friends or simply meet anyone who remembers her for longer than a day at most--more often, they only remember her for the brief time she is around them and simply walking into another room can prompt them to simply forget who Addie is. She's also an incredibly independent and headstrong woman and I genuinely enjoyed watching her confidence grow throughout her years. Living from 1714 to the present time would have a pretty big whiplash effect on someone I would think, but I also suppose living through it would cause many of the changes to feel more gradual and not as affecting. Still, I think one of my only complaints is that I wish we had gotten to hear a bit more commentary from Addie about what it has been like to live through so much history and see the world change, and maybe even hear what her thoughts are on some of the biggest issues in the world. I do, however, understand that that isn't necessarily what this book was about and I know why Schwab didn't include as much on that as other areas, but it still is something I would have really enjoyed.  

Henry is probably the character I most enjoyed, as I found his struggle with having too many emotions and feeling too much as I am someone who is considered a "sensitive" person, which basically means that I, too, feel far more than I should about everything. Henry's introduction to the story was done in a really exciting yet subtle way, and I found his own story and background engaging as well. I don't want to actually say too much about Henry because I think it would be a little too close to spoiler territory, but just know that Henry was a really well-developed character with some really great lessons that he both has already learned and that he learns throughout the story. 

The pacing of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is on the slower, more thoughtful side. This isn't a page-turning thriller that will keep you constantly on the edge of your seat anxious for more. Rather, it's the sort of story that has such a compelling premise and beautifully told tale that you still do constantly want to know what will happen next. I'll admit, however, that there were times when I felt Schwab dragged on a little too long in some parts or where I eflt the story wasn't really moving. There were times when I wasn't entirely what the plot was--whether it was meant to simply follow Addie on her neverending journey or whether there was something more (there was!), and because of this my focus occasionally wavered. Overall, though, I found that I captivated for the majority of the story and genuinely found it to be an engaging and worthwhile read. 

Overall, I've given The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 4.5 stars! This is a really beautiful story that I know will be a hit for many. It's a thoughtful read that doesn't have many fast-paced or high action moments, but it's a wonderful character study and discussion of some fascinating themes about time, memory, and more. If you're a hesitant V.E. Schwab reader like me, I'd encourage you to take a chance and check this one out!

*I received a copy of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in exchange for an honest review. This has no effect on my rating of the novel.*

Buy: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

Anticipated October 2020 Releases!

I'm not sure how, but we've made it to the spookiest month of the year and I am so excited to dive into some scary books! As per usual, there is an overabundance of new releases this month (and I know I've left a lot out), so I have no plans to ever even attempt to read all of them, but I do hope to dive into quite a few of these. I'm currently reading The Hollow Places (which I am loving so much, this might even end being a five-star read from me? we'll see!) and The Ministry for the Future (which is also incredibly interesting and I'm really enjoying).  I've already read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (review next week!) and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, it's a lovely story. A Golden Fury is up next for me! 

I hope you guys are ready for October's releases and any spooky reads you're panning to read. :)  Without further ado, here is my woefully-incomplete-but-here's-some-upcoming-releases-list!

What books are you most looking forward to? Have you read any of these already!? Let me know!

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen || October 1st -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Northern Wrath by Thilde Kold Holdt || October 27th -- Amazon | IndieBound

The Puppetmaster's Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Lightbringer by Claire Legrand || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound 

Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston || October 20th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco || October 27th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu || October 6th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark || October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth || October 20th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann | October 13th -- Amazon | IndieBound

Magic Dark and Strange by Kelly Powell || October 27th -- Amazon | IndieBound

What are your anticipated October releases?

Review: Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives #2) by Luke Arnold

Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives #2)

Orbit

Publication Date: September 22nd, 2020

Paperback. 464 pages

About Dead Man in a Ditch:

"The name's Fetch Phillips -- what do you need? 

Cover a Gnome with a crossbow while he does a dodgy deal? Sure. 

Find out who killed Lance Niles, the big-shot businessman who just arrived in town? I'll give it shot. 

Help an old-lady Elf track down her husband's murderer? That's right up my alley. 

What I don't do, because it's impossible, is search for a way to bring the goddamn magic back. 

Rumors got out about what happened with the Professor, so now people keep asking me to fix the world. 

But there's no magic in this story. Just dead friends, twisted miracles, and a secret machine made to deliver a single shot of murder. 

Welcome back to the streets of Sunder City, a darkly imagined world perfect for readers of Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher."

It feels like just yesterday that I was reading The Last Smile in Sunder City and I hadn't realized quite how much I enjoyed and missed Fetch Phillips and Sunder City until I cracked open Dead Man in a Ditch and immediately fell back into this world. There's something dark around the edges of this world that's met with a bit of sorrow and regret, but also with an oddly uplifting message that leaves me yearning for this world. 

The Fetch Phillips Archives are an urban fantasy-esque series set in a world in which the magic that once inhabited the world has been destroyed and now the non-human folk must learn to live in a world where what once kept them alive, healthy, and happy is now gone. Dead Man in a Ditch picks up once again with our lovable mess of a protagonist Fetch Phillips investigating a mysterious murder that seems to have involved something that appears to be magic--magic that is, as mentioned, still gone. And as usual, Fetch gets dragged into a myriad of wildly varying investigations, some of which end up bleeding into one another. 

Fetch Phillips is one of those characters that isn't necessarily the best person, but you know he has a good heart deep down and is doing what he can to make things better, if that's possible. He's sort of a mess sometimes, but that's very much a part of his charm and I think what makes him such an enjoyable protagonist. I appreciate how much Arnold goes into Fetch's backstory and spends time on his inner conflicts and demons that haunt him as a result of his past decisions. There aren't nearly as many flashbacks in this book as there are in the first and I think this really allowed the story to really move forward. I think one of my favorite things about both Fetch and some of the themes of the story as a whole is the idea of a sort of responsibility and taking note of past choices and how they affect the future, as well as how to pick up and do whatever you can to improve the situation around you, even if you were once part of the problem. There's something very redemptive and blunt about it that doesn't allow for excuses from past wrongs, but also shows that there are ways to try to move forward and do better and be better rather than have everyone dwell on what happened in the past and how the present situation arose. 

There are also a small variety of supporting characters that also add a lot of charm and character to the story and I love how colorful this world is. There are all sorts of characters, most of which have some pretty rough exteriors and don't like to take trouble from anyone and I like getting to know them and learn more about each character's unique backstory in relation to the loss of the magic. 

The pacing of Dead Man in a Ditch felt really well-plotted and I appreciate that there were often what felt like natural breaks between different major events and climactic moments. Fetch embarks upon a few different jobs in this book and I liked how Arnold allowed each one to have it's own space to be developed while at the same time maintaining sight of the bigger overarching plots and somehow managing to connect everything in some really compelling ways. 

As I've mentioned in the past, urban fantasy is not really usually my go-to, but there's something about Luke Arnold's take on urban fantasy that really grabs me and makes me feel comfortable and excited to sink into the story. Maybe it's because it's an urban fantasy that isn't set in our own world, or maybe it's just because Arnold has a writing style that flows almost effortlessly well and feels down to earth--almost like someone is simple telling me a story (Speaking of, I definitely think I want to try the audiobook of this series sometime!). I'm not sure if this is meant to be a longer series than only three books, but I really hope it is because I can see myself returning to the adventures of Fetch Phillips and this weirdly dejected yet hopeful world again and again. 

Overall, I've given Dead Man in a Ditch 4.5 stars! I really had a great time reading this book and enjoyed just about every second. There's something about this world and the characters within in that make it easy to re-join and follow along on their journeys and I can't wait to see what's in store next for Fetch Phillips and Sunder City! I'm not sure that I've adequately done this book justice in this review, but it's really something special, I think. 

*I received a copy of Dead Man in a Ditch in exchange for an honest review. This has no effect on my rating of the novel.*

Buy: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

Can't-Wait Wednesday: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse & The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

Can't-Wait is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings that spotlights exciting upcoming releases that we can't wait to be released! This meme is based off of Jill @ Breaking the Spine's Waiting on Wednesday meme.

October is yet another huge month for publishing releases, which means I'm going to once again be sharing three releases for my Can't-Wait Wednesday's this month!

This week's upcoming book spotlights are: 

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Publication: October 13th, 2020

Saga Press

Hardcover. 464 pages.

Pre-order: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

From Goodreads:

"A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. 

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. 

Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade."

I still haven't read Rebecca Roanhorses other trilogy, but for some reason this one calls out to me even more and I am so excited to check this one out! I have an ARC from NetGalley waiting for me, but I have a feeling the finished copy is going to be beautiful.

and...

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

Publication: October 13th, 2020

Erewhon

Hardcover. 384 pages.

Pre-order: Amazon | Book Depository | IndieBound

From Goodreads:

"Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children. She dreams of becoming a full-fledged Magus and pursuing magic as her calling as men do, but her family has staked everything to equip her for Bargaining Season, when young men and women of means descend upon the city to negotiate the best marriages. The Clayborns are in severe debt, and only she can save them, by securing an advantageous match before their creditors come calling. 

In a stroke of luck, Beatrice finds a grimoire that contains the key to becoming a Magus, but before she can purchase it, a rival sorceress swindles the book right out of her hands. Beatrice summons a spirit to help her get it back, but her new ally exacts a price: Beatrice’s first kiss . . . with her adversary’s brother, the handsome, compassionate, and fabulously wealthy Ianthe Lavan. 

The more Beatrice is entangled with the Lavan siblings, the harder her decision becomes: If she casts the spell to become a Magus, she will devastate her family and lose the only man to ever see her for who she is; but if she marries—even for love—she will sacrifice her magic, her identity, and her dreams. But how can she choose just one, knowing she will forever regret the path not taken?."

This cover is so beautiful! This sounds like such a fun and magical fantasy, I always love when grimoires are involved in something...

What do you think about these upcoming releases? What are your anticipated upcoming releases?

Top Ten Tuesday: Fall TBR--Or, Books I Might Possibly Read?

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blog meme now hosted by Jana over at The Artsy Reader Girl!

This week's topic is:  Fall TBR

I've never really been one to make TBRs and that's never been more true than right now. There are so many books I want to read, but things have been so hectic lately and I'm such a mood reader that I have no idea what I'll be reading next week (though there are things I'd like to!). As such, I'm going to share some recent additions that I've received from the library, from publishers, and from NetGalley that I'm hoping to get to sometime in the near future. This isn't including any of the books that I already own that I will inevitably read because, well, then this post would be far, far too long. So, without further ado, let's see what some of my options are! (And yes, there are more than ten by a long shot!)

From the library: 

I haven't been able to get any physical library books from the city my husband and I just moved to because they stopped issuing physical library cards and it's e-cards only for digital content! I am probably unreasonably upset by this, but I haven't been able to get library books since March and you know, it hurts. Fortunately, the library near my mom's house (about an hour away) which used to be my regular library started an express service to pick up books outside the library, so I finally got to get some! My selection was a bit limited because it was from that library only, no inter-library loans, but I don't even care because I got library books! Here are the ones that have come in so far: 

The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, 

The Terror by Dan Simmons (I technically own this, but my copy was purchased used and the binding is, well, almost non-existent and therefore difficult to read)

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Devolution by Max Brooks

Mirror Mask by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

From NetGalley:

I wish I were kidding about how many there are (but I swear I've already started making progress on some! we can do it)...

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (I am so excited and scared to dive into this finale)

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (I'm reading this right now and loving it!)

The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

A Dance with Fate by Juliet Marillier

These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

Among the Beasts and Briars by Ashley Poston

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

From publishers:

Okay, mainly from Orbit this time. I've been limiting myself and publishers have been limiting the physical ARCs they send out, so not as many of those! I think there are a few other recent acquisitions from other publishers, but the ones closest to me are my recent additions from Orbit, so that's what I'll share. :)

The Ikessar Falcon by K.S. Villoso

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey

Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold (I'm over halfway through--I'm enjoying this even more than the first book!)

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Have you read any of these?? I'd love to hear your thoughts! What books are you hoping to read this fall!?