Here are the books (on my radar) that are celebrating their Book Birthdays today (a.k.a. books that are being published in Canada today)! Happiest of Book Birthdays to all of these lovely new releases! Which ones are you most excited for?
Title: Four Dead Queens
Author: Astrid Scholte
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Publisher: Putnam (Penguin Random House)
A divided nation. Four Queens. A ruthless pickpocket. A noble messenger. And the murders that unite them.
Get in quick, get out quicker.
These are the words Keralie Corrington lives by as the preeminent dipper in the Concord, the central area uniting the four quadrants of Quadara. She steals under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region:
Toria: the intellectual quarter that values education and ambition
Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment
Archia: the agricultural quarter that values simplicity and nature
Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community
When Keralie intercepts a comm disk coming from the House of Concord, what seems like a standard job goes horribly wrong. Upon watching the comm disks, Keralie sees all four queens murdered in four brutal ways. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – information that is bound to be valuable bartering material with the palace – Keralie teams up with Varin Bollt, the Eonist messenger she stole from, to complete Varin’s original job and see where it takes them.
Title: The Beauty of the Moment
Author: Tanaz Bhathena
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(Penguin Random House)
Susan is the new girl—she’s sharp and driven, and strives to meet her parents’ expectations of excellence. Malcolm is the bad boy—he started raising hell at age fifteen, after his mom died of cancer, and has had a reputation ever since.
Susan’s parents are on the verge of divorce. Malcolm’s dad is a known adulterer.
Susan hasn’t told anyone, but she wants to be an artist. Malcolm doesn’t know what he wants—until he meets her.
Love is messy and families are messier, but in spite of their burdens, Susan and Malcolm fall for each other. The ways they drift apart and come back together are testaments to family, culture, and being true to who you are.
Title: Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee
Author: Jeff Zentner
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House)
A contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures–and the TV show they host–in their senior year of high school.
Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six.
But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and chase her dream career in mainstream TV. And Lawson, one of the show’s guest performers, a talented MMA fighter with weaknesses for pancakes, fantasy novels, and Josie, is making her tough decision even harder.
Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he’ll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too.
As the tug-of-war between growing up and growing apart tests the bonds of their friendship, Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous…and momentous.
Title: The Priory of the Orange Tree
Author: Samantha Shannon
Type: Fiction
Genre: Adult, Fantasy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons—and the women who must lead the fight to save it.
A world divided.
A queendom without an heir.
An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.
Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
Across the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
Title: Warriors of the Wild
Author: Tricia Levenseller
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan)
How do you kill a god?
As her father’s chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. But when her coming-of-age trial is sabotaged and she fails the test, her father banishes her to the monster-filled wilderness with an impossible quest: to win back her honour, she must kill the oppressive god who claims tribute from the villages each year or die trying.
SO MANY GOOD ONES CAME OUT TODAY!!! I am already feeling so far behind lol
Yeeeeees! Today was a good day for book releases 😉 And aweee you’re not alone! Hahaha
Rayne and Delilah has been preordered for months now Flavia!!!
Awesome!! I hope that we both love it!
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I’m excited about Four Dead Queens. I just hope it doesn’t disappoint me
Same! I’ve heard mixed things so at this point the chance of me liking or disliking it is 50/50 haha
IKR. I haven’t read any reviews though. I plan on going into it totally blind
Yeah I almost never read reviews before reading a book (with a few exceptions). I just had things mentioned to me by other bloggers haha. Here’s to hoping we both love it!
I’m so excited for warrior of the wild, Priory of the orange tree and four dead queens 🙂
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Yeeeees! They all sound so good and I hope we’ll both get to read them SOON!
I think Warriors of the Wild sounds really good <3 I requested the ARC and was denied, so now I am excited it is out!
Aweee I’m sorry to hear you got denied! So sad when that happens 🙁 <3