T10T: Upcoming Releases with Covers I NEED

September 15, 2020

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s theme is a cover freebie, so I decided to go with 10 upcoming books with beautiful covers that I NEED in my life!

These covers all speak pretty well for themselves, so instead of adding my own little tidbits like I normally do, I’ll just include the Goodreads link and synopsis so you can add these to your TBR, too! ♥

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Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (January 19th, 2021; Tor.com)

“She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.”

The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa­­–a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.

Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks–alone, except for her fox companion–searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers.

But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?

53341666A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth (March 2nd, 2021; Simon Pulse)

Choose your player.

The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.

For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.

Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?

Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.

54699169. sy475 Halloween Season by Lucy A. Snyder (October 5th, 2020; Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn’t finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it’s an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on.

Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you’ll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty.

One of the best things about Halloween is you don’t have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two… you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun.

In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!

53440118. sy475 How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black (November 24th, 2020; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

An irresistible return to the captivating world of Elfhame.

Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.

Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone . #1 New York Times bestselling author, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame’s enigmatic high king, Cardan. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan’s perspective.

51029810. sy475 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (October 6th, 2020; Tor Books)

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.

50496918Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (October 6th, 2020; Avon)

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he’s known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster.  Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Immediately.

April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years—but not anymore. When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. Trolls and supporters alike are commenting on her plus-size take, but when Marcus, one half of her OTP, sees her pic and asks her out on a date to spite her critics, she realizes life is really stranger than fanfiction.

Even though their first date is a disaster, Marcus quickly realizes that he wants much more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. And when he discovers she’s actually Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her.

With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?

53914936Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (March 9th, 2021; Avon)

Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong—so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she’s not entirely sure how…

Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry—and he expects nothing less than perfection. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car—supposedly by accident. Yeah, right.

Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen—and his spare bedroom. Jacob hates everything about it. Or rather, he should. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore—and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.

NOTE: I have to mention this — I got an eARC of this over the weekend and read it all in one day after not being able to read almost anything for two months. It’s THAT good. I adored it and highly recommend you add it to your TBR if it isn’t already on there!

53914899The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst (March 9th, 2021; Harper Voyager)

Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magician who created an inhuman army using animal bones. But victory came at a tragic price. Only four of the heroes survived.

Since then, Kreya, the group’s leader, has exiled herself to a remote tower and devoted herself to one purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. But such a task requires both a cache of human bones and a sacrifice—for each day he lives, she will live one less.

She’d rather live one year with her husband than a hundred without him, but using human bones for magic is illegal in Vos. The dead are burned—as are any bone workers who violate the law. Yet Kreya knows where she can find the bones she needs: the battlefield where her husband and countless others lost their lives.

But defying the laws of the land exposes a terrible possibility. Maybe the dead don’t rest in peace after all.

Five warriors—one broken, one gone soft, one pursuing a simple life, one stuck in the past, and one who should dead. Their story should have been finished. But evil doesn’t stop just because someone once said, “the end.”

53141419The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (August 3rd, 2021; Wednesday Books)

The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won’t stay hidden any longer.

Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers seem to point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV’s ParaSpectors, has never been to Snakebite before, but the moment she and her dads arrive, she starts to get the feeling that there’s more secrets buried here than they originally let on.

Ashley Barton’s boyfriend was the first teen to go missing, and she’s felt his presence ever since. But now that the Ortiz-Woodleys are in town, his ghost is following her and the only person Ashley can trust is the mysterious Logan. When Ashley and Logan team up to figure out who—or what—is haunting Snakebite, their investigation reveals truths about the town, their families, and themselves that neither of them are ready for. As the danger intensifies, they realize that their growing feelings for each other could be a light in the darkness.

51813582. sy475 Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart (April 20th, 2021; HarperTeen)

Divided by their castes. United by their vengeance.

Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom—and vengeance.

Jazmyne is the queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power.

Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. But revenge is a bloody pursuit, and nothing is certain—except the lengths they will go to win this game.

Deadly, fierce, magnetically addictive: this Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut is a thrilling journey where dangerous magic reigns supreme and betrayal lurks beneath every word.

Are any of these gorgeous covers on your TBR shelf, or do you have any you’d recommend I add to mine?

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Just a horror aficionado/geek girl trying to juggle motherhood, reading, blogging, gaming, and everyday life.

26 Comments
    1. Amazing covers! I especially love the one from Remote Control!

      (www.evelynreads.com)

    1. Ahhh A Dark and Hollow Star! I just watched the twitter video of Ashley unboxing their arcs and my mind was blown. The cover is absolutely stunning and I bet the finished copies are even more gorgeous! Great post 🙂

    1. Will I ever visit one of your book lists and NOT add things to my TBR? I doubt it. Amazing as always. I am convinced that Witches Steeped in Gold is the most outstanding cover for 2021

    1. A Dark and Hollow Star not only sounds super intriguing, it also has the most amazing cover!! Really excited for this one 🥰 I also just got Get a Life, Chloe Brown, so I can hopefully read the sequels/companion novels soon as well 😊

    1. I’m so excited for the releases of Addie LaRue and The Dead and the Dark! Also, Halloween Season is going straight on my October 2021 TBR, I can’t resist some spooky stories 😊

    1. I was looking at remote control on Netgalley… the cover is so pretty and even so more than that, i know this book is going to be bomb af because Nnedi doesn’t play.

    1. I’m so excited for so many of these! The Dead and the Dark cover is super amazing and I’m so pumped for a queer horror-y novel. I’m also really excited for witches steeped in gold; I hadn’t heard of it before the cover was revealed and the cover alone instantly put it on my tbr. Great list!

    1. I love all of these! This is the first time I’ve seen The Dead and the Dark, what a gorgeous cover😁

    1. Spoiler Alert might actually be the cutest sounding book I’ve ever heard of, and I think I have to go preorder it right this second, so thank you for that! Also absolutely loving the sound of Act Your Age, Eve Brown!

    1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Dead and the Dark are on my TBR. Most of these other books I haven’t heard of. I am super interested in Halloween Season.

    1. brb, just added basically all of these books to my tbr. And will look on Netgalley and Edelweiss for A Dark and Hollow Star because that looks SO SO good and I need to have that in my hands!
      Other than that, I want to finish my current reads (that’s been going on for like 3-ish months) and then I’ll sit down and devour Addie LaRue 😍😍

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