Release Week: 13 May 2025
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Release Week: 13 May 2025
Posted on 2025-05-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, read by Steven Pacey for Macmillan -- "Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side."
MORE PICKS:
The Incandescent By: Emily Tesh, read by Zara Ramm for Macmillan -- "Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself."
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel By: Susanna Kwan, read by Catherine Ho for Random House -- "An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave."
Anji Kills a King: The Rising Tide, Book 1 By: Evan Leikam, read by Moira Quirk for Macmillan -- "Anji works as a castle servant, cleaning laundry for a king she hates. So when a rare opportunity presents itself, she seizes the chance to cut his throat. Then she runs for her life. In her wake, the kingdom is thrown into disarray, while a bounty bigger than anyone could imagine lands on her head."
Anima Rising: A Novel By: Christopher Moore, read by Mary Jane Wells for Harper -- "Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. She’s alive! Back at his studio, Klimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the formerly-drowned girl. She’s nearly feral and doesn’t remember who she is, or how she came to be floating in the canal. Klimt names her Judith, after one of his most famous paintings, and resolves to help her find her memory. With a little help from Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Judith recalls being stranded in the arctic one hundred years ago, locked in a crate by a man named Victor Frankenstein, and visiting the Underworld."
The Night Birds By: Christopher Golden, read by Patricia Santomasso and Sean Patrick Hopkins for Spotify -- "Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak, they never expected to see each other again, but when terror enters Ruby’s life, Charlie Book is the only safe harbor she can believe in. In his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book has been living aboard and studying the Christabel, a 19th century freighter that lies half-sunken in Gulf waters, just off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest, full of birds, crabs, and snakes. Though a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, Book intends to sleep on board as usual. But when he arrives at the dock, preparing to motor out to the Christabel, he’s stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And Ruby’s not alone."
Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined By: Stephen Fry, read by the author for Chronicle Books -- "Odysseus’s journey from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca is one of the greatest stories ever told. From the lotus-eaters to the sirens, from Circe to the Cyclops, this is a tale of thrilling adventures, cunning escapes, and enduring devotion. Stephen Fry breathes new life into the ancient poem with humor and pathos."
MOST MISSING:
Just Add Writer: A Complete Guide to Writing Tie-Ins by Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog Books) -- "Follow the career of an author already accomplished in many genres of fiction as he details step by step, year by year, the exact path he took to work with franchises such as Alien, Conan, Doctor Who, Dragonlance, Grimm, Halloween, Kingsman, A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Pearl Trilogy, Resident Evil, Stargate SG-1, Supernatural, Terrifier, Transformers, xXx, and more."
The Delver of Purgatory: Blessed & Possessed, Book 2 by Jay Requard (Falstaff Books) -- "St. Patrick came home to Dublin, expecting to find some peace and quiet after fleeing archangels, demons, and Evangelicals alike in New York, taking with him a murderous knight, a Voodoo priestess, the Nephilim daughter of Lucifer named Deevi, as well as the rebel king himself… Who’s stuck in the body of a rooster."
(in progress)
A Steep and Savage Path By: JJA Harwood Narrated by: Rosalind Lailey for Magpie
The Man Who Japed By: Philip K. Dick Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Intra Terrestrials by Karen G. Lloyd (Princeton)
Installment Immortality An InCryptid Novel, Book 14 By: Seanan McGuire Narrated by: Emily Bauer
Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd By: Delilah S. Dawson
Circular Motion A Novel By: Alex Foster
Portalmania Stories By: Debbie Urbanski
Metallic Realms A Novel By: Lincoln Michel