Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got a double dose of new releases for you today — the second set are both fantasy romance. I hope you all have had a most excellent week, because mine’s been pretty darn good. I’ve been playing a visual novel video game, Pentiment, and I definitely recommend it if you’re interested in medieval European history and feel like your video game time could use more reading and discussions about art! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!
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Bookish Goods
Bookshelf Street Signs by XtinasCraftCorner
This is a wonderfully creative way to label shelves, I think. (Though I’d probably hang them under the shelf so it doesn’t interfere with getting the books out…) They’ve got Horror Hwy and Thriller Ln, too, and in a separate post, “To Be Read” signs. $17
New Releases
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
Society collapsed twelve years ago in the wake of a massive power failure; since then, a community of Anishinaabe people has made their home in the Northern Ontario wilderness. While they have survived and thrived in the tradition of their ancestors, resources are becoming scarce, and it’s time for them to move on. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a search party south to find a path to their original homeland near the Great Lakes. But they are not alone in the wilderness, and while some live in harmony with nature like they do, others have chosen violence…
Redsight by Meredith Mooring
Korinna is a Redseer, a blind priestess who can navigate space-time, though she is the weakest of her Order, a useless outcast. This has been a lie, however; hers is a different kind of magic, a powerful one that makes her into a weapon for the Imperium. That destiny is interrupted by the attack of the pirate Aster, who has a vendetta against the Imperium and a dark magic of her own, one that draws Korinna ever closer to her…
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Riot Recommendations
Once again, I’m double dipping on the new releases because there are just SO MANY this week. But here’s a bit of a theme —fantasy romance.
Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana
Lore’s village is trapped in a Fae-ruled forest that has become its prison — and escape is impossible. Lore has the scars to prove that point. But when her village is threatened with destruction, she does the only thing she can think of and makes a deal with a Fae Lord, one that requires her to catalog an enchanted library that is barred to the Fae…but a human may be able to enter and find what Lore is truly after: magic of her own.
A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Freya dreams of becoming a warrior but is bound in a loveless marriage with an awful husband. That changes when that husband betrays her to their jarl, and she’s forced into a fight to the death. This fight reveals her greatest secret: there is a drop of a goddess’s blood in her veins, and she may be the shield maiden of prophecy that will unite Skaland under the one who controls her.
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.