Happy Tuesday, shipmates! This is Alex, and I’ve got a double dose of new releases for you this week — including the sequel to Hadeer Eslbai’s The Daughters of Izdihar, which I have been waiting for very eagerly because I need to know what happens. Hopefully by the next time I talk to you, I will have swallowed the new book whole! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Friday.
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Bookish Goods
Zero Gravity Toilet Poster by MovieManiacsDesign
This poster is inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and provides detailed instructions for a zero-G toilet. Personally, I think it would be a waste to hang it anywhere BUT over one of your toilets. $19
New Releases
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
The Grand Abeona Hotel flies from planet to planet, delivering a five-star experience across the galaxy. As a hotel, it attracts the wealthy and bored — and intrigues aplenty. Every guest has a secret; every person on staff has an inner life they do not share. Carl, who once stowed away on the hotel and now manages it, finds these secrets converging into an entanglement that might finally force him to move on.
The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
As a bloodcarver, Nhika could be a healer or a monster, thanks to her ability to alter the body of humans with a single touch. She’s forced by a criminal gang called the Butchers to heal the last surviving witness of a murder and drawn into the investigation. The clues lead her to a physician’s aide who isn’t what he appears to be, and beyond him, an even greater evil that will make her choose between hurting and healing.
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Riot Recommendations
There were a lot of books that came out this week, so you’re getting a double dose of new releases.
The Weavers of Alamaxa by Hadeer Elsbai
The Daughters of Izdihar had just begun to make headway toward gaining the vote for women and the right to practice magic, but the fundamentalist Ziranis have savagely attacked to destroy what they view as a threat to their way of life and the entire world. Nehal and Giorgina had overcome their differences to seek power for women; now, with Nehal in a Zirani prison and Giorgina on the run, they must first survive and reunite if they hope to rally their people.
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
January was once a principal in the London’s Royal Ballet; now, after Earth has been deeply wounded by an environmental disaster, he’s a mere refugee on Mars. When he’s randomly put on the spot by Gale, a politician who wants to force Earth Refugees to naturalize using a physically disabling and, at times, deadly process, things go horribly awry for them both. The solution Gale comes up with is a five-year sham marriage that seems a simple way for them both to get what they want…but of course, nothing is so simple as that.
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.