Happy Tuesday, shipmates! Here we are, on the final Tuesday of February… how the heck did that even happen? What a year, huh? (It’s February, Alex.) Anyway, yes indeed, this is Alex, and I’m doubling down on new releases for you in this newsletter because there is just so much coming out this week. Though I will admit that personally, I’ll not be doing a whole lot of reading this week because the new expansion for the video game Destiny also comes out today, and I’m going to be no-lifing it. So please do some extra reading to cover for me! Stay safe out there, space pirates — and my fellow space wizards — and I’ll see you on Friday!
Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s somewhere to start: NDN Collective and Jane’s Due Process.
Bookish Goods
Gilded Priory of the Orange Tree Cover by noodlecatdesign
The art to the left is just a little slice of the full, gorgeous dust jacket that this seller has made to fit the standard hardcover of Samantha Shannon’s Priory of the Orange Tree. I definitely encourage you to click through and look at the whole piece! $23
New Releases
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
Mar’s pirate father once made a wicked bargain with el Diablo, and when the devil comes calling to collect his due, not even this transmasculine, nonbinary teen’s secret and powerful magic that lets them manipulate fire and ice can stop the loss of his father’s soul and his ship. But the devil offers Mar a different bargain: their soul for their father’s. Mar, no fool, knows better than to take such a deal — but if they want to save their father, they’re going to need allies.
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
Daisy has enough problems, and then you add in that she can see dead people — and there are a lot of dead people wandering the streets of Toronto. The final straw, however, is when her boyfriend dumps her. So she leaps at the chance to go to a secluded mansion her mother just inherited in Ontario: it sounds like a great way to get away from her problems. But her mother has secrets she could have never guessed at, and there are things worse than just ghosts wandering the streets. As Daisy’s story unfolds, another girl, Brittney, enters the house ten years in the future to escape her abusive mother. In the end, only one of their stories can be told.
For a more comprehensive list of new releases, check out our New Books newsletter.
Riot Recommendations
There are SO MANY new releases coming out this week that I’m going to use this round of Riot Recommendations to slide a couple more in front of you. These two books in particular are related to already published books — though they aren’t direct sequels. But if you like these authors and want more of these worlds, you should definitely check them out!
Last Violent Call by Chloe Gong
The heroes of These Violent Delights appear in two brand new novellas, adjacent to the events of Foul Lady Fortune. In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have settled into a quiet life in Zhouzhang, doing their best to live anonymously…as underground weapons dealers. But when Russian girls start showing up dead, they need to investigate for their own peace of mind. And in This Foul Murder, we follow Benedikt and Marshall as they search for Lourens once again, a mission that takes them on the week-long journey on the Trans-Siberian Express.
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
If you loved Priory of the Orange Tree and wished you could spend more time in its world, Samantha Shannon has you covered. In this new book, you follow the lives of four women who will shape the world you know and love. Among them is a sister of the Priory, a queen, and a woman whose one ambition has been to wake the dragons.
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.