Monday, May 13, 2024

Readworthy: The latest must-read fantasy new releases

 
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This Month's Best New Fantasy
Each month, Readworthy highlights the best, most acclaimed new releases in your categories! Questions or suggestions? Let us know.
 
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep
Magical academia meets epistolary romance
IN THE MEDIA
Locus, Indie Next List, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Booklist, BookPage
A startling discovery near E.'s underwater home sparks a correspondence with scholar Henerey. But when they both vanish, they leave a mystery in their wake…
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Song of the Six Realms
An enchanting New York Times bestseller!
IN THE MEDIA
Parade, Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, BookPage, School Library Journal
Musician Xue is presented with an offer: perform in residence at Duke Meng's manor for one year, and she'll be released from her indenture contract. But what is the duke hiding?
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The Brides of High Hill
'Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today'
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
IN THE MEDIA
Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist
In this standalone gothic tale, cleric Chih delivers a bride to her fate at a lord's crumbling manor — and becomes entangled in the mystery of what happened to the aging ruler's previous wives.
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Five Broken Blades
'My first five-star read of 2024'
- Rebecca Roanhorse
IN THE MEDIA
Book of the Month, Reactor, Publishers Weekly, BookPage
Five liars must work together to assassinate the god king… but only one will walk away with his crown.
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A Magical Girl Retires
'A weird, delightful little book, simultaneously grim and breezy'
- Locus
IN THE MEDIA
Locus, Reactor, Indie Next List
In massive debt at 29, a woman learns she might actually be the greatest magical girl of all time — and that her new vocation is just as mundane as any other job. A witty, provocative ode to Sailor Moon!
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Red Side Story
'Often absurdly funny, à la Terry Pratchett's Discworld series'
- Kirkus Reviews
IN THE MEDIA
Locus, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Booklist
After a vague apocalypse five centuries prior changed societal hierarchy forever, Eddie Russett and his alleged coconspirator search for a loophole to get them out of a conviction for a murder they didn't commit.
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The Silverblood Promise
'Perfect for fans of the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson'
- Library Journal
When Lukan Gardova, the disgraced heir to an ancient house, hears that his estranged father has been murdered, he delves into the fabled city of Saphrona to find out why.
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Blood at the Root
A magical school ripples with feuding covens and dangerous secrets…
IN THE MEDIA
Reactor, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal
At Caiman University, a historically Black college for hoodoo and vodun practitioners, Malik grapples with his family's ties to the school — and the mystery of his mother's disappearance.
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Dragon Rider
'A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons, magic, and rebellion'
- Amélie Wen Zhao
IN THE MEDIA
Reactor, Publishers Weekly
When a political marriage brings a dowry of dragons to the empire, royal hostage Jai escapes with a hatchling — and with a handmaiden who may hold the secret to soulbonding with the beast.
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Death's Country
'An alluring and lyrical journey'
- Kirkus Reviews
IN THE MEDIA
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
In this lush and mythic tale told in verse, Andres and Renee descend into the underworld to retrieve the soul of their recently departed girlfriend.
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