Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.
Flavor of the week:
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Laini Taylor
Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3
Publication date: April 8th 2014
by Little, Brown & Company
By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.
Common enemy, common cause.
When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.
And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.
But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz … something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.
What power can bruise the sky?
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– Season of Wonder (The Remnants #1) by Lisa Tawn Bergren [Purchase]
– urn Out (Burn Out #1) by Kristi Helvig [Purchase]
– Rebel Belle (Rebel Belle #1) by Rachel Hawkins [Purchase]
– The Will (Magdalene Series #1) by Kristen Ashley [Purchase]
– Sea of Shadows (Age of Legends #1) by Kelley Armstrong [Purchase]
– The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder [Purchase]
– I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer [Purchase]
– Far From You by Tess Sharpe [Purchase]
– Toxic Heart (Mystic City #2) by Theo Lawrence [Purchase]
– Great by Sara Benincasa [Purchase]
– The Nethergrim (The Nethergrim Trilogy #1) by Matthew Jobin [Purchase]
– Breathe Into Me by Sara Fawkes [Purchase]
– The Intern’s Handbook: A Thriller by Shane Kuhn [Purchase]
– The First Battle (Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #3) by Erin Hunter [Purchase]
– Always Emily by Michaela MacColl [Purchase]
– Noggin by John Corey Whaley [Purchase]
– The Opposite of Maybe by Maddie Dawson [Purchase]
– The Lonesome Young by Lucy Connors [Purchase]
– The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (The Tribe #1) by Ambelin Kwaymullina [Purchase]
– Pointe by Brandy Colbert [Purchase]
– Incinerator (Crusher #2) by Niall Leonard [Purchase]
– Business as Usual (Off the Subject #3) by Denise Grover Swank [Purchase]
– Mine to Claim (Damaged Hearts #1) by A.C. Arthur [Purchase]
– Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom [Purchase]
– Hate Me (The Keatyn Chronicles #5) by Jillian Dodd [Purchase]
– Nearly Mended (Nearly #2) by Devon Ashley
– Until You’re Mine (Mine #2) by K. Langston [Purchase]
– The Here and Now by Ann Brashares [Purchase]
– Zom-B Mission (Zom-B #7) by Darren Shan [Purchase]
– Swim That Rock by John Rocco and Jay Primiano [Purchase]
– Irresistible by Liz Bankes [Purchase]
– Goddess by Laura Powell [Purchase]
– Curiosity by Gary L. Blackwood [Purchase]
– What We Hide by Marthe Jocelyn [Purchase]
– The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer [Purchase]
– Ask Me by Kimberly Pauley [Purchase]
– Plus One by Elizabeth Fama [Purchase]
– Mayday by Jonathan Friesen [Purchase]
– The World Outside by Eva Wiseman [Purchase]
– Between Two Worlds by Katherine Kirkpatrick [Purchase]
– Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs [Purchase]
– The Klaatu Terminus (The Klaatu Diskos #3) by Pete Hautman [Purchase]
Anything here on your spring must-read list?
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I’ve been seeing Far From You everywhere! I like the sound of the story, and the cover is nice too. Might just have to buy it. 🙂
Lisa (Lost in Literature)
Wow! I’m surprised, but there’s several books here I’ve never even heard of. I should be shamed! 0_0 Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Juhina
oh my! I have been TOTALLY out of the loop! I do not even KNOW half of these titles. Shame on me. But still, now suddenly there are a ton of potential good reads that are being released next week!! 😀 Pointe, Ask Me, Far From You.. so many!
Maya
Ooh, I so want to read Far From You! And yay, Dreams of Gods & Monsters! I’ve just bought a copy of Daughter of Smoke & Bone and I’m so looking forward to reading this trilogy as I’ve heard so much praise for it.
Candace
Oh Toxic Heart releases this week?! I need that book! I’m reading Rebel Belle now and have Remnants to read for the tour. Great release week!
Amanda @ Book Badger
There’s a lot of books I’d love to get a hold off, Plus One, Far From You, Breakfast Served Anytime, and more. I can’t wait to see all the reviews come in for them, it’s exciting and I want to know if they’re worth it 🙂
Missie
Dreams of Gods and Monsters – seriously CANNOT wait to get my hands on it! Hopefully the library gets it soon!
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
Eileen @ Singing and Reading in the Rain
There are a lot of great releases coming out this week! Rebel Belle and Far From You have been getting really great reviews so far, and I know Dreams of Gods and Monsters has been really hyped 😀 I’m excited for all these great new releases!
Amy @ Book Loving Mom
So many books!! I am going to meet Laini Taylor on April 24th!! She is doing a signing in my area and I am so excited. I am going to buy Dreams of Gods and Mosters then so I can have it signed! I am reading Far From You now and it’s good.
Kayla @ The Thousand Lives
WOW that’s a blast from my childhood to see Warriors up there. I wonder how many series she’s written by now? It’s been YEARS since I picked up one of those books, but they were some of my favorites as a kid!
nea
Oh, Giselle, I hope you are ok and that everything is good 🙂 Thank you so sharing the new releases 🙂 🙂
Pili
Wow, so many awesome books coming out next week! I’m dying for my preorders to get here, and I’m totally keeping everything crossed for my hardcover of Dreams of Gods and Monsters arriving next week from TBD and not torturing me and making me wait for another extra week!
Jessica @ Rabid Reads
You may claim that those books are in no particular order, but my top 3 from the whole batch are front and center, LOL. SO many good books. I’m feeling overwhelmed . . .
Micheline @ Lunar Rainbows Reviews
Dreams of Gods & Monsters!! GAH! Gimme gimme gimme, I hope my pre-order ships early lol I can’t take it anymore >.< I still need to get into my copy of Sea of Shadows (can't remember if you read that one yet…I know you must have an arc somewheres ha!) but I hope to soon, I'm really curious! Rebel Belle looks pretty awesome too. LOL seeing the cover for the new Warrior book takes me back, remember when that's all I used to read?! Curiosity is intriguing too. Lots of good looking releases this week 😀
Lyn Kaye
Plus One is out as well?! SWEET!!
Lily B
I so want to read The Nethergrim and a bunch of others off the list bah!
Savannah
Cool new books out. I can’t wait to read Kelley Armstrong new series.
Heather Brittain Bergstrom
Thanks Giselle and Jenni for listing my novel, STEAL THE NORTH, on your website this week. I am so excited for my book to launch into the world and get into the hands of readers! STEAL THE NORTH is basically a (teenage) love story and family saga set on the edge of an Indian reservation in Washington State. Thanks again!!