Fresh Batch (May 5th – 11th)

Posted by Giselle

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Aurora Rising
Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Series: The Aurora Cycle #1
Publication date: May 7th 2019
by Knopf Books for Young Readers

Goodreads Purchase

From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They’re not the heroes we deserve. They’re just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Again, but Better by Christine Riccio [Purchase]
– Finale (Caraval #3) by Stephanie Garber [Purchase]
– Romanov by Nadine Brandes [Purchase]
– Middlegame by Seanan McGuire [Purchase]

– With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo [Purchase]
– Her Royal Highness (Royals #2) by Rachel Hawkins [Purchase]
– Broken Throne (Red Queen #4.5) by Victoria Aveyard [Purchase]
– Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt [Purchase]

– Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes #1) by Sonali Dev [Purchase]
– Dark Shores (Dark Shores #1) by Danielle L. Jensen [Purchase]
– Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju [Purchase]
– This Is Not a Love Scene by S.C. Megale [Purchase]

– Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum [Purchase]
– Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo [Purchase]
– How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox [Purchase]
– Last Things by Jacqueline West [Purchase]

– Carmilla by Kim Turrisi [Purchase]
– The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) by Helen Hoang [Purchase]
– Nocturna (A Forgery of Magic #1) by Maya Motayne [Purchase]
– Skin Hunter by Tania Hutley [Purchase]

– Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones [Purchase]
– Castle of Lies by Kiersi Burkhart [Purchase]
– Everything Grows by Aimee Herman [Purchase]
– Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley [Purchase]

– The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes [Purchase]
– Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum [Purchase]
– Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki [Purchase]
– All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton [Purchase]

– The Rule of Many (The Rule of One #2) by Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders [Purchase]
– Ask Me Anything by Molly E. Lee [Purchase]
– Last Things by Jacqueline West [Purchase]

Anything on your wishlist this week?

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Giselle

Canadian blogger, wife, mother, coffee lover, and sarcastic at heart! She has had a love for all things bookish since before Amazon and eReaders existed *le gasp*. You can also find her organizing tours and other fun things at Xpresso Book Tours.