![]() Why You’ll Love It: If you need to know more than “Rin Chupeco wrote a vampire fantasy book!!” to put this on your to-read list right now, then I’m not really sure what to tell you other than please go read The Bone Witch immediately and become a believer. Release Date: September 13 from Gallery/Saga Press What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad. ![]() His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Publisher’s Description: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. Why You’ll Love It: A good old-fashioned fantasy horror epic in the vein of the Dark Tower and The Talisman, Stephen King successfully mixes Grimms-esque fairytale elements with Lovecraftian style horror all while keeping his story firmly grounded in the very real world problems of a seventeen-year-old boy. When a rebellion rises and rogues attack Koral to try and force her to drop out, she must choose?her life or her sister’s?before the whole island burns. Koral’s only choice is to do what no one in the world has ever dared: cheat her way into the Glory Race.īut every step of the way is unpredictable as Koral races against contenders?including her ex-boyfriend?who have trained for this their whole lives and who have no intention of letting a low-caste girl steal their glory. When the last maristag of the year escapes and Koral has no new maristag to sell, her family’s financial situation takes a turn for the worse and they can’t afford medicine for her chronically ill little sister. The winning contender receives gold and glory. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the Landers?the ruling elite, have indentured Koral’s family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. They have to, or else their family will starve. Publisher’s Description: Sixteen-year-old Koral and her older brother Emrik risk their lives each day to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. Imaginative and thorough worldbuilding helps this story stand out from the pack. (Who are, incidentally, the only ones permitted to compete.) Koral’s rebellion is not just a social statement but a deeply personal one-her family’s unstable finances mean they can’t afford to care for her chronically ill sister-and her conflicts with the other contenders (including an ex-boyfriend) turn out to be just as savage as the sea beasts they’re driving. Why You’ll Love it: A fresh spin on the typical teen dystopian fantasy, Monsters Born and Made follows the story of a lower-caste young woman who defies convention to enter a potentially deadly chariot race involving the same raging sea creatures she’s spent her life training for the upper classes. ![]() Release Date: September 6 from Sourcebooks Fire Here are our picks for the best fantasy books hitting shelves in September. It’s an embarrassment of reading riches and putting any sort of recommendations list together that doesn’t say some variety of just read everything in all caps was a challenge. (Hopefully, none of you will mind too much.) Fantasy lovers are particularly well-served this Fall with multiple highly anticipated sequels and several series-ending novels arriving within just days of each other and several buzzy debuts landing as well. In short, there are so many fantastic titles arriving in September that no book editor could possibly hope to cover them all-and you, dear readers, will likely be seeing reviews and features on many of them well into next month. September (and October to some extent, but we’ll deal with that next month) are when all eyes start to turn to the lucrative Christmas shopping season and booksellers begin to think about allocating shelf space for titles that will be on every book lover’s holiday wishlist. The nights finally begin to get a bit darker and Halloween is just around the corner and one of the most exciting times of the year in publishing is about to begin. Fall is finally here, with its promise of crisp weather, colorful leaves, and pumpkin spice-flavored everything.
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