Ten Anticipated Titles for May 2024
Top Ten Book Releases Of May
Happy May. There are so many exciting books coming out this month. Sadly I missed some of these on my quarterly anticipated releases but that’s one reason why these monthly releases are being created. I hope you can find a great new read this month. These are a mixture of Epic Fantasy 🐉, Speculative 🧪, Sci-Fi 🚀, and even Romantasy 💖 this month.
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Five Broken Blades
by Mai Corland
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Epic Fantasy
Series: The Broken Blades
The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon.
He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined…or sold.
And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness—from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks freedom, or even the prince banished for his cruel crimes. None can resist the sweet, icy lure of vengeance.
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The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley
Subjects: Fiction, Alternate Realities Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Time Travel, Love & Relationships
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
The Sword Unbound
by Gareth Hanrahan
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Epic Fantasy
Series: Lands of the First Born
Proceeded By: The Sword Defiant
Twenty years ago, Alf and his companions defeated the Dark Lord and claimed his city. Now, those few of the Nine that remain find themselves unwilling rebels, defying the authority of both the mortal Lords they once served and the immortal king of the elves - the secret architect of everything they've ever known.
Once lauded as a mighty hero, Alf is now labeled a traitor and hunted by the very gods he seeks to bring down. As desperate rebellion blazes across the land, Alf seeks the right path through a maze of conspiracy, wielding a weapon of evil. The black sword Spellbreaker has found its purpose in these dark days. But can Aelfric remain a hero, or is his legend tarnished forever?
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The Silverblood Promise
by James Logan
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Epic Fantasy
Series: The Last Legacy
Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and thanks to a duel that ended badly, the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His days consist of cheap wine, rigged card games, and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away.
His search for answers leads him to Saphrona, a fabled city of merchant princes, where anything can be bought if one has the coin. Lukan only seeks the truth, but instead, he finds danger and secrets in every shadow.
For in Saphrona, everything has a price and the price of truth is the deadliest of all.
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The Honey Witch
by Sydney J. Shields
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, LGBT Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Historical Fantasy
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woo her. So when her grandmother whisks her away to the family cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to train her as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately. But her newfound magic and independence come with a price: No one can fall in love with the Honey Witch.
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
by Django Wexler
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Cozy Fantasy
Series: Dark Lord Davi
Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.
This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side.
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Lost Ark Dreaming
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternate Realities, Space Exploration, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.
There are also those who were left for dead in the Atlantic, only to be reawakened by an ancient power, and who seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
by Stuart Turton
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternate Realities, Mystery and Thriller, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.
Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.
On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm, and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay.
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Dreadful
by Caitlin Rozakis
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Comic Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy
It’s bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard’s workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.
It’s a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is… you.
Gav isn’t really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.
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Evocation
by S.T. Gibson
Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy
Series: The Summoner's Circle
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.
As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society.
But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David’s days are numbered, and death looms at his door.
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