I saw this post on Des’ blog and I thought that it was an amazing idea to share with you what books I was approved for on Netgalley on a weekly basis. For those of you who are regular readers of my website, you will know that I request A LOT of books off of NetGalley. I just can’t help myself. I see a pretty cover and BAM. I suddenly have 25 books that need reviewing.

Anyway, this week I was approved for these amazing bunch of books!

Title: The Forgotten Child

Author: Melissa Erin Jackson

Publication Date: 10th October 2018

Publisher: Ringtail Press

Pages: 361

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Series: A Riley Thomas Mystery #1

Ever since Riley Thomas, reluctant medium extraordinaire, accidentally released a malevolent spirit from a Ouija board when she was thirteen, she’s taken a hard pass on scary movies, haunted houses, and cemeteries. So when her best friend pressures her into spending a paranormal investigation weekend at the infamous Jordanville Ranch—former home of deceased serial killer Orin Jacobs—Riley is one-hundred-percent, not ready.

Shortly after their arrival at the ranch, the spirit of a little boy contacts Riley; a child who went missing—and was never found—in 1973.

In order to put the young boy’s spirit to rest, she has to come to grips with her ability. But how can she solve a mystery that happened a decade before she was born? Especially when someone who knows Orin’s secrets wants to keep the truth buried—no matter the cost.

Title: Empress of all Seasons

Author: Emiko Jean

Publication Date: 8th November 2018

Publisher: Gollancz

Pages: 384

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: N/A

In a deadly tournament to become empress, any may enter but only one will survive, and one competitor doesn’t just plan to win, she’s going to steal the Emperor’s fortune. . .

In each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace’s enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, and you can marry the prince. All are eligible to compete – all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy.

Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren’t hiding a dangerous secret. Mari is a yokai with the ability to transform into a terrifying monster. If discovered, her life will be forfeit. As she struggles to keep her true identity hidden, Mari’s fate collides with that of Taro, the prince who has no desire to inherit the imperial throne, and Akira, a half-human, half-yokai outcast.

Torn between duty and love, loyalty and betrayal, vengeance and forgiveness, the choices of Mari, Taro and Akira will decide the fate of Honoku.

Title: The Lantern’s Ember

Author: Colleen Houck

Publication Date: 11th September 2018

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Pages: 416

Genre: YA Fantasy, Paranormal

Series: N/A

Five hundred years ago, Jack made a deal with the devil, thus condemning himself to an eternity of servitude. As a Lantern, his sole duty is to guard one of the many portals that lead to the immortal realm, making sure that no souls stray where they are not welcome. It’s a job that Jack excels at – until he meets the beautiful Ember O’Dare.

Seventeen-year-old witch Ember has been trying to trick Jack into letting her through the portal for years. Stubborn and undeterred by his warnings, she finally manages to cross into the forbidden plane with the help of a mysterious and debonair vampire – and so the wild chase through a dazzling, dangerous world begins.

Can Jack get Ember back where she belongs before both the worlds, both earthly and supernatural, descend into chaos?

Title: Dark Mind Rising

Author: Julia Keller

Publication Date: 13th November 2018

Publisher: Tor Teen

Pages: 288

Genre: YA Sci-Fi, Dystopian

Series: Dark Intercept #2

When the state is no longer watching, what will you give to feel safe?

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free, but not protected.

Violet Crowley, the eighteen-year-old daughter of New Earth’s founder, has opened Crowley & Associates, a private detective agency, to handle the overflow from the overburdened police force.

Violet’s first case—a death written off as a suicide—becomes an obsession. Soon a series of similar deaths leads Violet to believe the Intercept is not only still running—it’s in the hands of a killer

Read my review of The Dark Intercept

Title: After Hope Dies 

Author: Lilly Haraden

Publication Date: 20th October 2018

Publisher: Self-Published

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Series: N/A

This is what happens after America dies: the monsters take over.

A young prostitute’s reanimated soul prowls the streets, seeking revenge against her killers. The reclusive nerd who lives next door suffers from a serious problem that goes far beyond the time-bending demon infesting his body. And across town, an occult guide owns a brothel where you can buy a child for cheap.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this dark literary fantasy debut examines life for the most disadvantaged who call post-prosperity America home.

Title: Miracle Creek

Author: Angie Kim

Publication Date: 16th April 2019

Publisher: Sarah Chrichton Books

Pages: 368

Genre: General Fiction

Series: N/A

In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ small community.

Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients, who claimed to be sick that day but was smoking down by the creek? Or was it Young and Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night—trysts in the woods, mysterious notes, child-abuse charges—as well as tense rivalries and alliances among a group of people driven to extraordinary degrees of desperation and sacrifice.

Title: Soulbinder 

Author: Sebastien de Castell

Publication Date: 4th October 2018

Publisher: Hot Key Books

Pages: 432

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Spellsinger #4

Magic is a con game.

Kellen is moments away from facing his first mage’s duel and the start of four trials that will make him a spellcaster. There’s just one problem: his magic is gone. As his sixteenth birthday approaches, Kellen falls back on his cunning in a bid to avoid total disgrace. But when a daring stranger arrives in town, she challenges Kellen to take a different path. Ferius Parfax is one of the mysterious Argosi – a traveller who lives by her wits and the three decks of cards she carries. She’s difficult and unpredictable, but she may be Kellen’s only hope.

Title: A House of Ghosts

Author: W.C. Ryan

Publication Date: 4th October 2018

Publisher: Zaffre

Pages: 432

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Series: N/A

Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.

At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the conflict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden.

Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will find themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one…

Title: Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

Author: Temi Oh

Publication Date: 7th March 2019

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Pages: 528

Genre: Sci-Fi

Series: N/A

A century ago, scientists theorised that a habitable planet existed in a nearby solar system. Today, ten astronauts will leave a dying Earth to find it. Four are decorated veterans of the 20th century’s space-race. And six are teenagers, graduates of the exclusive Dalton Academy, who’ve been in training for this mission for most of their lives.

It will take the team 23 years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years spent in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong. And something always goes wrong.

Title: Forget Me Not

Author: A.M. Taylor

Publication Date: 5th October 2018

Publisher: Killer Reads

Pages: 350

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Series: N/A

WHAT HAPPENED TO NORA?

When Maddie met Nora, their friendship felt as easy as breathing. And when Nora disappeared, all the air went with her. Without her best friend, Maddie’s life became impossible.

Ten years later, Nora is still missing and Maddie is still searching. People have been questioned. People have even been accused. But no one has managed to find Nora.

Then, in the same spot where Nora went missing, the murdered body of Nora’s little sister is found. Convinced this is no coincidence, Maddie resolves to uncover the killer and find Nora – dead or alive.

But will she be able to cope, when we learn what really happened to Nora…?

Title: House of Falling Embers

Author: Krystal Jane Ruin

Publication Date: 1st October 2018

Publisher: The Narcissistic Rose

Pages: 328

Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy

Series: N/A

Once upon a time there was a witch. She was a kind witch, but that didn’t matter. The people were afraid, and fear often turns to hatred.

When Artemis was thirteen, her best friend Aris was swallowed by the crumbling house they found in the woods. Like a coward, she abandoned him to the horror within.

She moved away. She tried to forget. But when she finds herself back in her old neighborhood after college, the ghosts—and her guilt—are waiting. A charred figure stalks her dreams, and someone, or something, haunts her from the trees.

Going back into the woods might be the only way to save her sanity.

Because nine years later, the house is still there. Still waiting. Still restless.

Title: The Girl King

Author: Mimi Yu

Publication Date: 10th January 2019

Publisher: Gollancz

Pages: 496

Genre: Fantasy

Series: N/A

Sisters Lu and Min have always known their places as princesses of the empire. Lu is destined to become the first female emperor, while Min is resigned to a life in her shadow. When their father declares their male cousin heir instead, his betrayal throws both their lives into chaos.

Determined to reclaim her birthright, Lu must flee the court in search of an ally. Her quest leads her to Nokhai, the last surviving wolf shapeshifter. After years in hiding, Nok is forced into an uneasy alliance with the girl whose family killed everyone he ever loved. Now they need an army to take back the throne.

Left alone in the volatile court, Min’s hidden power awakens. It’s a forbidden, deadly magic that could secure Set’s reign . . . or allow Min to claim the throne herself.

But there can only be one emperor, and the sisters’ greatest enemy could turn out to be each other . . .

 

Title: To Obama, with love, joy, hate and despair

Author: Jeanna Marie Laskas

Publication Date: 18th September 2018

Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus

Pages: 416

Genre: Non-Fiction, Politics

Series: N/A

Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. He was the first president to read letters from citizens on a daily basis since George Washington. The only President to have received more mail than Obama was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The letters Obama read affected real tangible change leading to reforms in healthcare, criminal justice and LGBTQ+ rights. In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas tells the story of the Obama years -speaking to the letter writers, President Obama himself and the White House staff who sifted through the millions of pleas, rants, thank-yous and apologies that landed in the mailroom of the White House.

To Obama is an intimate look at one man’s relationship with the American people, and at how this extraordinary dialogue shaped an era-defining presidency.

Title: The World of Lore: Dreadful Places

Author: Aaron Mahnke

Publication Date: 9th October 2018

Publisher: Wildfire

Pages: 352

Genre: Non-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Series: The World of Lore #3

Humans have an uncanny ability to leave their indelible mark. Homes can sometimes reflect the characteristics of their occupants and even cities become more and more like living beings after a century or two. So, it’s logical to assume that darker deeds, horrible tragedies, and the worst of human nature all might leave a nefarious taint on some of these places.

This third book in The World of Lore series will explore dark and dreadful places on land and at sea, places haunted by tragedy and filled with echo es of evil. These are the stories about cities, and buildings, too, from New Orleans to Louisiana and Richmond, Virginia, as well as infamous places like the Stanley Hotel in Colorado and England’s most frightening and brooding castles.

 

Title: OtherEarth: Last Reality

Author: Jason Segal and Kirsten Miller

Publication Date: 30th October 2018

Publisher: Rock the Boat

Pages: 320

Genre: YA Sci-Fi

Series: Otherworld #2

Simon saved his best friend, Kat, from the clutches of the Company and their high-tech VR gaming experience, Otherworld. But it was at a steep price. Now he, Kat, and their friend Busara are on the run. They know too much. About the Company’s dark secrets. About the real-life consequences of playing Otherworld. And about Kat’s stepfather’s involvement in everything. The group is headed to New Mexico to find Simon’s old roommate, who is a tech genius and possibly the only person who can help them reveal the truth about the Company before it’s too late and the line between what’s real and what’s fantasy is erased…forever.

Title: Two Dark Reigns

Author: Kendare Blake

Publication Date: 4th October 2018

Publisher: Macmillan’s Children’s Books

Pages: 464

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Three Dark Reigns #3

One Crowned, Two Exiled, A Revolution Rising. The battle has been fought, blood has been spilt and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome. Katharine, the poisoner queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed. Mirabella and Arsinoe have escaped the island of Fennbirn, but how long before the island calls them back? Jules is returning to Fennbirn and has become the unlikely figurehead of a revolution threatening to topple Katharine’s already unsteady rule. But what good is a revolution if something is wrong with the island itself?

Title: Odd One Out

Author: Nic Stone

Publication Date: 18th October 2018

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Children’s

Pages: 320

Genre: YA Contemporary

Series: N/A

Courtney Cooper and Jupiter Sanchez have been best friends and neighbours since they were seven years old. And despite Courtney’s best efforts to suppress it, he can’t help being hopelessly in love with Jupe. But a relationship with the girl next door isn’t in the cards because Jupiter has been out of the closet for almost as long as she’s known Courtney.

Then Rae Chin moves to town, and Courtney thinks he’s finally found a girl he could fall for who isn’t Jupiter. The only problem: Jupiter is falling for Rae, too.

And there we have it! Those are all of the books that I’ve been approved for this week! There have been so many good books on NetGalley lately because autumn is the time of year when all of the hyped fantasy books are released.

I told you was very click-happy when it came to NetGalley!

What titles have caught your eye? Which books have you been approved for on NetGalley or Edelweiss? Let me know in the comments!

Until next time…

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