January Releases |2020
Hello, there! Welcome to another post where I share all of the monthly releases that I’m excited for. As usual, I’ve split this post into two sections: the first one are the books that I’ve pre-ordered, and the the other section are other releases that I’m interested in but haven’t pre-ordered.
I can’t believe that it’s already 2020… Just let me lie here and come to terms with how fast everything is going.
Disclaimer: all of the release dates shown here are taken from Amazon.co.uk
Title: The Night Country
Author: Melissa Albert
Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 352
Genre: YA Fantasy
Series: The Hazel Wood #2
In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Woodwas just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang.
With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors―and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and―if he can find it―a way back home.
Read my review of The Hazel Wood
Title: A Heart so Fierce and Broken
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Publication Date: 7th January 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 464
Genre: YA Fantasy
Series: Cursebreakers #2
The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Although Rhen has Harper by his side, his guardsman Grey is missing, leaving more questions than answers.
Win the crown, save the kingdom.
Rumored to be the heir, Grey has been on the run since he destroyed Lilith. He has no desire to challenge Rhen–until Karis Luran once again threatens to take Emberfall by force. Her own daughter Lia Mara sees the flaws in her mother’s violent plan, but can she convince Grey to stand against Rhen, even for the good of Emberfall?
Title: Infinity Son
Author: Adam Silvera
Publication Date: 14th January 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Genre: YA Fantasy
Series: Infinity Cycle #1
Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.
Brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. Emil just wants the fighting to stop. The cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it harder for anyone with a power to live peacefully and openly. In this climate of fear, a gang of specters has been growing bolder by the day.
Then, in a brawl after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own—one that puts him right at the heart of the conflict and sets him up to be the heroic Spell Walker Brighton always wanted to be.
Brotherhood, love, and loyalty will be put to the test, and no one will escape the fight unscathed.
Title: One of Us is Next
Author: Karen M. McManus
Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 384
Genre: YA Thriller
Series: One of Us Is Lying #2
Come on, Bayview, you know you’ve missed this.
A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one’s been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.
Until now.
This time it’s not an app, though—it’s a game.
Truth or Dare.
Phoebe’s the first target. If you choose not to play, it’s a truth. And hers is dark.
Then comes Maeve and she should know better—always choose the dare.
But by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it’s that they can’t count on the police for help. Or protection.
Simon’s gone, but someone’s determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And this time, there’s a whole new set of rules.
Read my review of One of Us is Lying
Title: Loveboat, Taipei
Author: Abigail Hing Wen
Publication Date: 7th January 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Genre: YA Contemporary
Series: Loveboat, Taipei #1
When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be, including Rick Woo, the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents’ yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.
Unbeknownst to her parents, however, the program is actually an infamous teen meet-market nicknamed Loveboat, where the kids are more into clubbing than calligraphy and drinking snake-blood sake than touring sacred shrines.
Free for the first time, Ever sets out to break all her parents’ uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?
Title: The Conference of the Birds
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publication Date: 14th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 336
Genre: YA Fantasy
Series: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children #5
An instant bestseller, A Map of Days launched readers into the previously unexplored world of American peculiars, one bursting with new questions, new allies, and new adversaries.
Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the next installment of the beloved, bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
Read my review of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Read my review of Hollow City
Read my review of Library of Souls
Title: This Vicious Cure
Author: Emily Suvada
Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 448
Genre: YA Science Fiction/Dystopian
Series: This Mortal Coil #3
Cat’s hacking skills weren’t enough to keep her from losing everything—her identity, her past, and now her freedom. She’s trapped and alone, but she’s survived this long, and she’s not giving up without a fight.
Though the outbreak has been contained, a new threat has emerged—one that’s taken the world to the brink of a devastating war. With genetic technology that promises not just a cure for the plague, but a way to prevent death itself, both sides will stop at nothing to seize control of humanity’s future.
Facing her smartest, most devastating enemy yet, Cat must race against the clock to protect her friends and save the lives of millions on the planet’s surface. No matter the outcome, humanity will never be the same.
And this time, Cat can’t afford to let anything, or anyone, stand in her way.
Title: Dark and Deepest Red
Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Publication Date: 14th January 2020
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 320
Genre: YA Fantasy/Retellings/Historical
Series: N/A
Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves.
Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes.
So, there we have it! Those are all of the January releases that I’m excited for! Which ones are you looking forward to? Did any of these catch your eye?
Let me know in the comments below.
Until next time…
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