I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but there was some health issues my grandma went through that needed my full attention. She’s now feeling well enough that I’m able to get back to a schedule. As in previous years, I’m hoping to post more regularly this year.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly topic hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she provides a topic, and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!
Release Date: 9 January
Perfect for romantasy fans of Fourth Wing and Shadow and Bone, this dark, Imperial Russia-inspired romantic fantasy novel launches the These Monstrous Gods duology of draconic gods, political revolutions, and deadly magical powers.
Release Date: 20 February
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.
Release Date: 5 March
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut.
A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.
Release Date: 19 March
A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them.
Release Date: 19 March
Sami Ellis’s Dead Girls Walking is a shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at the summer camp that was once her serial killer father’s home—perfect for fans of Friday the 13th and White Smoke.
Release Date: 26 March
The brilliant contemporary romance novel debut from Yulin Kuang, the acclaimed screenwriter of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation and director of the forthcoming Beach Read feature film.
Release Date: 9 April
Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal.
Release Date: 23 April
Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C.S. Pacat, Ava Reid, and Katherine Arden.
Release Date: 7 May
In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away.
Black ferns grow where death will follow.
And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker.
Release Date: 4 June
A Botanical Daughter sounds amazing! I’m also intrigued by In the Hour of Crows. I love books set in Appalachia.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
— 𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪 ✿
Right!? And the cover is gorgeous.
I made a goal this new year to read more books set in and about Appalachia. I just don’t know enough about the area and am trying to rectify that
Love the mix of a botanical daughter, 3 of my favorites book combined together
I’m glad your Grandma is on the mend. I hope you manage to achieve your goal of blogging more!
An interesting looking list. A few scary sounding ones on there.
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/top-ten-tuesday-anticipated-releases-for-the-first-half-of-2024/
Thank you!!
And yea, I like to be scared a little bit 🫣😅
😂 it doesn’t take much to scare me and then every noise in the house makes me jump 😂
Oh, I’m the same way!! Yet, I still read/watch scary stories 😂
🤣 I don’t watch scary things either or sad things 😂
I definitely want to read A Botanical Daughter.