It’s Tuesday! That means it is time to make a little bit of room on the bookshelves, load up your ereader, or make your way to your local library. In other words – It is time to get your hands on a new book!
Here are just a few books that have just been released that you may want to grab soon:
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more
like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s
spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic,
world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence
and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.
But hey,
there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack
tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He
knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger
issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.
And then he sees the flying saucer.
Even
stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the
videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator
called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.
No,
Zack hasn’t lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing
is all too real. And his skills—as well as those of millions of gamers
across the world—are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s
about to befall it.
It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the
hero. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can’t help
thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and
wondering: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little…familiar?
At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada
is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age
adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read
before—one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that
has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.
Times bestselling author Scott Sigler comes something utterly new: a
gripping sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games,
Divergent, and The Maze Runner. A group of young adults awake in a
mysterious enclosed space with no knowledge of who they are or how they
got there…and an indomitable young woman must lead them not only to
answers but to survival.
A young woman awakes trapped in
an enclosed space. She has no idea who she is or how she got there.
With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own
confinement—and finds she’s not alone. She frees the others in the room
and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long
past. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they
confront. And as they slowly come to understand what this prison is,
they realize that the worst and strangest possibilities they could have
imagined don’t even come close to the truth.
Serafina
has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds
of Biltmore Estate. There’s plenty to explore in the shadowed corridors
of her vast home, but she must take care to never be seen. None of the
rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the
estate’s maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as
long as Serafina can remember.
But when children at the estate
start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is: a terrifying
man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore’s corridors at night.
Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining
forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore’s owners.
Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak’s true
identity before all of the children vanish one by one.
Serafina’s
hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught to fear.
There she discovers a forgotten legacy of magic that is bound to her own
identity. In order to save the children of Biltmore, Serafina must seek
the answers that will unlock the puzzle of her past.
Thaniel Steepleton comes home to find a new watch on his pillow, he has
bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a
telegraphist at the Home Office, where he has just received a Fenian
bomb threat. But six months later, the watch saves his life in a blast
that destroys Scotland Yard, and at last, he goes in search of its
maker.
He meets Keita Mori, a Japanese immigrant who remembers
the future. As Mori begins to tweak daily life in Thaniel’s favour,
everything seems to be going well – until physicist Grace Carrow,
attracted to Thaniel’s refreshingly direct, unstuffy nature, unwittingly
interferes. Soon, events spiral beyond Thaniel’s control, and nothing
is certain any more…
Natasha Pulley breathes authenticity into
the era of Sherlock Holmes, shines subtle light upon the prevailing
views on gender and plays speculatively with time and destiny to take
the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London and beyond.
(And watch out for the clockwork octopus…)
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So excited for Armada and Go Set a Watchman! 🙂
Great post♥
Jumana @ Books by Jay
I am really curious to see what people think of Go Set a Watchman! I haven't read To Kill A Mockingbird so I'm planning to read it but I know a whole lot of readers have been really excited about it. I think I might actually pick up Armada soon or I might start with Ready Player One.
I'm so excited for Go Set a Watchman!! TKaM is one of my favorite books ever!! Alive sounds pretty cool thanks for putting it on my radar!!
I really need to read To Kill a Mockingbird. I am a little embarrassed that I haven't read it yet. I can't wait to see what you think of Go Set a Watchman and Alive!
You know, I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I feel it's a book I should try to read some time soon. I feel like I'm missing out.
As for the other books mentioned here, I'm really interested in Armada and Alive.