With the days getting shorter and more time spent inside, snuggled up in our nests of blankets more and more great books are being consumed by our team!
2024 has already been a stellar year for fantastic fiction titles that have gripped us and delighted us. We would love to share with our QBD Blog readers what is next on our reading list that we are so excited about!
Please keep reading to discover some stories you will want to add to your TBR.
The Ashes And The Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power.
In the wake of the bloody tournament known as the Kejari, Oraya is now a prisoner in her own kingdom and grieving the only family she ever had. She’s left with only one certainty: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raihn, the vampire who betrayed her.
With enemies closing in on all sides, Oraya finds herself forced to choose between the bloody reality of seizing power – and the devastating love that could be her downfall…
Good Reads Rating: 4.16/5
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
In this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life – both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read.
King writes to feel ‘the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind’, and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
Good Reads Rating: 4.37/5
When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
He’s fire and brimstone. I’m shattered ice …
I’ll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down.
As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles – a group of powerful fae.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the capital’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve …
Good Reads Rating: 4.19/5
Storm Child by Michael Robotham
Evie Cormac’s painful and traumatic memories have been locked away, ever since she was rescued as a child from imprisonment and her story captured news headlines around the world. Cyrus Haven is a forensic psychologist, and he is determined to guide Evie back to near normalcy. But whilst they’re on a beach, seventeen bodies wash up on the shore with only one survivor, and two people still missing. Immediately, Evie’s carefully hidden nightmares come thundering back.
Whatever took place in her childhood is somehow connected to this recent tragedy and dark forces are dragging her back into the storm. Evie and Cyrus must now work together to solve the missing pieces of this chilling puzzle.
Michael has once again created a tantalising and eerie crime thriller that will leave you enraptured until the very last line.
Good Reads Rating: 4.45/5
Of Jade And Dragons by Amber Chen
IRON WIDOW meets SIX CRIMSON CRANES in this immersive YA fantasy inspired by Chinese legend, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Chloe Gong.
Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a brilliant engineer just like her beloved father – but her life is torn apart when she arrives a moment too late to stop his murder, and worse, lets the killer slip out of reach. Left with only a journal containing his greatest engineering secrets and a jade pendant snatched from the assassin, Ying vows to take revenge into her own hands.
Good Reads Rating: 3.82/5
What I Would Do To You by Georgia Harper
In near-future Australia, the death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetrator to die, they have to do it themselves. Twenty-four hours alone in a room with the condemned. No cameras. No microphones. Just whatever punishment they decide befits the crime.
Ten-year-old Lucy was murdered in bushland adjoining her family farm.Tensions build as the family discovers secrets about each other that threaten to drive them further apart than grief already has. What would you do?
Good Reads Rating: 3.91/5
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