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As always, this is not a comprehensive list, but only includes all the books I have heard about so far.
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1st February – Without a Whisper (Songs of the Tangled Elegies #2) by Molly Macabre
Dark Fantasy, Horror
The laughter never comforts. It only reminds them that they’re not alone.
Kate and Nick have found safety behind the walls of Fort Vanguard, but peace is fragile in a world crawling with the dead. Each journey beyond the gates is a fight for survival, plagued by the Infected and survivors alike.
When Kate is captured, Nick descends into madness. To find her, he’ll carve through the wasteland, leaving pieces of his humanity behind with every kill.
The dead are evolving. The living are losing themselves.
And love might be the most dangerous disease of all.
1st February – Slaying Dragons for Tail by MJG Pither
Grimdark, Sword & Sorcery
Bern’s a bit of a dick, but he’s good at killing dragons. It’s fortunate for Bern that in the multicultural city of Fale, the dragon slaying business is a lucrative one, because that means he’s rarely short of coin to spend on his only hobby: procuring the services of prostitutes.
Yet sometimes, Bern’s abrasive personality gets in the way of his own happiness, and he’s forced into situations that he’d much rather avoid. So when the son of one of Fale’s richest citizens finds himself in trouble in the wilds of the far north, will Bern answer the call to save him?
Yes.
But only because it’s been court-ordered.
2nd February – Fire in the Hearth (Scars of Magic #2) by Steven Raaymakers
Sword & Sorcery, Horror, Dark Fantasy
From the ashes of despair, an ember awakens.
Esterra’s journey through the fractured lands of Verpace leads her into even stranger and deadlier tracts. In a caustic wasteland, she crosses paths with a naïve steelhunter and a zealous priest who is bent on resurrecting a long-dead cult. As ancient shadows stir and corrupted beasts stalk her every step, Esterra must join with old friends to face a broken world.
But as the licht’s call grows stronger, a new hunger festers within her, a hunger which threatens to unravel the fragile threads of her humanity.
The darkness hunts her, but so does the light. Can Esterra hold her ground against the violence of Verpace, or will it smother the fire in the hearth?
3rd February – Hammerfall (A GodEater Saga story) by Rob J. Hayes
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
How long can a cause remain just, when painted in the blood of innocence?
They named her the Starhammer once. Hero to some, monster to many more. First into the breach at the Shattering, anointed in the blood of a thousand demons. The last of the legendary Valkyr.
But the Starhammer is dead. Or so all the stories tell.
Amidst the soaring trees and haunted slopes of the Primals, Selitha relies on the forest to provide, and cares for her family. Nothing is more precious to her than her daughter.
It is a simple life. It is a peaceful life. It is a lie.
When bandits raid the Primals, burning towns and stealing children from their beds, Selitha has no choice but to lend her axe to the rescue.
Volcanic giants spew ash into the sky, demonic bears claw the forest to splinters, and there are even rumours the kin, half-men half-beasts, serve the raiders. All the Terrors of the old world stand against her.
With a severed head as guide, to rescue the children, Selitha may need to bring the Starhammer back from the dead.
But will it be the hero who rises from the grave, or the monster?
3rd February – Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs (Copper & Ash #1) by Adam Bassett
YA, Gaslamp
For a thousand years, The Old Town has stood as humanity’s last bastion against the maalkonis, malignant black mists that reduced the rest of the world to ash. They are kept at bay by rusty machines on the town’s walls. In order to survive, the dwindling population depends on one another.
Since a young age, Justīne has embraced the harsh responsibilities that accompanied her apprenticeship on the last farm in existence. Her younger sister, Anna, is beginning her own apprenticeship as well. Learning engineering was not Anna’s first choice, but the town’s last mage fell to the maalkonis years prior, leaving nothing behind but confusing books and strange runes.
When food runs low during a particularly harsh winter, distrust spreads like a plague, and Justīne is blamed for it. As hunger leads to violence, she and her siblings are forced to flee The Old Town, embarking on a perilous journey into the very mists that had formed their cage. Their fight to survive in the dark develops into a hopeful mystery as they follow the breadcrumbs of a mage’s efforts to save the world. Meanwhile something pursues them through the maalkonis…
3rd February – The Flame of Loki (The Ragnarok Prophecy #9) by Matt Larkin
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark, Dark Fantasy
The World ends in Flame.
Odin has vanished. Ragnarök unfolds across Midgard. Hel’s armies swarm across the world to blanket it in her freezing wrath. Draugar, jotunnar, and more terrible monsters run rampant.
The fallout between Loki and Odin has left the World ripe for carnage. Now each must strive to preserve what they can in the face of the merciless procession of Urd.
10th February – The Omens of War (Records of the Orders #1) by Livia J. Elliot
Dark Fantasy
The peace between Firard and Sestel teeters on the edge of collapse.
In the fortress of Egon Hold, strategist Dante Praeto becomes the unwilling host of the War a simulated battle fundamental to rising in the ranks of Firard’s Legions. As the contestants march towards the ravine shared with their enemy nation, a landslide swallows the soldiers within.
Across that ravine, Lady Calya Seve guards the Sestelii frontier, aware the War Games will provoke a diplomatic upheaval. She deals in treaties and political alliances, but little does she know the next threat isn’t coming through the border.
Unbeknownst to them, both are pieces in a larger a game played by eldritch beings for whom entire nations are little more than tools, and humans mere pawns. For in the end, the alchemists of The Orders will unleash chaos in their eternal pursuit of arcane knowledge.
The omens of war will be heard by all.
12th February – Banners of Wrath (Dreams of Dust and Steel #3) by Michael Michel
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
War has come.
A Kurgish host wreaks havoc among the mountain clans, slaughtering and enslaving their way up the ladder of power.
To the east, the Scarborn fortify their position while they plot their next attack.
As chaos and social unrest unfold across Namarr, Scothea mobilizes for holy conquest. The Arrow of Light’s grip on his cultists grows stronger, his miracles ever more alarming.
Meanwhile, the battle in the River of conscious reality has just begun.
With every day that passes and every hero that dies, the odds of preventing annihilation dwindle.
Banners span the horizon. Beneath them, a tide of steel marches. Legions of fury. Men of war. Armies of wrath.
Woe to any who dares stand in their way.
16th February – The Library at the Edge of the Wood (Cozy Cottage #2) by Liz Delton
Cozy Fantasy
On his way back from delivering a parcel one day, Everson stumbles across an empty cottage at the edge of the wood, where he quickly discovers its secret: there’s magic within these walls, and he can make this place into the secluded home of his dreams.
His dreams, of course, include wall to wall books, and when a stranger stops for directions and mistakes it for a library, Everson gets an idea: the first free library in Wrestia, where all are welcome.
Born with silver hair and pointy ears of the “cursed” faerûn, Everson has always had to hide his identity, particularly ever since his mother married the lord of Wrestia—and he’s kept to himself ever since.
But when his stepbrother summons him to the palace, Everson is confronted by the one person from his childhood who knows his secret: his step-brother’s new fiancé.
Can he create the welcoming library of his dreams, or will it crumble to ruin before he even gets started?
16th February – Voice of the Kami (Yaseki Monogatari #2) by Baptiste Pinson Wu
Historical Fantasy
From the depths of Yomi’s dark realm, the First, queen of the yōkai, prepares her vengeance on the kami. Her wrath will not be stopped, not even by the members of the Yaseki and the Daughter of the Sun they’ve just saved, for her power and that of her four tengu sons is too great.
The only thing she fears is a story passed down through the centuries in Yomi. The story of a human speaking with the Voice of the Kami. This power, if it truly exists, would tip the balance in the war with the yōkai.
Ren, however, doubts any of it, for the bearer of this knowledge is none other than one of the four tengu, and unsealing this Voice means heading back to Aokigahara and the ghosts of his troubled past.
17th February – Prey of Angels (Hybrid Helix #8) by JCM Berne
Sci-Fantasy
Rohan has been building alliances and solidifying his abilities, all to keep his friends, his family, his homeworld, and the Empire safe from anything that threatens them, from anywhere in the universe, whether from inside the sector or from a distant galaxy.
He thought he was doing a pretty good job.
He thought he had a pretty solid handle on what he needed to worry about.
He was wrong.
19th February – Escape from Faerie (The Draon Portal) by Jamie A. Waters
Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
The Hunt begins the moment blood is spilled…
The Unseelie queen is dead—murdered before Sabine’s eyes. And the princess is the one being hunted for the crime.
Sabin’theoria, heir to the Unseelie throne, never expected to watch her mother die beneath the shadowed boughs of the Silver Forest. But truth and illusion twist together, and whispers of regicide spread faster than fire.
Betrayal in Faerie always comes at a deadly price…
Pursued by the Wild Hunt and betrayed by her own people, Sabine has only one choice: run. Every step beyond Faerie’s borders carries her closer to exile, but also deeper into a deadly game of vengeance and lies.
Because no one dares accuse the Seelie king of murder and survives long enough to tell the tale.
20th February – Silver Sentience (The Draconiad #4) by Anna Lauten
Sci-Fantasy, Historical Fantasy
Jay Silver has been gone for five years.
Without her, war with the dragons grinds on. Those she left behind must survive without the woman who once changed everything. Yet amid shifting battle lines, a few young dragons are beginning to think differently, testing the fragile possibility of peace.
Far in the future, Francesca seeks to learn how time can be navigated safely, deliberately, and without the price she once paid. For that, she needs Jay’s help and offers, in return, a promise that technology can keep Will alive.
An artificial intelligence watches as Francesca pressures Jay to comply. Created centuries before, it has its own reasons for wanting Jay to return to the past but whether for its own survival and awakening, or something else, even it cannot say.
Across time and worlds, love, fear and ambition will collide with the power to rewrite history, unless Jay Silver can turn the tide.
24th February – The Price of Fear (The Wretched Trilogy #1) by Miles Lyon
Grimdark
For a Godless like Azreal the Wretched, peace might be a more profitable time, but it’s no less bloody…
A decade into the armistice with Inath, the North, once united against invasion, finds itself a divided kingdom. Azreal – an infamous mage of the Northern military – operates in his native land as a contract killer, employed to hunt traitors by a king who is squabbling against his would-be usurpers.
But when the completion of his latest bounty unveils a foreign plot to dethrone the North altogether, Azreal is the only one who can cross the border and respond in kind…
Or he would have been, until betrayal at the final moment resulted in his killing of the wrong man and capture by those that he’s spent half his life fighting.
Now, imprisoned and awaiting his execution for the murder of an Inathian crown prince, Azreal finds himself across the interrogation table from Anamira Lestrade. A career criminal investigator, Ana is tasked with extracting the truth behind the assassination or dying in failure – linking the two through one last story that could stave off both their gruesome ends.
Possessed of few friends, countless enemies, magic blades that feast on his emotions, and the haunting rumors of how he won his name, Azreal the Wretched’s narrative pits him against traitorous conspiracy, brutal magical feuds, and broken promises of love. And if there is any hope of making it out alive at its end, he’ll need to conquer the price it cost him to paint the tale
Fear.
26th February – The Cure for Living part 1 *The Twelfth World #2) by Nicolas Lietzau
Dark Fantasy
“I’ll tell you a story,” the Visionary said to the young woman. “When I’m done, I promise I’ll undo these chains and let you go.” He met her gaze, his eyes as deep as the space between worlds. “You will stay.”
In the oasis city of Qurrâb, wealth, power, and fame all bow to a single ideal: yâsh, the virtue of one’s heart. There, a thirteen-year-old girl with a mind like no other resolves to become the brightest soul history has ever seen, inspiring others to follow her example. Her goal? To unite humanity and vanquish the Darkness, the destructive force within all of us that makes the world the wretched place that it is.
When veteran Jespar tre Moreste reaches the fabled City of Sages forty years later, his only concern is finding Loanne, the sister he once abandoned. Little does he know that his journey will soon lead him into the dark underbelly of the supposed paradise, where ruthless crime syndicates mingle with death cults and forbidden schools of philosophy. As old wounds resurface and reality fractures, Jespar realizes that even after the tumultuous events of Kilay, he still has demons of his own to conquer — and that often, the most charming masks hide the vilest of minds.