#like definitely check these out bc all of them look Fantastic jhbkj im just looking at What's Next

[jojotier]

alrighty folks i have so many books so

summaries under the cut!

White Horse | Erika T. Wurth | Horror | Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse have defined urban Indian Kari James' life so far. But when her cousin Debbie finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and Kari's willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable...

First Paragraph: "There was something strange, mysterious even, about the White Horse tonight. Normally, it was merely an Indian bar. My Indian bar. But there was a milky, dreamy quality to the red lights swinging over the pool tables, like the wind from the open doors was bringing them something new, something I'd pushed away for as long as I could remember."

Trouble the Saints | Alaya Dawn Johnson | Historical Fantasy | Amind the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens...

First Paragraph: Seven. "That's what we're starting with. I woke with the dream late on a Thursday night, sometime in July. It's a good one, as far as sevens go. The angel joker for the zero, plus seven of spades, that's seven, clean as the air you breathe. Well, cleaner, if you breathing in Harlem."

Lone Women | Victor LaValle | Historical Horror Western | Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear...

First Paragraph: "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. On Tuesday, Adelaide Henry would've called herself the former, but by Wednesday she wasn't as sure. If she was trying to live, then why would she be walking through her family's farmhouse carrying an Atlas jar of gasoline, pouring that gasoline on the kitchen floor, the dining table, dousing the settee in the den? And after she emptied the first Atlas jar, why go back to the kitchen for the other jar, then climb the stairs to the second floor, listening to the splash of gasoline on every step? Was she planning to live, or trying to die?"

The Wishing Game | Meg Shaffer | Magical Realism | Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one of a kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life...

First Paragraph: "Every night, Hugo went for a walk on the Five-O'-Clock Beach, but tonight was the first time in five years his wandering feet spelled out an SOS in the sand."

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi | Shanon Chakraborty | Historical Fantasy | Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse....

First Paragraph: "In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Blessings upon His honored Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his followers. Praise be to God, who in his glory created the earth and its diversity of lands and languages, peoples and tonuges. In these vast marvels, so numerous a human eye cannot gaze upon more than a sliver, is there not proof of His Magnificence? And when it comes to marvels... let us delight in the adventures of the nakhudha Amina al-Sirafi."