Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got your second round of new releases — a double round, actually, since I’ve also got some recent sequels you might want to check out. A recent highlight of my week: I went to a local Polish restaurant and had so many pierogi, including sweet pierogi stuffed with cheese and drowning in whipped cream and brown sugar sauce. Bury me now, I’ve died happy. May there be delicious pierogi in your future as well. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!
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Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here are two places to start: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which provides medical and humanitarian relief to children in the Middle East regardless of nationality, religion, or political affiliation; and Ernesto’s Sanctuary, a cat sanctuary and animal rescue in Syria that is near and dear to my heart.
Bookish Goods
Small Wavy Pillar Candle by CascadeAttar
I was thinking about Scott Reintgen’s A Door in the Dark (the sequel just came out) and saw this candle, which made me think of that book and its “waxways.” $8
New Releases
Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu
Jai is an orphan and a hostage, imprisoned in the Sabine Court ever since his father led the Steppefolk in an unsuccessful rebellion. But when the emperor’s son is betrothed to a princess from the neighboring kingdom, she brings dragons with her — and the secret to mastering their power. When a conspiracy throws the court into chaos, Jai escapes with the princess’s handmaiden and one of the hatchlings and embarks on a quest for vengeance.
A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
The reclusive E. begins a correspondence to a renowned scholar named Henerey Clel after making a discovery outside her underwater home. In their letters, they document their discoveries and their growing love…until E.’s home is destroyed by a seaquake and both she and Henerey vanish.
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Riot Recommendations
I’m always on the lookout for second (and third, etc.) books in a series, since they rarely get the love they deserve. Here are two new releases that continue series!
Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. Williams
Sequel to That Self-Same Metal
Joan must find a way to reforge the shattered Pact between humans and Fae if she wants to stop a coming war. But it’s not even as simple as that — she has a murderous spymaster causing trouble across London, the Fae queen Titania holding her godfather prisoner, and two loves she needs to balance with the entire world.
A Whisper in the Walls by Scott Reintgen
Sequel to A Door in the Dark
Ren Monroe survived her time in the wilderness, and it’s allowed her to infiltrate the great houses, thanks to her relationship with Theo Brood. But Theo’s father exiles his son and works to isolate her, willing to do anything to break the bond they’ve come to share. Ren isn’t the only enemy those houses have, and she finds unexpected allies that she must decide how she will lose on House Brood without hurting Theo.
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.
