Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is :

Books that Give Off Summer Vibes

Well, predominantly I read the same type of books regardless of the time of year, but, that being said, I do recognise that as the nights close in I tend to opt for more murders/horror and dark urban style reads as oppose to summer when I’m probably more likely to pick up retellings or magic/fantasy books.  With that in mind here are some of my forthcoming books for the next few months:

Feathertide by Beth Cartwright : ‘The hunt leads her to the City of Murmurs, a place of mermaids and mystery, where jars of swirling mist are carried through the streets by the broken-hearted’

Grave Secrets by Alice James – I couldn’t resist, ‘croquet, romance, vampires and zombies’

Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz – quirky, genre-mashing cyberpunk romance – a high-octane adventure about a grizzled mercenary with machine gun arms who unexpectedly falls in love with a bio-engineered assassin – what’s not to love about all that?

Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings – “half mystery, half fairy tale, all exquisitely rendered and full of teeth.” Flyaway enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.

A Chorus of Fire by Brian D Anderson – the second in the epic Sorcerer’s Song trilogy.

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky – doorways to other worlds, Bodmin Moor, Monsters – I don’t care what time of the year it is I’m reading this one very soon

The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel – tbh, I really don’t know what to expect with this one but – come on, it has ‘hotel’ in the title so it makes me think of vacactions – although I’m sure it has nothing to do with such things!

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman – every month of the year is a good month to read this author

The Once and Future Witches  by Alix E Harrow – There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.  I can’t wait to read this book.  Wtiches!

My tenth spot is left open for suggestions please ??

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is:

Books On My Summer 2019 TBR

Last week’s theme was ‘anticipated reads for the rest of the year’.  Today’s post allows me to highlight some more highly anticipated reads that are scheduled in for my Summer reading.  So, another easy week where I literally just lifted the next ten upcoming reads from my schedule and posted them here.  I will also, of course, be starting my Self Published Fantasy Blog Off books as of the start of July but I haven’t listed them here for two reasons – firstly, I haven’t yet drawn up my schedule and secondly, I will be posting my first six books as soon as the competition gets underway.  So, here are some of my summer reads:

Soul of the Sword by Julie Kagawa

Priest of Lies by Peter Mclean

The Toll by Cherie Priest

The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Shadows of the Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson

Lord of Secrets by Breanna Teintze

Missing Person by Sarah Lotz