Prossime Uscite ~ Aspettando Marzo ~ Petrichor

Iniziamo il mese con la consueta carrellata di nuove uscite italiane e straniere. Tra i titoli che trovo più interessanti questo mese ci sono Blood Rose Rebellion, Passenger finalmente disponibile in italiano, Strange The Dreamer e il nuovo romanzo di Cecilia Randall, di cui però non abbiamo ancora una copertina definitiva. Insomma, c’è davvero sempre l’imbarazzo della scelta e Marzo sembra proprio un mese all’insegna del fantasy!

“Garden of Thorns” di Amber Mitchell

In uscita il 6 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Entangled
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese
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After seven grueling years of captivity in the Garden—a burlesque troupe of slave girls—sixteen-year-old Rose finds an opportunity to escape during a performance for the emperor. But the hostage she randomly chose from the crowd to aid her isn’t one of the emperor’s men—not anymore. He’s the former heir to the throne, who is now leading a rebellion against it.

Rayce is a wanted man and dangerously charismatic, the worst person for Rose to get involved with, no matter what his smile promises. But he assumes Rose’s attempt to take him hostage is part of a plot to crush the rebellion, so he takes her as his hostage. Now Rose must prove where her loyalties lie, and she offers Rayce a deal—if he helps her rescue the other girls, she’ll tell him all the Garden’s secrets.Except the one secret she’s kept for seven years that she’ll take to her grave if she must.

“The Great Pursuit” di Wendy Higgins

(Europa Duology #2)
In uscita il 7 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: HarperTeen
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese
Sequel di The Great Hunt.
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Lochlanach has traded the great beast for something far more terrible, a Lashed enemy veiled in beauty, deception, and a vengeance passed down through generations: Rozaria Rocato. And she’s offering the hunter Paxton Seabolt power and acceptance he could never receive in his homeland. Pax must decide how far he’s willing to go under her tutelage, knowing she is the opponent of Princess Aerity Lochson.

In a land where traditionalists dread change, the Lochlan throne must contend with mysterious foes and traitors, while attempting to keep revolt at bay. As dire circumstances strike the royal family, matters of the castle are left in Aerity’s hands. It’s time to put aside her fears and grasp the reign, taking actions that have the potential to save or destroy her people.

One hunt has ended, but the pursuit for love and justice continue. In this sequel to The Great Hunt from New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins, political intrigue and romance intensify in another thrilling fantasy. Princess Aerity embraces a quest for identity and passion before making the ultimate sacrifice for her kingdom.

“The Bone Witch” di Rin Chupeco

In uscita il 7 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Sourcebooks Fire
Genere: YA Fantasy Paranormal
Lingua: Inglese
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‘The beast raged; it punctured the air with its spite. But the girl was fiercer.’

Tea is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy makes her a bone witch, who are feared and ostracized in the kingdom. For theirs is a powerful, elemental magic that can reach beyond the boundaries of the living—and of the human.

Great power comes at a price, forcing Tea to leave her homeland to train under the guidance of an older, wiser bone witch. There, Tea puts all of her energy into becoming an asha, learning to control her elemental magic and those beasts who will submit by no other force. And Tea must be strong—stronger than she even believes possible. Because war is brewing in the eight kingdoms, war that will threaten the sovereignty of her homeland…and threaten the very survival of those she loves.

“Bad Blood” di Demitria Lunetta

In uscita il 14 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Delacorte Press
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese
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A girl discovers a family secret and a past full of magic that could both save her and put her in mortal danger in this suspenseful novel that’s perfect for fans of Katie Alender and Natasha Preston.

All sixteen-year-old Heather MacNair wants is to feel normal, to shed the intense paranoia she’s worn all year like a scratchy sweater. After her compulsion to self-harm came to light, Heather was kept under her doctor’s watchful eye. Her family thinks she’s better—and there’s nothing she wants more than for that to be true. She still can’t believe she’s allowed to spend her summer vacation as she always does: at her aunt’s home in Scotland, where she has lots of happy memories. Far away from all her problems save one: she can’t stop carving the Celtic knot that haunts her dreams into her skin.

Good friends and boys with Scottish accents can cure almost anything…except nightmares. Heather can’t stop dreaming about two sisters from centuries ago, twins Prudence and Primrose, who somehow seem tied to her own life. Their presence lurks just beneath the surface of her consciousness, sending ripples through what should be a peaceful summer. The twins might hold the key to putting Heather’s soul at rest…or they could slice her future deeper than any knife.

“Hunted” di Meagan Spooner

In uscita il 14 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: HarperTeen
Genere: YA Fantasy Retelling
Lingua: Inglese
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Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them.

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

“Nel Profondo della Foresta” di Holly Black

Copertina originale

In uscita il 14 MARZO.

Casa Editrice: Mondadori
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Italiano
Copertina e trama originale, aspettando quelle italiane
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Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.

Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.

At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.

Until one day, he does…

As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?

“Shadow Run” di Adrianne Strickland & Michael Miller

In uscita il 21 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Delacorte Press
Genere: YA Sci-fi Space Opera
Lingua: Inglese
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“Firefly” meets DUNE in this action-packed sci-fi adventure about a close-knit, found family of a crew navigating a galaxy of political intrigue and resource-driven power games.

Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever person to command her own ship, but she brooks no argument from her crew of orphans, fugitives, and con men. Nev can’t resist her, even if her ship is an antique.

As for Nev, he’s a prince, in hiding on the ship. He believes Qole holds the key to changing galactic civilization, and when her cooperation proves difficult to obtain, Nev resolves to get her to his home planet by any means necessary.

But before they know it, a rival royal family is after Qole too, and they’re more interested in stealing her abilities than in keeping her alive.

Nev’s mission to manipulate Qole becomes one to save her, and to survive, she’ll have to trust her would-be kidnapper. He may be royalty, but Qole is discovering a deep reservoir of power—and stars have mercy on whoever tries to hurt her ship or her crew.

“Nemesis” di Brendan Reichs

In uscita il 21 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Genere: YA Mistery Science Fiction
Lingua: Inglese
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Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series.

It’s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing just outside her tiny Idaho hometown—alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the horrifying crime erased.

Across the valley, Noah just wants to be like everyone else. But he’s not. Nightmares of murder and death plague him, though he does his best to hide the signs. But when the world around him begins to spiral toward panic and destruction, Noah discovers that people have been lying to him his whole life. Everything changes in an eye blink.

For the planet has a bigger problem. The Anvil, an enormous asteroid threatening all life on Earth, leaves little room for two troubled teens. Yet on her sixteenth birthday, as she cowers in her bedroom, hoping not to die for the fifth time, Min has had enough. She vows to discover what is happening in Fire Lake and uncovers a lifetime of lies: a vast conspiracy involving the sixty-four students of her sophomore class, one that may be even more sinister than the murders.

“A Crown of Wishes” di Roshani Chokshi

In uscita il 28 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: St. Martin’s Griffin
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese
Sequel di The Star-Touched Queen.
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Gauri, the princess of Bharata, has been taken as a prisoner of war by her kingdom’s enemies. Faced with a future of exile and scorn, Gauri has nothing left to lose. Hope unexpectedly comes in the form of Vikram, the cunning prince of a neighboring land and her sworn enemy kingdom. Unsatisfied with becoming a mere puppet king, Vikram offers Gauri a chance to win back her kingdom in exchange for her battle prowess. Together, they’ll have to set aside their differences and team up to win the Tournament of Wishes—a competition held in a mythical city where the Lord of Wealth promises a wish to the victor.

Reaching the tournament is just the beginning. Once they arrive, danger takes on new shapes: poisonous courtesans and mischievous story birds, a feast of fears and twisted fairy revels.

Every which way they turn new trials will test their wit and strength. But what Gauri and Vikram will soon discover is that there’s nothing more dangerous than what they most desire.

“Blood Rose Rebellion” di Rosalyn Eves

In uscita il 28 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Genere: YA Historical Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese
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The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.

Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.

Her life might well be over.

In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.

As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.

“Passenger”di Alexandra Bracken

In uscita il 28 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Sperling & Kupfer
Genere: YA Fantasy Time Travel
Lingua: Italiano
Primo di una duologia. Il secondo volume uscirà in italiano ad Aprile!
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In una terribile notte, Etta Spencer – giovanissima violinista – perde tutto quello che conosce e ama. Catapultata all’improvviso in un mondo sconosciuto, ha un’unica certezza: non ha viaggiato per chilometri, bensì per secoli. La sua famiglia, infatti, possiede la capacità di viaggiare nel tempo. Un’abilità di cui lei ha sempre ignorato l’esistenza. Fino ad ora. Passeggera a sorpresa su una nave nel bel mezzo dell’oceano, e disposta a tutto per ritornare al proprio tempo, Etta inizia una straordinaria avventura attraverso secoli e continenti, in compagnia di Nicholas, il capitano della nave. Ma i suoi tentativi per trovare la strada di casa non fanno che trascinarla sempre più a fondo. Per sopravvivere dovrà imparare a navigare tra spazio, tempo, tradimento e amore.

“Strange the Dreamer” di Laini Taylor

In uscita il 28 MARZO.
Casa Editrice: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genere: YA Fantasy
Lingua: Inglese

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A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?

The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? and if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?

In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Timesbestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.

Welcome to Weep.

“Hyperversum Ultimate” di Cecilia Randall

La copertina ufficiale,
appena rivelata!

In uscita il 14 FEBBRAIO.
Casa Editrice: Giunti
Genere: YA Historical Fantasy/Sci-fi
Lingua: Italiano
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Phoenix, Arizona, futuro prossimo.
Alex ha deciso: tornerà nel medioevo da Marc, che ora è il primo cavaliere di Luigi IX. Nulla può farla rinunciare al suo amore per lui, nemmeno l’ira di suo padre Daniel e il dolore per il distacco dalla famiglia.

Châtel-Argent, Francia nord-orientale, XIII secolo.
Mentre al castello fervono i festeggiamenti per il matrimonio di Michel de Ponthieu, Marc e Alex si ritrovano e decidono di sposarsi, ma Ian impone loro di attendere almeno sei mesi, per conoscersi meglio.

Durante i due anni di distacco, Marc è cambiato, è diventato un uomo di corte e un campione di guerra, sicuro di sé, quasi arrogante. Alex a volte fatica a riconoscerlo, è smarrita e sempre più spesso finisce per confidarsi con il giovane Richard, che ha una sensibilità più affine alla sua.

E le cose si complicano quando Luigi IX affida a Marc una missione delicata, sulla quale grava l’ombra di una nuova guerra: a Dunkerque è stato ucciso un templare e occorre investigare per trovare gli assassini…