Most Anticipated Reads of 2022: Q2

Posted 7th April 2022 by Sia in Lists, Memes & Tags / 2 Comments

Tammy at Books Bones and Buffy shared the books she’s most excited for in the year’s second quarter – and I’m always looking for an excuse to make a new book list!

But Sia! you cry. You already have your enormous Unmissable SFF of 2022 list!!!

That is true, dear reader, and you are welcome to peruse it. However, it is very long. Here I’m listing just the top three books I’m most excited for in April, May and June!

April

Three releases from three of my favourite authors?! April is BLESSED!

I’ve already read Saint Death’s Daughter (and reviewed it) but that in no way makes me less excited for the official release date (NEXT WEEK)! Imagine if Gormenghast was pink and froofy and you’re on the right track for the book I described as a mash-up of Catherynne Valente and NK Jemisin!

Spear comes out one week later, and it’s Nicola Griffith. It’s NICOLA. GRIFFITH. What more needs saying???

And on the last Tuesday of the month we get Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, which is a gender-flipped Persephone story that pulls from Finnish folklore and honestly I didn’t need to know any of that, it’s CATHERYNNE VALENTE, but also, THIS SOUNDS FREAKING AMAZING.

May

Book three in the Tarot Sequence knocked my fool socks off when I read the ARC, and I will be rereading it again in an effort to translate my shrieking delight and very, VERY passionate Feels into something legible (although I don’t know if I can do it more justice than Kathy’s amazing review.)

Nghi Vo is another automatic-buy author; I will gleefully pounce on anything she chooses to write, and this life decision has yet to let me down.

Darknesses is a bit of a Dracula retelling, and a bit of an answer to Dracula, only it’s sapphic and has Black vampires and if this is sounding as interesting to you as it does to me, you can read the prologue and first chapter here!

June

Kit Whitfield is criminally unknown, when by rights she should be a huge name that everyone instantly recognises. Her worldbuilding is without compare – she’s taken on werewolves and mermaids in previous books, and In the Heart of Hidden Things is her take on the fae! I CAN’T WAIT.

I adored The Dawnhounds when it was first published, but it has been expanded for its trad-publish release in June and I am excited. Apparently it’s gotten even weirder and queerer. EXCELLENT.

At this point Wrath Goddess Sing should need no introduction, but if it somehow didn’t ping your radar, it’s a retelling of the Illiad featuring a trans woman Achilles. No, you didn’t read that wrong, and yes, it’s exactly as epic as it sounds!

What books are you most excited for in the next few months???

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2 responses to “Most Anticipated Reads of 2022: Q2

  1. I’m so glad you did a list too! Of course I’m super excited for The Hourglass Throne, and I’ll be reading Siren Queen too. And I’m curious about The Dawnhounds, I hope you get a chance to read it😁

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