April New Releases



  Springtime is finally here and I'm so excited because I can finally go outside to read again!






Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Release Date: 4/2

 Princess Hesina of Yan does not want to be royal, she wants an unremarkable life and shirks the responsibilities of the crown whenever she can, but when her father is found dead, she is thrust into being the queen of a surprisingly unstable kingdom. She soon learns that her court is full of dissemblers and deceivers eager to use her father's death for their own political gain, which makes Hesina believe that her father was murdered. So she turns to aid of a soothsayer to find out the truth about her father, even though magic was outlawed centuries ago and this act very well could be punishable by death.

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Release Date: 4/2

 Violet Saunders has been uprooted from the city to a small town in rural New York that one of her ancestors founded. She ends up meeting Justin, May, Isaac, and Harper, also children of founder families, she learns why the townsfolk fear them.


The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release Date: 4/23

 Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house, the other half belongs to her father, who disappeared twenty-seven years ago. She returns to her childhood home, joined by her half-sister who's almost a stranger to her, and she keeps feeling the house itself is watching her.

Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst
Genre: YA, Contemporary, LGBT
Release Date: 4/16

 Sam Jones wants to fly under the radar at school and at home to manage her mom's obsessive-compulsive disorder, and questions how can she leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Zoe Miller, a popular people-pleasing girl, puts up a wall so that no one can see her true self, a girl who was abandoned as an infant, with an adoptive mother that has cancer, and a disabled brother who is sent away to live in a facility. Eventually, the two forge a connection that expands into a private universe they call Starworld.




Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine
Genre: Thriller
Release Date:  4/23

So this series follows Gwen Proctor the ex-wife of serial killer Melvin Royale. She had no affiliation with his killings, although there are plenty of people who don't believe her, and also has to deal with her husband threatening her from in prison. In this book, there is a documentary being created about the victims of Melvin by one of the mothers of his victims, who strongly believe Gwen is guilty of conspiracy. However, a woman reaches out to Gwen because she is panicked for herself and her daughter, but when Gwen arrives at the small rural town, the woman is already dead and her daughter is blamed for the murder. I've really enjoyed this series so far and I'm interested in how the series will continue and more importantly I will be reviewing this book in a couple of weeks here on the channel.

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