It’s almost April!
Today I’m sharing some sharing some sort-of goals I want to achieve each month, as a way to be organized and intentional with my reading.
Here’s my April 2022 Prospectus, a collection of books I’d like to read over the next 4(ish) weeks and also some new books releasing soon which I will maybe-probably-eventually tackle…at some point.
5 Books I’d Like To Read This Month
I like goals that small and achievable, so here’s a small collection of books I’d like to prioritize during the upcoming month.
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
This is the way the world ends… for the last time. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
As a child, Mallory lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game.
Cherokee America by Margaret Verble
It’s the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as “Check,” a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt grows into something more. Something that could change the past and the future.
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
Andromeda is an exorcist. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, Andromeda quickly realizes this is a job like no other, and that Magnus is hiding more than she has been trained for. Death is the most likely outcome if she stays, but leaving Magnus to live out his curse alone isn’t an option.
New April Books I’m Curious About
These aren’t books I necessarily plan on reading this month, but it’s always fun to look at the new and shiny releases and see which ones you want to stalk the library for. So here’s a collection of 6 books releasing in April 2022 that I’m potentially interested in reading:
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Historical Fiction
April 5, 2022
When she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop in the Idaho mountains, follow Daiyu on a quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been—including the ones she most wants to leave behind—in order to claim her own name and story.
When Blood Lies by C.S. Harris
Historical Mystery
April 5, 2022
March, 1815. The Bourbon King has been restored to the throne of France, Napoleon is in exile on the isle of Elba, and Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife, Hero, have traveled to Paris in hopes of tracing his long-lost mother, Sophie, the errant Countess of Hendon. But his search ends in tragedy when he comes upon the dying Countess. Stabbed and thrown from an ancient stone bridge, Sophie dies without naming her murderer. And so, grieving and shattered by his mother’s death, Sebastian takes it upon himself to hunt down her killer. But what he learns will not only shock him but could upend a hard-won world peace.
The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport
Fantasy
April 5, 2022
For Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was her grandfather. Yet now he has been murdered, and Ikenna knows two things: that only someone on the Tribunal could have ordered his death, and that only a Praetorian Guard could have carried out that order. Bent on revenge, Ikenna pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials. She subjects herself to the racism directed against her and the misogyny of a society that cherishes progeny over prodigy, all while hiding a power that would subject her to execution…or worse. Ikenna is willing to risk it all because she needs to find out who murdered her grandfather…and then she needs to kill them.
Flirting with Fate by J.C. Cervantes
Contemporary
April 19, 2022
Ava will never forgive herself for being late to her beloved nana’s deathbed. But due to a flash flood that left Ava in a fender bender with a mysterious boy, she missed her grandmother’s mystical blessing—one that has been passed between the women of her family upon death for generations. Then Nana’s ghost appears with a challenge from beyond the grave. As it turns out, Nana did give Ava a blessing, but it missed its target, landing with the boy from the night of the storm instead. Befriending some random boy is the last thing she wants to do. But as Ava embarks on her mission to retrieve the lost blessing, she starts to wonder if getting close to thunderstorm boy is worth the risk.
Some Mistakes Were Made by Kristin Dwyer
Contemporary
April 26, 2022
Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Ellis’s life—and her relationship with Easton— into chaos she’s forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything she’s ever known.
Now Ellis hasn’t spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe it’s better that way; maybe eventually the Easton shaped hole in her heart will heal. But when Easton’s mother invites her home for a celebration, Ellis finds herself tangled up in the web of heartache, betrayal, and anger she left behind… and with the boy she never stopped loving.
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Fantasy
April 26, 2022
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra’s family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.
So there you have it! 5 books I hopefully/maybe will try to tackle this month and 6 new releases to ~think about~ over the next 4 weeks.
