Time to introduce the top 5 new fantasy releases for June 2016! Get your to-read lists ready, people!
- Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan (The Legends of the First Empire #1)
Publication date: June 28th 2016
What does it mean if the gods can be killed? The first novel in an epic new fantasy series for readers of Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson, Peter V. Brett, and Scott Lynch. Age of Myth, inaugurates an original five-book series, and one of fantasy’s finest next-generation storytellers continues to break new ground. Only a few stand between humankind and annihilation. The Age of Myth is over; the time of rebellion has begun. - In the Shadow of the Gods by Rachel Dunne (Bound Gods #1)
Publication date: June 21st 2016
A breathtaking talent makes her debut with this first book in a dark epic fantasy trilogy, in which a mismatched band of mortals, led by violent, secretive man, must stand against a pair of resentful gods to save their world. These warriors must learn to stand together against the unfathomable power of vengeful gods, to stop them from tearing down the sun … and plunging their world into darkness.
- A Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. Durbin
Publication date: June 7th 2016
A gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Pan’s Labyrinth and John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things. Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer in a serene fishing village. Their tranquility is shattered by the crash of a bullet-riddled enemy plane, the arrival of grandmother’s friend Mr. Girandole—a man who knows the true story of Cinderella’s slipper—and the discovery of a riddle in the sacred grove of ruins behind grandmother’s house. In a sumptuous idyllic setting and overshadowed by the threat of war, four unlikely allies learn the values of courage and sacrifice.
- Hope and Red by Jon Skovron (Empire of Storms Trilogy #1)
Publication date: June 30th 2016
In a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, two young people from different cultures find common purpose. A nameless girl is the lone survivor when her village is massacred by biomancers, mystical servants of the emperor. Named after her lost village, Bleak Hope is secretly trained by a master Vinchen warrior as an instrument of vengeance. A boy becomes an orphan on the squalid streets of New Laven and is adopted by one of the most notorious women of the criminal underworld, given the name Red, and trained as a thief and con artist. When a ganglord named Deadface Drem strikes a bargain with the biomancers to consolidate and rule all the slums of New Laven, the worlds of Hope and Red come crashing together, and their unlikely alliance takes them further than either could have dreamed possible.
- Reliquary by Sarah Fine (Reliquary #1)
Publication date: June 14th 2016
Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.
Other new releases of June 2016 can be found by genre right here on Goodreads.
Happy reading,
Loes M.