Our February TBR is Looking FINE
February 4, 2019 | 3:00 PM
Our February TBR is Looking FINE
By Team Fierce Reads
Has the title of this post objectified out TBR?
Yes.
Are books already objects?
Also yes. So we're in the clear.
With that squared away, we recommend checking out all of the amazing new books we're releasing this February. They're so good, you're going to want to add ALL OF THEM to your already probably teetering TBR and we're not even sorry.
Awake in the World by Jason Gurley
As the sun sets off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, you can see the silhouettes of the oil rigs. Their shadows look jarring against the serene backdrop, their sharpness a reminder of unfulfilled promises. To Zach, they are a reminder of loss—his father, an oil worker who drowned years before. With a poor family struggling to make ends meet, Zach's future feels equally bleak. Until he meets Vanessa, an optimistic girl whose sights are literally set on the stars. Inspired by her idol, Carl Sagan, she plans to study astronomy at Cornell. But as oil prospectors in search of black gold know, the future is uncertain . . . and fortunes can always be flipped.
Bad luck has always followed 17-year-old Zach, from his father's death to his family's poverty, until he meets Vanessa, a Carl Sagan–obsessed classmate whose sights are literally set on the stars.
On Sale: February 12, 2019
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
Miriam's family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator of smash-hit comics series The Tomorrow Men. But he sold his rights to the series to his co-creator in the 1960s for practically nothing, and now that's what Miriam has: practically nothing. And practically nothing to look forward to either—how can she afford college when her family can barely keep a roof above their heads? As if she didn't have enough to worry about, Miriam's life gets much more complicated when a cute boy shows up in town... and turns out to be the grandson of the man who defrauded Miriam's grandfather, and heir to the TomorrowMen fortune.
On Sale: February 12, 2019
A Soldier and A Liar by Caitlin Lochner
Lai Cathwell is good at keeping secrets. As a Nyte, a supernaturally gifted teenager who is feared and shunned by the ungifted, this skill is essential to survival. Orchestrating her own imprisonment to escape military duty has only honed her ability to deceive others. But when rebels start attacking the city, Lai is dragged back into the fight with a new team of Nytes.
Thrown together with Jay, a self-conscious perfectionist consumed by the desire to be accepted; Al, a short-tempered fighter lying for the sake of revenge; and Erik, an amnesiac hell-bent on finding his memories and his place in the world, Lai realizes she’s facing an entirely different kind of challenge—one that might just be impossible. But if this team can't learn to work together, the entire sector will be plunged into war.
On Sale: February 19, 2019
Mist, Metal, and Ash by Gwendolyn Clare
In this sequel to Ink, Iron, and Glass, Elsa continues her journey to save her mother and save the world.
Elsa is a prodigy in the art of scriptology, a branch of science that creates new worlds by writing them in specially crafted "worldbooks." She and her band of fellow geniuses must locate one such book—a particularly powerful one that lays out the rules and functions for our world. In the wrong hands, the history of Earth could be rewritten and whole continents erased. It could undo our very existence.
In a race to retrieve the book, Elsa will have to become a double agent. Disavowing the order of geniuses who once protected her, she’ll become a spy to get closer to the very villain who wants the book for his own nefarious purposes. But espionage proves tricky as the Italy she knows changes out from under her. Mount Vesuvius erupts. The Venetian canals are choked with mythic sea monsters. And worse, the boy Elsa loves believes that she has betrayed him.
On Sale: February 19, 2019
Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller
18-year-old Rasmira has always been both praised and scorned for her talents. As her father's chosen heir, she has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. Fortunately, her long wait is almost over and after she passes her coming-of age trial, she'll finally be able to live on her own and not have to deal with her mother's constant rejection, or the jealousy of her peers. Perhaps then she will be able to be both a warrior and a woman.
But when trial day arrives, everything goes terribly wrong. Her test is sabotaged, and by law all those who fail are banished and given an impossible quest to reclaim their honor in death. And Rasmira is given the most difficult quest of them all: She must kill the oppressive deity who claims tribute from her village every year or die in the attempt.
Rasmira sets off into the wild, but outside she finds more than just savage beasts. Two boys with twisted pasts and different skills faced similar banishments the previous year and are now living in the wild until they can attempt their own impossible quests. And despite herself, Rasmira begins to hope that by working together they might all accomplish the impossible.
On Sale: February 26, 2019
The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena
Susan is the new girl—she’s sharp and driven, and strives to meet her parents’ expectations of excellence. Malcolm is the bad boy—he started raising hell at age fifteen, after his mom died of cancer, and has had a reputation ever since.
Susan’s parents are on the verge of divorce. Malcolm’s dad is a known adulterer.
Susan hasn’t told anyone, but she wants to be an artist. Malcolm doesn’t know what he wants—until he meets her.
Love is messy and families are messier, but in spite of their burdens, Susan and Malcolm fall for each other. The ways they drift apart and come back together are testaments to family, culture, and being true to who you are.
On Sale: February 26, 2019
What We Buried by Kate Boorman
Siblings Liv and Jory Brewer have grown up resenting one another. Liv—former pageant queen and reality-TV star—was groomed for a life in the spotlight, while her older brother Jory, born with a partial facial paralysis, was left in the shadows. The only thing they have in common is contempt for their parents.
Now Liv is suing her mom and dad for emancipation, and Jory views the whole thing as yet another attention-getting spectacle. But on the day of the hearing, their parents mysteriously vanish, and the siblings are forced to work together. Liv feels certain she knows where they are and suspects that Jory knows more than he’s telling... which is true.
What starts as a simple overnight road trip soon takes a turn for the dangerous and surreal. And as the duo speeds through the deserts of Nevada, brother and sister will unearth deep family secrets that force them to relive their pasts as they try to retain a grip on the present.
On Sale: February 26, 2019
