June Releases

Hey readers,

Is it June? I can’t believe it *sob*. There are so many excellent books releasing this month. You can choose from Adult fantasy to YA fantasy to Romance. Here are all the books I’m highlighting this month, and I do mean all of them since publishing agreed to release all the books in June.

Enjoy!

^{The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo}

| June 1 | TorDotCom | Adult SFF |

Queer and Vietnamese Gatsby with hints of magic.

^{For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten}

| June 1 | Orbit Books | Adult SFF |

For the Wolf is Red Riding Hood with Gothics and monstrous boyfriends. Weird woods, romance, carnivorous forests, a marriage of magical convenience, wound tending, and the piéce de resistance ‘oh no he’s hot”.

^{Bacchanal by Veronica Henry}

| June 1 | 47North | Adult SFF|

A traveling carnival roams in Depression-era South enmeshed with African American folklore.

^{The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu}

| June 1 | Tor Books | Adult SFF |

Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism. A contemporary fantasy following a cynical and precocious teen exploring shadowy magic underneath modern Edinburgh. Zimbabwean magic, Scottish pragmatism, and clues swirling in a fantasy novel, a ghostwalker speaks to Edinburgh’s dead and carries messages to the living. Investigations galore but Scottish.

^{The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri}

| June 8 | Orbit Books | Adult SFF |

The Jasmine Throne is full of Indian epic inspirations, ancient temples, morally grey lesbians, and floral body horror. Inspired by the history of India and its epics, Tasha Suri spells an epic fantasy with morally grey lesbians up against an empire, lots of yearning, much wrist touching, and a complicated family. A world of forbidden magic, an ancient temple, magical deathless waters, and decaying ruins.

^{The Wolf and The Woodsman by Ava Reid}

| June 8 | Harper Voyager | Adult SFF |

Hungarian history and Jewish folklore mixed into a story of a young pagan woman with hidden magic and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen. I’ve already read this one, and it has precisely the type of simmering chemistry romance readers want. The romantic tension feels precisely like an old-as-earth impact, like when hot water touches the ice. This is a true enemies-to-lovers and slow-burn romance.

^{The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison}

| June 22 | Tor Books | Adult SFF |

The return of the Goblin Emperor!

^{Star Eater by Kerstin Hall}

| June 22 | TorDotCom | Adult SFF |

Star Eater features matriarchal cannibalism and awkward parties. A woman swallows a star, giving her the title the Eater. Horrified by the idea of preserving the Order’s magical bloodline, she will avoid pregnancy at all costs. As a spy, she enters a glittering world of opulent parties, deceptions, and bloodshed. Powerful women are forced to choose sacrifices. A book of matriarchal cannibalism where a woman must push against a world built on hereditary power. Goats, romance, murder, large cats, introverts, and awkward parties.

^{The Bone Way by Holly J. Underhill}

| June 26 | Nyx Publishing | Adult SFF |

A sapphic Orpheus and Eurydice retelling.

^{The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia}

| June 30 | Subterranean Press | Adult SFF |

A deposed mistress of a sorcerer guild sets out to regain her magic and destroy her usurper and former lover.

^{Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia}

| June 1 | Berkley | Adult Historical Mystery |

A historical mystery set in 1920s Harlem.

^{The Maidens by Alex Michaelides}

| June 15 | Celadon Books | Adult Thriller |

Psychological suspense weaving Greek mythology, murder, and obsession! I’m particularly fascinated with the Persephone statue aspect.

^{Neon Gods by Katee Robert}

| June 1 | Sourcebooks Casablanca | Adult Contemporary Romance |

Persephone and Hades retelling in a contemporary romance.

^{Dare to Live, Dare to Love by Nicole C. Moon}

| June 1 | Adult Contemporary Romance |

Two adorable chaotic bi dumbass with estranged best-friends-to-lovers.

^{Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-Waters}

| June 1 | Forever | Adult Contemporary Romance |

A Queer romance featuring a sex store inheritance.

^{The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton}

| June 15 | Berkley | Adult Romance |

This is a historical fantasy adventure romantic comedy set in an alternate Victorian England with idiots-to-lovers, pirates, and an assassin. It’s also been likened to The Princess Bride!