It’s a new week, and while I didn’t get my act together quickly enough to write my reviews for Mini Review Monday, I decided to move forward with a new edition of Cover Love! I chose to make this a two part post and share some of the covers of the books I’m looking forward to this Fall/Winter. Please note, these are not all ARCS or books being published in the upcoming months, simply ones that I have on my personal TBR and cannot wait to read. This first post will include 5 adult fiction books and part two will feature my 5 young adult fiction picks. As always, I’d love to hear if you have read any of the following books or if any have caught your eye as well! ❤
THE REASON YOU’RE ALIVE BY MATTHEW QUICK
After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has ever heard—that of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It might be the only way to find closure in a world increasingly at odds with the one he served to protect. It might also help him finally recover from his wife’s untimely demise.
As David confronts his past to salvage his present, a poignant portrait emerges: that of an opinionated and goodhearted American patriot fighting like hell to stay true to his red, white, and blue heart, even as the country he loves rapidly changes in ways he doesn’t always like or understand. Hanging in the balance are Granger’s distant art-dealing son, Hank; his adoring seven-year-old granddaughter, Ella; and his best friend, Sue, a Vietnamese-American who respects David’s fearless sincerity.
WORKING FIRE BY EMILY BLEEKER
Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to share his care with her older sister, Amelia, who’s busy with her own family. Working as a paramedic, Ellie’s days are monotonous, driving an ambulance through streets she’d hoped never to see again.
Until a 911 dispatch changes everything. The address: her sister’s house. Rushing to the scene, Ellie discovers that Amelia and her husband, Steve, have been shot in a home invasion. After Amelia is rushed to the hospital, Ellie tries to make sense of the tragedy. But what really happened inside her sister’s house becomes less and less clear. As Amelia hangs on in critical condition, Ellie uncovers dark revelations about her family’s past that challenge her beliefs about those closest to her…and force her to question where her devotions truly lie.
SLEEPING BEAUTIES BY STEPHEN & OWEN KING
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain? Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is wildly provocative and gloriously absorbing.
THE LIGHTKEEPER’S DAUGHTERS BY JEAN E. PENDZIWOL
Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth’s eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family—a past that suddenly becomes all too present when her late father’s journals are found amid the ruins of an old shipwreck.
With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service, Elizabeth goes through the diaries, a journey through time that brings the two women closer together. Entry by entry, these unlikely friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own—to Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth’s father manned the lighthouse seventy years before.
As the words on these musty pages come alive, Elizabeth and Morgan begin to realize that their fates are connected to the isolated island in ways they never dreamed. While the discovery of Morgan’s connection sheds light onto her own family mysteries, the faded pages of the journals hold more questions than answers for Elizabeth, and threaten the very core of who she is.
THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE BY MEG ELISON
When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it.
A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.
After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.
Great choices, I want to read King’s so much! And the last one :O
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Thank you dear and I hope you’re enjoying your vacation!
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Back home for a while 😅
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I love the Reason You’re Alive cover, the colours really drew me in and I kept scrolling back up my screen to see it!
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It really is lovely!
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I already have SLEEPING BEAUTIES and THE LIGHTKEEPER’S DAUGHTERS on my TBR shelf/list, but I just added THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE – sounds great!
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So excited to hear that Madeline! 🙌🏼📚
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The Lightkeepers Daughters is my fave, but I like them all! ♡
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It sure is a gorgeous cover. Have you read the book?
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Sadly, no. I’m so behind right now. Hopefully soon! 😉
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Same here; I feel you!
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I loooooove the covers of The Reasons You’re Alive!!!
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Isn’t it beautiful?
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So inspiring!!
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Book of the Unnamed Midwife was absolutely amazing! I couldn’t read it fast enough. If you like it, she wrote a sequel called The Book of Etta (which is impatiently waiting for me on my TBR pile). ~Amber
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Oh yay Amber! Thanks for letting me know; I’ll move it up my list for sure! 😍❤️
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