The Leaning Pile of Books is a feature where I talk about books I got over the last week–old or new, bought or received for review consideration (usually unsolicited). Since I hope you will find new books you’re interested in reading in these posts, I try to be as informative as possible. If I can find them, links to excerpts, author’s websites, and places where you can find more information on the book are included.
One book that I’m very excited about showed up in the mail a couple of days ago, but first, here are last week’s posts in case you missed either of them:
- A short (for me) review of Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb (I’m glad I read it but I didn’t love it like most of the Realm of the Elderlings books)
- An announcement of the June Patreon book, a fantasy of manners
The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendancy #1) by K Arsenault Rivera
This epic fantasy, K Arsenault Rivera’s debut novel, will be released on October 3 (trade paperback, ebook). Entertainment Weekly has an excerpt from The Tiger’s Daughter.
This sounds fantastic, and I also love the cover.
Even gods can be slain
The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach―but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
A crack in the wall heralds the end…two goddesses arm themselves…K Arsenault Rivera’s The Tiger’s Daughter is an adventure for the ages.
Additional Books:
- Besieged: Stories from the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne (Release Date: July 11)
- Injection Burn (Dire Earth Duology #1) by Jason M. Hough (Available Now)
- Escape Velocity (Dire Earth Duology #2) by Jason M. Hough (Release Date: June 27)
