Genre Blend New Releases – August 2014

Dog days of summer might mean days by the pool, or if the heat index is over 100 where you are it might mean days in the air conditioning. Either way, you’ll be looking for some books to read. Here are August’s genre blending titles to seek out and enjoy. Some things I am especially excited about? A not-new-but-new-to-Americans Murakami release of his first two short novels Wind/Pinball; Magic Shifts, a new entry in one of my all-time favorite urban fantasy series by Ilona Andrews; a new book about death from the always reliably amusing Christopher Moore called Secondhand Souls; The Veil, the series opener for a new urban fantasy set in New Orleans from Chloe Neill; and the charmingly quirky The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks. What are you looking forward to?

AUGUST 4

Wind/Pinball: Two novels by Haruki Marakami (Literary/Fantasy)
Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels) by Ilona Andrews (Fantasy/Romance)
Mary Russell’s War: A Journal of the Great War by Laurie R. King (Historical Fiction/Mystery)
Dragonbane (Dark-Hunter Novels) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Romance/Fantasy)
The Lure of the Moonflower (Pink Carnation) by Lauren Willig (Historical/Romance) FINAL BOOK
Kitty Saves the World (Kitty Norville) by Carrie Vaughn (Fantasy/Mystery)
The Veil (Devil’s Isle) by Chloe Neill (Fantasy/Romance/Mystery)
Malice at the Palace (A Royal Spyness Mystery) by Rhys Bowen (Mystery/Historical Fiction)
Tremaine’s True Love (True Gentlemen) by Grace Burrowes (Romance/Historical Fiction)
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks (Historical/Fantasy/Mystery/Romance)
Veiled (An Alex Verus Novel) by Benedict Jacka (Fantasy/Mystery)

AUGUST 18

A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford Mysteries) by Charles Todd (Mystery/Historical Fiction)
Deceptions (Cainsville) by Kelley Armstrong (Mystery/Fantasy)
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig (Science Fiction/Thriller)