Monday, April 22, 2019

Doubleday And Erin Morgenstern Showcase 'The Starless Sea' Official Cover

After more than eight years author Erin Morgenstern returns with her second novel, featuring more fantastical and magical tales of love, swashbuckling adventure, and mysterious settings and characters. The book is called The Starless Sea and is set to be released late this year.

Its official cover has been unveiled and we have Dan Funderburgh to thank for the idyllic art and John Fontana for the magical design. Just like the cover of The Night Circus, the overall mood is so mysterious and does not give away much, which makes me even more interested and excited.

Check out the cover of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern will be released on November 5, 2019.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Legacy Of Orisha Book 2: Children Of Virtue And Vengeance By Tomi Adeyemi Gets Official Cover

Despite the understandable postponement of the publication of the sequel of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi I am not grovelling like I used to with other series. I know the minor delay on this book, which is called Children of Virtue and Vengeance, will surely give way to bringing out the best version of it. And I'd rather wait a few months more than have a sloppy one.

But in the meantime I hope you enjoy the cover of the second book in the Legacy Of Orisha series. The cover as you will see has a gorgeous makeover, featuring a hyperrealistic art as opposed to the "loose" modernistic art of its predecessor. Despite the change I am wondering why my OCD is so forgiving this time and it doesn't even trigger me to bawl... We should all thank Sarah Jones for the illustration and Mallory Grigg for the design and art direction.

Checkout the cover of Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi.


Synopsis

After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could've imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.

Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.

With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.

Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's New York Times bestselling debut Children of Blood and Bone, the first title in her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy.

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi will be released on December 3, 2019.