I saw this post on Des’ blog and I thought that it was an amazing idea to share with you what books I was approved for on Netgalley on a weekly basis. For those of you who are regular readers of my website, you will know that I request A LOT of books off of NetGalley. I just can’t help myself. I see a pretty cover and BAM. I suddenly have 25 books that need reviewing.

Anyway, this week I was approved for these amazing bunch of books!

Title: Lucid

Author: Kristy Fairlamb

Publication Date: 23rd April 2019

Publisher: Lakewater Press

Pages: 235

Genre: YA Thriller

Series: Lucid #1

A Terrifying Power. A Horrifying Curse.

Lucy Piper lives a lonely existence on the precipice between life and death. She possesses the horrifying ability to resurrect real-life tragic events in her nightmares, reliving over and over, as if she were there, the last few moments before the victim takes their final breath. Car accidents, drownings, plane crashes – Lucy has seen it all. No one understands what it’s like living death by night and fearing sleep by day.

When Tyler Sims and his family move to town to escape past traumas, Lucy is drawn to him. The two of them are linked through their dreams, and with Tyler’s trust and friendship, hope for a brighter future returns to Lucy’s world. But Tyler’s presence awakens something else in Lucy, and with this new knowledge she will be forced to make impossible decisions. Decisions that will change history, and the future.

Title: Trapped

Author: Amanda Byrd

Publication Date: 23rd February 2018

Publisher: Blacksheep Press

Pages: 200

Genre: Fantasy

Series: The Dr. van Wolfe Saga #1

I’m a monster. A literal monster. But I’m a “good” kind of monster. You know, like the serial killers who kill the drug dealers, rapists, and general scum of the earth.

The difference between those serial killers and me? I’m only part human; two-thirds of me is werepire. That’s right, werewolf and vampire. It’s not fun, but I make due. I’m also a therapist; the one these scum pay to… talk to. I listen, sure. But then I have my own personal brand of justice. It gets messy, so if you plan to stick around, might I suggest you wear a rubber suit?

Title: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Modern Romance

Author: Madeline J. Reynolds

Publication Date: 4th March 2019

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Pages: N/A

Genre: YA Science Fiction/LGBT

Series: N/A

A boy from the past. A boy from the present. An impossible future.

Elias Caldwell is out of place. In nineteenth-century England, he doesn’t feel he can truly be himself—whoever that may be. Then his grandfather gives him a pocket watch he claims can transport him to any place and time. Elias doesn’t believe it…until he’s whisked away to twenty-first-century America.

Tyler Forrester just wants to be a successful filmmaker after graduation and fall hopelessly in love. His dreams miraculously come true when a boy appears out of thin air. Not only did he get it all on camera, but as he helps Elias navigate a strange new world for him, Tyler discovers Elias is exactly who he was missing.

But their love has a time limit. Elias’s disappearance from the past has had devastating side effects. Now he must choose between going back or staying with the boy who helped him find his true self and happiness he never imagined he could have.

Title: Emily Eternal

Author: M.G. Wheaton

Publication Date: 23rd April 2019

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Pages: 304

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: N/A

Meet Emily – she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind’s deepest secrets and even fix your truck’s air con, but unfortunately, she can’t restart the Sun.

She’s an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions – college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.

As the sun’s death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it’s not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.

Title: Betrothed Vol. 1

Author: Sean Lewis

Publication Date: 19th February 2019

Publisher: Aftershock Comics

Pages: 120

Genre: Graphic Novel/Science Fiction

Series: Betrothed Vol. 1

Kieron and Tamara are both seniors at the same high school. They’ve never paid much attention to each other, even though they are the only kids at school who are orphans. On the eve of their eighteenth birthdays, they discover a lifelong secret: in a dimension far away, they are each the leader of an army that is at war with one another… and what’s more, when they turn eighteen, they’re to be Betrothed or Fight to the Death!

Title: A Walk Through Hell Vol. 1

Author: Garth Ennis

Publication Date: 11th December 2018

Publisher: Aftershock Comics

Pages: 120

Genre: Graphic Novel/Horror

Series: A Walk Through Hell Vol. 1

So these two FBI agents walk into a warehouse…

Special Agents Shaw and McGregor handle the routine cases nowadays, which is just the way Shaw likes it. She’s pushing 40, a borderline burnout, the ghastly memories of her last investigation still clinging like shadows. McGregor is younger, more dedicated, hanging onto some measure of idealism whatever the world might throw at him.

When two fellow agents go missing inside a Long Beach warehouse, Shaw and McGregor are sent to investigate. But what they find waiting is far from routine, as the local police have already discovered to their cost. Before the night is out, our heroes will encounter terror beyond their most appalling nightmares—in a place where the night may never end at all.

Title: Best. Movie. Year. Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen

Author: Brian Raftery

Publication Date: 16th April 2019

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Pages: 416

Genre: Non-Fiction/Film

Series: N/A

In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Project. The Sixth Sense. Being John Malkovich. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. American Beauty. The Virgin Suicides. Boys Don’t Cry. The Best Man. Three Kings. Magnolia. Those are just some of the landmark titles released in a dizzying movie year, one in which a group of daring filmmakers and performers pushed cinema to new limits—and took audiences along for the ride. Freed from the restraints of budget, technology (or even taste), they produced a slew of classics that took on every topic imaginable, from sex to violence to the end of the world. The result was a highly unruly, deeply influential set of films that would not only change filmmaking, but also give us our first glimpse of the coming twenty-first century. It was a watershed moment that also produced The Sopranos; Apple’s Airport; Wi-Fi; and Netflix’s unlimited DVD rentals.

Best. Movie. Year. Ever. is the story of not just how these movies were made, but how they re-made our own vision of the world. It features more than 130 new and exclusive interviews with such directors and actors as Reese Witherspoon, Edward Norton, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Nia Long, Matthew Broderick, Taye Diggs, M. Night Shyamalan, David O. Russell, James Van Der Beek, Kirsten Dunst, the Blair Witch kids, the Office Space dudes, the guy who played Jar-Jar Binks, and dozens more. It’s the definitive account of a culture-conquering movie year none of us saw coming…and that we may never see again.

Title: Shadowman Vol. 3: Rag and Bone

Author: Andy Diggle

Publication Date: 26th March 2019

Publisher: Valiant Entertainment

Pages: 112

Genre: Graphic Novel/Fantasy/Superheroes

Series: Shadowman Vol. 1

BONES ARE BURIED FOR A REASON… As Shadowman returns to New Orleans with a revelatory new understanding of the immense abilities within himself, he won’t have long to adjust… because a war for control of the ultimate magical artifact – the bones of Master Darque, his old arch-nemesis – is about to erupt out of the underground and into the harsh view of day!

On one side: The Brethren, a society of wealthy and powerful occultists obsessed with Darque’s resurrection and ushering in a millennia-long reign of darkness. On the other: Shadowman’s old allies from The Abettors… and Darque’s own sister, Sandria, who would like nothing more than to grind her brother’s bones to dust…

The endless cycle of death and rebirth stops here as Shadowman and the Darque clan usher in the reckoning they’ve waited ten lifetimes to achieve – with massive repercussions for the future of the Valiant Universe – as renowned writer Andy Diggle (Green Arrow: Year One) and high-octane artist Renato Guedes (Action Comics) return to heed the call of “RAG AND BONE”! Collecting SHADOWMAN (2018) #8-11.

Read my review of Shadowman Vol. 1

And there we have it! Those are all of the books that I’ve been approved for this week! 

What titles have caught your eye? Which books have you been approved for on NetGalley or Edelweiss? Let me know in the comments!

Until next time…

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