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3 January Book Releases I Can’t Wait To Read

January 3, 2018      Erica Robyn      24 Comments

3 January Book Releases I Can’t Wait To Read

I’m so ready to start the year strong! I overbooked myself with honest reviews this month, but even so, I am hoping to get to these three new releases.

Let’s dive in!

3 January Book Releases I Can’t Wait To Read

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
Expected publication date: January 9th 2018
Synopsis:
In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.

In 2016, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he’s put his past behind him, but then he gets a letter in the mail containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank–until one of them turns up dead. That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.



Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue (Wires and Nerve #2) by Marissa Meyer, Stephen Gilpin (Illustrations), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator)
Expected publication date: January 30th 2018 
Synopsis:
Iko – an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder – has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.

And to show he’s serious, Steele is taking hostages.

Cinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. But it is Iko who must face her deepest fears when she uncovers the truth about her own unusual programming.



The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert 
Expected publication date: January 30th 2018
Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”

Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
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Comments

  1. Angela Lawrence says

    January 3, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    The Hazel Wood sounds interesting – I like the fairy tale book aspect of it!

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 3, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      Me too!! I can't wait to check it out! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Barb says

    January 3, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    I have an arc of The Chalk Man and am surprised I haven't read it by now!

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 3, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      I can't wait to see what you think of it!!

      Reply
  3. Sassy Brit says

    January 3, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    I've got Hazel Wood to read, too. Um, what's honest reviews? Sounds like a company? Or a blog. Sorry, it sounds like something to me, unless of course you're saying you're booked up with your own honest reviews… (insert puzzled look, and scratching of head smilie).

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 3, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      Yay!! I can't wait to see what you think! When I say "Honest Reviews" I'm talking about the books that authors have sent to me asking for a review 🙂

      Reply
  4. Anna says

    January 3, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    The Hazel Wood looks beautiful – definitely want to get my hands on it so I can drool over it….ermmm I mean read it.

    Reply
    • Erica Hatch says

      January 3, 2018 at 9:36 pm

      For sure!! 🙂

      Reply
  5. thisdarkmaterial says

    January 3, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    I'm so curious what you think of The Hazel Wood and Chalk Man! Especially the ending of CM, it left me with a much more favorable impression than what I was developing for most of the book.

    Reply
    • Erica Hatch says

      January 4, 2018 at 12:52 am

      Ooh! I can't wait to get my hands on them! 🙂

      Reply
  6. AngelErin says

    January 4, 2018 at 1:10 am

    Yes!! These all sound so good. I'm especially interested in The Chalk Man. 😀

    Reply
    • Erica Hatch says

      January 4, 2018 at 1:27 am

      😀

      Reply
  7. Joyce H says

    January 4, 2018 at 8:13 am

    Omg..I just got an arc of The Chalk Man! I requested Hazelwood too 😊

    Reply
    • Erica Hatch says

      January 4, 2018 at 1:10 pm

      AH! Congrats! I can't wait to see what you think!

      Reply
  8. Tânia says

    January 4, 2018 at 8:42 pm

    The cover of The Hazel Wood is so pretty. *.* This month, I'm excited for the following releases: Everless, Unearthed and Reign the Earth. Can't wait to get my hands on them!!!!

    Happy readings! 😉
    Tânia @MyLovelySecret

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 4, 2018 at 8:43 pm

      Right?! 🙂 Oh, I will have to check those out!

      Reply
  9. Olivia-Savannah says

    January 4, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    I'm not surprised about the Melissa Meyer book! Hope you can get to all of these in January x

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 4, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      😀

      Reply
  10. Alicia AKernelofNonsense says

    January 5, 2018 at 4:31 am

    The Chalk Man just made my eyes go all big. Sounds deliciously creepy. Hope you enjoy all these books!

    Reply
    • Erica Hatch says

      January 5, 2018 at 1:41 pm

      Right?! I cannot wait to get my hands on them! 🙂

      Reply
  11. Dinh G says

    January 5, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    I love the cover of The Hazel Wood and it sounds interesting too.
    Hope you enjoy the book!

    Dinh@Arlene's Book Club

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 5, 2018 at 5:39 pm

      Thank you! 🙂

      Reply
  12. Greg says

    January 5, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    These all sound great, especially The Hazel Wood. But The Chalk Man looks awesome as well, and that one's new to me. I love a good thriller. 🙂

    Reply
    • Erica Robyn says

      January 5, 2018 at 6:49 pm

      Same here! I hope you get the chance to pick them up! I'd love to read your thoughts!

      Reply

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