Englischsprachige Neuerscheinungen im Mai

Der April war, was interessante Neuerscheinungen für mich angeht, ein wenig mau, dafür gibt es im Mai umso mehr neue Bücher auf dem englischsprachigen Markt, die ich gern hätte:

„Stepsister“ von Jennifer Donnelly. Ein eher dunkles Retelling von Aschenputtel, das ich bereits für den Kindle vorbestellt habe.

„Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe … which is now filling with blood.
When the prince discovers Isabelle’s deception, she is turned away in shame. It’s no more than she deserves: she is a plain girl in a world that values beauty; a feisty girl in a world that wants her to be pliant.“

Erscheinungsdatum: 14. Mai

„Last Things“ von Jacqueline West. Soll ein wenig an „Stranger Things“ erinnern.

„High school senior Anders Thorson is unusually gifted. His band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown. With guitar skills that would amaze even if he weren’t only eighteen, Anders is the focus of head-turning admiration. And Thea Malcom, a newcomer to the insular town, is one of his admirers. Thea seems to turn up everywhere Anders goes: gigs at the local coffeehouse, guitar lessons, even in the woods near Anders’s home. When strange things start happening to Anders—including the disappearance of his beloved cat, then his sort-of girlfriend, and, somehow, his musical talent—blame immediately falls on Thea. But is she trying to hurt him? Or save him“

Erscheinungsdatum: 7. Mai

„DEV1AT3“ von Jay Kristoff. zweiter Band aus der Lifelike-Reihe. nachdem mir das erste Buch schon sehr gefallen hat, muss ich das natürlich auch lesen.

„Lemon Fresh has seen better days.
After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies. Instead, Lemon finds herself falling in with a group of fellow deviates—a band of teenagers with astonishing abilities, led by an enigmatic figure known as the Major, who may hold the secrets to Lemon’s past.“

Erscheinungsdatum: konkretes Datum im Mai noch unbekannt, wird eventuell doch erst Juni

„Orange World and Other Stories“ von Karen Russel. Ich mochte von ihr „Swamplandia!“ sehr gern, deswegen werde ich wohl ausnahmsweise auch mal zur Kurzgeschichten greifen.

„Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl,“ a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog.„

Erscheinungsdatum: 14. Mai

„The Doll Factory“ von Elizabeth Macneal. Ein Debütroman, über den ich schon viel Gutes gehört habe. Außerdem mag ich Geschichten rund um eine Weltausstellung.

„London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning.
When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.
But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening“

Erscheinungsdatum: 2. Mai

„Aurora Rising“ von Jay Kristoff und Amie Kaufmann. Eine neue Serie der Illuminae-Autoren.

„The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…„

Erscheinungsdatum: 7. Mai

„Finale“ von Stephanie Garber. Der letzte Band der Caraval-Reihe. ich bin zwar noch nicht mit Band 2 durch, aber ich würde die Trilogie gern abschließen.

„Welcome, welcome to Caraval…all games must come to an end.„

Erscheinungsdatum: 7. Mai

Auf welche Bücher freut ihr euch im Mai?