5 Books I’m Looking Forward To

There was a thing on twitter recently about how you shouldn’t be one of those people who says you can’t wait to read someone’s book, and then not reading it right away. Missing the point of the ‘debate’ if that’s what you can call half of the shit-posting that goes down on Twitter, here are 5 books that have either recently been released or will be out before the end of the year that I can’t wait to read. And by that I mean I’ll buy them when I’ve got the money to do so, and read them when I’m in the mood to do so. But I’m interested in them, and with infinite time I’d read them all right away if I could.

Revival Road – Chris DiLeo

Revival Road by Chris DiLeo came out earlier this month. Alas, so did mountain of bills, so I’m waiting for payday before I can add this to my TBR pile. I’m looking forward to this due to the inventive plot, and the confidence I have in the face that DiLeo can pull off interesting ideas after reading The Devil Virus. In Revivial Road, a child dies on this street in a tragoc accident, only to wake in the morgue later that day. He’s only the fist to die on that road for whom death is not final. We’ve seen the dead rise in plenty of zombie novels before, but this one offers something different. While John Ajvide Lindqvist took the undead in an interesting direction in Handline the Undead, this threatens to be all the more sinister.

Congratulations! You’ve Accidentally Summoned a World-Ending Monster. What Now? – Duncan P. Bradshaw

For some of you, the title alone, ‘Congratulations! You’ve Accidentally Summoned a World-Ending Monster. What Now?‘ will have piqued your interest. Others might need a little more convincing. If you’ve not read Duncan P Bradshaw before, you really should. His work is sure to bring a smile to your face as well leave you in a world of bewilderment as one crazy series of events leads onto the next improbably scenario. And yet, as random as it all seems, when you reach the end you realise there’s some kind of order to the chaos. With this book, though (and I’m not typing that title again) it’s down to you to find that order. He’s only gone and bloody wrote a choose-your-own-adventure-style gamebook. I’m looking forward to getting lost among the pages of this one.

Six Rooms – Gemma Amor

I was a big fan of Dear Laura, and this haunting story has me intrigued. The excerpt below put this one on my radar.

Cunning Folk – Adam L.G. Nevill

A new novel my Adam Nevill is always something to get excited about. The recent cover reveal of Cunning Folk has me even more excited for this one. The premise sounds very much like Nevill at his best – something that sounds relatively ordinary turned into something full of folk horror. Here, a couple more into a new home in the country that needs a little work. They have trouble with the elderly neighbours. What could be an every day neighbourly dispute takes a turn when it seems those neighbours are drawing on dark powers…

Malevolent Nevers – Tom Rimer

No cover for this one yet, and not a lot of information about it either. Tom has been dropping hints online for a long time. After seeing what he did with his YA sci-fi trilogy The Glowing, and how creeping that was in places, I’m really looking forward to seeing what he can do when he has his horror head firmly on his shoulders.

Now obviously, these aren’t the only books I’m looking ofrward to for the rest of the year, or the only ones I’ll buy or read. Some might end up shifting to next year, but either way, right now, I’m excited by them, and you should be too.