Nobody Asked Me…

First up is Larry Correia with a new book in his Academy of Outcast series- Magic and Bullets

As always, click the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

Ozwald Carnavon used to be a lowly rank-one nobody mining “Red” on a plane of fire.

Now, he’s the acting head of the officially sanctioned (but totally broke) Academy of Outcasts. Situated in “The Tube”—a mile-tall wizard tower that fell over fifty years ago and is now an obnoxiously haunted ruin—the school is the talk of the Under Slump, mostly because they’ll accept anyone with a pulse and a single spell to share.

But running an academy for magical misfits isn’t all spell-crafting and experiments. When the legendary founder, Gaul “the Mutilator” Haddar, vanishes to hunt pirates, he leaves Oz in charge of a gaggle of aspiring mages who are more likely to blow themselves up than pass a test.

And then the landlord comes knocking.

Next up from Raconteur Press YA is Marie Helen Lebault with a new series the first book is- The Tide Runners

The Blurb-

From the author of the acclaimed Evers Series.

Beck North grew up watching the tidegate runners — couriers who carry sealed messages between worlds through shimmering portals in the harbor. On the day he takes the runner’s oath, Beck inherits his missing father’s bronze tideclock and his first route assignment. Six hours later, he’s outrunning a secret cult in a living coral reef and finding a symbol that shouldn’t exist carved into the walls.

The storm cult is supposed to be the enemy. The Runner Command is supposed to be trustworthy. And Beck’s father is supposed to be dead.

None of that turns out to be true.

Alongside his fast-talking best friend Tack and the relentlessly precise Zuri, Beck runs routes through floating markets, tide-locked gardens, and a hurricane-wrapped fortress at the edge of the known worlds. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: someone is building a machine to enslave every tidegate in existence — and the only person who knows how to stop it is Beck’s father, who’s been a prisoner for two years.

A breakneck adventure about loyalty, the cost of keeping promises, and what it really means to run toward danger when you could run away from it.

Next up is another YA from Raconteur Press, Fred Phillips with the second in his Gold and Fire series- Sons of Gold and Fire

The blurb-

Aron’s brothers are gone, snatched by goblins in the night. His father and his knight-master rode after them into the mountains and never came back. The only one who can fix this is Aron — and the great golden dragon who is his best friend.

But Doubloon has been snared in a wizard’s enchanted trap, held fast by a net that his own fire cannot burn through. With his family imprisoned and his dragon helpless, Aron is out of options.

His only move is across the mountains. Alone. No harness. No wings. No backup — except a smart-mouthed goblin who talks, a couple with dark ideas about adoption, a sabrecat who takes his last strip of jerky, and one massive platinum dragon who actively despises humans.

Sons of Gold and Fire is a quest story that never lets up. Packed with monsters, narrow escapes, and a friendship between a boy and a talking goblin that nobody planned but everybody needed, this is the kind of book that stays with you long after the last page.

And last but certainly not least, Pam Uphoff with a short novel in her Chronicles of the Fall series- The Pine-Wicker Feud

The blurb-

A short novel of events centuries before the Chronicles

Fifty years ago, a judge had a strong precognition, and executed a young lord, heir to the leadership of the Wicker Family, for crimes nearly serious enough for such a harsh sentence. But now the judge has died, and Lord Friedrich Wicker is free to take out his revenge on the surviving Pine Family. And he’s planning on killing every single one of them . . . Especially the seventeen-year-old Lord Karlheinz Ingolf Pine.

I can recommend all four, excellent reads!