Buon pomeriggio lettor*!
Come ogni anno si arriva a gennaio con la nebulosa incognita relativa a quanti libri si riuscirà a leggere, quali si sceglierà di recuperare, quali letture nuove ci stregheranno... Tante domande con un'indefinita risposta, almeno all'inizio, ma una certezza in verità c'è: quali libri aspettiamo con più ansia.
Bisogna dire che il 2022 riserva grandi ritorni e interessanti arrivi per i quali siamo molto cariche! Pronti a vedere quali sono?
Di seguito trovate i nostri MEB (Most Expected Books)
25 Gennaio
Trama: Meet Gemma Jacobs. She’s driven, energetic, and a positive thinker. She has a great career working for famed self-help guru Ian Fortune, she lives in a cute studio apartment in Manhattan, and her family is supportive and loving (albeit a little kooky). Her life is perfect. Absolutely wonderful.
Except for one tiny little thing.
After a decade of disastrous relationships and an infertility diagnosis, Gemma doesn’t want a Mr. Right (or even a Mr. Right Now), she just wants a baby.
And all she needs is an egg, some sperm, and IVF.So Gemma makes a New Year’s resolution: have a baby.
Josh Lewenthal is a laid back, relaxed, find-the-humor-in-life kind of guy. The polar opposite of Gemma. He’s also her brother’s best friend. For the past twenty years Josh has attended every Jacobs’ family birthday, holiday, and event – he’s always around.
Gemma knows him. He’s nice (enough), he’s funny (-ish), he’s healthy (she thinks) and he didn’t burn any ants with a magnifying glass as a kid. Which, in Gemma’s mind, makes him the perfect option for a sperm donor.
So Gemma wants to make a deal. An unemotional, businesslike arrangement. No commitments, just a baby.
To Gemma’s surprise, Josh agrees.
They have nothing in common, except their agreement to make a baby and their desire to keep things businesslike.
But the thing about baby-making…it’s hard to keep it businesslike, it’s nearly impossible to keep it unemotional, and it’s definitely impossible to keep your heart out of the mix. Because when you’re making a baby together, things have a way of starting to feel like you’re making other things too – like a life, and a family, and love. And when the baby-making ends, you wish that everything else didn’t have to end too.
15 Febbraio
Trama: Bryce Quinlan and Hunt
Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent
City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a
chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
The
Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But
with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the
rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled
into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while
others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been
very good at staying silent.
In this sexy, action-packed sequel
to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a
captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do
anything to save it.
17 Febbraio
Trama: It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker Nick asks her on a date, it feels like everything is falling into place.
But she soon learns the truth. Her family aren’t just eccentric: they’re monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And Nick isn’t just a cute boy: he’s a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to bring them down.
As she battles Nick, Joan is forced to work with the beautiful and ruthless Aaron Oliver, heir to a monster family that hates her own. She’ll have to embrace her own monstrousness if she is to save herself, and her family. Because in this story . . .
. . . she is not the hero.
1 Marzo
Trama: Olivia Prior has grown
up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her
mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter
invites Olivia to come home—to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one
is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that
feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or
if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways.
Olivia
knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover
them. When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia
finds herself in a place that is Gallant—but not. The manor is
crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all.
Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where
her father may have come from.
Olivia has always wanted to
belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our
world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place
beside him?
15 Marzo
Trama: From the desperation of golden crowns…
Casteel
Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as
the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the
staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done
is almost unthinkable.
And born of mortal flesh…
Nothing
will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the
Blood Crown stands for. With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards
behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the
Atlantian generals to make war her way—because there can be no retreat
this time. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both
kingdoms can reside in peace.
A great primal power rises…
Together,
Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard
those they hold dear—to protect those who cannot defend themselves. But
war is only the beginning. Ancient primal powers have already stirred,
revealing the horror of what began eons ago. To end what the Blood Queen
has begun, Poppy might have to become what she has been prophesied to
be—what she fears the most.
As the Harbinger of Death and Destruction.
3 Maggio
Trama:
In Charlie Hall’s
world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic
preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter
someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost,
with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow
holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self,
standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And
sometimes, it has a life of its own.
Charlie is a low-level con
artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the
powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by
doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at
the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past
returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future
seems at best, unclear—and at worst, non-existent. Determined to
survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder,
setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires,
shadow thieves, and her own sister—all desperate to control the magic of
the shadows.
With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent,
Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while
you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.
Trama: One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…
Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not
that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl,
and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a
heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a
cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which
is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month
of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a
small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become
the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or
run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender,
Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from
back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that
they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.
If Nora knows
she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as
they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no
editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just
unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
23 Agosto
Trama: 1828. Robin Swift,
orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious
Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek,
and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford
University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation — also known as
Babel.
Babel is the world's center of translation and, more
importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost
in translation through enchanted silver bars, to magical effect.
Silver-working has made the British Empire unparalleled in power, and
Babel's research in foreign languages serves the Empire's quest to
colonize everything it encounters.
Oxford, the city of dreaming
spires, is a fairytale for Robin; a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of
knowledge. But knowledge serves power, and for Robin, a Chinese boy
raised in Britain, serving Babel inevitably means betraying his
motherland. As his studies progress Robin finds himself caught between
Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to
sabotaging the silver-working that supports imperial expansion. When
Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin
must decide: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does
revolution always require violence? What is he willing to sacrifice to
bring Babel down?
Babel — a thematic response to The Secret
History and a tonal response to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell —
grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of
translation as a tool of empire.
Trama: Like an avenging,
purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee
Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA
offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come
true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would
accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never
had to co-lead with Levi Ward.
Sure, Levi is attractive in a
tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in
his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she
accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi
made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school—archenemies work
best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.
Now, her
equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her
floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital
cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi
softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring
her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing.
But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the
line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee
Königswasser do?
30 Agosto
Trama: Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.
Four
years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking
murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the
teacher’s body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods
behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving
home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she’s
determined to find out what really happened.
The kids who found
Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex–best friend, Tripp Talbot, was
one of them. Without his account of events, the other two kids might
have gone down for Mr. Larkin’s murder. They've never forgotten what
Tripp did for them that day. Just like he hasn’t forgotten that
everything he told the police was a lie.
Digging into the past
is bound to shake up the present, and as Brynn begins to investigate
what happened in the woods that day, she begins to uncover secrets that
might change everything—about Saint Ambrose, about Mr. Larkin, and about
her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot.
Four years ago someone got away with murder. The most terrifying part is that they never left.
13 Settembre
Trama: Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
In
many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a
job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new
dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a
stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.
The
whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the
horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have
surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to
come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save
them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life
with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but
she also knows that nothing lasts forever.
And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...
1 Novembre
Trama: *al momento non è stata fornita una trama. Vedremo di aggiungerla non appena verranno date informazioni più precise.
A questi si aggiungono (aggiungeremo le informazioni a riguardo quando verranno diffuse):
- A Light in the Flame (Flesh and Fire, #2) di Jennifer Armentrout
- Grave Things Like Love di Sara Bennett Wealer
Trovate qualche titolo in comune con le letture che voi aspettate di più in questo 2022? Vi abbiamo dato qualche spunto per aggiungerne altre? Fateci sapere!
- Chiara
Anche io sono curiosa di leggere Babel e Gallant! ^^
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