Ihr Lieben, ich hoffe, ihr seid gut ins neue Jahr ge­star­tet. Ich bin es de­fini­tiv. Ge­mein­sam mit meinem Liebsten und sei­nen Brü­dern be­grüßte ich 2019 mit Raclette, Spie­len und bes­ter Laune. 2019 be­ginnt also sehr schön und ich denke, dass es auch wei­ter­hin schön blei­ben wird. Dazu wird auch der ein oder ande­re Neu­zu­gang in mei­nem Re­gal bei­tra­gen. Be­reits der Ja­nu­ar lockt mit ei­ni­gen Neu­er­schei­nun­gen und ich möchte euch dies­mal die Bü­cher vor­stellen, die mich im Janu­ar be­sonders rei­zen. Aber seid gewarnt: Im Janu­ar spre­chen mich haupt­säch­lich engli­sche Titel an. Viel Spaß mit dem Bei­trag!

Kiersten White – Slayer (08. Januar 2019)

Nina and her twin sister, Arte­mis, are far from nor­mal. It’s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher’s Aca­demy, which is a bit different from your average boar­ding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers—girls gifted with super­natu­ral strength to fight the forces of dark­ness. But while Nina’s mother is a promi­nent mem­ber of the Watcher’s Council, Nina has never em­braced the vio­lent Watcher life­style. In­stead she follows her instincts to heal, car­ving out a place for her­self as the school medic.

Kara Barbieri – White Stag (08. Januar 2019)

As the last child in a family of daughters, seven­teen-year-old Janne­ke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were be­coming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janne­ke as the only sur­vivor— was taken captive by the mali­cious Lydian and even­tually sent to work for his nephew Soren.

Janneke’s sur­vival in the court of merci­less monsters has come at the cost of her connection to the hu­man world. And when the Gob­lin King’s death ig­nites an ancient hunt for the next king, Soren senses an opportu­nity for her to fi­nally fully accept the ways of the brutal Perma­frost. But every action he takes to bring her deeper into his world only shows him that a little huma­nity isn’’t bad— espe­cially when it comes to those you care about.

Through every battle they sur­vive, Janne­ke’s lo­yalty to Soren deepens. After dange­rous truths are re­vealed, Janneke must choose be­tween hol­ding on or letting go of her last connections to a world she no longer belongs to. She must make the right choice to save the only thing keep­ing both worlds from crumbling.

Laura Sims – Looker (08. Januar 2019)

In this taut and thrilling debut, an un­rave­ling woman, un­happily child­less and recently sepa­rated, becomes fixated on her neighbor—the beau­tiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can’t help noti­cing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors a­part, they are sepa­rated by a chasm of pro­fessional success and per­sonal ful­fill­ment. The actress, a cele­brity with her face on the side of every bus, shares a glea­ming brown­stone with her hand­some hus­band and their three adorable child­ren, while the narra­tor, working in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat.

Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen – An Anonymous Girl (10. Januar 2019)

When Jessica Farris signs up for a psycho­logy study con­ducted by the myste­rious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more in­tense and in­vasive and the sessions be­come outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she be­gins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking … and what she’s hiding. As Jess’s para­noia grows, it be­comes clear that she can no longer trust what is real in her life, and what is one of Dr. Shields’ mani­pulative experi­ments. Caught in a web of de­ceit and jea­lousy, Jess quickly learns that some ob­sessions can be deadly.

Roshani Chokshi – Gilded Wolves (15. Januar 2019)

It’s 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Expo­sition Uni­ver­selle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Mon­tagnet-Ala­rie. When the elite, ever-power­ful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never ima­gined: his true in­heri­tance.

To hunt down the ancient arti­fact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of un­likely ex­perts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A histo­rian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinis­ter past. And a brother in arms if not blood.

Together, they will join Séverin as he ex­plores the dark, glitte­ring heart of Paris. What they find might change the course of history – but only if they can stay alive.

Laura Kneidl – Someone New (28. Januar 2019)

Als Micah auf ihren neuen Nach­barn trifft, kann sie es nicht glau­ben: Es ist aus­ge­rech­net Julian, der wenige Wo­chen zuvor ihret­we­gen seinen Job ver­loren hat. Micah fühlt sich schreck­lich des­we­gen, vor allem weil Julian kühl und ab­wei­send zu ihr ist und ihr nicht mal die Ge­legen­heit gibt, sich zu ent­schul­di­gen. Doch seine un­durch­dring­liche Art fas­zi­niert Micah, und sie will ihn unbe­dingt näher kennen­lernen. Dabei findet sie heraus, dass Julian nicht nur sie, sondern alle Menschen auf Ab­stand hält, denn er hat ein Ge­heim­nis – ein Ge­heim­nis, das die Art, wie sie ihn sieht, für immer verändern könnte …

Brigid Kemmerer – A Curse So Dark and Lonely (29. Januar 2019)

Break the curse, save the kingdom. Prince Rhen, the heir to Ember­fall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is trans­formed into a beast hell-bent on destruc­tion, and after so many failed attempts, his king­dom and its people are barely holding on. Harper’s life has never been easy, but she’s learned to be tough enough to sur­vive. She won’t let any­thing hold her back, not her cere­bral palsy or her mother’s deterio­rating health. But when she is sucked into Rhen’s world, nothing is as it seems. Power­ful forces are stand­ing against Ember­falll … and it will take more than a broken curse to save it from utter ruin.

Leigh Bardugo – King of Scars (29. Januar 2019)

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the im­possible. No one knows what he en­dured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he in­tends to keep it that way. Now, as ene­mies gather at his weakened bor­ders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stron­ger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Niko­lai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terri­ble legacy inside him. He will risk every­thing to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.

Siri Pettersen – Fäulnis (31. Januar 2019)

Das Schicksal der Welten liegt jetzt in Hirkas Händen. Die fulmi­nante Fort­setzung der Fan­tasy-Reihe »Die Raben­ringe«: Band 2 »Fäul­nis«, der für den nor­wegi­schen Bok­handler­prisen nomi­niert war, handelt von Vor­urtei­len, Macht­gier, Ängsten, Ra­che und Liebe.

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