So, there was an accidental three week hiatus (I may or may not have kept forgetting), but today is a Friday, and I remembered, so it's (finally) back! Up next, I'm reccing books set in space (and less well-known ones too, so if you don't see something on here, it's because I considered it too well-known).
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Content Warnings: rape in flashback scene, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt mention, incest in book 2, dubious consent, suicide, torture in book 3
Synopsis: Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.
The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim.
Comments: OK, I'll be honest right now. I won't ever stop reccing this book/series. Yes, so it's somewhat like bear with until the last 40 pages. But do those last 40 pages ever make up for it. And books 2 and 3 are also epic.
Joyride by Jackson Lanzing and Colin Kelly
Synopsis: Earth sucks.
The stars have been blocked out for so long that people have forgotten there was anything else besides the World Government Alliance watching over them. Uma Akkolyte is a girl who shoots first, leaps before she looks, and is desperate for any means to leave her planet behind. And so she does. When Uma jacks an alien spaceship and punches through the stratosphere she sets forth on an adventure with an unlikely crew who are totally not ready for all the good, bad, and weird the universe will throw at them.
Comments: Found family in space, what more could you want? It's also gay, so. What are you waiting for?
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Synopsis: Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.
When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...
Comments: Found family combined with slowburn enemies to lovers, aka me in tears because I love these tropes that much. Book two also has the runaway princess trope mixed with friends to lovers.
Mirage by Somaiya Daud
Synopsis: In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon.
But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place.
As Amani is forced into her new role, she can’t help but enjoy the palace’s beauty—and her time with the princess’ fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death.
Comments: OK, so yes, it's a bit of a cheat to be reccing a book that's not even out yet, but hey. It's really that good. And it has a really well-developing yet excrutiatingly painful surrogate sister relationship. Also, while you're at it, enter my giveaway for a preorder of this book!
Yohancé by Paul Louise-Julie
Synopsis: Yohance is a Space Opera Graphic Novel inspired by a fully African Aesthetic.
Comments: Two words: Space. Heist. That's all you need to know about this book. So now go read it.
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