Books I’m Looking Forward to in August

Hey all, Sam here.

Honestly, August feels like a slower month for book releases, but it’s also my birthday month, so I’m just always excited for it to come around again. Reaching my birthday each year makes me daydream about all the books I might get to read over the next year of my life….while sadly also being annoyed with myself for not reading and/or writing as much as I would have liked in the previous year of life.

I have an okay number of August releases that I’ve been approved for by the publishers on NetGalley, and I’m excited for all of them, so let’s go ahead and talk about them quickly.

A Tale of Mirth & Magic by Kristen Vale (Aug 5), Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (Aug 5), Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer (Aug 12), Hemlock & Silver by T Kingfisher (Aug 19)

Voidwalker by S.A. Maclean (Aug 19), Lady Dragon by A.M. Strickland (Aug 26), Unseen by Christy Healy (Aug 26), The Art of Legend by Wesley Chu (Aug 26)

For a few of these books, I’ve already finished them or I am currently reading them, so I imagine there will be reviews coming soon enough (hopefully around their release dates but I make no promises for my review schedule. But about half of these releases are for authors I’ve enjoyed reading in the past, and for the rest the stories sounded interesting.

Honestly the only book on this list I can almost certainly say won’t be read and reviewed in August is The Art of Legend by Wesley Chu…and that’s because I need to re-read/read the previous books. But I’m feeling hopeful that I’ll be able to get through the rest of the books in a timely manner, which is nice.

Of course, there are also quite a few cozy fantasy and other books I have waiting on my Kindle, so I have no idea what books I’m going to gravitate towards in August. I’m hoping to read a whole bunch, because it’s always fun to spend my birthday month indulging in a whole bunch of awesome reads.

All right, well I do think that is all from me for today. What August books are you looking forward to? Let me know in the comments because I love talking about books, and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.