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Before the coffee gets cold: Tales from the cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
GOODREADS
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time…
Release date: 17th September 2020
Rating prediction: 5 stars
The Ghost Tree
by Christina Henry
GOODREADS – AMAZON
Released: 8th September 2020
Keywords: YA, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Witches, Gore
Synopsis
“When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids.
So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can’t just do nothing. Not like the rest of her town. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will.“
Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire
GOODREADS – AMAZON
Released: 7th May 2019
Keywords: Adult, Sci Fi, Thriller, Urban Fantasy, Time Travel, Violence, Gore
Synopsis
“Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.“
