The Cradle of Ice, A Day of Fallen Night and The Iron Wolf, plus 9 more of the most anticipated new fantasy books of February 2023
Jinns VS humans. Saints, disciples and vicious emperors who absolutely must die. From mythological high fantasy to urban and epic YA and exciting adult mystery – these are some of the most anticipated new fantasy books of February 23.
New Fantasy Books in February 2023
These Infinite Threads
7 February 2023
The sequel to Tahereh Mafi’s best-selling This Woven Kingdom, These Infinite Threads sees Alizeh, the heir to the Jinn throne, and Kamran, the heir to the human throne, fall in love. But as a murderous foe kills Kamran’s family (leaving him perhaps the human king) and kidnaps Alizeh, Kamram must hurry to find her and undo the devil’s deal – that is unless she’s already become the new Jinn queen. In These Infinite Threads.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Mythology, High Fantasy
Author Tahereh Mafi | Home born Connecticut, lives Santa Monica, California, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
Seven Faceless Saints
7 February 2023
In her debut novel, M.K. Lobb paints a picture of a dark city ruled by saints and disciples. A rule which, after her father’s death, rebel Rossana is determined to end, even if it means confronting the disillusioned security captain who broke her heart, Damian. In fact, as a murderer rakes up victims in the city streets, Rossana and Damian are forced to work together as terrible darkness closes in, in Seven Faceless Saints.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, Mystery, LGBTQ, Thriller, Dark Fantasy
Author MK Lobb | Home Canada
Publisher Little, Brown Books | Buy it
The Cradle of Ice
7 February 2023
The second book in his Moonfall series, James Rollins brings us back to the unlikely fellowship of a soldier, a thief, a lost prince and a young girl who set out in the middle of great wars to stop the coming apocalypse. But now, just as their binds seem strongest, the group must split up and brave a vast new world of ice and legend, before time runs out.
Genres Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic
Author James Rollins | Home born Chicago, Illinois; lives Sacramento, California, US
Publisher Tor Books | buy it
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
14 February 2023
In a chilling Mexican Gothic style, this book is the story of a scholar of myths who accompanies his mysterious wife to her childhood home, where the house itself seems to want to tell him something important about his bride. If only he can manage to distinguish reality from fantasy in The Last Tale of the Flower Bride.
Genres Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Horror, Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Author Roshani Chokshi | Home born Saint Louis, Missouri; lives Georgia, US
Publisher HarperCollins | buy it
The Tyranny of Faith
14 February 2023
In the second book in Richard Swan’s Empire of the Wolf series, Sir Konrad Vonvalt returns from battle to a capital city in the throes of a rebellion stirring against the Emperor. And, charged with locating the Empire’s kidnapped prince, Vonvalt and allies Helena, Bressinger and Sir Radomir must head south to face the templar knights – and a perhaps more terrifying dark power than any could have imagined in The Tyranny of Faith.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Richard Swan | Home born Yorkshire, UK; lives Sydney, Australia
Publisher Orbit | Buy it
The Cage of Dark Hours
14 February 2023
The second book in Lostetter’s The Five Penalties epic fantasy series, The Cage of Dark Hours sees Krona and her Regulators survive defeating a back-from-the-dead serial killer, but new information about the dark forces that control their world will drive them to battle the elite and fend off beasts from beyond the foggy barrier, all in search of the truth behind the children’s story of the Thalo, the legendary quiet, creeping puppet masters who control it all in The Cage of Dark Hours.
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Mystery, High Fantasy
Author Marina Lostletter | Home born Oregon; lives Arkansas, US
Publisher Tor Books | Buy it
The Jaguar Path
16 February 2023
The next instalment in Anna Stephens’s Songs of the Drowned series sees the lands of Ixachipan controlled by the Empire of Songs’ hypnotic, magical music. All the rebels are dispersed and Xessa, Lilla and Tayan are ensnared in the empire’s machinations to fully control the populace and use them for its future battles. Yet each of them still harbours a secret hope, waiting for a chance to strike at the Empire from within.
Genres Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
Author Anna Stephens | Home UK
Publisher HarperVoyager | buy it
The Iron Wolf
21 February 2023
In the first book in the new Vardari series by The Raven Rings trilogy author Siri Pettersen, Juva, born of the swindlers they call blood readers detests her heritage. But the threat of the ageless vardari sets her on a course to rediscover the ancient blood reader legacy that once changed the world, and she might change her mind yet if she can confront the terrifying childhood memory she fought so long and hard to forget in The Iron Wolf.
Genres Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Mythology, Scandinavian, Romance, Werewolves
Author Siri Pettersen | Home born Finnsnes; lives Søgne, Norway
Publisher Arctis | Buy it
A Day of Fallen Night
28 February 2023
A standalone prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, part of The Roots of Chaos series, Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night shows the course of events that changed the lives of four women – wyrm-slaying priory sister, queen and princess, and a devout trying to raise the gods from their slumber – and the age of terror and violence that will echo through their world for generations to come.
Genres Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ, High Fantasy, Dragons, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy
Author Samantha Shannon | Home London, UK
Publisher Bloomsbury | Buy it
The Magician’s Daughter
28 February 2023
Washed up on the shores of a legendary Irish island hidden by magic as a baby, Hy-Brasil and her guardian, the mercurial magician Rowan, is all that Biddy has ever known. But, when one day Rowan fails to return from his mysterious travels, Biddy must venture into the outside world for the first time to face the powerful enemies who’ve set against Rowan and, unwittingly, Biddy herself in The Magician’s Daughter.
Genres Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adult, Magic, Magical Realism
Author HG Parry | Home Wellington, New Zealand
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
Emperor of Ruin
28 February 2023
The third and final book in Django Wexler’s epic Burningblade & Silvereye series, Emperor of Ruin sees siblings Gyre and Maya reunite old allies from across The Splinter Kingdoms and Deepfire, as well as locate a legendary hidden weapon, to take down Ashok and Twilight Order once and for all.
Genres Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adult, LGBTQ
Author Django Wexler | Home Seattle, US
Publisher Hachette | Buy it
The Crane Husband
28 February 2023
This retelling of the Japanese folklore tale “The Crane Wife” sees a fifteen-year-old has to grow up pretty fast to take up most of the responsibilities on the farm, including raising her young brother. This while her mother, an artist, becomes aloof and engaged in weaving tapestries. Until one day Mom brings home a menacing new “friend”, a six-foot tall crane who commands the woman’s heart and demands she weaves a very specific tapestry, in Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband.
Genres Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Magical Realism, Retellings, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tales
Author Kelly Barnhill | Home Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Publisher Tor Publishing Group | Buy it
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