2024 Most Anticipated Fantasy New Releases

Hi friends,
I’m back with my first post of 2024. And what better way to start it besides seeing what’s in store for next this year?! That’s right, we’re going to delve into my most anticipated new releases in 2024.

Do note that this is what I have in mind for now, but of course as reading list go it could only grow.
For this post, I’m going to limit to five books to make sure the post doesn’t go too long and I will only limit to fantasy, my go-to genre.

So without further ado, let’s get into it.

Wind and Truth (Brandon Sanderson)

Release date: December 6th 2024 | PRE-ORDER LINKS

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.
Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions, and the Knights Radiant and the nations of Roshar have a mere 10 days to prepare for the worst. The fate of the entire world—and the Cosmere at large—hangs in the balance.

Please raise your hand if you’re surprised that this book is in my list.
No one? Nobody?
Oh well. I guess it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Brandon Sanderson’s writing, and especially The Stormlight Archive.

I cannot wait for this book, which will be the last book on the first half of the 10-books series. HOWEVER, I AM SO NOT READY FOR THE HIATUS that will come after this book. Multi-years stormlight hiatus, my heart, I cannot.

 

Long Live Evil (Sarah Rees Brennan)

Release date: July 30th 2024 | GOODREADS

What if your fictional boyfriend is suddenly real? What if you are in HIS world? What if instead of being the hero’s love interest, you become the villainess and have to go toe-to-toe with your fictional (well, not so-fictional) crush?

Sarah Rees Brennan always love to make us root for the evil, toying with the ideas of evil handsome boys, and crushing over the bad boys in her Young Adult books. Now, though, she is stepping into adult fantasy and I simply CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS BOOK.

 

Darker by Four (June CL Tan)

Release date: April 2nd 2024 | AUTHOR PAGE

A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.
When a god of death goes missing, an ancient supernatural virus known as the Blight rears its head, mutating the souls of the dead into Revenants, dark vampiric creatures who thirst for the spirit energy of mortals. As darkness takes over, three paths intersect in the shadows. And three lives bound by the red threads of fate must rise against destiny before the barrier between worlds crumbles and all hell breaks loose. Literally.

Exorcist! Chinese mythology! Slow-burn romance! Anime fight scenes! Queer Asian teens!
So many things to be excited about!!

 

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying(Django Wexler)

Release date: April 25th 2024 | GOODREADS

All I need to share is this excerpt and you know you would want to read it.
Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.

This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side.

Seriously that premise is so good, I’ll be adding this book to my TBR.

 

The Tainted Cup (Robert Jackson Bennett)

Release date: February 6 2024 | GOODREADS PAGE

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett

Okay I have a confession to make.
I have not read Robert Jackson Bennett’s works. Like at all. I know I know. He is high on the list of my priority authors to check on, but life got in the way.
This one though, a MURDER MYSTERY and FANTASY (AKA two of my favorite genres) blended into one? I simply cannot miss it.

 

So that’s it. My 2024 most anticipated fantasy releases.

Let me know in the comments below what are YOUR most anticipated releases for 2024?

2024 Reading Goals

Holla people, I’m back.
Well, it’s definitely has been a ride. I created my own site using my own domain and it worked well for a while until work took over my life.

At the end of 2023, I was sitting there looking back at this blog and I was like whoa I used to do this?! I used to have time for this?! Back then I was also working but somehow I MADE time to do other things besides working, like taking online course, learning python, reading 50 books a year, and manage a book blog. And honestly those things kept me sane, even with the crazy hours. So here I am trying to give this another go. We are starting with baby steps, easy posts to create while I trying to get my blogging muscles back. Hence, the 2024 reading goals.

NUMBER OF BOOKS TO READ

As we entering 2024, I reflected back on my reading pattern over the years (shoutout to The StoryGraph) and man the number of books I read have really plummeted like a Kaplan-Meier curve with 3 months PFS (don’t ask). So far I have only read 9 (NINE) books in the entire year. I am not sure the number is correct because sometimes I read in Everand and the app does not connect with goodreads, but anyhow let’s just assume it is. NINE BOOKS!

For 2024 I am going to try to double it and put 20 books. We will evaluate this in Q2 2024 (my gosh what has scrum training done to me), but for now 20!

ONE AUDIOBOOK EVERY QUARTER

2023 is the year I finally come to appreciate the versatility of audiobooks. Not only that they can be listened to during workout, I will also sometimes listen to them before bed with the sleep timers. And somehow, Everand has more newer audiobooks than they has ebooks, or perhaps those are just for YA-fantasy (aka my go-to genre). The only cons are that audiobooks are very hard to skim and as a non-auditory learner, I found myself struggling to grasp the infodump from audiobooks compared to reading an ebook. Anyway I will try to read FOUR AUDIOBOOKS in a year, that is one every 3 months.

And that’s it for now. No reading challenge or anything of the likes so far. I will update this post if I decide to join any of 2024 reading challenges.

Now, let me know is there any reading challenge you’re doing for 2024? Leave me a comment and recommend me some!

Announcement: Moving to A New Home (with A New Name!)

Hello friends,
Some of you might notice that I’ve posted less and less in the last couple of weeks/months. So let’s me explain. Most of it is real life getting in the way of my blogging (and by real life, I might or might not mean Pokemon Go). Some part of it though is because I’ve been busy building a new home for Geek Apprentice. Only it would not be called Geek Apprentice anymore. Yes, you read that right, my little blog is moving to a new home. I decided to take the risk and go self-hosting. On August 17th, 2016, my old/new blog will go live at:

DIP-INTO-BOOKS.COM

Why the new name (let’s pretend someone asked me that question, okay)?
I made geekapprentice when I was a random blogger not knowing what to talk about. I mostly blogged about what suits my fancy at that time (programming, web development, etc); hence, the name. As a book blog, it just didn’t suit the content so I went searching for a new name. Due to my paranoia of infringing a patented name, I decided to go with dip-into-books.com after much deliberation.

“But I left you some really long comments on geekapprentice. Will they be gone?” imaginary-person asked.
Nope. I would not let that happen. I mean, you took your time to leave me wonderful comments, read/liked my post, sent me pingbacks, etc, and I loved you all for doing it so I will not let them all just disappear from the cyberspace. Thankfully, wordpress has a handy export/import tools that allows me (anyone, really) to easily move to a self-hosted site. So, rest assured that your wonderful comments will move to a new home also.

Do I need to re-follow the new blog?
Wonderful people, I’m flattered you still want to follow my blog even with the possibility it turns out to be even messier than this one. However, the great people at wordpress created a tool to move my followers too. It should happen automatically and you wouldn’t even notice it (okay, you probably would). If you follow my blog on Bloglovin, I will also transfer you to the new address so you don’t have to do anything.

Of course, this all could go awry and I will end up with no posts, no comments, and no followers. So is life. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, but if it does… well, fresh start, I guess.

What will happen to geekapprentice.wordpress.com?
I will take down all of my old posts besides this one you’re currently reading. As for the blog itself, I will leave it up for some time. Maybe I will turn it back to my personal blog, or maybe I will delete it in a couple of year. Short version: idk. Lol.

Okay, thank you for reading my imaginary conversation there. On to the good stuff. As a blogwarming party, I’m going to host a giveaway. The giveaway will be hosted on rafflecoper and one winner (chosen randomly) will get $25 credits on bookdepository. It opens internationally as long as bookdepository ships to your country. Details will be posted on dip-into-books.com on the same day as the site launch. So, I hope you stay tuned for that.

Alright. This has been a very long announcement post and the imaginary reader is tired of reading so I’ll stop now. See you on the other site.

Windie

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