2021 Most Anticipated Fanatsy/ Sci-Fi Releases

Hi, how are you all?

Welcome to the post that should have been posted a week ago, if I wasn't procrastinating everything. There have already been a few releases and I had to go in and remove a bunch of books. Also, these are mostly books releasing in the first half of the year.

These are mostly fantasy so I will probably make another list for contemporaries, probably being an important keyword.

The titles link to the Goodreads page and they are ordered by release date.

1. 
   The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick Release date: Jan 21st
   
   "Darkly magical and intricately imagined, The Mask of Mirrors is the unmissable start to the Rook & Rose trilogy, a rich and dazzling fantasy adventure in which a con artist, a vigilante, and a crime lord must unite to save their city." Can't describe it better than they did.
   
   
2. 
   A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson Release Date: Jan 31st
   Sapphic yearning, poly relationship between Dracula’s wives. It has dark gothic castles and also opera and yes you have all my attention.
   
   
3. 

   Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson

   Release date: March 9

   Gender-bent phantom of the opera fantasy retelling. Isda is magical, when people sing she can see their memories and she's not supposed to be alive. She meets Emeric who is immune to her magic and she tries to dig more into his past and memories. This sounds forbidden and dark and I am here for it.

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   These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy
   Release Date: April 20th
   This is a queer ownvoices retelling of the Russian folktale “The Firebird”. F/F romance with the enemies to lovers trope. Twin sisters Izaveta and Asya are to rule a kingdom. Asya is a firebird in training- to keep the balance of nature when she gets the news that her mother has died. I was lucky enough to get an arc which I am currently reading.

5. 

   The Chosen and The Beautiful by Nghi Vo

   Release date: June 1st

   
   

   This is a great gatsby retelling with queer asian girls and magic. I’d been seeing memes about great gatsby being public domain and now here we are.
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   Darling by K. Ancrum
   Release date: June 22nd

   Queer peter pan retelling with modern setting. first of all I cannot get over the cover. how pretty is that. also I've heard The Wicker King by her is considered really good and really dark so I cannot wait to read this book.

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   The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw

   Release date: June 22nd
   
   
   I'm going to start with 'A diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals' that's a whole thing in itself okay. To top that off we get sentient spaceships, trauma, treasure hunt.
   
   
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   She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

   Release date: July 20th

   
   

   'Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.' Just that and I am dying for this book.

There are so many amazing books releasing this year. Let me know some of your most anticipated releases. Thank you so much for reading to the end.