Here’s a rundown of the books we think you should look out for in coming in the week. See any that you are really looking forward to? Find any you had not heard of yet? Know of books we missed? We know we don’t have everything and would love to hear what you feel we may have overlooked.   FANTASY        SCIENCE FICTION   FANTASY       SCIENCE FICTION       FANTASY        SCIENCE FICTION    

Here’s a rundown of the books we think you should look out for in coming in the week. See any that you are really looking forward to? Find any you had not heard of yet? Know of books we missed? We know we don’t have everything and would love to hear what you feel we may have overlooked.   FANTASY          URBAN FANTASY           SCIENCE FICTION           HORROR     FANTASY             URBAN FANTASY     SCIENCE FICTION   HORROR               FANTASY          URBAN FANTASY           SCIENCE FICTION           HORROR Son of the Morning Mark Alder 2/15/2016 Pegasus Chains of the Heretic Jeff Salyards 2/16/2016 Night Shade The Immortals Jordanna Max Brodsky 2/16/2016 Orbit Lovecraft Country Matt Ruff 2/16/2016 Harper Calamity Brandon Sanderson 2/16/2016 Delacorte Interior Darkness Straub, Peter 2/16/2016 Doubleday The Ballad of Black Tom Victor LaValle 2/16/2016 Tor.com

While I enjoyed Scourge of the Betrayer, the first book of Bloodsounder’s Arc, it was Veil of the Deserters that really opened my eyes to what Jeff Salyards was capable of. Not only did it overcome the dreaded middle-book curse, it actually proved to be one of those rare sequels that completely surpass the first. I came away from it thoroughly satisfied, but also hungry for more. That brings us to Chains of the Heretic, the third and final book of Bloodsounder’s Arc. Where that second volume expanded upon the world and the story of the first, this one rips that world wide open and shoves us headlong into a whole new heap of betrayals. More importantly, where that second book was a textbook example of how you build to a climax, Chains of the Heretic schools the genre on how you successfully deliver it. Seriously, it is that good. As much as I’d love to gush about what Salyards did with the larger storyline and the overall mythology, just about anything I could say here would constitute a spoiler. What I will say is that a lot happens in this book, and it all has significant consequences for our band of…