How is your beginning of 2024, have you started any new years resolutions?

In all honesty I have not yet sat down to figure out my goals for this year, I think they will involve a lot of reading, singing and guitar playing. More about my goals for 2024 later this month.

For now let us dive into the upcoming book releases in the first half of 2024, I have picked out 5 Witchy reads for you and 5 non-witchy reads that I am excited for this year. Initially I wanted to do 10 witchy reads but that turned out to be very hard and I am also excited for some other releases so I thought this would also be more representative of what I am looking forward to.

• The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland, release date: 30 January 2024. A new book by Krystal Sutherland, I am so excited for this one. I loved House of Hollow so I am excited to dive into something else by this author. Also it has a powerful witch, that was all I needed to put this on my wishlist. I hope this is as creepy as House of Hollow. The nice thing about this book is also that it is a standalone, which is nice for me as I am not good with series.

• Projections by S.E. Porter, release date: 13 February 2024. S.E. Porter has also written various young adult books under the name Sarah Porter. This novel is her adult debut, and it sounds fascinating. A sorcerer sending out projections of himself into the world because he could not have the woman he loved. This concept sounds fascinating to me, and I think this will be very dark and sometimes that is just what I want to read.

• Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr, release date: 20 February 2024. This sounds like a wholesome kind of read. A cozy read to keep you company until A Witches Guide To Magical Inn Keeping is released in September.

• Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, release date: 20 February 2024. Witch and Witch hunter falling in love. I have yet to read Serpent & Dove which of course is the first book you will think of when you hear this premise. This sounds like a great read, and of course perfect for this blog.

• The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields, release date: 14 May 2024. This is a debut author, and I have not yet heard anybody talk about this release, so I thought I would give it a little bit of love here. This also sounds like such a cozy read, sounds like a summer with witches to me. And there are bee's so that means there must be flowers as well, that makes me happy.

• House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas, release date: 30 January 2024. I think this one is on almost all the Sarah J. Maas fans wishlist already, maybe all of them have already preordered it. I think of all the releases on this list this is certainly the most hyped. And I am all for this hype because I loved House of Earth and Blood. I have yet to read House of Sky and Breath, but that is oké because then when I have finished it I already own House of Flame and Shadow, as I am going to order it right when it comes out.

• The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna, release date: 13 February 2024. Are you seeing my trend yet? This is the conclusion to the Gilded Ones trilogy. One of my goals is to finish some of the series I have started. I am incredibly bad in finishing series. So I am trying this a new way, now since this is the last installment in a trilogy, it will be an achievable goal for me to finish this series this year. I am thinking of preordering this book so that it will motivate me to finish the second book, and then when the pre-order arrives I can dive right into the last book. It will so good to finish a series this year. I am also working on finishing Throne of Glass this year, I am on to the fourth book now.

• An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson, release date: 13 February 2024. I read: dark academia, dark magic and vampires, sold. I have not tried any dark academia books but I am eager to get into this. Also vampires! I have not read any vampire books in a while I kind of miss reading vampire books. Good excuse to pick this up.

• A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal, release date: 20 February 2024. Just the title alone is enough to put it on my TBR and I am not even English. Then there are vampires, are vampires making a comeback this year? I approve!

• Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan, release date: 27 February 2024. Water creatures are not usually my cup of tea, neither are pirates or anything else set at sea. However something about this sounds so damn good.

What are your most anticipated reads for 2024?