Hello, hello! Time for another TTT and this weeks prompt was ‘books on my spring 2023 TBR.’ I’ve been getting better at reading books off my backlist, mainly thanks to my backlist buddy reads with Leah, but I tend to pick them up more on a whim than actually scheduling them. So for this post I’ve decided to spotlight 10 upcoming arc’s that I plan on reading over the next few months. As usual, if you want to check out more about the book, or add it to your TBR, just click on the cover to be taken to the goodreads page.
Top Ten Tuesday is run by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl and you should definitely go give her blog some love.

The Curse of Saints
As an elite spy and the Queen’s Third-in-Command, Aya has dedicated herself to a life of discipline and duty, using her gods-given abilities to keep dark magic from ever returning to the realm. Her oath ensures she will always act to protect those she fights alongside—including Will, the Queen’s Enforcer and Aya’s bitter rival. Forced by circumstance to work together, Aya and Will struggle to come to an uneasy truce.
But when tragedy strikes, Aya instinctively reacts, unleashing a power that hasn’t been seen in over 500 years. Shaken, she’s confronted with an impossible truth: one that threatens the precious grip she keeps on her control. One that forces her to work with Will to discover who—or what—she really is. And one that could turn her into a weapon in a war she doesn’t know how to win.
The Curse of Saints
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she’s descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home.
The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own.
Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey’s previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And as events grow more sinister, it will be up to Ivy to uncover the library’s mysteries in order to reclaim her own story—before it vanishes forever.
Perilous Times
An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.
Being reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully damn tiring over the years—or at least that’s what Sir Kay’s thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth, yet again.
Kay fought at Hastings, and at Waterloo, and in both World Wars. After a thousand years, he thought he was used to dealing with a crisis. But now he finds himself in a strange new world where oceans have risen, armies have been privatized, and half of Britain’s been sold to the Chinese. The dragon that’s running amok, that he can handle. The rest? He’s not so sure.
Mariam’s devoted her life to fighting what’s wrong with her country. But she’s just one ordinary person, up against a hopelessly broken system. So when she meets Kay, a figure straight out of legend, she dares to hope that the world’s finally found the savior it needs.
As the two quest through this strange land swarming with gangs, mercenaries, and talking squirrels, they realize that other ancient evils are afoot. Lancelot is back too–at the beck and call of immortal beings with a sinister agenda. And if their plans can’t be stopped, a dragon will be the least of the planet’s worries.
In perilous times like these, the realm doesn’t just need a knight. It needs a true leader.
Luckily, Excalibur lies within reach–and Kay’s starting to suspect that the hero fit to carry it is close at hand.
Dragonfall
Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the ‘gods’ remember, and they do not forgive.
Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows the artifact’s magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge.
The spell connects to Everen, the last male dragon foretold to save his kind, dragging him through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen soon learns that to regain his true power and form and fulfil his destiny, he only needs to convince one little thief to trust him enough to bond completely–body, mind, and soul–and then kill them.
Yet the closer the two become, the greater the risk both their worlds will shatter.
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.
The world has never even noticed them. That’s about to change.
Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.
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Scarlet
It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires–usually rich and aristocratic–have slaked the guillotine’s thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, and his League are heroically rescuing dozens of aristocrats from execution, both human and vampire. And soon they will have an ace up their sleeve: Eleanor Dalton.
Eleanor is working as a housemaid on the estate of a vampire Baroness. Her highest aspiration is to one day become a modiste. But when the Baroness hosts a mysterious noble and his wife, they tell Eleanor she is the spitting image of a French aristocrat, and they convince her to journey to France to aid them in a daring scheme. Soon, Eleanor finds herself in Paris, swept up in magic and intrigue–and chaos–beyond her wildest dreams. But there’s more to fear than ardent Revolutionaries. For Eleanor stumbles across a centuries-old war between vampires and their fiercest enemy. And they’re out for blood. . . .
The Saint of Bright Doors
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.
He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is, and his discovery will rewrite the world.
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements–books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.
All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, they’ll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . .
Shanghai Immortal
Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King’s ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers, and trying to control her explosive temper – with varying levels of success.
So when Jing overhears the courtiers plotting to steal a priceless dragon pearl from the King, she seizes her chance to expose them, once and for all.
With the help of a gentle mortal tasked with setting up the Central Bank of Hell, Jing embarks on a wild chase for intel, first through Hell and then mortal Shanghai. But when her hijinks put the mortal in danger, she must decide which is more important: avenging her loss of face, or letting go of her half-empty approach to life for a chance to experience tenderness – and maybe even love.
Love Theoretically
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

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This is my first time hearing about Shanghai Immortal! It sounds so good!!!
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Doesn’t it though! I think it popped up on my Twitter when Hodderscape announced they’d bought it & I instantly added it to my TBR. I’m a sucker for anything featuring myythology/folklore 😀
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These all look great!
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I have Scarlet to read as well. Dragonfall looks and sounds brilliant so that’s another one to add to m TBR😃
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Oooh well fingers crossed we both love Scarlet! 😀
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Wow, so many of these look so good!! I’ve been holding back on my requests because I doubt I’ll have much time after the baby comes in June. I hope you love all of these though!!
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Oooh not long now! Sending lots of goof luck & thoughts your war for June. I can’t blame you for holding back, I’ve been getting a lot better, but still cant resist them all lol
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Thank you!! ❤ It's so hard. I mean… who doesn't want them all?! haha! If only we could do it full time. 🙂
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Reading full time… every book lovers dream job lol
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Welp. I just added a few books to my list. A couple of your May release are July for us. And my Scarlet sounds like a cross between Declaration of the Rights of Magicians and court of miracles
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Hahaha always happy to add to a TBR, some of these may be July releases but I’m pushing them up trying to get a month or two ahead for my reviews… trying being the operative word. I’ve not really read many reviews for Scarlet, but it does sound fun 😀
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You always have read books with amazing covers! I’m about to read The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. I hope you enjoy all of these books!
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Hahaha I am such a sucker for a pretty cover! Looking forward to seeing what you think of The Last Heir to Blackwood Library 😀
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Scarlet was really good! I have Dragonfall on order and have my eye on Perilous Times as so many people are talking about it – I look forward to seeing your thoughts as you read them!
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Ahhh I haven’t seen any reviews for Scarlet yet, so I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it! Perilous Times sounds like it’s going to be a quirky one, but it’s based on Arthurian Lore so was pretty much an insta read for me lol
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These covers are gorgeous, just gorgeous! I don’t read fantasy, so I miss out on a lot of the beautiful covers, but I love seeing them on lists like this. 🖤
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Aren’t they just! I’m 100% a sucker for a beautiful cover lol
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I don’t usually put the covers with my TTT list, but I might have to start and show them off, lol.
My TTT: https://ravenkorawinters.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-spring-2023-to-read-list/
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Oh you absolutely should! It’s one of the first things that draws me to a book, so I always love seeing them 😀
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oooh this is such an interesting list! Definitely will have to look into some of these books! I keep seeing perilous times everywhere – may have to add it to the tbr too!
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I’m a sucker for anything Arthurian or Camelot related, so I’m really looking forward to picking that one up 😀
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It does sound intriguing! I hope you enjoy – I look forward to seeing your thoughts!☺️
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I haven’t heard of so many of these but all of them have such gorgeous covers and I love how bookish many of them sound 😍 I’m especially excited for Dragonfall and Shanghai Immortal! I hope you enjoy all these books 🙂
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Thanks, Dini! They do have some beautiful covers 😀
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Ooo I’ve not heard of The Book that Wouldn’t Burn before – it sounds really good!
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I love a good book about books, so looking forward to that one 😀
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Great selection! I can’t wait to read The Last Heir to Blackwood Library.
Thanks so much for sharing!
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Thanks! I’ve got that one coming up soon and I can’t wait to read it 😀
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Any time! The greedy little reader in my head is chanting “I want, I want, I want.”
I look forward to hearing what you think about it!
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