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Title: The Dark Days Club
Author: Allison Goodman
Published: 2016
Source: Local Library

Summary: Lady Helen is looking forward to her coming out, and nervous about being snubbed as the daughter of a scandalous traitor to the crown. But to her shock, on the day of her presentation the Queen of England quietly implies that her mother was no traitor, but a hero. Soon, she's wrestling with the supernatural and her own unanticipated abilities, as well as being torn between an eminently suitable ducal beau and the brooding, scandalous lord who's teaching her what she really is.

First Impressions: This took me forevvvver to read (being sick didn't help). Weird to see the traditional regency romance beats in a YA.

Later On: Maybe again this can be imputed to being sick, but this book didn't really stick with me.
This was a weird mix of a Regency romance, with all the traditional elements (making your debut, societal expectations, balls and dances and flirting, and naturally a love triangle), with a more YA tone of a young woman discovering things about herself, her place in the world, and her family history. A lot of it felt like setup for an extended series, including the dark hints about a Big Bad that Lady Helen's own extraordinary abilities are clearly intended to oppose.

I've really loved the author's other books, so I'll try the next in the series and see if my experience changes.

More: Waking Brain Cells

Happy New Year! Here at PubCrawl we like to usher in 2016 with a lot of new and exciting books! Hold on to your wallets, friends, because it’s once again time for our Upcoming Titles feature. As always, this is by no means a comprehensive list of forthcoming releases, just a compilation of titles we think our readers (and our contributors!) would enjoy.

Without further ado:

January 5

• Passenger by Alexandra Bracken**
• Worlds of Ink and Shadow by Lena Coakley
• Truthwitch by Susan Dennard**
• The Imposter Queen by Sarah Fine
• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

January 12

• Other Broken Things by Christa Desir

January 19

• We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Sword and Verse by Kathy MacMillan

January 26

• All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
• The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin
• The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
• Night Study by Maria V. Snyder
• Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

** PubCrawl alum

That’s all for this month! Are any of these books on your TBR lists? Any books we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments!