Polybius, Collin Armstrong (Gallery 978-0-668-04497-1, $28.99, 352pp, hc) April 2025. In October 1982, the most popular arcade game in Tasker Bay, California is Polybius. It arrives from an auction house into the local independent video store where teen Andi is largely in charge every afternoon. Soon it has a rapidly growing gang of fans, which would not be all that unusual for a new game in 1982, except everyone ...Read More| Locus Online
On the Wings of la Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf Books for Young Readers 978-0-593-42617-3, $19.99, 340pp, hc) January 2025. Cover by Monique Muñoz. Seventeen-year-old Estrella (aka ‘‘Noche’’) de…| Locus Online
Kitemaster, Jim C. Hines (Arc Manor/Caezik 978-1-647-10160-2, $24.99, 260pp, hc) May 2025. The first thing you need to know about Jim Hines’s wonderful new fantasy Kitemaster is that it involves hu…| Locus Online
Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic 978-1-546-17146-1, $27.99, 400pp, hc) March 2025. Suzanne Collins returned in March to her blockbuster Hunger Games trilogy with another prequel,…| Locus Online
The Legendary Scarlett & Browne, Jonathan Stroud (Knopf Books for Young Readers 978-0-593-70736-4, $17.99, 448pp, hc) March 2025. Jonathan Stroud, who gained many fans with his Lockwood & C…| Locus Online
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US 978-1-547-61111-9, $19.99, 288pp, hc) March 2025. They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran is a near-future horror/murder mystery/dark fantasy th…| Locus Online