Cherie Priest, The InexplicablesTor (2012) ISBN: 978-0-7653-2947-9 ( Read more... )

Michelle Sagara, Cast in PerilLuna (2012) ISBN: 978-0-373-80350-7 ( Read more... )

Jacqueline Carey, Dark CurrentsRoc (2012) ISBN: 978-0-451-46478-1 ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett, DodgerHarper (2012) ISBN: 978-0-06-200949-4 ( Read more... )

Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Little, Brown (2012) ISBN: 978-0-316-12308-2
Score: 3

Start of "All the Wrong Questions", a four book prequel to the Series of Unfortunate Events, showing young Lemony's apprenticeship.

Next Book: Terry Pratchett, Dodger

Sherwood Smith, The Spy Princess
Viking (2012) ISBN: 978-0-670-06341-3
Score: 3

Story of a 12 year old princess whose kingdom is having a peasant uprising. It's set in the author's Sartorias-deles high fantasy setting, in the kingdom of Sarendan about 100 years after Norsunder conquered Sartor.

Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show
Tor (2012) ISBN: 978-0-7653-6566-8
Score: 4

Tenth Kitty Norville novel, in which she goes to London for an international conference on the supernatural and the Long Game gets more public.

Kat Richardson, Seawitch
Roc (2012) ISBN: 978-0-451-46455-2
Score: 3

Seventh Greywalker novel, in which she has to investigate a ship that has mysteriously reappeared with a cop watching her the whole time.

Patricia C. Wrede, The Far West
Scholastic (2012) ISBN: 978-0-545-03344-2
Score: 3

Conclusion of the Frontier Magic trilogy, in which we learn more about the different types of magic and why dangerous magical creatures are showing up more and more often.

N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun
Orbit (2012) ISBN: 978-0-316-18729-9
Score: 3

Second (and maybe last) book of the Dreamblood series, about rebellion and a deadly nightmare ten years after the previous book.

Next Book: Kate Elliott, Traitor's Gate