r/ARCReaders • • Oct 12 '24

Announcement Formatting - Read This Before Posting on This Sub!

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Please read all our rules in the sidebar!! (if you are on mobile app, click read more in the title section of the sub home page)

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r/ARCReaders • • 9d ago

Monthly Megathread Reviewers: Share Your Info Here (Megathread)

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Welcome to r/ARCReader's monthly reviewer intro post. While we do not allow standalone posts from reviewers, you may reply to authors' posts and share your links in the megathread found each month on the 15th

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  • Reviewer Name (blog name/username)
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r/ARCReaders • • 36m ago

Adult - Science Fiction MC-7: Secrets, Sabotage, and Cinnamon Rolls by Caz Lewis - Adult Scifi - Dec 2026

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  • Blurb for the book

Sera is a fearless detective on a neutral space station. She’s also very pregnant, hungry, and absolutely not in the mood to save the station today. So when her captain begs her to visit an odd perp she previously busted, she refuses. That’s why it’s called maternity leave.

Toreena, who has somehow gone from ex-con to the owner of the hottest new bakery on the station, has important information that she will only share with Sera. Not only no, but hell no. That is, until Sera’s captain offers an extra week off and all the cinnamon rolls she can eat. Damn those pregnancy cravings.

While elbows deep in cinnamon bliss, Sera discovers Toreena has stolen a dangerous metallic catalyst, MC-7, capable of destroying the station and rendering worlds uninhabitable. Risking Sera’s own life is an easy decision, but risking her unborn son’s life isn’t. Caught between duty and motherhood, she confiscates the dangerous substance, thrusting herself and her unborn son into the center of a conspiracy. Faced with corruption, a crime syndicate, and a hostile alien race, Sera goes on the offensive, but she won’t do it alone.

Mo is a debt ridden freighter pilot looking for love. Only he doesn’t realize it. His ship’s overzealous AI does. And she will stop at nothing to make sure he’s happy, whether he wants to be or not.

Sedna is a xenobiologist who helps colonists avoid getting eaten by the local fauna on unexplored planets. She’s trying to get over a loss by absolutely not filling a void, that certainly doesn’t exist, by taking on a stray alien as a pet.

Callen is a master pickpocket trying to pay for his daughter’s medical treatments. But when he picks the wrong pocket, he finds himself running from a ruthless crime syndicate and into a gender identity crisis he never expected.

As the tendrils of conspiracy reach a distant planet designated as a wildlife refuge, Sera, Mo, Sedna, and Callen will have to decide whether to risk everything to stop a war.
What to Expect:

  • Character driven space opera with heart, humor, and mystery
  • Action, adventure, slice of life, and found family
  • Romantic subplot
  • Four POV ensemble cast
  • Gender identity exploration
  • Serious stakes balanced with humor, bad decisions, and overenthusiastic robotic ducks

  • TRIGGERS: Gender identity exploration, pregnancy, childbirth, death, violence, profanity, transphobic and offensive language from an antagonist

  • Exact date of publication: December 8, 2026

  • ARCs are being sent out Tuesday, October 27, 2026

  • ARCs should be complete by December 11, 2026

  • Link to ARC Sign up on Booksirens

  • AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work


r/ARCReaders • • 4h ago

Adult - Science Fiction Static Slums R.M. Demeester - Cyberpunk Dystopian - March 2027

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Blurb:

When her parents vanish, Xanthe Static deliberately fails a classification test that determines her future, sending herself into the slums to uncover the truth.

There, she befriends another girl who failed her classification, discovers a mysterious android, and reconnects with a childhood friend, only to realize that in a society divided by technological inequality, some choices can have deadly consequences.

Potential Triggers:

  • Violence and physical assault
  • Kidnapping and abduction
  • Discrimination and systemic oppression
  • Class segregation and poverty
  • Missing family members
  • Threats and psychological distress

Genre: Cyberpunk / Dystopian Thriller

Publication Date: March 17, 2027

ARC Format: Free digital copy

ARC Delivery: Late November / Early December 2026

Review Deadline: March 17, 2027

Availability: International (digital)

AI Disclosure: No AI usage

ARC Signup: https://forms.gle/SsLyRypaTg7gSuuM7


r/ARCReaders • • 5h ago

Children's - Fiction The Iceberg & The Penguin - Anne Spielberg - Children’s Picture Book/Environmental - April 22, 2027

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Title: The Iceberg & The Penguin by Anne Spielberg

Genre: Children’s Picture Book/Environmental

Pub Date: April 22, 2027

Blurb: When a young iceberg breaks away from an Antarctic glacier, the little penguin born on its frozen surface goes along for the ride. Together, they drift toward warmer waters, where the iceberg begins to melt. Can a helping hand bring these two friends home?

Inspired by her trip to Antarctica, The Iceberg & The Penguin is Anne Spielberg's first book. She's the screenwriter of Big and dozens of other scripts for film studios and independent film producers.

This picture book for children ages 4–8 carries a message about friendship, kindness, and caring for our imperiled oceans. Daniel Fiore illustrates the book, which features an introduction by pioneering oceanographer and Mission Blue founder Dr. Sylvia Earle.

Triggers: Climate change and melting ice; a friend in danger; separation and fear of loss. The story has a hopeful, happy ending.

Exact date of publication: Earth Day, April 22, 2027

ARCs will be sent: November 15, 2026

Reading and review deadline: January 15, 2027

How to sign up: Specify "TIATP ARC" by sending a message at https://piercepress.com/contact

Publisher: Pierce Press

Country availability: Available worldwide via online retailers or Bookshop.org

ARC format: Digital PDF

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.


r/ARCReaders • • 12h ago

Adult - Action/Adventure Fallen Dominion: Blood of the Seven Districts by Rust Ink - Martial Arts Wuxia/Gang Warfare - July 2026

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Fallen Dominion: Blood of the Seven Districts Book 1 of the Fallen Dominion trilogy — martial arts wuxia, gang warfare, grounded fist fights

Blurb The city is carved into seven districts. No qi. No chosen one. Just fists, blood, and the brutal math of who's still standing when the districts collide.

Triggers Graphic violence, hand-to-hand combat, dark themes

Publication date July 21, 2026

ARC format EPUB (PDF available on request)

ARC send date Within 24–48 hours of your message

Review deadline No hard deadline — 3–4 weeks is appreciated, and an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads means a lot to an indie author

How to request Message me on Reddit to request a copy.

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9VD1LKD

AI disclosure: please choose

No AI was used in this work

AI was used in cover art

AI assisted text is included in this work

AI was used in writing and cover art


r/ARCReaders • • 16h ago

Adult - Romance - Contemporary Hunter's Moon at Bonfire Bay - Margot Frost - a cozy Halloween second-chance romance - release 10/29/2026

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One night. One fire. One island. And the one she left behind.

Every nineteen years, when the Hunter’s Moon rises full on Halloween, the little Maine harbor town of Bonfire Bay sends two people across the tidal bar to keep a bonfire burning on the island from dusk to dawn.

Nora Beal is home for one week. That’s all. She doesn’t know her mother put her name in the lantern for the watcher's draw.

This year, a six-year-old draws two names: Nora’s, and Jack Libby’s, the high school sweetheart she left the morning after graduation.

Now it’s one night, one tiny hut, and two narrow beds (for now). The bell buoy is ringing in a dead calm, and there are wet boot prints on the granite that don’t belong to either of them.

What you’re getting:
🔥 Second chance + high school sweethearts
🏝️ Forced proximity on a tiny island
👻 A gentle ghost story, cozy and not scary
🍂 Small town, fall feels, a whole town of meddlers
💋 One open-door scene
📖 Novella, about 23,000 words, perfect for one cozy evening
💛 Happy ending
🍸 Bonus cocktail recipe from the local bar

Triggers: Ghosts? Break-up, sexual content: foreplay and then fade-to-black, Character death by accident, described, not on page-IE the ghost

AI disclosure: AI was used in cover art - I SUSPECT. Commissioned, but I have suspicions - just to be transparent.

Releases October 29. Your free ARC in exchange for an honest review on Goodreads before release, and on Amazon on release day or within a week after. Download available now.

👉 Grab your copy: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/k4mrxc4ykd

Book One of The Bonfire Bay Almanac by Margot Frost. Book Two releases in November.


r/ARCReaders • • 1d ago

Adult - Science Fiction The Architect by Z.T.Castor, Hard Science Fiction, Philosophical Thriller Publishing 18th Nov 2026

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  • The Architect - Z.T.Castor - Nov 18 2026
  • Blurb: To escape a dying Earth, an apex engineer turns himself into an immortal chimera and builds a sanctuary ship for 20,000 frozen embryos. But to guarantee their survival, he deliberately selects a crew of brilliant, unattached specialists with nothing left to lose—and strips them of their biological autonomy. Forty light-years from Earth, the crew of The Architect prepares to colonise TRAPPIST-1e. They are armed with an infinite power grid and cellular immortality, but they are trapped under the absolute authority of Edgar Charon—a captain whose neural architecture is heavily integrated with a mission-first AI. As they navigate the violent terminator storms of an alien planet, the crew realises Edgar’s algorithmic logic views their human attachments, grief, and free will as terminal liabilities. When Earth fires a relativistic kinetic weapon to wipe out their colony, the surviving crew must decide whether humanity is even worth saving.
  • TRIGGERS: Contains depictions of atmospheric destruction, medical trauma, and intense psychological friction. No explicit gore.
  • Exact date of publication: Nov 18, 2026
  • The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Immediately
  • The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Nov 18, 2026
  • Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: If you are interested in reading early (Less than a month left!), please fill out this brief Google Form so that I can send you the direct link with epub/pdf.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEKo63YU7wmkzVNGNU8qbV3FOUaI8gMuq_94Dv2pF8XqvbgQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

  • AI disclosure: No AI was used.

r/ARCReaders • • 1d ago

Adult - Thriller THE PERFECT ESCAPE by Netanel Dori - Psychological Mystery / Escape Room Thriller - November 2026

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Nine rooms. One way out. A secret someone would kill to protect.

Daniel Mercer has spent years mastering escape rooms. He knows how to recognize patterns, solve puzzles, and find the way out.

But when he's brought to an isolated house containing nine interconnected rooms, he discovers that this challenge is anything but a game.

Every room hides another piece of a dangerous conspiracy. Every answer raises new questions.

And the people guiding him may be hiding the most important secrets of all.

What if escaping is only the beginning?

Hi everyone! I'm Netanel Dori, an independent thriller author, and I'm looking for ARC readers for my upcoming novel, THE PERFECT ESCAPE.

If you enjoy psychological mysteries, intricate puzzles, escape rooms, conspiracy thrillers, and stories filled with unexpected twists, I'd love to share an advance copy with you!

Book details:

  • Genre: Psychological Mystery / Thriller
  • Length: Approximately 135 manuscript pages
  • Publication date: November 20, 2026
  • ARC delivery: Starting October 30, 2026
  • Suggested reading target: November 19, 2026
  • Optional review date: November 20, 2026 or later
  • Format: Free digital ARC (EPUB)
  • Availability: Worldwide
  • Content warnings: References to death, violence, forced displacement, threats to family members, and psychological distress
  • AI disclosure: AI-assisted text is included in this work.

Sign up for a free advance copy:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUjy6nZDhkzJQftXuoIQo44jG40WVgjssJOpCnfWdxrx7p_w/viewform

Honest feedback is always appreciated, but reviews are entirely optional. There is no obligation to leave a review or provide a positive rating.

Thank you for supporting independent authors. I hope you'll enjoy the journey!


r/ARCReaders • • 1d ago

Adult - Fantasy The Witchglass Covenant by Mordechai Salas - Dark Epic Fantasy - December 12, 2026

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In an empire built on fear, trust is an act of war.

As a child, Vaye watched a crowd of angry villagers drown her mother for sorcery. It was just the latest act of violence against her people, long held responsible for summoning the dark goddess who turned the sky into a weapon. But the villagers were mistaken—it was Vaye, not her mother, who had inherited the deity’s gifts.

Imagine what people will do if they find out she’s trying to dig her buried goddess back up.

When Vaye sneaks into an elite military academy to steal back her heritage, her path tangles with two strangers carrying secrets of their own: an insurgent sent to destroy the empire from within and an exile cast out by her family for her forbidden desires.

A dark epic of stolen magic, the price of power, and ancient forces that are not what they seem.

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Length: 124,337 words / 464 pages
Release date: Dec 12, 2026
Ideally, reviews submitted prior to release, but a little after is fine.

ARCs available immediately via BookSirens, NetGalley, or DM.
Netgalley: https://www.netgalley.com/publisher/title/904604
BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/CGJJ6QZ/GGQ602Z

Triggers

The Witchglass Covenant is an adult dark fantasy. If you prefer to go in without knowing what's coming, skip this warning.

This book contains:

- Graphic violence, including an on-page execution
- Sex between consenting adults, including group scenes
- Body horror
- Drug use
- Attempted sexual assault
- Torture and loss of bodily autonomy
- Religious persecution and genocide
- The death of a major character

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work


r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Contemporary Fiction Sisters by Carolyn Eychenne - contemporary women's lit - release 1 Dec 2026

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I’m looking for ARC readers to review my novel.

My novel Sisters will soon be out, and I’d love for a few people to read it and share their honest thoughts.

I’ll send you a free copy (print, ebook / pdf). In return, I’d be so grateful for a short review on Amazon / Goodreads, even just a few lines.

Interested?
You can sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/977a057ed62b/trcvnz0eb6

Blurb:
Betty is dying.

Her four daughters, four lives intertwined, will face a challenge that seems insurmountable to them: the sickness of their mother.

As each sister copes with their mother’s death in her own way, tensions begin to arise between the four sisters.

How will they manage to handle them? Why have they been avoiding them for so long?

Read Sisters and immerse yourself in a profound story navigating through the complexity of family life.

Triggers: death, parents' death

Exact date of publication: 1 Dec 2026
Date of sending ARCs: as soon as Amazon can get them to you.
Date for ARC team to finish reading and submit reviews: 30 Nov 2026

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.


r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Science Fiction The Whale Tamer by Jyrki Pitkä - space opera - Dec 2026

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  • Blurb for the book.

Humanity destroyed its own sex drive to survive a telepathic alien attack. The Batisseer Inquisition hunts down those in whom the drive still lives.

Vy works at an orbital hotel, far from the domes of Mars. She ends up in bed with an alien. Prrhan Anan, a young Inquisitor with a secret of his own and a very uncomfortable chastity belt, arrives to investigate a possible Carnal Crime.

Vy’s escape takes them both into space, toward a giant that has been calling to her since childhood.

A posthumanist dark comedy about sex, religion, and exploding space whales.

  • TRIGGERS!! 
    • Explicit sexual content (human/alien)
    • Graphic violence
    • Body horror
    • Religious extremism and institutional torture
    • Self-flagellation / self-harm (religious context)
    • Genital injury
    • Asphyxiation
    • Death (including animal/creature death)
  • Exact date of publication:
    • December 1, 2026
  • The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team.
    • November 1, 2026
  • The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by.
    • December 7, 2026
  • Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC.
  • AI disclosure: please choose
    • No AI was used in this work

r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Fantasy Wind Strider by J.P. Higgs - Epic Adventure Fantasy - December 2026

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The bonds of the world are fraying. Every stone, brick, and boulder, even the great mountains
themselves, are crumbling away, and in a few years there will be nothing left but dust.

The Eight Cities, sealed for centuries, are ignorant of the decay that eats away at their vast and
ancient walls. Lyna Veraine, one of the Gifted whose powers sustain their closed society, spends her
days training for a future that may never come, and her nights using her Gift to leap across the
rooftops and gaze out at the mysterious and deadly Wilds. The people of the Cities believe that
there is nothing but death beyond their walls, that they are alone in the world, but they are
wrong.

The nomadic Clans, refugees of a fallen civilization, have forged a secret existence in the Wilds
through their own versions of the Gifted powers. It is those powers that allow Daen, scion of the
Green Walker clan, to sense the creeping decay of the Waning. Tasked with finding the cause,
Daen's path will lead him to the Cities, and to Lyna.

As two societies face the slow death of their world, one blind to the danger, one helpless to prevent
it, two young people must come together to save them both.

Triggers

  • Violence
  • Descriptions of injuries/wounds (limited)
  • Substance abuse (very limited)
  • Human experimentation (limited)
  • Abduction (limited)

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

ARC release date: November 9th 2026

Reviews Date: December 10th 2026

Publication Date: December 15th 2026

To get your ARC copy, follow this link and submit the form.

Thanks!


r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Fantasy The Ghost’s Truth by Casey Macduff - Adult fantasy - December 2026

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The Ghost's Truth is what happens when a cozy swords-and-sorcery Hallmark movie deconstructs into an apocalyptic cosmic horror, and then broadens further into a high fantasy adventure.

The infinite realms of Halbron are Beautiful and Terrible and Strange.

One such realm—a harsh, frozen place by the name of Spiramoote—is facing its doom. Perhaps if there was a hero among its citizens, Spiramoote’s fate could be changed. Instead, its tragic tale is centered around Si’Lanci Gnell, reclusive owner of the local soup shop with an infamous reputation. Deemed ‘too soft for Halbron’, Lanci is a simple mortal woman who has never held a weapon and faints at the sight of blood. Content with her life of solitude in the mountains, she dreams not of romance or glory, but of soup and her beloved pet geese.

But when Lanci’s brother is struck by a lust to explore Halbron’s faraway realms, trouble comes to their boring little home. Desperate to restore peace to her fractured family, Lanci forms an unlikely alliance with Vamiro Kunhema, Spiramoote’s newly appointed magical protector who can’t stand pain, cold weather, or being sober. Together, Lanci and Vam must overcome the trials of a drunken ghost, a portal door that never opens to the same place twice, and, worst of all, their own crippling insecurities.

All the while, the doom of Spiramoote watches and waits. Taulslocke the Bonebark Devourer, a tree demon with an appetite for human flesh and bone, ravages the realm in the course of a single night. In his wake, he leaves a Last Survivor and an walk into his mouth, or live in despair under his rapidly growing shadow.

• ⁠TRIGGERS: violence, death, language, sex (not smut but not closed door either)
• ⁠Exact date of publication: December 21st, 2026
• ⁠ARC period underway; ARC copies available on request
⁠• ⁠Please submit reviews by December 15th if possible
⁠• ⁠ARC copies available via BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/KAGI38M/AGX0IVO
• ⁠AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work


r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Science Fiction Red Demon (Audiobook) by Sill Bihagia - Adult Science Fantasy - Nov 20, 2026

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Blurb:

The lone survivor of a massacre. The genetically enhanced immortal who spared only him. 

On an isolated planet where unity is as engineered as its people, two human lines nearly drove each other to extinction rather than acknowledge their shared humanity. The empire that maintained peace for the last century cannot afford to show the cracks in its control. But when Jesse's mining town is slaughtered under mysterious circumstances, it's clear ancient bigotries linger, and rebels now have access to magic or tech capable of wide-scale genocide. But Jesse only sees the Red Demon fleeing the scene of the crime, a bio-engineered immortal who should protect the empire instead of killing her own kin. Lost and alone, Jesse sets out on a path for justice that will bring him face to face with both his misconceptions—and new enemies. 

Faruhar, the so-called Red Demon, is not the mastermind Jesse expects. Guilt ravages her fragmented mind over crimes she cannot remember committing, and a code impressed on her by a few kind people she cannot forget. And when she and Jesse face off, hatred quickly turns to hesitation, as they together uncover a mystery that might unravel their world’s fragile peace.

A twisty science fantasy with tense fight scenes and a spicy romantic subplot.

Triggers:  Depictions of death (including children), graphic violence, one chapter of graphic gore, bioengineered animal death (they aren’t cute), profanity, graphic sexual content (M/F), off-page rape references, threats of sexual violence, and inappropriate physical contact.  

Publication Date: 11/20/26. Note that print was released in 2025 and only the audio production is releasing at that date, but I'm happy to share ebooks if folks prefer.

Delivery: ongoing, immediately after approval on netgalley (audio only) or the google form (any format, delivery through bookfunnel)

Date Reviews Due: Immediately on Netgalley, within 48 hours on the form. A Review is a review! While release date is helpful, I'm happy to approve anyone who intends to leave an honest review. ESPECIALLY looking to approve those of you who post about books here on Reddit. While I'm getting mentions on IG and Threads I don't see many here yet.

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Audiobooks on Netgalley - also includes links to booktrailers and things.
Request any format (Ebook or Audio via Bookfunnel, a few scratch and dent physicals availalble in the US) .

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r/ARCReaders • • 2d ago

Adult - Fantasy Forbidden Glass by Jay D. Anderson - Cozy Fantasy - Dec. 8th, 2026

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Hi all — I'm Jay, indie author. Looking for ARC readers for my cozy fantasy, out December 8.

Goblin glass never lies. Neither can the elf learning to make it.

Cael came to Korrvik with a mission, a hood, and a country that no longer exists. The elvish halls sent him to learn how the goblin glassmakers of Drovnik put a maker's true intention into glass, the craft that keeps an empire safe and that no elf is allowed to touch. By the time word reached him that his people had come apart, he was already behind a shop counter on Nettleway, wrapping decanters and keeping his ears covered.

Then Kazmir, the shop's master gaffer, nearly dies at the furnace, and Cael catches him without thinking. The glass rings. Cael has just done the one thing he was sent to steal and was never supposed to be able to do. Kazmir saw all of it. Instead of turning him in, he hands him a pipe.

Now Cael has a craft to learn, a retired orc patrolman who treats honesty as a courtesy, a delivery boy who is always right a little before anyone else, a salamander living in the furnace who is technically just a nuisance, and an apothecary down the street named Rinn, who keeps her notes in neat columns and whose compounds only hold in Kazmir's glass. For the first time since he left home, there is something he wants to keep.

But an elf teaching in a goblin shop is a crime for both of them, and someone from his old life has come looking. Sooner or later, Cael will have to decide what he owes the people who sent him, and what he owes the ones who took him in.

Forbidden Glass is a slow-burn cozy fantasy about found family, honest work, and the cost of telling the truth to people who have given you everything. Book one of The True Glass.

Triggers: None

Publication date: December 8, 2026
ARCs sent: November 1, 2026
Reviews due by: December 15, 2026

ARCs go out November 1 — sign up here: https://thetrueglass.com/arc/

AI disclosure: The writing is AI-assisted with heavy human editing; the cover's background image was AI-created, with human editing adding all other visual elements including text. Cover art: Jay D. Anderson.


r/ARCReaders • • 3d ago

YA - Religious Roots & Mirrors: The Outlaws by Elias Phillips - Christian Teen Devotional - November 2026

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Hi everyone! I’m Eli Phillips. My passion is working with our youth (specifically middle schoolers!), helping them wrestle honestly with their faith, and of course, I love writing! This whole asking people to read something I’ve written is the part I’m still getting used to!

I’m looking for advance readers for The Outlaws, Book 3 in my Roots & Mirrors devotional series for ages 11–17. I'm not looking for anyone to read all 48 devotionals! I'd be happy with 5, so that way you can share which ones hit and which ones didn't. Considering each chapter is about a 5 minute read, I'm asking for less than 30 minutes!

About the book

How do you keep your faith when you are under pressure? Speaking up will cost you something. And if your faith isn't your own, stored up within, what comes out when you are under pressure might not be the 'you' you are proud of.

The Outlaws follows the book of Acts through 48 devotional chapters. Each pairs a biblical account with a real modern story, exploring courage, failure, forgiveness, belonging, and faith under pressure.

Every chapter includes a biblical Root, a modern Mirror, The Parallel Unpacked, and a Your Move section with one concrete action for today. My hope is to help teens see the people in Scripture as people facing difficult choices and think honestly about their own.

I’d love to hear from readers of Christian nonfiction, parents, youth leaders, and anyone who cares about helping teens engage with Scripture.

Triggers/content notes: Religious persecution, imprisonment, physical violence, execution and martyrdom, terrorism/bombings, death and grief, wrongful conviction, slavery, and human trafficking.

(Aspiring) Publication date: November 17, 2026.

ARC delivery: Access is available immediately after signup, in PDF and online reading formats.

Reading/review target: November 24, 2026. Reviews are voluntary; this is the date I’m hoping for if you choose to leave one.

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Availability: Worldwide.

AI disclosure: AI contributed to research. It was not used to write the book’s text or create the cover art.

Thank you for giving the book, and the heart behind it, a look.

Elias Phillips


r/ARCReaders • • 3d ago

Adult - Romance - Fantasy Eternity Euphoric by Ariana Irendale - Dark Portal Romantasy - Releases Nov 19th, 2026

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  • Blurb:

Death becomes her and revenge never looked so good on a monster.

Fiz finally knows why the Chaos God insisted she was mortal…and why she has a habit of 'accidentally' killing anyone who steps in her way. She isn’t a demigod. She’s a monster, the likes of which the sacred halls of Order Academy have never seen. A creature that thrives where death walks.

She was designed for revenge.

Driven by a dark urge and learning to navigate the new bodies at her disposal, Fiz must decide whether to reveal the true horror of what she is to the Kings of the Academy, or if it’s safer to hide behind other people’s eyes. But walking in their footsteps makes her finally see the real problem at the school: the men and the list they put themselves on.

The best part about being dead? No one sees her coming.

Eternity Euphoric is Book 4 in the Chaos God Apophis series and cannot be read as a standalone. It is a revenge-fueled expression of feminine rage set in a portal romantasy world, diving deep into what romance becomes when you realize you were the monster all along.

Because this is not a standalone, books 1-3 will be free briefly on amazon on Nov 3rd and 4th and can currently be read in KU.

  • TRIGGERS!! Suicide attempt (no suicidal ideation), SA leading to murder, non-vegan food, institutionalized homophobia, institutionalized transphobia, institutionalized racism, monster torture, sex trafficking, mass murder, unrepentant evil women, magical intoxicants.
  • The cover👍
  • Exact date of publication: November 19, 2026
  • The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: November 4th & 5th.
  • The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Nov 19th is preferred, but with all my arcs this is my policy:  Advanced reader copies are provided for free and without obligation. Leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads is completely voluntary and greatly appreciated, but never required.
  • Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Google form signup! https://forms.gle/fQKycyrafxCB2VVR8
  • Publishers: ARC is epub and will be delivered via bookfunnel. Book will launch on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.
  • AI disclosure:
    • No AI was used in this work - see my website for my strict no AI policy. Every word written in my books are written by me. Cover art is by Rydia Mun and a video of her chaotic process can be seen on my tiktok.

r/ARCReaders • • 3d ago

Adult - Contemporary Fiction Goalie Saves His Marriage by Mara J. Ova - Spicy Marriage in Crisis / Football Romance - November 2026 NSFW

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Blurb:

World Cup hero Gianluigi Romano can save any penalty, but when his doctor wife walks out after years of broken promises, he'll have to prove he can be the husband she deserves without asking her to sacrifice her dreams.

Expect marriage in crisis, a strong career-driven heroine, two daughters, plenty of longing, a husband determined to earn back his wife, and high-heat second-chance romance. No cheating.

Triggers: Marital conflict (no violence), separation, explicit sexual content.

Publication date: November 10, 2026

ARC distribution date: after you sign up, I manually review the application and send you the copy (the next day at the latest)

Review deadline: November 10, 2026

Length: 165 pages

Format: ePub / PDF

Availability: International

Preferred review platform: Amazon (other platforms welcome)

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AI disclosure: AI was used in the process of writing and editing and creating the book cover


r/ARCReaders • • 4d ago

Adult - Horror Adopted by Paul G. Zareith - Cozy Horror - December 2026

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  • Blurb for the book.

At the Marigold House orphanage, Kavya had learned what rejection looked like: couples who smiled, promised to call, and never did. So when the Hans finally said yes, she let herself feel something she had long avoided: hope.

The Hans seemed gentle, even kind. But their house came with rules, and the rules grew stranger with time. For one, the kimchi was not optional.

The lavish mansion that was meant to shelter her began, slowly, to feel like a prison. Its silences felt deliberate. The smiles always arrived a moment too late, and dreams carried memories that weren’t hers.

Beneath the house lay a basement she had never been told about, yet somehow knew. Its shelves were heavy with occult manuals, and its floor was thick with dust. One book lay overturned there, and on its page, in faded ink and old Hanja, someone had left a warning:

Beware the house that keeps its mourning by lamplight, for its grief is a window, and every window looks both ways. Where fear is left to fester, the veil frays like old silk, and what waits behind it will find its way through: the Eodukshini.

  • TRIGGERS: None
  • Exact date of publication: Dec 1, 2026
  • The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Available now
  • The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Ideally 10th Dec, but no worries if life gets in way
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  • AI disclosure:
    • No AI was used in this work

r/ARCReaders • • 4d ago

NA - Romance - Fantasy TWILIGHT'S EDGE by Ithel Lovik - NA Dark Romantic Fantasy - November 2026

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  • BLURB: Dragged into the realm of the fae by a monster that stole her brother and her real name, Alys finds herself in the company of a mysterious stranger who takes the form of both a raven and a male faerie by the name of Luthias, who has a binding that restricts his ability to share his past and use the full extent of his magic. As for the monster, it is rumored to dwell in the heart of an enigmatic force slowly spreading across the land, known as the Quiet. Luthias offers her a deal: he will help her slay the beast and regain her identity, if she helps him in return — but before she can do that, she is tasked with carving herself out a place in a realm to which she does not belong, with no way through other than staining her hands with blood.
  • TRIGGERS: Blood and gore, graphic violence, acts of self-injury, body horror, forced drugging, mind control, physical assault, attempted suicide, sibling death/loss, harm to animals, implied sexual activity, complex PTSD, survivor's guilt, allusions to SA.
  • PUBLICATION DATE: ~November 20th, 2026
  • ARC DELIVERY DATE: Immediately upon approval.
  • EXPECTED REVIEW DATE: On or around the publication date.
  • SIGNUP FORM: Here
  • AI DISCLOSURE: No AI was used in this work

r/ARCReaders • • 4d ago

Adult - Science Fiction Not Hollow - Shaun Strydom - Sci-fi - 29 October 2026

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Two astronauts. One small robot. A mystery that spans centuries.

Blurb:
IT’S 1989: Two astronauts become the first humans to walk on the moon.

Then the world goes silent. Commander Finn Strause and Laura Fraser were meant to plant a flag and come home heroes. Instead, they find something waiting in the dust, something that shouldn’t exist, and the journey home becomes a journey they were never prepared for.

Something is coming for everyone. Not a war. Not a weapon. An ending. And an unlikely crew is tasked with stopping it, helped by a robot named Lumo, who holds answers they can’t yet fathom.

From a quiet base in the Karoo to the surface of Mars, from forgotten corners of history to the edge of everything, Not Hollow is a story about the people we lose, the people we find again, and a question older than the stars: Is it hollow?

TRIGGERS: Grief and loss of family, violence, isolation and mental health themes, character deaths.

Exact date of publication: 29 October 2026

ARCs are available now:

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Reviews by: 29 Oct 2026, but within 30 days of release is fine.

Publisher: Wordhaven Press WordhavenPress

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Book is for readers who like:
- Space exploration
- A robot companion
- Alternate History
- A Mystery across centuries
- An answer to a question older than the stars.

Similar books:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Also for fans of the TV series For All Mankind.


r/ARCReaders • • 4d ago

YA - Science Fiction Renderville by Daniel Goldhorn - YA Sci-Fi Social Drama - December 2026

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  • Blurb:

Cal was never meant to be famous.

He was created to be a gag character for his movie and then move on. He was supposed to find work elsewhere in Renderville, the grand digital world that characters like him called home. After his online popularity explodes though, Cal has to navigate the celebrity thrust upon him. Co-stars are growing jealous. Dark secrets lurk beneath the server's facade. And he also must navigate his family life, which is easy since they were literally made to be together.

Right?

  • TRIGGERS: Mild language, nothing above a PG-13 level. Moderate drama. No other triggers.
  • Exact date of publication: December 5, 2026
  • The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Immediately!
  • The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: December 5, 2026.
  • Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Email me at [DanielGoldhornTheGoat@gmail.com](mailto:DanielGoldhornTheGoat@gmail.com) and I can get you all set up!
  • AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

r/ARCReaders • • 5d ago

NA - Romance - Contemporary HE’S CERTIFIED by Mimi Ogodi - New Adult College Romance - Nov 26th, 2026

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TO SAVE HER REPUTATION, SHE HIRES A CERTIFIED LOVE DOCTOR. BUT REAL FEELINGS ARE FAR MORE TOXIC THAN THE LIE.

Twenty-year-old Angelique Davis has always lived in a charmed bubble. Until her perfect boyfriend bursts it with a brutal campus scandal. Left in the social gutter and desperate to reclaim her status, she needs a miracle to win her ex back.

Cue Maxwell Rogov. He monetized his demons, transforming past trauma into hard cash. Rumor has it he’s a certified fake boyfriend who mends broken relationships using unconventional methods far more toxic than Cupid intended. For the right price, desired results are guaranteed.

With Angelique’s deep pockets and Maxwell’s fake-dating artillery, they are two wrongs making a spectacular right. But the line blurs when genuine feelings leak into their perfectly curated plan. When a sudden act of sabotage shatters their fragile trust, Angelique gets exactly what she wanted—her ex back. But it costs her the only real connection she’s ever had. Trapped in a life with the wrong guy, she must decide if saving her status is worth losing her real future with Maxwell.

Triggers:

  • Off-page child abuse
  • Explicit language
  • Mild violence

Publication date: November 26, 2026

ARC Delivery Date: Oct 20, 2026

Finish Reading/Submit Review (on Amazon) by: Nov 26, 2026 (if unable to, 1 week grace period after release)

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Ai disclosure:

  • No Ai was used in this work

r/ARCReaders • • 5d ago

YA - Romance - Science Fiction A Night’s Severity - Margaret Kayde - YA/NA Sci-fi Romance - November 2026

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Blurb:
In the riverside metropolis of DeCoa, South Dakota—two centuries after a catastrophic Quake reshaped the nation—powerful criminal rings battle for control of serums, ranging from cosmetic enhancements to lethal weapons. On the city’s neglected North Side, siblings Vieve and Vail Durant survive by their wits, relying on scams, theft, and each other.

After one mistake too many, they’re given an ultimatum by a serum regulator from the capital in Oklahoma City: juvie, or go undercover for the very system they distrust. Together, they are tasked with infiltrating DeCoa’s elite Lordsdale Prep and uncovering the mayor's serum production secrets through his daughter.

Immersed in a school supposedly filled with the polished and proper youth of DeCoa, the sibling duo quickly discovers that their peers have alliances slithering around in even the most unsuspected corners of the city. Vail is forced to confront a destructive past he can’t escape, while Vieve struggles to maintain their cover—and control her erratic behavior. As priorities shift and familial loyalties fracture, the siblings realize they’re not just playing a game—they’re trapped in one, manipulated by preternatural forces created by the very serum once known only for destruction.

Triggers:
Violence, profanity.

Publication Date:
November 16th, 2026.

Expected ARC Team Completion Date:
November 14th, 2026.

Date That First Round of ARCs Will Be Sent:
October 22rd, 2026. (Will be as needed afterwards)

Available in all countries!

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AI Disclosure:
No Ai was used in this work!!!