This week's post is:
Top 10 Most Anticipated For the Rest of 2015
In no particular order...
Here are some releases that come out in the next half of the year that I cannot wait for! (July 2015- November 2015) :) Goodreads Blurbs below
if you want to know more about these books!
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Expected publication:
October 20th 2015
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.
This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
The
year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet
that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the
universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With
enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even
talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating
fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
But their problems
are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is
mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be
protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will
say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to
find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to
light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.
Told
through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails,
schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae
is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives
interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
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Dreamstrider - Lindsay Smith
Expected publication:
October 6th 2015
by Roaring Brook Press
A high-concept, fantastical espionage novel set in a world where dreams are the ultimate form of political intelligence.
Livia
is a dreamstrider. She can inhabit a subject's body while they are
sleeping and, for a short time, move around in their skin. She uses her
talent to work as a spy for the Barstadt Empire. But her partner,
Brandt, has lately become distant, and when Marez comes to join their
team from a neighborhing kingdom, he offers Livia the option of a life
she had never dared to imagine. Livia knows of no other dreamstriders
who have survived the pull of Nightmare. So only she understands the
stakes when a plot against the Empire emerges that threatens to consume
both the dreaming world and the waking one with misery and rage.
A
richly conceived world full of political intrigue and fantastical dream
sequences, at its heart Dreamstrider is about a girl who is struggling
to live up to the potential before her.
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Hunter (Hunter, #1) - Mercedes Lackey
Expected publication:
September 1st 2015
by Disney-Hyperion
Centuries ago, the
barriers between our world and the Otherworld were slashed open allowing
hideous fantastical monsters to wreak havoc; destroying entire cities
in their wake. Now, people must live in enclosed communities, behind
walls that keep them safe from the evil creatures constantly trying to
break in. Only the corps of teen Hunters with lightning reflexes and
magical abilities can protect the populace from the daily attacks.
Joyeaux
Charmand is a mountain girl from a close knit village who comes to the
big city to join the Hunters. Joy thinks she is only there to perform
her civic duty and protect the capitol Cits, or civilians, but as
cameras follow her every move, she soon learns that the more successful
she is in her hunts, the more famous she becomes.
With millions
of fans watching her on reality TV, Joy begins to realize that Apex is
not all it seems. She is forced to question everything she grew up
believing about the legendary Hunters and the very world she lives in.
Soon she finds that her fame may be part of a deep conspiracy that
threatens to upend the protective structure built to keep dark magic
out. The monsters are getting in and it is up to Joy to find out why.
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A Thousand Nights - E. K. Johnston
Expected publication:
October 6th 2015
by Disney Hyperion
Lo-Melkhiin killed
three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife.
When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived.
She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will
not let her be next.
And so she is taken in her sister's place,
and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a
dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with
wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments.
She sees everything as if for the last time.But the first sun rises and
sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her
and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by
the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear
that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a
cruel ruler. Something went wrong.
Far away, in their village,
her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert
winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death
stirs the air.
Back at the palace, the words she speaks to
Lo-Melkhiin every night are given a strange life of their own. Little
things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each
tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more
terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to
the rule of a monster.
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Con Academy - Joe Schreiber
Expected publication:
August 4th 2015
by HMH Books for Young Readers
It's his senior year and
Will Shea has conned his way into one of the country's most elite prep
schools. But he soon runs into Andrea, a fellow con-artist. With the
school not big enough for the both of them, they make a bet that whoever
can con Brandt Rush, the richest, most privileged student in the school
out of $50K, gets to stay at the school. Will starts setting up his con
(an online poker scam) with his uncle who's one of the best grifters in
the business, but also with the unwanted help of his father.. The plot
thickens as Will starts falling for fellow student Gatsby, and some of
Will's lies start to catch up with him. In this twisty tale of scams,
secrets, lies and deception, it hard to figure out who's conning who!
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The Body Institute - Carol Riggs
Expected publication:
September 1st 2015
by Entangled: Teen
Meet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute.
Thanks
to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another
girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving
her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. Only there are a few
catches…
For one, Morgan won’t remember what happens in her
“Loaner” body. Once she’s done, she won’t recall walks with her new
friend Matt, conversations with the super-cute Reducer she’s been
text-flirting with, or the uneasy feeling she has that the director of
The Body Institute is hiding something. Still, it’s all worth it in the
name of science. Until the glitches start…
Suddenly, residual
memories from her Loaner are cropping up in Morgan’s mind. She’s feeling
less like herself and more like someone else. And when protests from an
anti–Body Institute organization threaten her safety, she’ll have to
decide if being a Reducer is worth the cost of her body and soul…
Are we our minds...or our bodies?
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Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1) - Kate Elliott
Expected publication:
August 18th 2015
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
In this imaginative
escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate
Elliott begins a new trilogy with her debut young adult novel, weaving
an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society
suffocated by rules of class and privilege.
Jessamy's life is a
balance between acting like an upper class Patron and dreaming of the
freedom of the Commoners. But at night she can be whomever she wants
when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multi-level
athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom's
best competitors. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship
between a girl of mixed race and a Patron boy causes heads to turn. When
a scheming lord tears Jes's family apart, she'll have to test Kal's
loyalty and risk the vengeance of a powerful clan to save her mother and
sisters from certain death.
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Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1) -Eleanor Herman
Expected publication:
August 25th 2015
by Harlequin Teen
Imagine a time when the
gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions
roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when
cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise.
Alexander,
Macedonia’s sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his
fated role in conquering the known world but finds himself drawn to
newcomer Katerina, who must navigate the dark secrets of court life
while hiding her own mission: kill the Queen. But Kat’s first love,
Jacob, will go to unthinkable lengths to win her, even if it means
competing for her heart with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the
prince. And far across the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and
Alexander’s unmet fiancée, wants to alter her destiny by seeking the
famed and deadly Spirit Eaters.
Weaving fantasy with the
salacious and fascinating details of real history, New York Times
bestselling author Eleanor Herman reimagines the greatest emperor the
world has ever known: Alexander the Great, in the first book of the
Blood of Gods and Royals series.
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Stand-Off (Winger, #2) - Andrew Smith
Expected publication:
September 8th 2015
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Stand-Off will focus on Ryan Dean's senior year, in which he becomes captain of the rugby team.
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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4) - Marissa Meyer
Expected publication:
November 10th 2015
by Feiwel and Friends
Princess Winter is
admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the
scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking
than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her
stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her
childhood friend–the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as
weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her
stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic,
Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a
revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?
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What Are Your Picks?
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