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Most Anticipated Released of the Second Half of 2016

Top 10 Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

It’s scary to think that we are nearly halfway through 2016 already. Wasn’t it just the new year a couple of weeks ago? But nevertheless, here we are, which means we need to start looking at all of the exciting books that are going to be coming out in the second half of the year!

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling (July 31)

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.

I grew up with Harry Potter, and I’m beyond excited for another book to come out. I’ve had this pre-ordered for ages now, and it’s just a matter of counting down the days until it finally arrives in the mail.

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Heartless by Marissa Meyer (November 8th)

Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the yet-unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend and supply the Kingdom of Hearts with delectable pastries and confections. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next Queen.

At a royal ball where Cath is expected to receive the king’s marriage proposal, she meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the King and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship.

Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.

I’ve loving the Lunar Chronicles so far (just one book left!), and so I would have picked up this book based just on the fact that it was from Marissa Meyer. But it’s also set in Wonderland and sounds fascinating, and I’m really looking forward to this one!

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This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (July 5th)

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

I’ve actually never read a Victoria Schwab book, but this one really caught my attention, both because the cover is fantastic, and because the synopsis just sounds amazing. I may just have to make this one my first of Schwab’s books.

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Frost Like Night by Sara Raasch (September 20th)

Angra is alive, his Decay is spreading—and no one is safe.

Meira will do anything to save her world. With Angra trying to break through her mental defenses, she desperately needs to learn to control her own magic—so when the leader of a mysterious Order from Paisly offers to teach her, she jumps at the chance. But the true solution to stopping the Decay lies in a labyrinth deep beneath the Season Kingdoms. To defeat Angra, Meira will have to enter the labyrinth, destroy the very magic she’s learning to control—and make the biggest sacrifice of all.

Mather will do anything to save his queen. He needs to rally the Children of the Thaw, find Meira—and finally tell her how he really feels. But with a plan of attack that leaves no kingdom unscathed and a major betrayal within their ranks, winning the war—and protecting Meira—slips farther and farther out of reach.

Ceridwen will do anything to save her people. Angra had her brother killed, stole her kingdom, and made her a prisoner. But when she’s freed by an unexpected ally who reveals a shocking truth behind Summer’s slave trade, Ceridwen must take action to save her true love and her kingdom, even if it costs her what little she has left.

As Angra unleashes the Decay on the world, Meira, Mather, and Ceridwen must bring the kingdoms of Primoria together…or lose everything.

I still haven’t gotten around to the second book in this series, but I absolutely adored the first, so I’m going to include this one on this list. Meira is such a great character, and I can’t wait to see what sort of shenanigans she gets up to in this one.

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Replica by Lauren Oliver (October 4th)

Gemma has been in and out of hospitals since she was born. ‘A sickly child’, her lonely life to date has revolved around her home, school and one best friend, Alice. But when she discovers her father’s connection to the top secret Haven research facility, currently hitting the headlines and under siege by religious fanatics, Gemma decides to leave the sanctuary she’s always known to find the institute and determine what is going on there and why her father’s name seems inextricably linked to it.

Amidst the frenzy outside the institute’s walls, Lyra – or number 24 as she is known as at Haven – and a fellow experimental subject known only as 72, manage to escape. Encountering a world they never knew existed outside the walls of their secluded upbringing , they meet Gemma and, as they try to understand Haven’s purpose together, they uncover some earth-shattering secrets that will change the lives of both girls forever…

There has been a fair bit of buzz about this book, and I’m so incredibly intrigued by this one. Supposedly, you can read each story separately, flipping the book to choose a story, and the two work together to create the whole thing. Which just sounds amazing, if you ask me. Add that to the fascinating synopsis, and you can count me in.

What books are you most looking forward to later this year?

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20 thoughts on “Most Anticipated Released of the Second Half of 2016

  1. Replica sounds really cool. I read ‘How to be both’ by Ali Smith which had two ways to read it and I loved seeing how that changed people’s perspective on the story depending on which part they read first!

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