So thanks to Reading Books Like a Boss and Good Reads I've come up with a list of interesting books coming out this summer that I thought I'd be interested in that I would share.
A lot of booktubers are doing similar videos, but of course, not all of our interests are going to be the same. So it'll be interesting to see how my list differs from theirs.
So I say "summer", summer technically stars June 24th and ends in September, and here in my home town, that's July-September and part of October. But with the general consensus that "summer" is June-August, I'll do releases based on those months.
So let's get started.
June Releases
Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser
This book was published June 6th 2017, by Bloomsbury Childrens Books. 373 pages.
Carline Oresteia is destined for the river. For generations her family has been called by the river god. Guiding their wherries on countless voyages throughout Riverlands, but at seventeen the river god has yet to speak to Caro, despite her listinging to the water for years, ready to meet her fate. But when Caro takes her future into her own hands when her father is arrested for refusing to transport a mysterious crate, Caro agrees to deliver it in exchange for his release. Caro find herself caught in politics and lies, with dangerous pirates after the cargo and no river god to help her, with so much at stake Caro must choose between the life she always wanted and one she never could have imagined for herself.
Cover love! And physically owned. Admittedly is sounds a little like Moana....not going to lie...
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
This book was published June 13th, 2017 by Scribner and has 336 pages
This book follows Lydia Smith, a clerk and the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the Bookfrogs, the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when a young beguiling Bookfrog named Joey McGinty kills himself in the bookstore's back room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Being his favorite bookseller, Lydia is bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. As Lydia flips though his books she find them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning, and they seem to contain hidden messages. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
I'm all for reading a book about books in a bookstore. My mom manages a Curiculum Resource Center (i.e. a small library) and I worked there for about two years in college, as well as the university's library, so yeah I have a little thing for books. Mysteries/thrillers are always a fun to add in the To-Be-Read (TBR) pile.
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
This book was published June 13th, 2017 by Grweenwillows Books and has 510 pages.
This is the second in the Monster's of Verity duology, and one of the sequals I was talking about.
The first book being This Savage Song. So to not spoil you, I'll tell you about This Savage Song.
In a world where violence breeds monsters, Kate Harker and August Flynn are heirs to a divided city. Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam the city and makes humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good hearted as his 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. August jumps at the chance to keep an eye on Kate who's just come home after being kicked out of her sixth boarding school. But Kate discovers his secret and after a failed assassination attempt, the pair must flee for their lives.
I finally physically own this (I say finally because I had to wait for it to release...then get here) but physically owned....and despite my bitching about it not getting here sooner I probably wont read it until closer to fall.
The Suffering Tree by Elle Cosimano
This was also published June 13th 2017, by Disney Hyperion. 368 pages
Tori Burns and her family have left D.C. to move to Chaptico, Maryland, after inheriting a house under mysterious circumstances. It seems as though this doesn't put her in good favor with the town, especially Jesse Slaughters and his family, as the land the house sits on is their generations old land that the Burns ahve "stolen". But none of that matters when Tory witnesses a young man claw his way out of a grave in her new backyard.
Nathanial Bishop may not understand what brought him back but it's clear that he hates the Slaughters for what they did to him centuries ago. Wary yet drawn to him Tori gives him shelter. But in his arrival comes a string of troubling events, including the disappearance of Jesse Slaughter's cousin, that seems to point back to Nathaniel. Tori digs for the truth, and uncovers tangled branches of the Slaughter family tree, and the true nature of her inheritance. Tori must unravel the Slaughter's oldest and most guarded secrets, but the Slaughters want to keep them buried at any cost.
Cover love, and zombies? this book sounds like a good thriller for fall.
July Releases
Nostalgic Rain: Galaxies Away By A.S. Altabtabai
This book is expected to be published July 1st, 2017. 324 Pages
Seventeen-year old Leland lost his father when he was seven. He has successfully adapted to the awful life of being a students, the man of the house and a father figure to his two younger siblings. All of that changes when he and his best friends stumble upon a secret in his deserted basement and fall into another dimension with three moons, foggy woods, and an ancient castle- Oremanta. Leland finds he's learning who he is, how he got to this planet and the ugly mystery behind Orenmanta. But the quest he finds himself obligated to do is challenging to complete- to kill someone he never thought he'd meet in Oremanta to save everyone.
Cover love, and what an interesting concept for a book, reminds my of Jumangi in a way.
August Releases
The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
So this one was confusing, I guess it was originally published in 2010 but now it's being republished... for this hard cover edition it's being published August 2nd 2017 by Thorndike Press Large Print.
A men fell from the sky, and survived. Three men saw this, in three different ways and at different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the 1700's, a bridge worker in the 1930's and an expariate banker returning home in the early twenty first centry: all three are transformed by this one magical event. All three struggling to find what the meaning of "home" is, and how to recognize it once you're there.
Cover love first off, otherwise how trippy is this synopsis?
Wicked Like Wildfire by Lana Popovic'
This is expected to be published August 15th 2017, by Katherine Tegen Books. Its 416 pages.
All the women in Iris and Malina's family have unique magical ability or "gleam." Iris sees flowers as fractals and turns her kaleidoscope visions into glass work, while Malina interprets moods as music. But their mother has strict rules to keep their gifts a secret, even if they do live in a secluded sea-side town. They are not to share their magic with anyone, nor are they allowed to fall in love. But when their mother is attacked, the sisters will have to find the truth behind their quiet lives their mother has built for them. They will find a wicked curse that haunts their family line, but will their magic that bonds them together tear them apart forever?
Cover love (told you, I judge a book by it's cover) this sounds fun and interesting and fully of imagery.
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Expected Publication August 29th 2017, 368 pages.
This is the start of a series called DC Icons. A series of four YA novels, centered around teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Batman (by Marie Lu), Superman (by Matt de la Pena) and Catwoman (by Sarah J. Mass)
Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters, but when opportunity finally comes she throws away her chance of glory and breaks Amazon law, by saving a mortal. Risking exile Diana may have doomed the world. All Alia wanted to do was escape her over protective brother with a semester at sea. She didn't know she was being hunted, she didn't know there was a bomb aboard the ship. Rescued by mysterious girl with extraordinary strength, Alia is forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer- a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
Together Diana and Alia will face and army of enemies: mortal and divine, determined to destroy or possess the Warbinger. If they hope to save both their world they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.
Have yet to see the movie, it's on my to do list. I've heard good thing about Leagh Bardugo's writing, also on my to do list is to read her books. The fact the so much of DC is being re-imagined in new ways is exciting, I loved DC Comics: Bombshells, so to see the origin story be altered quite a bit but still have a similar premise is going to be fun.
Alright I think that's it for the summer releases. Is there one in this list that you're also excited for? is there one I didn't list that you think I should look into? Let me know!
Until next time!
Litta
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