top ten tuesday: 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish, where each week we have a different theme for a part of the bookish lifestyle. This week's theme is "June 9: Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For the Rest of 2015." I did an enormous (read: 40+ books) post at the beginning of the year highlighting all the books I was anticipating over 2015. However, there have been additions and changes and, most importantly, cover reveals (!!) since then, so I am excited to make this list!

1. Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) – Sarah J Maas: Release Date: September 8. If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time, chances are you've seen my undying love for this series. It is high fantasy and absolutely insanely good. It has all the elements that you're looking for in a fantasy series (with an eventual six books!), but also tons of surprises thrown in. There are badass assassins, gorgeous soldiers, elves, princes, loyal friendships, bloodthirsty witches, magic, a cute pup and a fate of a world in the balance. Basically, I need this book in my hands IMMEDIATELY. Definitely my most anticipated of the rest of the year.

2. Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) – Marissa Meyer: Release Date: November 10. Another series that I have come to know well and adore over the last couple of years. Though it isn't high fantasy like Throne of Glass, it is a series of sci/fi fairy tale retellings that introduce new characters and plot lines in every book, but everything intertwined delightfully. This is the conclusion to this series, and though I will be sad for it to end, I also cannot wait to get my hands on this book.

3. Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird #2) – Claudia Gray: Release Date: November 3. I read the first installment in this relatively new series earlier this year, and I instantly fell in love with the characters and the world. I can't wait to see where Gray takes her unique multiverse world in the next book, and I absolutely have to see what happens with my ship, which is probably one of the most romantic ships ever to set sail, if I do say so myself. I have a feeling there will be angst, but hopefully I am prepared.

 4. Armada – Ernest Cline: Release Date: July 14. Cline's previous book, Ready Player One, is one of my most favorite books of all time. He has a gift for creating a world that is so lifelike in its grotesqueness, it makes you physically uncomfortable, but also like you can't ever put the book down. His writing is compelling, and I am hoping for much of the same style or at least a similar driving force in his next work. 

5. A Madness So Discreet – Mindy McGinnis: Release Date: October 16. I haven't ever read anything by McGinnis, but she is popular with some friends of mine, so I anticipate this being the first work of hers that I get around to. I love the premise of this book: mental illness and family secrets and detective work are three of the most interesting topics to read about, so I have hope that the three will combine into an awesome thriller novel.

6. The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) – Rick Riordan: Release Date: October 6. I have loved Riordan's books, all of them, since I was in middle school. I have been religiously following his releases for almost a decade. I would probably read literally anything that he would ever deign to release into the public sphere, but it helps that I am actually really exciting to see him take his unique perspective to the stories of the Norse gods.

 7. Six of Crows (The Dregs #1) – Leigh Bardugo: Release Date: September 29. I read the Grisha trilogy in 2013-2014 and absolutely loved it, so I was understandably very excited when Bardugo announced that she would be writing a new series (this one a duet, I believe) in the same world. I also love ragtag groups that come together to achieve greatness, which sounds like what this is. I'm really hoping that this one lives up to the hype, because the Grisha world is a gorgeous one that I can't wait to return to.

8. Carry On – Rainbow Rowell: Release Date: October 6. Rainbow Rowell is one of my most favorite, if not my ultimate favorite, authors. Fangirl is a book that changed my life, one that I have read multiple times and will continue to reread into the forseeable future. When I heard that Rowell was turning her fictitious fanfiction from that novel into a real novel, I was beyond excited. I know a lot of people are apprehensive about the success of this idea, but I have complete faith that Rowell knows exactly what she's doing, and that it will somehow end up being something great.

9.  Da Vinci's Tiger – Laura Malone Elliott: Release Date: November 10. This is one that I didn't find out about until about a month and a half ago, but once I read the synopsis (hello: renaissance Italy and a female protag? yes) I was immediately super excited for it. I really can't wait to see how Elliott reimagines and interprets this world of decadence and art. I just have a good feeling about this one, guys, I think it could be something really great.

10. A Thousand Nights – E.K. Johnston: Release Date: October 6. This is the year of the October 6th release date, it seems, and I am not complaining because some truly incredible releases have that as their birthday. This is also a year of not one but two 1001 nights retellings, and I can't wait to read both of them. This cover is incredible and the synopsis sounds that way as well, but all we can do is wait until October to see how this one stacks up against The Wrath and the Dawn. (YALL THIS COVER THOUGH)




what are some of your highly anticipated releases from the rest of this year?

xx
Sunny