Hello you gorgeous individuals, it's Kav here and today I'm going to be talking about
my most anticipated releases of 2018. Just two days ago I celebrated all of my
favorite books of 2017 with you all - I will link that video in the description
below for you to check out my favorite reads of 2017 - and now I thought that to
kick off 2018, we can talk about what books I am most excited for. Now, I did
quite a lot of research towards the end of November about books that I was
anticipating coming out this year. Obviously, this is not all of the books I
want to read this year - there are so many more great releases coming out and
obviously, we do not know as many releases in the second half of the year
because it is so much further away, so this is more first half of the year
heavy.
The first two books I am anticipating are actually already out. The first one
is The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and this one was out on January 2nd. The
Cruel Prince is essentially a book about political intrigue set in a fairy court
and I saw quite a few ARCs of this go out after bookcon of last year. Everyone
I know absolutely adored this book. I have loved all of her work so far, so I
think this will be a great series because I actually really want to read
more about fairies since there's a lot of different folklore kind of
surrounding them I think there are a lot of different directions you can go with
fairies. The next book, which also came out on January 2nd, is Meet Cute: Some
People are Destined to Meet which is actually also one of the January choices
for The BookBoundSociety and I am super excited for this one as well because
it's just an anthology of, like, cute short romance stories and I have
heard some mixed things about this one, but I am still excited to read it for
myself because there are some great authors that I know that are working on
it. I am excited to read it this month. The third book is actually also already out -
it came out on January 2nd as well - and that is Chainbreaker by Tara Sim. This
is the sequel to Timekeeper, which is actually the Prideathon choice for
January and we chose this book because we wanted to celebrate the release of
Chainbreaker. I don't really want to go too much into it because, of course, it's
a sequel. Essentially the Timekeeper series is Victorian Era, it has a
male by male romance, and those are just a lot of words that I love and put them
together and I think you will make a wonderful story.
The next book on my list is Love, Hate, and (Other) Filters by Samira Ahmed. I was lucky
enough to receive an ARC of this novel as you can tell and I absolutely adored
it. I will leave my goodreads review in the description below for you all to check
out all of my thoughts on it. Essentially, this is a YA contemporary about an
Indian-American Muslim teen and I absolutely loved it. It is ownvoices
representation and it targeted some really
topics such as anti-Islam behavior in this country, and by this country I mean
America for those of you who don't know where I live, and I think that it is such
an important read and everyone should have it on their TBRs for 2018. The next
book is Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann which I was also lucky enough
to receive an ARC of, so I will link my goodreads review of that one in the
description below. I have mentioned multiple times how much I love this
novel - it was on my favorite books of 2017 list because there are just so many
good things about it. It is a YA contemporary that features
a cute romance, but it also tackles some really important topics. The main
character is a black, biromantic asexual girl and the romantic interest is Japanese,
so there is obviously a lot of diversity in this novel, so it tackles important
topics while also being a cute romance and my favorite novels are contemporary
novels that are the combination of those exact two things. The next book on my list is
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton and this one is out on February 6th and if I'm
being honest, the primary reason why I am anticipating it is because I'm a huge
fan of Dhonielle as a person. She has done so much for this community and she often
talks about the importance of diversity which you all know is basically what I
do in this community as well, so that's actually the primary reason why I'm
anticipating it, but I know multiple people who have received ARCs of that novel and
who have really enjoyed it, so I think that I will enjoy it as well. The next book on
my list is A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena. This one is out on February 27th
and I am very highly anticipating this read. I haven't actually heard many
people talk about it, so it kind of came up on my radar while I was searching for
new books and since then I have just been so interested in it because I think
the premise is really cool. It's basically about a character who's kind
of seen as a "troublemaker" - she's kind of a "bad girl," the type of girl that
your parents would warn you to stay away from - and there's this other character
who you know only had eyes for her, so I'm assuming there was some sort of
romance there. The two of them are found dead in a car together, so I think it kind
of unfolds why that happened and from what I've heard, it deals very heavily with
topics of race and religion and all of those important topics that need to be
discussed. The next book on my list is also out on February 27th and that is The
Serpent's Secret by Sayantani DasGupta and as you can tell I was also lucky enough to
receive an ARC of this novel which I'm highly anticipating because it follows
an Indian main character named Kiranmala who is essentially a regular sixth
grader living her life until her parents are mysteriously taken and she
then finds out that she is a real Indian princess. I think that that premise
sounds so cool and I'm so glad that we are getting more novels that kind of
deal with Indian mythology and with Indian settings written by ownvoices
Indian authors. The next book on my list is actually one of my most anticipated
reads for this year and that is How I Resist: Activism and Hope for the
Next Generation and this is an anthology featuring many different authors. As you
can tell from its name, it's essentially about activism and resistance, so I'm
sure all of you can infer why I would be so interested in it. The next book on my
list is Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. This is out on March
6th and I am highly anticipating it, but again, this is one that I don't have too
much information about. The primary reason why I am anticipating it is
because I have seen many people get ARCs of it and say absolutely brilliant
things and why I am so interested in it is essentially that I know that it deals
with heavy topics such as race, sexism, colorism, and all of those different
topics that I think are important and need to be talked about. The next book on
my list is Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake. This is
also out on March 6th and if you have watched my favorite books of 2017 video,
you know that How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake was on that, so of
course I am anticipating this one. The premise of this novel is that there is a
main character. Ivy, who's essentially the survivor of a tornado that destroys her
house and displaces her family. She feels very alone
and looked over during this time and then all of a sudden her notebook of
drawings with girls holding hands goes missing and then she starts receiving
some of these drawings back with notes telling her to be more open about her
identity and she believes and hopes that these notes are coming from a girl she
has a crush on and I think that that is a great premise and I'm super interested
in it. The next two books I have also come out on March 6th and the first one
is Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World.
This is by Mackenzi Lee. If you don't know, Mackenzi Lee essentially did this
Twitter thing where would regularly tell stories about a forgotten woman who had
contributed to history and, as stated, was essentially forgotten, so now she is
literally writing a book about it - about 52 different women who have changed the
world - and I think that is so cool, such a cool premise and I am so, so excited for
it. The last book that is coming out on March 6th that I have on this list is
Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe and there is not much I know about this
novel, other than the fact that it's written by Tess Sharpe and that it has
a morally ambiguous drug dealer as the main character and that is enough
for me to be interested. The next book on my list comes out on
March 13th and this is Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner. I was a huge fan of
Whitney Gardner's first novel, You're Welcome Universe, and I was lucky enough
to receive an ARC of her next novel which I am highly anticipating. It is
essentially about a girl that likes comics. Somehow, even at the end of 2017/
beginning of 2018, it is still this weird thought that girls can like geeky stuff,
so I'm glad that Whitney is going outside of these bounds to write about a
girl that likes geeky stuff because it's normal and it's
kind of stupid that people still treat it weirdly. The next book on my list is
probably one of my top 5 books that I am excited for this year and that is Tyler
Johnson was Here by Jay Coles. This one is out on March 20th.
If you don't know, I adore Jay Coles. I admire him so much, so I am so excited to
support his work with this novel. Tyler Johnson was Here is about a black boy,
Tyler who goes to a party with his brother, Marvin, and obviously they think
they're just going to a party, but that night Tyler is found missing and he is
then found dead and I just know this is going to be a book that deals with
imprinting topics like racism, and I'm sure so many others, and I am just so, so,
so excited for this novel. The next book on my list, out on March 27th, is probably
another one of the books that would be on my top 5 most anticipated releases of
2018 and that is Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi. This is a
novel essentially based on Hindu mythology. It is based roughly on the
Mahabharata because the main character, Aru, is a reincarnation of one of the five
Pandava brothers and I am so excited to see a novel like that written by an actual
Indian Hindu author since I'm sure that she knows what she's talking about and
this novel is essentially my dream come true, so I am so, so excited for it.
The next book on my list is A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir and I have
heard multiple different dates about when this novel is coming out, but the
one I originally found was April 24th, so that's what I'm going with, but I might be
wrong. A Reaper at the Gates is the third book in the An Ember in the Ashes series
and obviously considering it is the third book, I don't want to go too into
it, but all I can say is that you need to get a jump on this series because it is
lovely and great and if you would like to check out my full An Ember in the Ashes
review, I will link that up here because I don't want to spoil anyone
in this video. The next book on my list is Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
and this is also out on April 24th. Everyone and their mother knows that I
absolutely adore Becky. I am so, so excited for this novel.
Leah is the best friend of Simon from the Simon vs. the Homosapiens
Agenda book and so this is kind of a spin-off about her and I am so excited
for it because Leah is a badass, plus-size, bi drummer and all of those
are great qualities, so I just cannot wait to read this book because I know
I'm going to absolutely adore it just like I've adored all of Becky's other work.
The next book on my list is On the Come Up by Angie Thomas and this one is out on
May 1st and I don't know literally anything about it other than its by Angie
Thomas and it is also set in Garden Heights, but it is not a sequel to The
Hate U Give and I really don't need to know anything more because as we all
discovered in 2017, Angie Thomas is brilliantly talented, so I cannot wait to
support more of her work. The next book on my list is The Way You Make Me Feel
by Maurene Goo which is out on May 8th and, again, I don't really know too much about
this novel. Maurene Goo's first novel came out this year and I didn't have a chance
to read it, but I heard brilliant things about it, so I'm excited to support her
by picking up her second novel hopefully. The next book on my list is Puddin' by
Julie Murphy, also out on May 8th, and I don't want to say too much about this
because it is the sequel to Dumplin' which is actually being made into a
movie which is a great reason for you to go pick up the book. And Dumplin'
features a main character that is fat and essentially enters a beauty
pageant and I'm not really gonna say anything more. All I can say is you
should read it, so then you can watch the movie and you can read Puddin'. The
next book on my list is Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake and this
is out on May 15th and yes, we are getting two books from her in the same
year. This one deals with a much, much heavier topic and I want to give a huge
content warning because, essentially, the entire theme of this
novel is rape. The main character's twin brother is accused of raping one of her
close friends and that is all I know about this novel and essentially that's
all I need to know because I trust that Ashley went about the topic well and
properly and I think that these are important novels that we need to have
because these are important discussions we need to be talking about. The next
book on my list is The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde and this is out on May 22nd and
I am so, so, so highly anticipating this novel. Queens of Geek is one of my
favorite books of all time and it is also by Jen Wilde if you didn't know, so
I am super highly anticipating this next novel by her and it is essentially about
a main character who is bisexual. She is a teen drummer who's essentially
branded as Hollywood's latest train wreck and I am just so thrilled for this
novel. The next book on my list is one that I am so highly anticipating and
that should come as a surprise to literally no one. It is From Twinkle, With
Love by Sandhya Menon and and that is out May 22nd as well. I am just so highly
anticipating this one. Obviously, all of you know that When Dimple Met Rishi is one
of my favorite books of all time - that book literally meant the world to me. In
some ways I'm even more excited about From Twinkle, With Love because it features a
major actor who's an Indian filmmaker and, I mean, hello - look at exactly what
I'm doing right now - I'm an Indian person making films and it also features a cute
moments which you know Sandhya's the best at if you've read When Dimple Met
Rishi. I'm very excited as you can tell, like, super excited. The next book on my
list is Final Draft by Riley Redgate and it features a main character who is a
writer and who is essentially the apple of her creative writing teacher's eye, but
that teacher is replaced three months before graduation and the new teacher is
not as easily impressed, so the main character essentially makes her goal to
impress this new teacher and I think that's a super cool premise and I have
heard brilliant things about Riley's previous work - I have Seven Ways We Lie,
I have not read it yet - but I have thought that all of the premises for her
stories have been really cool, so I am highly excited to support her with this
novel. And in case I didn't mention it this one is out on June 12th.
The next book on my list is Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert and this is out
on August 7th. And I read Brandy Colbert's novel, Little & Lion, back in
2017 and it was so, so good and that has essentially made me want to pick up all
of her future work, but I also think that the premise of this one sounds really
cool. Essentially, the main character is a violinist who has to deal with the fact
that she might not be good enough to get into the school she wants to go into and
then she unexpectedly gets pregnant and I'm sure that that takes her on another
wild ride, so I'm just super excited to read this one.
The next book I have is To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin and this is out on
August 21st. Eseentially, this features a fat main
character who has a mom who puts a lot of pressure on her weight and I'm sure
you can infer that she does not put pressure on her in a good way and from
what I could tell from the summary, I think it also has a cute moment, so I'm
excited. The next book on my list is Toil &
Trouble: 16 Tales of Women and Witchcraft which is on on August 28th and all I
know about this anthology is women, witches, diversity, and Tess Sharpe and that is
enough to have me interested. The next book on my list is The Golden
Tower by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black and this is out in September - there is no
specific date for it yet. And there are two reasons I can't tell you anything
about this novel. One is that there is essentially no information available yet.
Two is that this is the final book in the Magisterium series, so I wouldn't
want to say anything that would be a spoiler. All I can tell you about the
Magisterium is that it is a middle-grade series that deals heavily with magic and I have
loved it so far, so I highly recommend getting started on it. The next book on
my list is probably another one of my top 5 most anticipated releases of this
year - What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. This one is out on
October 2nd and all I can say is that everyone and their mother knows that
this is a dream come true. These two authors working together is
perfect because they are best friends in real life. We either get to see a very
happy Adam or very sad Becky and I'm not sure what to expect from this novel, but
I am excited for it regardless. The next book I have is also out on October 2nd
and that is The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee. This
is kind of the sequel to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.
It's about Felicity who is the sister of the main character in The Gentleman's
Guide to Vice and Virtue and I am almost 100% sure that Mackenzi Lee has
stated that the main character in this story is asexual, so I think that that
will be some great representation if I am correct. The next book I have on my
list is Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore and I don't really know much
about this other than the fact that it's by Anna-Marie McLemore and that's all
I need to know. so I'm gonna read it. And now, finally, for the last book on this
list - the number one book I'm most anticipating for this year, the book you all
have been waiting for me to mention - Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra
Clare. This one is out on December 4th, 2018 and that seems so far away, but I
just try to remind myself that the original release date was actually in
2019. This is the conclusion to The Dark Artifices trilogy which is objectively
Cassandra Clare's best work in terms of plot, writing, characters, and diversity
and those are all characteristics I look for in novels, so I am so excited for this
for multiple reasons, but primarily because I know that Cassie is best at
writing the third book in a series. For example, my favorites of her work have
been City of Glass, City of Heavenly Fire, and Clockwork Princess which are all the
third book in their trilogy-ness things, even though The Mortal Instruments is a six
book series, it was originally supposed to be a trilogy. After reading Lord Of
Shadows in 2017, I know that it is her best work so far objectively, so I know
without a doubt that Queen of Air and Darkness is going to be the best book
she comes up with so far. It is so far away, but I am sure that
that just means that it is going to be more worth it in the end. That was a lot
of books on this list, but I am highly anticipating all of them and obviously,
this list did not cover all of the great releases coming out this year, so please
let me know if you have any other books you are anticipating in 2018 - if you are
anticipating any of these, let me know or if there's a completely different book that
wasn't on this list, also let me know in the comments below because I want to
know more about what type of books you all enjoy. That was all I had for this
video, I hope you all enjoyed it, I hope you got some new bookish recommendations -
and if you did enjoy this video, please give it a like and subscribe
because that stuff makes me happy - and as I said, go ahead and comment down below
some of your most anticipated releases for 2018. And, as usual, all of my
social media and my goodreads will be in the description below if you'd like to
check me out anywhere else. Thank you all so much for watching, I hope you are
having a lovely day or night wherever you are, please remember you're beautiful and you
deserve the world, and I will see you next week with a brand new video.
Goodbye!
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