Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey on YouTube and hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes.
Every Wednesday there is a new topic, and you list your top 5 related
to the particular topic. This weeks topic is 2017 debuts you are excited for. For more
information on top 5 Wednesday and the Goodreads group click HERE.
When I saw
this topic I thought that it would be difficult to find debuts that I look
forward to, but I was wrong. I didn’t know that a lot of books that I was
anticipating were debuts. So here is my top 5 (with some honorable mentions)
This list is in no particular order.
The Love Interest by
Cale Dietrich
Publication
date: May 16th 2017
This is
about an organization that cultivates teenage spies. These spies get close to
people that are destined for great power.
Caden is the nice one. Dylan is the bad and brooding one. Both Caden and Dylan
are living for the first time in the outside world. They are well trained and
they need to be. Because whoever the girl doesn’t choose will die.
What the boys don’t expect are feelings that are outside of their training.
Feelings that could kill them.
These guys are supposed to make this girl fall in love with them; instead they
fall in love with one another. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. If that
doesn’t intrigue you, I don’t know what will.
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
Publication
date: Febuary 28th 2017
I’ve been
seeing this book everywhere. So, most of you will already know what it’s about.
But for those who don’t. It’s about a girl from a poor neighborhood, who
witnessed a fatal police shooting of her unarmed best friend. It is inspired by
the Black Lives Matters movement. I heard great things so far and I’m curious.
Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts
Publication
date: June 6th 2017
It’s a
fantasy about a bastard,
Tilla. She want’s noting more than the love and acceptance of her father.
During a feast honoring the visiting princess Lyrianna, the royal shocks everyone by choosing to sit at the
Bastards’ Table. Before she knows it, Tilla is leading the sheltered princess with
a few fellow bastards on a late-night escapade. They stumble upon a crime they
were never meant to witness.
The group flees for their lives, relentlessly pursued
by murderous mercenaries; their own parents have put a price on their heads to
prevent the king and his powerful Royal Mages from discovering their treachery.
The bastards band together, realizing they alone have the power to prevent a civil war that will tear their kingdom apart.
Wait for Me by Caroline Leech
Publication
date: January 31th 2017
I’m trying
to get more into historical fiction this year. So, when I read the synopsis of
this book, I was hooked.
This is a
love story between a girl from Scotland and a German prisoner of war. He is
assigned as the new farmhand at her father’s farm.
The more
she learns about him the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. With
tensions rising all around them,
they must decide how much they’re
willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate.
Hold Back The Stars Katie Khan
Publication date: January 26th 2017
Hold Back
The Stars is a science fiction that takes place in space. Carys and Max have
ninety minutes of air left and noting to hold on to but each other. They can’t
help but look back at the well-ordered world they have left behind, a life to
which they might never return now.
This sounds
interesting, don’t you think? I can’t wait.
