Top 5 Wednesday: 2017 Debuts You Are Excited For

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 16^th 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 28^th 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 6^th 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 31^th 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 26^th 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. 

Honorable mentions