Most Anticipated 2016 YA Book Releases

By Megan McConnell

  1. Passenger (Passenger #1) – Alexandra Bracken

January 5th

          -Etta Spencer, a violin prodigy, finds herself traveling through time with a stranger named Nicholas Carter.  Nicholas forces her to assist him on a journey through different centuries and countries to find a stolen artifact from a different time period. However, the universe is trying to tear Etta and Nicholas apart from each other through the many dangers along the way.

     

        2. A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns #2)- Sarah J. Maas

May 3rd

       -Feyre, recently changed into a High Fae, deals with the aftermath of the previous struggle with Amarantha, the main antagonist . In this story, she learns to cope with her new, progressing magic while attempting to save the Fae land from enemies who threaten it.

 

          3. Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices #1)- Cassandra Clare

March 8th

          -Set in the Shadowhunter’s world, this new series follows Emma Carstairs who discovers a series of murders in the city of Los Angeles. The characteristics of each murder reminds her of how her parents died in a similar way. The shadowhunters race to find out who is responsible for the killings to cease a war between the faeries and Nephilim. (The offspring of humans and angels)

 

         4. Glass Sword (Red Queen #2)- Victoria Aveyard

February 9th

            -In this second installment of the Red Queen series, Meira escapes from Maven, the prince that betrayed her, in order to stop the royal court from using her lightning abilities as a weapon.  However, on this journey she discovers she is not the only one of her kind. (Someone with red blood but having an ability that only people with silver blood should possess)

 

  1. The Rose and the Dagger (The Wrath & The Dawn #2)- Renee Ahdieh

May 3rd

           – Separated from her husband and king, Shahrzad unites with her past family to run away from the war that has now threatened her land. She takes this time away to figure out where her real loyalties lie and who she truly loves, her old lover or her husband, who murdered  her best friend and many others to escape his curse which states that if he doesn’t kill 100 people for the one life he took, his country would fall to pieces.

 

        6. A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2)- Sabaa Tahir

August 30th

             –When Laia’s brother gets captured and put into Kauf prison, she teams up with Elias to get him out so that he can escape.  However, on their journey,they are being hunted by soldiers because of their betrayal of the Empire and they will meet many deadly creatures they didn’t even knew existed in their world at all.

 

           7. The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3)- Rick Yancey

May 24th

            – In this Fifth Wave conclusion, the series will be put to an end in a final war between the Others and the survivors that made it past the fifth wave, including Cassie, Ethan, Ben, Ringer, and everyone that is a part of their group. A group that will do anything to survive against the Others and their mission to destroy the world.