 I'm definitely going to pre-order that. Oh, God. I shouldn't. I'm on a bit of buying ban! Hello, welcome back to my channel. As you can see, we're in a bit of a new location. You would have seen this in my reading my first buddy read vlog already, but this is the first kind of like, I'm gonna say sit down but I'm standing up. The first, like, just talking to the camera video that I'm filming here. This is my new flat at uni. So today we're gonna be talking about my most anticipated releases that are coming out. Both at the end of this year... Don't look at me! Both at the end of this year and the one that comes out early next year. Most of them are series finishers that I'm excited about because I have a special sense of satisfaction when I read a book in a series. It's like, I don't know. It's just good, really, for like, I'm further in that series or I've finished that series. It's just like a weight off your chest. Please let me know down below if you are excited about any of these releases coming soon and let's just talk about them. So the first one is The Toll by Neil Shusterman. This is the final book in the Psythe series. It's a really good series actually. I enjoyed the second book a lot more than the first book. The first book was like a three star for me, but then I gave Thunderhead the second book in a series five stars. So I'm very excited for this book and to see where it leads on from Thunderhead. So in Psythe, we're into a world where death has been eradicated by human science and how much we're able to do now, but in order to control the population, people still need to die. And so it's basically the Psythe's job to glean people, essentially kill them, and different Psythe's are different methods, different ways of choosing because they're gonna glean. And we follow Seacher and Rowan as they train to become Psythe's apprentices and then eventually to become Psythe's. There's a little bit of romance in the story, but it's like not too overpowering that if you're like me, I don't like in fantasy books when all the cool elements of the fantasy book get overtaken by a romance. Like that's how I felt like Wicked Fox when like it had so much potential, so much interesting magical elements, and then the whole book was the romance. So this isn't like that. It's just like a little sprinkling. The cliffhanger that Thundered ended on. This is all gonna be no spoilery, so obviously if it's something like Thundered where we've had the second book in the series, I'm not gonna spoil it, but the ending. Also, one of the new characters we met in the last book was Grayson Toliver, and I don't want to spoil what happens in that, but he plays quite a big part in that book and the name is the Toll. Grayson Toliver, the Toll. So it indicates I think he's gonna play a big, big part in this book. Also, I think he's the one in the center of the cover. So while Seachin Roe and it kind of been like our lead character, been our lead characters in the first two books, I think he's gonna have a much, much bigger role and kind of moves the story like onwards. I really hope it continues with like the political element, the political intrigue-ness of the last book because that's why I enjoyed Thundered so much. The first one, like I didn't feel like it went into the whole political workings of that society as much as I wish it had, and then in Thundered it did, and I was like... Here we go. I love like political dealings in fantasy books. Like I've talked about, you know, the very nice ago you had that as well, and I just love it. I just love how political systems work in fantasy books. I love it so much. If anyone knows, that's a very niche that's a very niche thing I enjoy. If anyone knows any other books, they're very good political conflicts and dealings and secrecy in fantasy books, let a gal know. The next one is Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha and Yang. This is the second book in this series. I think it's gonna be a three book series as well. In Girls of Storm and Shadow we follow Leigh, who is of the paper case system, which is the lowest of three tiers, and every year a selection of paper girls get chosen to go and be the Demon King's concubines. There's heavy trigger awnings for rape in this series, but I personally think it deals with it really, really well, and I spoke about this in my Firefire Books of the Year series because... series? My Firefire Books of the Year video, which I'll link up above. You had the selection of girls who are all his concubines, and in each one of them Natasha managed to, I guess, show a different response. You know, different responses that people have to that kind of trauma. People deal with it in different ways and she managed to kind of, each of the girls reacted in a different way, which I thought was really, really well done and gave a lot of representation and depth, I guess, depth to the story. It really captured my heart because, yeah, I just felt like you really felt for these girls so much in such a difficult position, but they were also so strong, and I remember I read it. I went and I bought loads of books, as I've probably said before when I was in Florida, and Barnes and Noble, I was like carrying around all these books. And there were so many I'd been excited to read. I was like, I'm gonna read that next. The first one I picked up was Girls of Paper and Fire, because something just drew me to it, and on holiday I was just like, chance-fixed by it. I really, really loved it. In this book I'm really looking forward to Leigh building her cause against Stephen King and the corruption of those in power. I really hope she's gonna try and fight that, and we're gonna see some... I mean, it's the middle book, and usually in middle books you expect a bit of a lull. Obviously, when I was talking about The Thunderhead, that wasn't a lull. That was like a... But usually with these kind of series is the middle book is a little bit chiller, a little bit more time with the characters, and I enjoy that. But looking forward to Leigh becoming more of a leader, I guess. I'm guessing that's gonna happen. I'm also looking forward to more gay shit, boys. If you want some female-female romance, this is a place to be. I also really hope that she manages to keep the atmosphere that we had in the first book. It had such a great atmosphere, and I think that's so difficult when a book so drastically switches locations. Obviously I'm not gonna spoil anything, but there is gonna be a drastic switch of location, I think, from a majority of the book. And I think that's so so difficult for an author, because it's almost like you're writing an entire different book. A lot of the atmosphere you've set up in quite an enclosed space we were in for the first book is suddenly like torn apart very drastically. I spoke about how in the Very Nice and Girls series, the kind of world slowly expanded, and this might do that, but I feel like it's gonna be like but I'm super excited to read this. It's top of my Christmas wish list. It's up there. Like everyone, please just get me in. So next is Supernova by Marissa Mayer, which is the last in the Renegades series. So in Renegades we follow... Oh my god, Nova. In Renegades we follow Nova, who has been raised as part of the anarchists, who are the villains in the story. Her uncle was the head anarchist who was killed many, many, many years ago by the head Renegades. She decides and her group decide for her to go undercover, so she can learn more about their workings in order for her group to take them down. However, of course she's gonna gain feelings and friendships and be confused and have different loyalties and... So that's essentially the book. I've had very mixed feelings about this series. The first book I remember reading and I was like, I gave it three stars, which isn't terrible, but I loved The Unicornicles by her and I felt like it was like a major step down for her in my opinion. But in the case of the second book I felt like it picked up a bit. There was still issues with pacing and feeling like not much happened, but I gave it four stars because I read it in like a day, so... Oh, the sun has gone. I read it in like a day, so I felt like I had to give it four stars. I really enjoyed it. I flew through it. So it was a step up. I'm hoping the last one is another step up, although part of me thinks it's probably gonna be a full star maximum. I don't know. I'm excited to read Heartless by Marissa Mayer as well, which I have with me... Give me a sec. Which we have here, because it's kind of like a retelling, like The Unicornicles, which I feel like is what she's best at. I don't know. I'm excited to read this. I'm nervous to read Supernova, but then the series is done. So I'm like, wait off my chest. I really hope that a lot happens in this book. I want to be action-packed because I feel like that was the one thing we're missing in the last two books. Like, it's a superhero series, so you're wanting to be like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And then it's not. Everyone's just like, like, sitting around talking. I just want a lot of things to go wrong. I want a lot of things to go right. I want it to be thermal, but I want it to be like 100 action scenes, essentially. That's what I'm hoping we're gonna get. The next book that is on my most anticipated list to come out is The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I haven't read The Night Circus yet, but I really want to, but this book, it sounds like we're right on my alley. I haven't heard anyone talk about, like, I've heard people mention it, but I haven't heard anyone read it yet. There are arcs out already. I haven't heard anyone think. Part of me, there is part of me. I was on Waterstones looking at the upcoming releases, and I saw the cover, the Waterstones cover, and I was like, I'm filming this like a couple of days before my student loan comes in, and when that comes in, I might be pre-ordering this. So the lead character finds a mysterious book in a library that when he reads it, part of it tells the story of something that happened in his life. There are a series of clues, a bee, a key, and a sword. He is led to a library hidden under the surface of the earth. I don't even know how to explain the last part of this synopsis, simply. Like, I don't know how to simplify this to you, so I'm just going to really get out from the Waterstones website. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians. It is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce pink-head protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world discovering his purpose in both the mysterious book and his own life. Whoo! You can't tell me that doesn't excite you. You can't tell me that doesn't make you go, that last bit with the S's really tested me. I had like a, I had to go to voice training when I was a kid because I said my S's like, like, I can't even do it now, but that S's tested me too many S's, so I was like a bead of sweat. I really love Whimsical Writing, which is what I've heard her writing is like. I love the vagueness but also like the explosion of imagery you get when you read that synopsis. Oh my god, I'm trying to read it so bad, I'm trying to read it so bad, so I'm very excited to get it to come out and that's obviously the only one of these which is not part of a series which I've been reading so yes, I'm definitely going to pre-order that, oh god, I shouldn't, I'm on a book buying ban! And the last book that I'm very very excited to be released is King of Crows by Libra Bray which is part of the Divinus series. Now if you haven't seen my Buddy Read video, my first ever Buddy Read video, go check that out, it's a mess, I'm a mess. I'm actually filming it now currently as well, I'm reading The Divinus and I'm planning to finish it today, I've got that left, so I'll be filming hopefully everything on the same day, we're just not knowing me, probably not. I'm obviously only just reading the first new series now, I've got a layer of dreams with me here, woohoo! But I'm so excited to come out the start of next year, I love finishing serieses so I think I'm going to get through this series quite quickly, I'm just so excited for all the books to be out so I can just have them all at my disposal. It's set in 1920s New York, we meet a collection of people, many of whom have special powers and they're all trying to stop a dark and evil force from terrorizing New York who is committing murders and it's very mysterious, very spooky, ukidukimuki, it's got scooby-doo gang vibes, we love that. It is a really great story, I'm still not sure I'm going to rate this yet, you'll all know if you've seen that video but the fact that there's three more books in this series, god I'm so excited. So yeah, very excited for King of Crows to come out soon. So there we have it, that is all my most anticipated upcoming releases, as I said do let me know if you're excited for the news too or what your most anticipated reads that are coming out. I'd love to hear so I can get more excited about more books that are coming out even though I should just read the ones I've got. So yeah I hope you enjoyed this video and make sure you like, subscribe, ring the bell, comment, give me all that interaction because I'm lonely. Thank you so much for watching to this point and I'll see you soon in another video and I hope you're well until then, bye.