 Hello, hello everyone! My name is Laura and this is my channel, Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's video, which are books that are coming out in the second half of this year. This year or late last year of all the books coming out in the first half of this year, and now I am following that up with the video of books that are coming out in the second half of the year. However, when it comes to the later months of the year, I don't quite know of as many books yet, not all of them have been announced, so I am debating on if next year I want to make this more of like a quarterly thing or make three videos for like the first, third, second, third, third. So let me know what you would like if you want me to keep making these videos, if you want me to do a half like this or a little more often so that they can be a little more accurate. But either way, today's video is going to start with July and then go through to December. So first off, in July, on July 2, we have The It Girl by Ruth Ware, and this is an author that I have been getting into recently, and so I thought it'd be really cool to track her news book coming out The It Girl, and this is, so this is a thriller, there is a murder at Oxford, and they think they catch the killer, and so they put him away, and then like 10 years later, one of the characters who is there realizes that this person may have been wrongly convicted, and so now she must solve the murder that happened years ago based on, I think, events that are happening now. And then on July 19, we have The Daughter of Dr. Moreau, and this is by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This is based off of the island of Dr. Moreau, so this is like a reimagining, this is happening in 19th century Mexico, and it is based on The Daughter of the Doctor, and so it's another historical romance horror book, which I absolutely loved, Mexican Gothic, and so purely based off of that, I am very excited to read Silvia Moreno-Garcia's newest book. As again, it is historical and romance and also horror. I believe there's some like bodily horror and like experimental thing with animals. We'll see, but I am very interested in this come August, September, October for spooky season. Now we've got three books coming out on July 26. We've got Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen. This is a duology, and it basically there's this curse that's going to be unleashed on the kingdom, but we've got some morally gray characters in there. We also have Master of Iron by Trisha Lovenseller. This is the second book of the duology of Blade of Secrets, which I recently read, Blade of Secrets, and I loved it. Our main character is a blacksmith, and she also has anxiety, and I could very much relate to that, and I just love the first books of the second book is coming out in July, and I am really excited. Also on the 26th we have the Valkyrie's Daughter. This is by Tiana Warner, and this deals with Norse mythology about a girl who is a Valkyrie daughter, and she really wants to become a Valkyrie, but for some reason she can't. Like she fails her test or something. So she ends up teaming up with her enemy, and they have to go on some quest to gain the right to be Valkyries. I think it's enemies to lovers, and I think it's queer, so we're all excited for that. So those are the books that I know of that I'm excited for coming out in July, and also this isn't like a big comprehensive list of everything coming out. These are all the things that I am interested in, or I think you might be interested in. Now moving on to August, on August 2nd we have Don't Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore. This is another historical thriller. It takes place in 1918 in New Orleans, and basically there is a disease that's going around New Orleans, and so you don't want obviously to be outside to catch the disease, but there's also a neighborhood killer, and so our main character is trying to hunt down this killer without getting sick or also being murdered, and so I'm very excited. I'm really excited for a lot of like historical fiction thriller or historical fiction fantasy. I have been interested in this concept for a little bit now, and so I'm really excited for all of these like historical thrillers coming out. Also on August 2 we have the third book in the Bala Santiago series, so this I think it's just a trilogy, but that's published through Regriardon, and it deals with Mexican mythology. Also on August 2 we have Wildest the Witch by Rachel Griffin, and I am super excited. I loved her book Nature of Witches and I would always highly recommend that one, and so Wildest the Witch it takes places in the same world, but it is not following the same characters or within the same story. You don't need to have read Nature of Witches in order to read Wildest the Witch, but I think it's really cool that it's the same world still. You have a witch who kind of spends her time writing curses but never actually using them because she doesn't actually want to curse anybody until one of her curses gets stolen by a bird, and so if something happens to the bird the curse can be released and it will make all of the people in the region that she is in witches, which is really bad because you know witches aren't exactly super welcomed in the world, so that would be a very bad curse to come out indeed. So I am so excited for this one. Oh my word. Anyway, moving on to August 16 we have Love in the Time of Serial Killers and this is by Alicia Thompson. This is about a main character who is true crime obsessed. She thinks her neighbor is a serial killer and so she kind of starts to investigate him when really he could just be like an actually nice guy but those don't exist, so he must be a serial killer, right? Moving on to August 30, or August 23, we've got Babel by R. F. Kwong. I haven't read any of R. F. Kwong's books before, but this one just caught my eye quite recently and I'm really excited. It is a dark academia fantasy with heavy themes of translation. It's you know, it's kind of based off the Tower of Babel except it's a school and then there is violence because of a translation that was done. Me being someone somewhat of a polyglot who wants to work in translation one day, I love this. I love this idea of dark academia translation. I am here for it massively. And then we've got two books coming out on August 30th and the first one is The Final Gambit by Jennifer and Lynn Barnes. This is the final book in the Hawthorne Legacy trilogy. I have the first two and I really enjoyed the first two so I'm hoping that this will be a really good ending to the trilogy. And finally is The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth Lim. This is the second book in the duology, the first book being Six Crimes and Cranes. This is based off of Chinese mythology. I recently read Six Crimes and Cranes and I loved it. I adored it. It was such beautiful magical writing and so I'm really looking forward to the finishing of this duology. Moving on to September. There are four books that I am looking forward to coming out this September. The first being on September 9th, Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwa. And this is one that has been like on my radar but I just haven't actually heard much about but when I first saw it I knew it intrigued me. So it's on this list but basically our main character, it's a combination of like the hunger games and something else that I hadn't read but the main character kind of cheats her way into getting this race, getting into this very deadly and dangerous race because the winner of that race gets a whole bunch of money like it's life changing but our main character has a younger sister who is very ill and so they can't afford the medicine so she cheats her way into this race to win it to save her younger sister. You see the hunger game themes? Yeah so I am very intrigued and I am excited to read this. On September 13 we have The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber. This is the second book on the duology following one of the characters from her Car of All Trilogy, The Jack of Hearts. So I read the first book Once Upon a Broken Heart and I very much enjoyed it and I was really disappointed when I realized the second book wasn't out and wasn't coming out soon. So you don't necessarily need to read Car of All in order to read the duology but I would highly recommend starting with the Car of All Trilogy just to have a better background on the world and to have a small introduction into this character and kind of the made up mythology that they are from. Over to September 20th we have When in Rome by Sarah Adams and when she says Rome she means Rome Kentucky not Rome Italy. It is a grumpy sunshine small town celebrity kind of story which is so cute. I love grumpy sunshine tropes. I haven't read a lot of small town tropes but I'm sure I like small town tropes because I like small towns. I didn't grow up in one and I don't live in one but I've always loved the idea of one but really the the thing that won me over with this book is the fact that our small town grumpy man or small town guy is helping his grandma run their pie shop and I'm a sucker for bakery romances. I just I am such a sucker for bakery romances bakery more so than general cooking but I will read both so I'm just excited to put all those tropes together and hopefully it will be a lovely little romance. And finally in the month of September on the 27th we have The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novick. This is the third book in the Scholomance trilogy. The first one is A Deadly Education which I have read but I have not read the second one yet but it is a dark academia fantasy and I loved it very much. It was my favorite book of 2021 so it's kind of crazy that I haven't read the second book and now the third one is coming out so I need to catch up on those. Now funny thing is is I don't actually know of any books coming out in October. I just I haven't heard of any coming out in October so I don't have any here which is why I think it might be more beneficial for me to do more than just half the year and then the other half of the year because I'm sure there are books coming out in October that I would like and probably more in September especially in preparation for spooky season and you know a lot of books come out on a specific day in spring. I think it's either in April or May. I think it's like May 3 and then there is another one kind of in the fall before spooky season and I just feel like I don't know of enough books that are coming out. But yeah, long story short I got nothing for October so we're gonna move right on to November. So I know of two books coming out in November. They are both by the same author and I kind of can't believe that they have two books coming out in the same month and the books that they are. So Alyssa K Adams on November 1st has a very merry bromance which is the fifth book in the bromance book club series and I am really excited because I love that series, The Free Singer. I don't know, we'll see but whatever I'm excited for it to read and then the one I can't believe, Goodreads tells me this and Goodreads could be doing me wrong here but I believe on November 30th courting The Countess by Alyssa K Adams is coming out which is interesting. So yeah, those are all the books that I know of that I'm excited to read. I probably definitely won't get to them all because I'm really good at finding books that I want to read and then not reading them. Yeah, we love being a mood reader but yeah, so let me know if you like this video give it a thumbs up and then comment down below if there are any books that I missed, books that you know that are coming out soon, that you are excited to read or you think I would like to read. 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