There are sooooooo many books that I am just dying to read this year. If you need proof, check my Most Anticipated 2018 Releases master page. I am in awe of authors in general, but I know that writing your second book can almost be harder than writing the first. These are the books that I’m praying to God don’t fall to the sophomore slump. I have the utmost faith in all of these authors–their debuts were AMAZING and these second novels look incredible…
PS These are also all standalones, a series edition will be coming soon 🙂
99 PERCENT MINE by Sally Thorne
Official Description: No synopsis yet. How mysterious. I’m still pumped.
Release Date: October 2, 2018 by HarperCollins
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Official Description: Seventeen-year-old Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. Whether it’s as minor as her favorite food, or as important as her sexuality, she often feels lost in a world that’s just too big for her. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.
But then Lea dies in a tragic accident, and her mother sends her to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the “boys next door”—a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn’t take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago—Rumi tries to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.
Release Date: Fall 2018 by Simon Pulse
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde
Official Description: As a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. But there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital and her girlfriend in jail, she’s branded the latest tabloid train wreck.
Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Keep. Kissing.
Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own?
Release Date: May 22, 2018 by Swoon Reads
What second novels are you looking forward to?