thought I'd ease back into posting by telling you about some of the eagerly anticipated series' sequels
being released over the next few weeks. The top of the list is the third book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. Fans of this thrill-ride dystopian saga will have to wait until October for Allegiant,
I am Number Four, a hit sci-fi series by Pittacus Lore, has its next installment in The Fall of Five.
This action-packed series has lots of dedicated followers. By the way, aliens are the next big trend in YA publishing; I'll introduce some new books on this subject in an upcoming post.
Readers of fantasy adventure stories will likely be familiar with The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Book 12, I am Alice, is out this fall just in time for the movie version of the story, Seventh Son. The trailer looks amazing! Read the series before the movie arrives in theatres.
Alex Scarrow's exciting Time Riders series has a new book, The Mayan Prophecy. Even Skullduggery Pleasant continues his bone-rattling adventures in Last Stand of Dead Men.
Pretty Little Liars gets more complicated in Crushed, book 13 in Sara Shepard's long-running series. Ellen Hopkins, whose verse novels are deeply satisfying reads, will publish the prequel to her best-selling Crank; it's called Smoke and we'll have it on the shelves.
Sarah Porter's mermaid trilogy started with Lost Voices and now ends with The Twice Lost. Croak, a surprisingly funny story about grim reapers, by Gina Damico is getting a third installment in Rogue.
Need more zombies? Jonathan Maberry's violent and creepy horror series spirals even further into darkness with Fire & Ash. Ilsa J. Bick began her series with Ashes and finishes the trilogy with Monsters. Fans of apocalypse fiction should check out these books!
There are no better spy-thriller stories than Cherub by Robert Muchamore or the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Both series have sequels arriving this fall: Cherub continues in Black Friday and
Alex Rider fights for his life in Russian Roulette.
Manga readers, you haven't been forgotten. When you check the shelves in September, you will find more volumes of Naruto, Black Butler, Sailor Moon, and One Piece!
Take the new poll on the right. If there are any series' sequels that you are looking for that I haven't mentioned here, please add the titles in a comment, so I can be sure to look for them.
In the next post, I'll introduce new books and series by familiar, beloved authors.
