2021 ARCS i’m excited for- blogmas day 15

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 15! today i am going to be talking about my ARCs for 2021 that i’m really excited. i honestly have a lot of ARCs, since i have zero self control, but i’m still so excited for.

the project by Courtney Summers. this book comes out February 2nd. this book is about Lo, who lost her parents, and also lost her sister to the Unity Project. this makes Lo the only caretaker of her great aunt. but, the Unity Project is this cult, who won everyone’s heart by being a ‘charity’ but there is more to them then what meets the eye. but, when a guy meets Lo, who says that the project killed his son, Lo sees this as the great opportunity to show what the group really is, and also get back to her sister. which, lets her met Lev Warren, who shows her more things then she would care to know.

she’s too pretty to burn by Wendy Heard. this book comes out March 30th. this book is honestly perfect for fans of the picture of Dorian Gray, but more queer. from what i can tell, this is summer romance between two girls. and once they are together, there is a fire, two murders, three drownings, and one suspect/stalker.

as far as you’ll take me by Phil Stamper. this book comes out February 9th. this is all about Marty, who goes to London with some savings and a couple of suitcases. but, with starting his new life, he can be no longer closeted, or the shy kids, and is free to explore his sexuality by himself. but, his life looks perfect; he has a bunch of friends while also getting close to getting a new boyfriend and also traveling threw Europe. but, it wasn’t that perfect, he hasn’t talked to her parents since he arrived and also blowing threw his saving and his anxiety is getting terrible, but he hasn’t even got the job of his dreams yet.

love is a revolution by Renee Watson. this book comes out February 2nd. this story is all about falling in love with yourself and being happy about being plus sized. Nala Robertson agrees to attend an open mic night at her cousins friends Imani’s birthday party, but once she gets there she falls in love with Tye Brown. he looks like the perfect boy, but he is spending the whole summer putting on events for the community, even though Nala would rather spend the summer watching movies and eating ice cream. but, Nala wants to impress Tye, so she comes up with some lies to get enough in common with him. they get to spend more and more time with her, those lies get harder and harder to keep up, but she falls deeper and deeper in love, she figures out that love is hard and that self love is a must.

like other girls by Britta Lundin. this book comes out August 21nd. this book is all about a teenage lesbian, Mara, who joins their high school football team, in which to inspire more and more girls to join the team. but also making the boys club to not be so popular.

meant to be: if the shoe fits by Julie Murphy. this book comes out August 3rd. this is all about Cindy, who graduated with a degree in shoe design, but in order to get her feet on the ground, she is working for her stepmother. but, her stepmother is the executive producer of everyone’s favorite reality show, before midnight. then a spot on the show opens up and Cindy volunteers, to hoping that she gets to jump start her fashion career this way. but, plus sized woman on a dating show, makes a massive splash. since Cindy gets to become the model of body positivity for woman. this makes Cindy learn that if the shoe doesn’t fit, you just need to make you own.

lore by Alexandra Bracken. this book comes out January 5th. Lore Perseous fled the world of the Greek Gods in the wake of her families murder by their rival line. completely turning her back on the hunt’s goal for eternal glory. she’s always pushed away the thought of revenge, until a god id responsible for the deaths. so, in New York, she is with her childhood best friend, Caster, and the hurt Athena, is one of the last original gods. Athena offers help against their enemy, and before everything can be behind them, her decision is changed by Athena and to rejoin the hunt at a very deadly cost. but, this still isn’t enough to stop all of the power.

city of villains by Estelle Laure. this comes out February 2nd. this is all about Mary Elizabeth Heart, who is a high school senior in the day, but at night she is an intern at the Monarch City police department. so, she watches the detectives fight the crime rate. and the cities wealth neighborhood called Scar, who had a bunch of magic. then the businessmen goes missing, and Mary Elizabeth gets the chance to help when she gets put on the case. but, one missing persons case becomes more and more, and lettings her go into a rabbit hole. that’s when she finds a girl with horns, boyfriends with secrets, and a sea monster in a poison lake. and this book is kind of a different origin story for different disney villains.

kisses and croissants by Anne-Sophia Jouhanneau. this book comes out April 6th. this is about 16 year old Mia, an American and is attending a ballet program, in Paris. but, then she meets a charming French boy, Louis, who gets to be her tour guide and also has some mysteries up his sleeve. this honestly gives me massive love and gelato and anna and the French kiss vibes.

shine your icy crown by Amanda Lovelace. this book comes out January 26th. there isn’t that much to say about this book, but it is a poetry book. this is a feminist story, about everything that it is like to be a female in 2020. and this story is honestly so good, and i really loved this story.

anyway, that is it for today! happy blogmas say 15! i honestly am really excited for all of these books, since they all sound so good and i cannot wait to get to these. hopefully before they come out.