june tbr

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i want to read in june. honestly, there is quite a few books, since i do want to read a ton this summer, and i want to crack down on some of the arcs i have or books that i’ve been putting off for awhile.

faking reality by Sara Fujimura. this book comes out July 13th. after ‘the great homecoming disaster” Dakota McDonald swore that she’d never allow her romantic life to be the lot of her parents’ HGTV show ever again. but, then when a restaurant run by the family of her best friend, and secret crush, Leo, is on the line, she goes back on her own word. Leo Matsuda dreams of leaving his small Arizona life and the demands of working at his families restaurant, but the closer to the goal, thanks to the help of his secret crush, Dakota, the more reasons for him to stay.

the girl in the headlines by Hannah Jayne. this comes out July 6th. when Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her 18th birthday, she has a perfect life: high school field hockey star, a big sister, the daughter of two beloved parents. but, then she wakes up in a motel room the next morning, she has no clue what happened the pervious night, but she is covered in blood, and now a fugitive. on the news, they report her father is dead, her mother is in a coma, and her little brother is missing, and of course, Andi is the prime suspect. she’s scared and on the run from the police, she teams up with Nate, the boy working the front desk, to find the real killers. but, as the police get farther and farther from the killer, the closer and closer it gets to Andi.

swallow by Sam Schill. this book comes out July 27th. the students at Roanoke High School have created a soundtrack that is constantly in Mildred Waco’s mind, change your hair, change your face, change your body, everyone hates you, you shouldn’t wear that. there are stares, snickers, and the teasing, all with Mildred’s own self doubt and parents that are never around, takes a toll. when she finds a magic shop, she decides that she will no longer endure the bullying and buys a revenge curse. but, as she looses her memory, and Roanoke students are brutally murdered, she realizes she bought more then she would ever bargain for.

creatures of the night by Grace Collins. this book comes out July 13th. on Milena’s 20th birthday, it is the day that she will join the ranks of the village hunters, this should have been the best day of her life. becoming a hunter would mean that she could protect her village from wolves who take human form, but when she meets Elias, the leader of the creatures, she is questioning everything that she always thought was true. until now, Elias has protected the pack and kept the secrets hidden. now, as tension grows between the groups, he is forced to make a hard decisions, something that will cost lives, nobody is safe, especially Milena, who he is drawn to and could destroy them both.

summer in the city of roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil. this comes out July 6th. her whole life, 17 year old Iph, has protected her younger brother, Orr. but, this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it’s time for 15 year old Orr to grow up and sends him to a wilderness boot camp. when the father brings Iph to a work gala downtown and tells him he already left against his will, she is furious at her fathers betrayal and storms off an gets lost in a maze of Old Town. but, George, a queer robin good, who swoops in on bicycle, with bow and arrow and all, offers to help Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down her brother. in the meantime, Orr has escaped the camp and is now with the Furies, and all girl punk band, and sleeps into a coat closet in their pink house. now, Iph and Orr need to navigate their new spaces of music, romance, and sex work activism and find each other.

the therapist by BA Paris. this book comes out July 13th. when alice and leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. but, appearances can be deceptive. as alice is getting to know her neighbors, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begin to feel a strong connection with nina, the therapist who lived there before. but, as alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. but, no one wants to talk about it, her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as prefect as they seem.

only the pretty lies by Rebekah Crane. convention doesn’t mean much in Alder Creek, but neither does it in the Westmore’s family either. as a daughter of a message therapist and pothead artist, and the inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and ending her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. but, everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door, who happens to be Amoris first crush and their last goodbye still stings, and now bittersweet memories still hang. but, since Jamison is one of the only Black kids in this town, he sees the town completely different, and now encourages Amoris to look a little closer, and as a racist mural gets revealed, everything in her world get flips upside down.

a pho love story by Loan Le. if Bao Nguyen had to talk about himself he would say he is rock, steady and strong, but not very interesting, his grades aren’t that good, his social status is unremarkable. but, he works at his parents pho restaurant, and he is his parents fifth favorite employee. then there is Linh Mai and if she had to describe herself she would say a firecracker, stable when unlit, but full of potential joy and fire, she loves art and dreaming of doing art for a living. but, her parents rely on her in ways she doesn’t want to admit, basically working full time at her families pho restaurant. but, their families don’t get along since they are owners of neighboring pho restaurants. and Bao and Linh have been avoiding each other, but they both suspect their families feud stems from feeling much deeper then a friendly competition.

house of hollow by Krystal Sutherland. as a 17 year old, Iris Hollow has always been stranger, something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were kids, but they can’t really remember anything about it, but they have a small identical half moon scar at the base of their throats. but, when her sister Grey goes missing, Iris learns how weird her life can actually get.

lost in the never woods by Aiden Thomas. it’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when children in the town start to disappear, the question around her brothers’ mysterious disappear, the questions get brought back to light. attempting to run away from her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the rode and gets pulled into the haunting mystery in the town. Peter, a boy she thought lived only in stories, claims that if they don’t do something, the missing children will meet the same fate as her brothers. in order to find them and rescue the missing kids, Wendy needs to confront what’s waiting for her in the woods.

luck of the titanic by Stacey Lee. 17 year old British-Chinese, Valora Luck, has quit her job and smuggled herself on the Titanic, with two goals in mind: reunite with her twin brother, Jamie- her only family now that her parents are both dead, and to convince a circus to take them both on as acrobats. with quick thinking, Val is now on the first class accommodations and finds Jamie with a group of Chinses laborers in 3rd class. but, with this new found luxury liner, Val can only hope that her brother will go along with her, after not seeing her for two years. but, on one moonless night, the unthinkable happens, Val and her companions need to find a way to race to survival.

just like heaven by Julia Quinn. Honoria Smythe-Smith is a really bad violinist, still miffed by the nickname “bug” as a child, not in love with her older brothers best friend, but that is all of the above. Marcus Holroyd is the Earl of Chatteris, regrettably prone to sprained ankles, not in love with his best friend’s younger sister, but it is all of the above. so, together, they eat a whole lot of chocolate cake, survive a deadly fever and the world’s worst musical performance, and fall quite desperately in love, which all of the above is true.

we hunt the flame by Hafsah Faizal. Zafira is the Hunter, disgusted as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. if Zafira was exposed as a girl, all her achievements would be rejected, and if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. both of them are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya, but neither want to be. but, as war is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. when Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the hunter.

not my problem by Ciara Smyth. Aideen has a lot of problems she can’t fix, her best and only friend is pulling away, her mother’s drinking problem is always a problem, and she’s running out of different diseases to fake so she can get out of PE. but, when Aideen finds her nemesis and overachiever Meabh Kowalski, in the middle of a full blown meltdown, she sees that unlike her own life, it is easy to solve. Meabh is desperate to leave her crushing pile of extracurriculars, and with Aideen volunteers to help, and pushes her down the stairs so she can sprain her ankle, the perfect excuse to ditch her overwhelming schedule. but, as another students learns of this little game and brings Aideen another ‘client’ who needs help, it creates a whole semester of traded favors, ill- advised hijinks, and an unexpected chance at love.

the gilded wolves by Roshani Chokshi. in 1889, the city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure- hinter and wealthy hotelier severin montagnet alarie. when the elite, ever powerful order of babel coerces him to help them on a mission severin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. to hunt down the ancient artifact the order seeks , severin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: an engineer with a debt to pay, a historian banished from his home, a dancer with a sinister past and a brother in arms if not blood.

life’s too short by Abby Jimenez. vanessa lives life on her own terms, one day at a time and everyday to the fullest. she isn’t willing to waste a moment or miss out on an experience when she has no idea whether she shares the same fatal genetic condition as her mother. besides, she has way to much to do, travel the globe and showing her millions of youtube followers the joy in seizing every moment. but, when her half sister leaves Vanessa in custody of her infant daughter, she is housebound, on mommy duty for the foreseeable future, and is feeling totally out of her element, but, the last person she expects to show up offering help is the unbelievably hot lawyer who lives next door, Adrian Copeland. she barely knows him, till they get closer, Vanessa realizes that her carefree ways and his need for structured plan could never be compatible for the land term. then again, she should know better than anyone that life’s too short to fear of taking a big risk.

now, i’m going to list some more books i want / have to read this month.

• from blood and ash
• excuse me while i ugly cry
• the soulmate equation
• twice shy
• sawkill girls
• between perfect and real
• tell me you feel something
• instruction for dancing
• never kiss your roommate
• a chorus rises
• 15,000 miles from the sun
• it’s in his kiss
• on the way to the wedding
• happily ever after

anyway, that is all for today! i know it is a lot of books, and i probably won’t get to a lot of them, but i mean, at least i know what i can read. and also, most of them are romance, so those are easier to read propose to the fantasy. but, i might also dnf a couple of them, so it will be easier.