hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i want to read this month. honestly, there is so many i want to read, so i’m just going to talk about some of them, since i have a very long list, and also one of my most anticipated release is coming out this month, which i’m so excited for.
as good as dead by holly jackson. pip fitz-amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended, and soon she’ll be leaving for cambridge university, but than another case finds her, and this time, it’s all about her. pip is used to the online death threats, but there’s one that catches her eye, someone who keeps asking, ‘who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?’ and it’s not just online, pip has a stalker who knows where she lives. the police refuse to act and than pip finds connections between the stalker and a local serial killer. the killer has been in prison for six years, but pip suspects the wrong man is behind bars. as the deadly game plays out, pip realizes that everything in little kilton is finally coming full circle. and if pip doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears.
kill joy by holly jackson. pip fitz- amobi does not want to go to her friends 1920’s fancy dress murder mystery party. and pretending their town, little kilton, is an island called Joy. but, as a game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the made up world of murder, intrigue, and deception. but, the case of Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind.
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.
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.
the atlas six by olivie blake. the alexandrian society, caretakers of the lost knowledge from the greatest civilization of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. those who earn a place among the alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the sex most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. enter the latest round of six: libby rhodes and nico de varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. reina mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. parisa kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. callum nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. finally, there is tristan caine, who can see through illusions to new structure of reality, which is so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.
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.
serpent and dove by shhelby mahurin. two years ago, louise le blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of ceasarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. there, witches like lou are hunted, they are feared, and they are burn. sworn to the church as a chasseur, reid diggory, has lived his life by one principle, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. his path was never meant to cross with lou’s, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union, holy matrimony. the war between witches and church is an ancient one, and lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made. and love makes fools of us all.
from blood and ash by jennifer l. armentrout. chosen from birth to usher in a new era, poppy’s life has never been her own. the life of the maiden is solitary, never to be touched, never to be looked upon, never to be spoken to, never to experience pleasure. waiting for the day of her ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family than preparing to be found worthy by the gods, but the choice has never been her. the entire kingdom’s future rests on poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not ever quite sure she wants for herself. because a maiden has heart, and a soul, and longing. and when hawke, a golden eyed guard honor bound to ensure her ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty becomes tangled with desire and need. he incites her anger, making her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with forbidden.
it’s in his kiss by julia quinn. gareth st. clair is in a bind. his father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. gareth’s sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may no contain the secrets of his past, and the key to his future. the problem is, it’s written in italian, of which gareth speaks not a word. now, all of the ton agrees that there is on one quite like hyacinth bridgerton. she’s fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according to gareth, probably best in small doses. but, there’s something about her, something charming and vexing, that grabs him and won’t quite let go, or don’t. but, rest assured, he’s spinning in his grave when gareth and hyacinth cross paths at the annual, and annually discordant, smythe smith musicale. to hyacinth, gareth’s every word seems to dare, and she offers to translate his diary, even though her Italian is slightly less than perfect. but, as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek lie not in the diary, but in each other. and that there is nothing as simple, or as complicated, as a single, prefect kiss.
on the way to the wedding by julia quinn. unlike most men of his acquittance, gregory bridgerton believes in true love and he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one, and that is exactly what happened. expect, she wasn’t the one. in fact, the ravishing miss hermione watson is in love with another, but her best friend, the ever practical lady lucianda abernathy, wants to save hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help gregory win her over. but, in the process, lucy falls in love with gregory, expect, lucy is in engaged. and her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. and now, on the way to the wedding, gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man at the alter.
we can’t keep meeting like this by rachel lynn solomon. Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in the business together for years, Quinn’s parents are wedding planners and Tarek’s own a catering company. at the end of the summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email, and then he left for college without a response. of course, Quinn has been dreading him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents’ wedding. and when he shows up to the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek’s always loved the grand gestures in weddings- the flashier, the better, while Quinn can’t see them as anything but fake. even as they can’t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn’s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman. Quinn can’t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth after his silence, opens up about her own fears and being learning the art of harp.
when you get the chance by tom ryan and robin stevenson. as kids, mark and his cousin, talia, spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in ontario, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. and living on opposite coast, mark in halifax and talia in victoria, they haven’t seen each other in years. when their grandfather dies unexpectedly, mark and talia find themselves reunited at the cottage once again, cleaning it out while the family decides what to do with it. mark and talia are both queer, but they soon realize that’s about all they have in common, other than the fact that they’d both prefer to be in toronto. talia is desperate to see her high school sweetheart, erin, who barely been in touch since leaving to spend the summer working at a coffee shop in the gay village. mark, on the other hand, is just looking for some fun, and toronto pride seems like the perfect place to find it.
the lucky list by Rachael Lippincott. this book comes out June 1st. Emily and her mom were always lucky, until Emily’s mom got cancer 3 years ago, the luck ran out and nothing has felt right. now, the summer before senior year, things could not get worst: she wrecked things with her boyfriend, matt, and her dad is selling the house she grew up in and is selling her mothers things. and the only person she can talk to is Blake, a girl she barely knows since she and her dad moved back to town. but, when emily finds the list, her mom’s senior year summer bucket list, buried in the back of her closet, and when Blake suggests Emily take it on, the two set out on a journey to tick each box and help emily face her fears over losing her connection to her mom. and as she starts to get closer to her mother, so does emily bond with Blake deepen into something she wasn’t expecting.
the downstairs girl by stacey lee. by day, 17 year old jo kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in atlanta. but, by night, jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper column for the genteel southern lady, dear miss sweetie. when her column gets wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. while her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of miss sweetie, a mysterious letter sets jo off on a search for her own past and parents who abandoned her as a baby. but, when her efforts put her in a crosshairs of atlanta’s most notorious criminal, jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadow, is ready to step into the light.
anyway, that is all for today! i am honestly so excited to read these and hopefully like these a lot, since i feel like they all sound so good, which, i’m so excited to get into soon. and plus, i still need to read all of my arcs, which i didn’t include in here.
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