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hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books coming out in august that i’m excited for. there honestly not as many as some of the other months but still a good amount. and plus one of my most anticipated releases comes out this month, which i’m just so excited for.

as good as dead by holly jackson. this comes out august 5th. 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.

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee. this book comes out august 3rd. felicity morrow is back at dalloway school. perched in the catskill mountains, the centuries old, ivy covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. she even as her old room in the godwin house, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by spirits of the five dalloway students, girls some say are witches, who mysteriously died, one after another, right on the godwin grounds. witchcraft is woven into dalloway’s history. the school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do, in secret rooms and shadowy corners, girl convene. and before her girlfriend died, felicity was drawn to the dark. she’s determined to leave that behind her now, all felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. but, it’s hard when dalloway’s occult history is everywhere, and when the new girl won’t let her forget. it’s ellis haley’s first year at dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following. a prodigy novelist at seventeen, ellis is a so called ‘method writer.’ she’s eccentric and brilliant, and felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. so when ellis asks felicity for help researching the dalloway five for her second book, felicity can’t say no. given her history with the arcane, felicity is the perfect resource.

how we fall apart by katie zhao. this book comes out august 17th. nancy luo is shocked when her former best friend, jamie ruan, top ranked junior at sinclair prep, goes missing, and then is found dead. nancy is even more shocked when word starts to spread that she and her friends, krystal, akil, and alexander, are the prime suspects, thanks to ‘the proctor,’ someone anonymously incriminating them via the school’s social media app. they all used to be jamie’s closest friends, and she knew each of their deepest, darkest secrets. now, somehow, the proctor knows them, too. the four must uncover the true killer before the proctor exposes more than they can bear and costs them more than they can afford, like nancy’s full scholarship. now, nancy suspects that her friends may be keeping secrets from her, too.

the woods are always watching by stephanie perkins. this book comes out august 31st. best friends, neena and josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. now, with college and two thousand mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together, a three day hike into the woods of the pisgah national forest. simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare, and then into something far worse. something that will test them in horrifying ways.

the perfect place to die by bryce moore. this book comes out august 3rd. zuretta never thought she’d encounter a monster, one of the world’s most notorious serial killers. she had resigned herself to a quiet life in utah. but when her younger sister, ruby, travels to chicago during the world fair, and disappears, zuretta leaves home to find her. but, 1890s chicago is more dangerous and chaotic than she imagined. she doesn’t know where to start until she learns of her sister’s last place of employment, a mysterious hotel known as ‘the castle.’ zuretta takes a job there hoping to learn more. and before long, she realizes the hotel isn’t what it seems. woman disappear at an alarming rate, she hears crying from the walls and terrifying whispers follow her at night. in the end, she finds herself up against one of the most infamous mass murderers in america history, in his custom built death trap.

eyes of the forest by april henry. this book comes out august 24th. bridget is RM haldon’s biggest fan. his epic fantasy series, swords and shadows, created a lifeline between bridget and her mom as she lost her battle with cancer. when bridget met haldon at his only book signing, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he’d created. bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write his final book. now, haldon is missing, and bridget is the only person who seems concerned.

the devil makes three by tori bovalino. this book comes out august 10th. tess matheson only wants three things: time to practice her cello, for her sister to be happy, and for everyone else to leave her alone. instead, tess finds herself working all summer at her boarding school library, shelving books and dealing with the intolerable patrons. the worst of them is eliot birch: snide, privileged, and constantly requesting forbidden grimoires. after a bargain with eliot leads to the discovery of an ancient book in the library’s grimoire collection, the pair accidently unleashes a book bound demon. the demon will stop at nothing to stay free, manipulating ink to threaten those tess loves and dismantling eliot’s strange magic. tess is plagued by terrible dreams of the devil and haunting memories of a boy who wears eliot’s face, all she knows is to stay free, the demon needs her, and he’ll have her, dead or alive.

the witch haven by sasha peyton smith. this book comes out august 31st. in 1911 new york city, 17 year old frances hallowell spends her days as a seamstress, mourning the mysterious death of her brother months prior. everything changes when she’s attacked and a man ends up dead at her feet, her scissors in his neck, and she can’t explain how they got there. before she can be condemned as a murderess, two cape wearing nurses arrive to inform her that she is deathly ill and ordered to report to haxahaven sanitarium. but, frances finds that haxahaven isn’t a sanitarium at all: it’s a school for witches. within the glittering walls, frances finds the sisterhood she craves, but the headmistress warms frances that magic of her school, and is instead enchanted by finn, a boy with magic himself who appears in her dreams and tells her he can teach her all she’s been craving to learn, lessons that may bring her closer to discovering what truly happened to her brother.

vampires, hearts, and other dead things by margie fuston. this book comes out august 24th. victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together, but when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it’s clear that’s not going to happen. instead, victoria vows to find a vampire herself, so that she can become one and then save her father. armed with research, speculations, and desperation, and helped by her estranged best friend, henry, victoria travels to new orleans in search of a miracle. there she meets nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. but first, he needs victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever. she agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal. but truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal. victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain, because the alternative is too impossible to imagine.

mark of the wicked by georgie bowers. this book comes out august 10th. all her life, matilda has been told one thing about magic: you use only when necessary. but, matilda isn’t interested in being a good witch, she wants revenge and popularity, and to live her life free of consequences, free of the scars that dark magic leaves on her face as a reminder of her misdeeds. when a spell goes awry and the new boy at school catches her in the act, matilda thinks her secrets might be out. but far from being afraid, oliver already knows about her magic, and he wants to learn more. as oliver and matilda grow closer, bizarre things begin to happen: animals show up with their throats slashed and odd markings craved into their bodies, a young girl dies mysteriously, and everyone blames matilda. but, she isn’t responsible, at least, not that she can remember. as her magic begins to spin out of control, matilda must decide for herself what makes a god witch and discover the truth, before anyone else turns up dead.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly am so excited for these books, and i honestly love when we get closer to the end of the year cause you get all the mystery books coming out. so, i honestly can’t wait to read more of these and just to get to all of these hopefully soon.

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.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i read this month. honestly, i had such a good reading month, and i honestly hope august is just as good since i have a lot of books i still want to read some of these.

just like heaven by julia quinn. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly loved this book so much and i honestly love marcus and honoria so much and they were just so cute together. and i honestly really loved the whole brother’s best friend plot line, and i just think that this book was done so well.

the girl in the headlines by hannah jayne. i gave this book 3/5 stars. first off, thank you so much for an arc! this book was honestly so stupid and i honestly hated the plot and the characters, and i just feel like this book was just not good, compared to some of the other ya mysteries. but, i do feel like the only good part of this book was that it was a very quick read, and honestly was very mindless.

yolk by mary hk choi. i gave this book 4/5 stars. honestly, i’m not sure what i expected for this book, but i thought that this book was about a bank robbery, and i honestly have no clue where i got that from, but, i mean, this was still a good book. and i think that it was a decent book, but also that i feel like there was so many plots going on in this book, instead of just the cancer plot or something.

one last stop by casey mcquiston. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book was honestly so disappointing, and i think that this book had so much potential but i feel like the paragraphs and chapter were just so big it honestly took so much away from the story. and i think the chapters were just so boring and that it made this story such a drag to get through. but, i do think the romance was still good, and i still liked that part at least.

the therapist by BA Paris. i gave this book 2/5 stars. first off, thank you so much for an arc of this book! i honestly didn’t really care for this book at all. like i feel like the main character lacked so much and was just plain stupid for most of this book and i think it was just so annoying and just pissed me off honestly. and i also like that so much of this book just didn’t make sense and the author really didn’t think some of this all threw.

life’s too short by abby jimenez. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this book was honestly so amazing, and i completely love this book and the characters and the plot so much. like, i honestly loved the romance and how much the two characters cared about each other and it honestly felt like they got to know each other in such a short about of time. and it was such an adorable story, which was so amazing.

between perfect and real by ray stoeve. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but i do feel like that this book was honestly good and it was a decent story and i liked the journey that dean went through for this story and the message it told. but, i mean, something just felt off for this story, and something was missing. like, i feel like it should have just been longer.

a good girl’s guide to murder by Holly Jackson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this is my fourth reread. honestly, this book was just so good and i honestly loved this story so much again. and i honestly loved ravi and pip so much more this time and they are honestly so cute together.

kate in waiting by Becky Albertalli. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly this book had so much potential, and i honestly really wished i liked this book, and i think that a lot of this audio book did take away from this book, since the narrators voice was just so annoying. but, i feel like this book was boring and that not a lot happened, which just pissed me off.

an emotion of great delight by tahereh mafi. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i personally really liked this book and i really liked the plot and what it told and tried to teach us. but, i feel like there was just so much time where the plot was literally all over the place and that i feel like this book just didn’t have that much plot and that it was just so all over the place.

good girl, bad blood by holly jackson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this is also my 4th reread. honestly, i loved this book so much, obviously. and i think that this book is so good and i honestly loved seeing ravi and pip in here again. and i honestly really liked ravi’s weird humor and how he was trying to be funny in here.

she drives me crazy by kelly quindlen. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly thought that this book was so good and that they were so cute with the enemies to lovers and fake dating, i thought it was just so cool. but, i do feel like that there should have been more parts of them actually together as a couple and not just fake dating and/or fighting.

the soulmate equation by christina lauren. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly thought that this book was really good, but not my favorite one of them. and i feel like the science and math talk was a bit to much at some times, since i literally understood like none of it. but, i do think jess and river do have a really cute romance, which was cute to read about.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had a good reading month and i honestly read so many good books this month, plus reread some that i really wanted to reread before the final book. and i honestly hope that i have this good of a reading month next month.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i’ve hauled in july, and i mean, i got quite a few books this month, so i am honestly really excited to read some of these in the next couple months, even if most of these are arcs, i’m honestly so excited for this.

safe in my arms by sara shepard. andrea, lauren and ronnie all see themselves as good and loving mothers, who are trying their best, but they all have something to hide. andrea is running away from her past on the east coast, which she does not want other parents to find out. and lauren is recovering from a postpartum condition her husband doesn’t want to talk about. and than ronnie is hiding herself and her daughter from the one man who can appear at any moment and ruin their lives. they all appear as imposters among the school’s community of polished parents. but, than notes appear in their children’s backpacks after the first day of school. and these notes talk about how someone who knows all of their secrets and needs them all gone.

56 days by catherine ryan howard. 56 days ago, ciara and oliver meet in a supermarket queue in dublin the same week covid reached the irish shores. 35 days ago, when lockdown threatens to keep them apart, oliver suggests that ciara moves in with him. she sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. he sees it as an opportunity to hide who, and what, he really is. today, detectives arrive at oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.

the meeting point by olivia lara. when maya maas gets a call from a lift driver, telling her that her boyfriend left his phone in the car, her world is turn upside down. having planned to surprise her boyfriend, she finds herself single and stranded in an unknown city on her boyfriend. so, when the mysterious driver rescues maya with the suggestion that she cheers herself up at a nearby beach town, she jumps at the chance to get things back on track. she wasn’t expecting a personalized itinerary or the easy companionship that comes from opening up to a stranger via text, let alone the possibility it might grow into something more.

the girl upstairs by georgina lees. i heard emily before i saw her. the harsh smack of heels against the cheap wooden floors, the loud phone calls, the incessant music. i knew emily before i met her, discarded receipts in our communal hallway, sticky leftovers in the shared food waste bin, wine shop vouchers in the letterbox. now, she’s gone missing, and i’m the only one that can find her, the only one who can save her. because i know her best, and i heard everything.

under the whispering door by tj klune. when a reaper comes to collect wallace price from his own funeral, wallace suspects he really might be dead. instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. on the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named hugo. hugo is the tea shop’s owners to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over but, wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. with hugo’s help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. when the manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives wallace on week to cross over, wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

full flight by ashley schummacher. everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the 43 members of the fighting enfield marching band, it’s contest season. and for new saxophonist anna james, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the greatest musician she’s trying to be. when she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player weston ryan, the boy her small minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. but as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too. after her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, together they learn what it truly means to fight for someone they love. with the marching contest nearing, and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and anna is left grappling for a way forward without weston.

lockdown on london lane by beth reekles. for the inhabitants of london lane, a simple slip of paper underneath each of their doors is about to change their lives in a hundred different ways. so, nowhere else to go, ethan and charlotte wonder whether absence really does make the heart grow founder when they end up on either side of a locked door. a fierce debate over pineapple on pizza ignites a series of revelations about zach and serena’s four year relationship. liv realizes rolling with the punches is sometimes much harder than it looks after her bridesmaid’s party goes off the rails. isla and dann’y new romance is put to the test as they jump ten steps ahead in the new relationships. and imogen and nate’ one night stand is about to get six do-overs they never really asked for.

the rumor game by dhonielle clayton and sona charaipotra. at foxham prep, a posh private school for the children of dc’s elite, a single rumor has the power to ruin a life. nobody knows that better than bryn. she used to have it all, a perfect boyfriend, a bright future in politics, and even popularity, thanks to her best friend and cheer captain, cora. then one mistake sparked a scandal that burned it all to the ground. now, it’s the start of a new school year and the spotlight has shifted: it’s geeky georgie, newly hot after a summer makeover, whose name is on everyone’s lips. when a rumor ignites, georgie rockets up the school’s society hierarchy, pitting her and cora against each other. it grants her foxham stardom, but it also makes her a target. as the rumors grow and morph, blazing like wildfire through the school’s social media, all three girl’s lives begin to unravel. but one person close to the drama has the power to stop the gossip in its tracks.

birthday by meredith russo. two kids, morgan and eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. we meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as eric figures out who he is and how he fits into the world, and as morgan makes the difficult choice to live as her true self. over the years, they will drift apart, come together, fight, make up, and break up, and ultimately realize how inextricably they are a part of each other.

sisters of the snake by sasha nanua and sarena nanua. princess rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. when these two lives collide, everything turns on its head: because ria and rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. a deal is struck to switch places, but danger lucks to both worlds, and to save their home, thief and princess must work together. or watch it all fall into ruin.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly got so many books this month which i’m so excited for, plus some of the arcs just sound so good and i honestly can’t wait to read these in the next couple of months.

hello everyone! today i am going to talk about luck of the titanic by stacey lee. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this was honestly such a good book and i honestly really liked this book so much. like, i feel that this book was so good and very sad, which i really didn’t expect it to end this way.

trigger warning- racism, death, racial slurs, addiction, alcoholism, confinement, death of a parent, sexual assault, xenophobia, grief.

honestly, this was such a good and beautiful and heartbreaking story. like, i never really expected this book to be so heartbreaking as it was, like i expected it to be heartbreaking since it is of course the titanic, so i expected it to be something. and i mean, i think this was just so cool because i feel like we don’t get to many titanic YA stories that aren’t non fiction. and i mean, i feel like this story was just so much of a fun take on this story and that it was really cool.

and i also loved the brother / sister bond in this story. like, it was honestly just so cool and i really liked to see them figure out their relationship and have them to do their thing and to figure out where they stand in their relationship. and also just to have them be twins honestly made them have more of a bond, which i think was so cool. and they also weren’t the most happy and well off siblings, cause they still had their issues and that they had their fights and different things like that. but, i also liked that they were in the circus, which i feel was so cool and made it so much fun.

but, i also really liked the found family vibe from this story. like, i feel like it was so cool to see jamie get closer to these men off the page, since they all work together, and than to watch val slowly getting closer to the men in then becoming this small little family. and i mean it was so cool to see them bond together and them to become this group. and that they all kind of fought and got on each others nerves, but they still were this little found family unit.

with that being said, i feel like this book didn’t have to much plot in this book. like, i feel that there was the whole plot about them on the titanic, which is a given in this book. like, i feel that this story was more focused on the found family aspect of it and that there was more time building up they characters and their personality, which i thought was still super cool. but, i feel like once the boat starts sinking, so maybe like the last 20% we got more of the plot of them doing their thing. so, i feel like if you want a more character heavy plot, this one is the right one for you.

but, i also feel like this book is very slow burning kind of plot. like, i mean, there isn’t to much plot to this story, and i feel like the plot though is very slow burning in away. like, i feel like there was a lot of build up to this titanic, but than i feel like the actual sinking was kind of not a lot of the plot. which, i feel like it was decent, but i mean, i feel like the sinking took like five seconds compared to the rest of the book.

and like, i feel like this book had all of this build up to the end of the book. like, i mean, i don’t like it’s a spoiler that the boat sinks, and i’ve also said it like five times. and i feel like the end of this book it had these plots about how it wasn’t the stereotypical version, and i feel like it was just really cool to not have it be all sunshine and rainbows, even if they all end in tragedy.

i also kind of liked that this book was all about grief and loss. like, not just because the titanic obviously sank, and their obviously a lot of grief there, but i feel like that getting plot about their mother and father who both died. and i mean, i do wish that we went a little more into that as a whole, but i still think seeing more grief than the one that was obviously in our face, i think it was honestly kind of good. and i feel like having more than one grief honestly made me like this so much more. and i also feel like the parents in this book honestly made this story really work, since i mean, if they didn’t die, i feel like it was so cool to see them really push them together, even if they are dead.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked this book and i thought this book was honestly really good and i honestly really liked the plot and everything with this book and i honestly am kind of excited to read more books by the author since i feel like it was just so good. and that it honestly just sounds so good, and also the research was just so amazing.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about fat chance charlie vega by Crystal Maldonado. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly didn’t really like this book, but i do think it was kind of decent, and i feel like this book could be the right book for someone, but i don’t think it was the best book in my mind.

trigger warning- fatphobia, body shaming, bullying, eating disorder, toxic relationship, grief, death of a parent, toxic friendship, emotional abuse, racism, sexual content.

honestly, one thing that i honestly really didn’t like of this book was that the audio book of this book sucked. like, i feel like the quality and the book and also that the production value was literally terrible. like, it honestly sucked and that there was all of these weird silent moments, and that the narrator just stopped talking, and than started talking really soft, so you would get this weird slow white noise and it honestly sucked which just took away from this book so much. and i honestly just feel like this just took way so much from the book.

but, i feel like i do feel like charlie was a little bit naive at some parts, but overall i did like the growth that she went through. and also like that she really has all these moments were she did grow and like became more self acceptant about her body and that she doesn’t let her mom or friend to tell her she should do with her body. and i mean, seeing her go through all of that and that she got to be more confident, which i honestly really liked.

and i also kind of liked to see the relationship between charlie and her mom. like, i feel like in YA books, the parents are always dead or like completely MIA for the whole book or they are super nice and helpful. so, to kind of see this middle ground in here, i really liked. and i honestly really liked to see her mom be difficult, and also like to see them drifting apart and all of that. and also just to see her mother make comments over and over again about her weight.

i also really liked seeing charlie get more and more confident over the book. like, i feel like there are so many books where the main characters are fat, but they aren’t the most confident about their bodies, or they have this motive about that they want to loose weight. but, i do like that we got to see charlie be very confident and to see her be confident about her body and that she doesn’t listen to the crap her mother tells her, like all of the shakes and the bad comments.

but, i will say, i do feel like charlie did annoy the hell out of me at some points. like, i feel like she was that person, one that we might all know, is that she always cared about herself and didn’t really care what was going on with her friends and that she was so into her life and that she didn’t really care about her friends. like, i feel that she was so caught up with all of her things, that amelia would talk about things and than charlie would be like ‘well yeah anyway this is happening to me.’ and it honestly just annoyed me so much and that charlie was so annoying.

besides that, i did like there relationship. like, i feel like they were honestly really cool and i really liked seeing them together was honestly kind of cute. and i feel like that they were honestly so cool to see amelia support charlie together, it was honestly really cool. and plus, i do feel like it was cool to see them not have always all these cute moments, and still have the harder moments. and i think it was cool because they were honestly just so realistic.

but, i do think that the writer of this book was so bad. like, i guess it’s just YA books in general that these adults don’t know how real teenagers talk and act, and that we just don’t say things like, shrug emoji, in real life. which, honestly got on my nerves. like, i really didn’t care about the writing since it was honestly just so cringey, and that it didn’t work. and also the author also talked in like ‘tbh’ and ‘lmao’ in the speaking parts, and not just in the text messages or something. so it honestly annoyed me so much.

there also was quite a bit of these ranty paragraphs about random things charlie thought about. like, for one, i found it all to be very telling not showing, but also it was also like the whole author doesn’t know how teenagers work kinda thing. but, it was just so weird cause we would get a play by play of everything, and not being kind of bouncey with what it came to when what they told us.

and at parts it also felt a bit to mature. like, i’m not quite sure this is going to make complete sense, but i feel like they would have these parts were charlie would do something or act a certain way that it just didn’t make sense in the content of the book. like, and i think those are mainly the ones with the body image parts, it just didn’t feel like away a teenager would talk about it all.

i also feel like we never got a resolution to the drama between charlie and her mom. like, i mean, i guess they did eat ‘actual food’ together, and in away i guess that can be the resolution. but, it still wasn’t the resolution i would have wanted, with like them agreeing not to push the shakes and maybe work out together, like they kind of did at the end, like three times a week or whatever. but, i really just wanted something more that we can pin point it being the resolution.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly did enjoy this book a little bit, nowhere thinking this is one of the better books i’ve read. but, i still like the message that it puts across. and that it overall was a pretty decent story. but, i mean, i think the terrible audiobook took a lot away from this story.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the girls i’ve been by tess sharpe. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, but i do feel like there are some parts of this book that i just didn’t like and i mean, i do think it was still a good book and i mean, i still can’t wait for this to become a movie.

trigger warnings- child abuse, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, physical abuse, violence, gun violence, sexual assault, blood, kidnapping, murder, pedophilia, toxic relationship, death, confinement, sexual assault, rape, medical content, gore, abortion, fire / fire injury, mental illness, vomit, grief, bullying, cursing, drug use, periods.

i honestly haven’t read to many survival stories, and this is probably my first big one. so, i don’t really have anything to compare it too. but, i mean, it was honestly so cool that it was this survival story about how they are being held captive, and to see what and how they can survive and how they can try and survive and not get hurt or die. and i honestly really liked it, and that we got to see this plot with them trying to survive in the bank and have this whole story that unfolds so well.

but, i honestly didn’t really like all of the back story that we got. like, feel like some of it was just so boring, and they would say something in the current day and than go back and reshow it to us back then, when it was honestly just kind of annoying and i honestly wish that they didn’t do so much back and forth, since it got to be kind of annoying. but, i do like with what it showed and the backstory about how this could work, but i still found it to be kind of boring.

i also really liked that this book also kind of goes into the recovery and the healing that goes through everything that happened in the start of her life. like, her recovering from her mom was honestly so great and i mean, they really did a great job at it all. and also, like it was all so raw and it felt real, which i honestly loved so much. and i honestly think the whole recovery part was honestly one of the best parts of this book, since it just felt so real and raw.

and also even if i didn’t really like the two time lines, especially the earlier plot. i honestly really liked the two timelines and how they were intertwined together. and i feel like it was done so well, even if the before was a bit weak, i really liked how they are honestly more on the edge of your seat, and that i really liked how they played out. and that they both were honestly so cool and that they both just felt real, even if the before wasn’t my favorite.

but, i also really liked that this book took place in a matter of hours, and then that it honestly felt like it took that many hours. and that they didn’t drag it out and make it be longer than it needed to be. which, i felt was honestly so good. since, a lot of them honestly feel like a lot of time heavy books that only take a couple hours feel like this took place in days instead of hours, so this was honestly just so cool and i really liked it.

and i honestly feel like the pacing of this book was honestly very good. like i said before, i do feel like some YA books have some pacing issues, but i feel like it was honestly done so well. and i mean, it was done very well and that it wasn’t boring or that it didn’t work. but, i feel like the pacing in this book was honestly very good, and kind of keeps you on the edge of your set, with having it all have small chapters and honestly having good writing, which was honestly so cool.

but, i would have liked more plot with iris and wes. like, i feel like most of this book was just nora being in this go go go mindset and that it was this one woman show. where, since they introduced these two characters in the start, i kind of expected them to have more plot with them, or at least the three always working together. but, i mean, it was still decent, but i think it could have been so much better if they were always working together and not just this one woman show throughout this whole book.

with that being said, i still feel like wes and iris were still very complex characters. like, we still got to see their backstories and their life before this bank heist and even got told before iris got into their life, which i think was so cool. and just knowing each of their backstories was so cool and i really liked seeing them not just as friends or (ex) love interests. and that they were actually complex and not just there because they are/were with nora in some way.

and also just that their relationships were honestly so well done. like, the characters weren’t just the ex or the girlfriend or the friend like some books are, especially YA books. and like to hear about nora and wes being friends while they also dating and that they don’t care if they dated cause they are still friends. and that them breaking up, or even nora coming out, didn’t break them, and that they are still this friendship.

i did though really like nora as a character. like, i feel like she was very kind of bad ass and not your cookie cutter YA heroine, which i do think was really cool. and i mean, she is one of those characters that you don’t really want to mess with cause she’ll kill you or at least beat you up. which, was so amazing, and that she didn’t let the trauma from her past stop her, which i think was so cool and that she was still breaking down her barriers.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked this book, and i honestly think it was so well done, and i feel like it was such an amazing book. but, i also can’t wait for the movie to come out, or at least to start be in production, since i feel like it would be so amazing. and i also am pretty excited to dive into this authors backlist, since i think it would be so good, even if it is half as good as this book.