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hello everyone! today i’m going to be talking about kate in waiting by Becky Albertalli. i gave this book 2/5 stars. i honestly hated this book and i feel like the plot was just so boring and the narrator of this book it was so terrible, and their voice was just nails on a chalkboard, so i really didn’t like it.

trigger warning- bullying, cursing, homophobia, bullying, alcohol, drug use, toxic friendship, transphobia, body shaming, panic attacks/disorders, emotional abuse.

this is honestly kind of petty, but i feel like i just need to talk about this since it happened so much that it annoyed me. but, i really hated how every ten seconds that albertalli said ‘fuckboy’ or ‘f-boy’ every single second. and i really don’t care how authors use different words, or what they call different people, with in reason. but, i feel like in here, they dropped that work every freaking page. and i feel like they used this word so so much, that it just made me want to hit my head on the desk.

and also, it kind of annoyed me how they called every single guy, who wasn’t the drama geeks, a fuck boy. and i feel like it was just so annoying, since they just used them so much and how they called every single person that, it was annoying. and i feel like they should have 100% taken it down a little bit. and i feel like they should have just changed i and not make it so annoying, and just not have every single guy by a fuckboy.

and of course, we needed to have some girl x girl hate, so throughout the book we got these characters, we of course had to have the girls called fuck girls or f-girls. so, we kind of got based the ‘basic’ words, skanks and whores, we now have this. but, like i said before, it annoyed the hell out of me, but i also feel like it was so unneeded because the girl on girl hate just annoyed me and just made me so angry and stuff. since, i feel like it was just so unneeded and stuff. and like if you took a shot every time they said some version of the word, you’re liver would give out.

and i honestly don’t mind swearing in YA books, like teens swear so i don’t have an issue with that at all, but i feel like this was the author trying to write like a teenager and be relatable and stuff, but it honestly didn’t work out ay all. and i’m not sure how accurate this is, since my notes for this book is all over the place, but i also think kate called her friends ‘the squad’ which is so weird and random, and it’s like this isn’t 2013, nobody talks like that anymore.

with that being said, i do feel like the representation of this book was honestly really good. like they had queer rep, one of her friends was trans, and another character was in a wheelchair. and i feel like it was just so good and i feel like it just is always so cool to see books with that type of rep. and also, i believe kate does have anxiety, and i also think that other characters did deal with anxiety too, and also most, if not all, of the characters were jewish, which is also cool for a YA book.

and i also really did like the family in this book. like, i feel like seeing them all interact just did feel real, and seeing all of them have issues and then get over it, i think it still was really cool. and i really liked seeing kate and each of her parents interact and seeing who she likes more and how she can interact with each of them. and i think my favorite thing about this book was that it was just natural and that they all have real human issues.

with that being said, i do feel like there were so many people in this book, side character wise, and most of them had basic male names, that they all blurred together. it might just be because they all were kind of boring and kind of a copy and paste of each other, and none of them were actually that memorable or anything like that. and i feel like it was just kind of annoying and i feel like it was just kind of a mess.

and also i feel like a lot of the characters were just so flat for me, like with such a grand cast of characters, who are all different and stuff, i kind of expected something more. like, i feel like the crush was honestly a mess and really took away from it all. and with all her friends, they were just boring and they didn’t really have to much things happening and just something that i couldn’t get behind all of them.

i also feel like that there were so much plot about how they talked about how they went to camp and like i feel like they brought so many things up that never really explained it, and i feel like they did kind of explain things, but not enough for people to actually explain it all and to tell things about their past and just other things like that, or at least explain it all and just to not have so many things a mystery.

but, than we did get some plot about kate and anderson, who i don’t like together at all. like, i feel like the biggest thing to me was that they were just so toxic and they were just so mean to each other that it was just gross. and i mean, with them having two crushes, i feel like they were just so rude to each other that i literally hated seeing them together. and the love triangles about it all, and i feel like it was just so stupid and gross.

with that being said, i feel like this book was just the same thing over and over again, which was annoying. like, i kate and anderson would have some stupid little ‘romantic moment’ with matt, and then the other person would get pissed and then just argue about it over and over again. then they would choose that they would hash it out and talk about it all, then they choose that yes, they were mean and that they needed to grow up a bit. an then it was just a consistent cycle, and this wasn’t healthy at all, and i mean, it’s not a good way to have friends and treat people. and also how they talked about how they wanted to be friends and nice, but then they would just argue and fight over and over again, and i honestly hated it so much.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly didn’t like this book at all, and i feel like it was just kind of a mess, and i feel like it was just so boring and that the book was honestly not for me and that i honestly don’t like this authors books at all, so i probably shouldn’t read them anymore.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about some books that are coming out this month that i’m excited for. there is honestly a lot of books this month, which is so cool. and also that a lot of these are mystery/thriller books, which i’m so excited for.

once upon a broken heart by stephanie garber. this comes out september 28th. evangeline fox was raised in her beloved father’s curiosity shop, where she grew up on legends about immortals, like the tragic prince of hearts. she knows his powers are mythic, his kiss is worth dying for, and that bargains with him rarely ends well. but, when evangeline learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, she becomes desperate enough to offer the prince of hearts whatever he wants in exchange for his help to stop the wedding. the prince only asks for three kisses. but after evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that the prince of hearts wants far more from her than she’s pledged. and he has plans for evangeline that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy.

the hawthorne legacy by jennifer lynn barnes. this comes out september 7th. as the heiress, avery grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions, including why tobias hawthorne left his entire fortune to avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters and grandsons. but, thanks to dna test, avery knows that she’s not a hawthrone by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. as they mystery grows and the plot thickens, grayson and jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull avery in different directions. and there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see avery out of the picture.

iron widow by xiran jay zhao. this book comes out september 21st. the boys of huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the great wall. it doesn’t matter that girls often die from the mental strain. when 18 year old zetian offers herself up as a concubine pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. but, she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected, she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. she is labeled as iron widow, a much feared and much silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up chrysalises instead. to tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with li shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in huaxia. but, now that zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. she will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way, and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

the lost girls by sonia hartl. this book comes out september 14th. when elton irving turned holly liddell into a vampire in 1987, he promised her eternal love. but, 34 years later, elton has left her, her hair will be crimped for the rest of immortality, and the only job she can get as a forever sixteen year old is the midnight shift at taco bell. holly’s afterlife takes an interesting turn when, she meets rose mckay and ida ripley. having also been turned and discarded by elton, rose in 1954 and ida, his ex fiancée, in 1921, they want to help her and ask for her help in return. rose and ida are going to kill elton before he turns another girl. though holly is hurt and angry with elton for tossing her aside, she’s reluctant to kill her ex, until holly meets parker kerr, the new girl elton has set his sights on, and feels a quick and nerve wracking attraction to her.

white smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson. this book comes out september 14th. marigold is running from ghosts. the phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small california beach town to the embattled midwestern city of cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. her mom has accepted a new job with the sterling foundation that comes with a free house, one that mari now has to share with her bratty 10 year old stepsister, piper. the renovated picture perfect home on maple street, sitting between dilapidated house, surrounded by wary neighbors has its secrets. that’s only half the problem, household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only mari can seem to notice. worse: piper keeps talking about a friend who wants mari gone. but, ‘running from ghosts’ is just a metaphor, right?

so many beginnings by bethany c morrow. this book comes out september 7th. north carolina, 1863. as the american civil war rages on, the freedom’s colony of roanoke island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the old life. it is where the march family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters. meg, a teacher who longs to find love and start a family of her own. jo, a writer whose words are too powerful to be contained. beth, a talented seamstress searching for a higher purpose. amy, a dancer eager to explore life outside her family’s home.

a dark and starless forest by sarah hollowell. this book comes out september 14th. derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the late, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says it’s for their own good. after all, the world isn’t safe for people with magic. derry feels safe, well most of the time. until the night her eldest sister disappears. jane and derry swore to each other that they’d never go into the forest, not after their last trip ended in blood, but derry is sure she saw jane walk into the trees. when another sibling goes missing and frank’s true colors start to show, feeling safe is no longer an option. derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. even if that means returning to the first that has started calling to derry in her missing siblings’ voice.

all these bodies by kendare blake. this book comes out september 21st. summer 1598- a string of murders plagues the midwest. the victims are found in their cars and in their homes- even in their beds- their bodies drained, but no blood anywhere. september 19- the carlson family is slaughtered in their minnesota farmhouse, and the case gets its first lead: 15 year old marie catherine hale is found at the scene. she is covered in blood from head to toe, and at first she’s mistaken for a survivor, but not a drop of blood is hers. michael jenson, son of the local sheriff, yearns to become a journalist and escape his small town. he never imagined that the biggest story in the country would fall into his lap, or that he would be pulled into the investigation, when marie decides that he is the only one she will confess to.

act cool by tobly mcsmith. this book comes out september 7th. aspiring actor, august greene, just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious school of performing arts in new york. there’s only one problem: his conservative parents won’t accept that he’s transgender. and to stay with his aunt in the city, august must promise them that he won’t transition. august is convinced he can play the part his parents want while acting cool and confident in the company of his talented new friends.

it all comes back to you by farah naz rishi. this book comes out september 14th. after kiran noorani’s mom died, kiran vowed to keep her dad and her sister, amira, close. then out of the blue, amira announced that she’s dating someone and might move cross country with him. kiran is thrown. deen malik is thrilled that his older brother, faisal, has found a great girlfriend, even if it’s getting serious quickly. maybe now, their parents’ focus will shift off deen, who feels intense pressure to be the perfect son. when deen and kiran come face to face, they silently agree to keep their past a secret. four years ago, before their siblings met, kiran and deen dated. but, deen ghosted kiran with no explanation, kiran will stop at nothing to find out what happened, and deen will do anything, even if it means sabotaging his brother’s relationship, to keep her from reaching the truth.

not here to be liked by michelle quach. this book comes out september 14th. eliza quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. that is, until ex jock, len dimartile decided on a whim to run against her. suddenly, her vast qualifications means squat because inexperienced len, who is tall, handsome, and male, just seems more like a leader. when eliza’s frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those two who believe she’s gender equality champion and others who think she’s simply crying misogyny.

the corpse queen by Heather Herrman. this book comes out september 14th. soon after her best friend, kitty, mysteriously died, orphaned seventeen year old molly green sent away to live with her ‘aunt.’ with no relations that she knows of, molly assumes she has been sold as free domestic labor for the prince of an extra donation in the church orphanage’s offers. such a thing is not unheard of. there are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s philadelphia. only, when molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real, exceedingly wealthy, and with secrets of her own. secrets and wealth she intend to share, for a price. molly’s estranged aunt, ava, has built an empire by robbing graves and selling the corpses to medical students who need bodies to practice surgical procedures. and she wants molly to help her procure the corpses. as molly learns her aunt’s trade in the dead of night and explores the mansion by day, she is both horrified and deeply intrigued by the anatomy lessons held at the old church on her aunt’s property. enigmatic doctor lasalle’s lessons are a heady mixture of knowledge and power and molly has never wanted anything more than to join his male only group of students. but, the cost of inclusion is steep with a murderer loose in the city, the pursuit of power and opportunity becomes a deadly dance.

anyway, that is all for today! there is honestly so many good books coming out this month, which i’m so excited for and i can’t wait to read these books. and plus some of them just sound so good, which i’m so excited to read them.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i want to read in september. it is honestly so crazy that i this i’m writing this for september since i feel like it is still january, which i crazy that we are in the last half for 2021.

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid. malibu: august, 1983. it’s the day of nina riva’s annual end of the summer party, and the anticipation is at a fever pitch. everyone wants to be around the famous rivas: nina, the talented surfer and supermodel, brothers jay and hud, one a championship surfer and the other a photographer, and their little sister, kit. together, the siblings are a source of fascination in malibu and the world over, especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, mick riva. the only person not looking forward to the party of the year is nina herself, who never really wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. and maybe hud, because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. jay, who is counting the minutes until nightfall when the girl he can’t stop thinking about, will be there. and kit, with many secrets of her own, including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. and by midnight, the party will be completely out of control. by morning, the riva mansion will have gone up in flames. but, before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

people we meet on vacation by emily henry. poppy and alex, alex and poppy. they have nothing in common. she’s a wild child; he wears khakis. she has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. and somehow, ever since a fateful car chare home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. for most of year they lived far apart, she’s in new york and he’s in their small hometown, but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. until, two years ago, when they ruined everything. they haven’t spoken since. poppy has everything she could ever want, but she’s stuck in a rut. when someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with alex. and so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together, lay everything on the table, make it all right, and miraculously, he agrees. now, she has a week to fix everything. if only she can get around one big truth has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship.

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.

loveless by alice oseman. georgia has neve been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush, but as a fanfic obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day. as she starts university with her best friends, pip and jason, in a whole new town far from home, georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight. but, when her roommate plan wrecks havoc amongst her friends, georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. with new terms thrown at her, asexual, aromantic, georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.

the deal by elle kennedy. hannah wells has finally found someone who turns her on. but while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. if she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice, even if it means tutoring the annoying and childish and cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. all garrett graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. if helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. but, when one unexpected kiss leads on the wildest sex of both of their lives, it doesn’t take long for garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. now, he just has to convince hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.

the spanish love deception by elena armas. catalina martian, finally, not single. her family is happy to announce that she will bring her american boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. everyone is invited to come and witness that most magical event of the year. which, would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small spanish town i came from. or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call. four weeks wasn’t a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic, from new york all the way to spain, for a wedding. let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. but that didn’t mean i was desperate enough to bring the 6’4 blue eyed pain in the ass. aaron blackford, the man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. and much to total despair, which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma.

desperate measures by katee robert. one night, and my entire life went up in flames. all because of him, jafar. as my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. walk away with nothing by my freedom, or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. i bargained, i lost. now, jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when i break them. but a gilded cage is still a prison, i’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. even betray the man i’m falling for.

heart bones by colleen hoover. life and a dismal last name are the only two things beyah grim’s parents ever gave her. after carving her path at all on her own, beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. with only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves beyah with no place to go during the interim. focused to reach out to her last resort, beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in texas with a father she barely knows. beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seeminglessly, but her new neighbor samson throws a wrench in that plan. samson and beyah have nothing in common on the surface. she comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilaged. but one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad thing. which means, they’re drawn to each other. with an almost immediate connection to intense for them to continue denying, beyah and samson agrees to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling.

a night like this by julia quinn. anne wynter might not be who she says she is, but she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. her job can be a challenge, in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy, or might not be a comedy, no one is sure, and is tending to the wounds of the oh so dashing earl of winstead. after years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman. daniel smythe smith might be in mortal danger, but that’s not going to stop the young earl from falling in love and when he spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten year old who thinks she’s a unicorn. but daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. and when anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending.

the sum of all kisses by julia quinn. hugh prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if lady sarah pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she’s long since tossed them out the window. besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like sarah, much less dream of marrying her. sarah had never forgiven hugh for the duel he fought that nearly destroyed her family. but even if she could find a way to forgive him, it wouldn’t matter. she doesn’t care that his leg is less than perfect, it’s his personality she can’t abide. but, forced to spend a week in close company they discover that first impressions are not always reliable. and when one kiss leads to two, three, and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless.

the secrets of richard kenworthy by julia quinn. sir richard kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. he knows he can’t be too picky, but when he sees iris smythe smith hiding behind her cello at her family’s infamous musicale, he think he might have struck gold. she’s the type of girl you don’t notice until the second, or third, look, but there’s something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she’s the one. iris smythe smith, is used to being underestimated. with her pale hair and quiet, sly wit she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. so, when richard kenworthy demands an introduction, she is suspicious. he flirts, he charms, he gives every impression, she is suspicious. and when his proposal of marriage turns into a compromising position that forces the issue, she can’t help thinking that he’s hiding something, even as her heart tells her to say yes.

the maidens by alex michaelides. edward fosca is a murderer. of this mariana is certain. but fosca is untouchable. a handsome and charismatic greek tragedy professor at cambridge university, fosca is adored by the staff and students alike, particularly by the members of a secret society of female students know as the maidens. mariana andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on the maidens when one member, a friend of mariana’s niece zoe, is found murdered in cambridge. mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinsiter. and she becomes convinced that, despites his alibi edward fosca is guilty of the murder. but why would the professor targets one of his students? and why does he keep returning to the rites of persephone, the maiden, and her journey to teh underworld? when another body is found, mariana’s obsession with proving fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships.

never saw me coming by vera kurian. meet chloe serve. she’s a freshman honor student, a leggings wearing hit girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. her hobbies include yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill will bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. chloe is one of seven students in her dc based college who are part of an unusual clinical study for psychopaths, students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. the study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. when one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and chloe goes from hunter to prey. as she races to identify the killer and put her own plan into action, she’ll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths, and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath.

the light in the hidden places by sharon cameron. one knock at the door, and stefania has a choice to make. it is 1943, and for four years, sixteen year old stefania has been working for the diamant family in their grocery store in przemsyl, poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. she has even made a promise to one of their sons, izio, a betrothal they must keep secret since she is catholic and he is jewish. but everything changes when the german army invades przemsyl. the diamant’s are forced into the ghetto, and stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one lest to care for helena, her six year old sister. and then comes the knock at the door. izio’s brother, max, has jumped from the train headed to a death camo. stefania and helena make the decision to hide max, and eventually 12 more jews. then they must wait, everyday, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. when the knock finally comes, it is two nazi officers, requisitioning stefania’s house for the german army.

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.

the push by ashley audrain. blythe connor is determined that she will still be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, violet, that she herself never had. but, in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, blythe becomes convinced something is wrong with her daughter, she doesn’t behave like most children do. or is it all in blythe’s head? her husband, fox, says she’s imagining things. the more fox dismisses her fears, the more blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what blythe is telling us about her life as well. then, their son, sam is born, and with him, blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. even violet seems to love her little brother. but, when life as they know is changed in an instant, the devastating fall out forces blythe to face the truth.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly have so many books i want to read this month, and i do have some arcs i need to get to this month. but, i do honestly hope to read most of these books, since they honestly sound so good, and i probably should be able to get threw the romance books quickly, knock on wood.

hello everyone! today i’m going to be talking about all the books i read in august. i honestly really read a bunch of good books, and i honestly read my favorite book of the year this month, which also put me in a reading slump. but, i honestly really liked so many of these books.

if the shoe fits by julie murphy. i gave this book 4/5 stars. first off, thank you so much for disney books and netgalley for an arc of this book! this was honestly a really good book, and i honestly found this book was just something that i really liked and that i think it was such a cute book and plot. especially since they had the bachelor aspect and that cindy was plus sized and also a couple of queer characters.

the dead and the dark by courtney gould. i gave this book 3/5 stars. first off, thank you so much wednesday books and netgalley for an arc of this book. but, this was kind of boring, but it still had plot which i think was decent. and i feel like this plot was honestly kind of a mess. and also that i feel like the plot was all over the place and that the mystery plot was kind of a mess. but, i do feel like that there was just some little issues in this book that i feel like it could have been changed a little bit.

as good as dead by holly jackson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this book is honestly one of the best books i’ll ever read in my life. like, this was such a book that i’ll literally never forget and that will stick with me for a very long time. and i honestly didn’t expect the ending to be so sad and heartbreaking, since i feel like that this was just such a great book. and i mean, i really liked how this story was just so cool that it tied this whole story in full circle, which was just so amazing.

mine till midnight by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book so much. like, it was just so cool to see this book and this romance. and also just to see the family and how they were just so cool and that i think they were just so fun and cool. like, i think the family aspect was just so fun, and i honestly can’t wait to read the other books in this series and kleypas’ other books.

left to tell by immaculee ilibagiza. i honestly didn’t really care for this book, mainly because this book was just for school. and i mean, i think that some of this book was just so preachy, and i feel like that this book was honestly very holy roller, which kind of pissed me off.

lost in the never woods by aideen thomas. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this was honestly a good book, and i think that it was a good book, but i do feel like it was just missing something and that something was just boring and kind of stupid. but, i do feel like that this book had moments that i just forget so much of it, and also that it was just all over the place. and i just feel like they should have stuck to the mystery plot instead of this romance.

the collectors by lorien lawrence. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and amulet books for an arc of this book! i honestly really liked this book and i feel like it was just so cool and honestly very lighthearted and kind of fun. but, i feel like there should have been more plot, but i guess that this book is for middle grade, so i kind of expected. and it really gave me big fear street and goosebumps vibes, which i honestly really liked.

we can’t keep meeting like this by rachel lynn solomon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book honestly had so much potential, and i mean, i really think that this should be so good and just so fun. but, i feel like this book was so boring and that they just argued so much that it became annoying. like, they were honestly so toxic and i really didn’t like it at all. and i feel like they were just so annoying and the main character also kind of annoyed me.

56 days by catherine ryan howard. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you for an arc blackstone publishing and netgalley. i honestly did really enjoy this book and the covid aspect of this book. but, i also really liked the romance between the two, but i do wish that we got to see more of them together and just more of their romance. but, i do feel like that they didn’t have that much closure to the story and that they didn’t have to much of an ending, which i honestly think sucked.

survive the night by riley sager. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really loved this book. like, i feel like the ending was just so cool and i think it was just done so well. but, i do feel like the romance was just so weird, and i mean, i think it was kind of weird. but, this book was honestly so addicting, which i honestly liked so much. and i mean, i feel like this book really was so cool and how they tied in the movie aspect into all of this.

kill joy by holly jackson. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i did like this book a lot, but i feel like it was just a weird book because it was the prequel to the agggtm books, so i feel like some of the characters didn’t feel like themselves. but, i do really liked that we got to see pip before she was pip and that we got to see her become who she is today. and also to see her figure out what she wanted to do for her epq project was so cool, since they never really said how she picked the topic.

it’s in his kiss by julia quinn. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly did like this book a lot, but i do feel like that there was some points in this book that i just didn’t like it at all. like, i feel like gareth was just kind of possessive at some times, like where he said that he owned hyacinth and just random things that i just didn’t like. and i did really like the steamy scenes, and i think it was just so good.

it’s in his kiss: the second epilogue by julia quinn. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but i just don’t understand why isabella just didn’t give her parents the jewels. but, it was a nice way to wrap up their story.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly read so many good books this month, and i really liked it. and i mean, i feel like that it was just so cool to read so many of these good months this month, so i honestly hope september is that good too.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i hauled in august. i honestly really didn’t haul to many books this month. which i feel like is pretty good. and i feel like i’m so excited to read all these books soon, since they all sound so great.

this poison heart by kalynn bayron. briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to blooms with a single touch. when briseis’s aunt dies and wills her dilapidated estate in rural new york, bri and her parents decide to leave brooklyn behind for the summer. and hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, bri will finally learn to control her gift. but, their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined, new home in sinister in ways they could never have imagined, it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share bri’s unique family lineage.

kingdom keepers: inheritance by ridley pearson. this book comes out march 8th, 2022. in the near future, in the epcot of walt disney’s imagination, sixty thousand people live in the CommuniTree surrounding the forward looking walt disney world theme parks. five unique families are among the residents- and some of the parents were once known as the kingdom keepers. their identities are carefully guarded in order to raise their children without special treatment, most of the kingdom keepers work for the walt disney company, and have settled into ‘ordinary’ and rewarding lives. but, when a messenger carrying a secret communication from villain’s park in hong kong coincides with both a solar eclipses and eli whitman’s 13th birthday, and few ‘ordinary’ kids are thrust into a battle to save epcot and find their friend who has mysteriously disappeared. with their friend missing and their parents are acting strangely, the kingdom kids discover they are in possession of unusual powers as they forge a bond to rescue their friend and uncover the truth about hoe real magic has entered their life.

i’m with the banned by marlene perez. this book comes out october 5th, 2021. i never wanted to be a vampire queen. but, on the bright (if not sunny) side of the debacle, i’ve got a super hot boyfriend, and ne might just be the perfect gut. well, if the perfect guy ghosts you for a month and then comes back to school with a new look, a pack of friends, and a secret. but we have bigger problems. the drainers are back, and they’re singing a different song, but have they really changed? even worse, they are werewolves’ hearts are being ripped from their bodies, which is putting the people i love in danger. i need to figure out who is behind the murders before there’s an all out vampire-werewolf war.

in every generation by kendare blake. this book comes out january 4th, 2022. frankie roseberg is passionate about the environment, a sophomore at new sunnydale high school, and the daughter of the most powerful witch in sunnydale history. her mom, willow, is slowly teaching her magic on the condition that she use it to better the world. but, frankie’s happily quiet life is upended when new girl, hailey, shows up with news that the annual slayer condition has been the target of an attack, and all the slayers, including buffy, faith, and hailey’s older sister, vi, might be dead. that means, its time for this generation’s slayer to be born. but, being the first ever slayer-witch means learning how to wield a stake while trying to control her budding powers. with the help of hailey, a werewolf named jake, and the hot but nerdy sage demon, frankie must become the slayer, prevent the hellmouth from opening again, and find out what happened to her aunt buffy, before she’s next.

dig two graves by gretchen mcneil. this book comes out march 29th, 2022. seventeen year old film nori fan, neve lanier, is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn’t really fit in anywhere. when neve is betrayed by her best friend, yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl’s empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. so, when she grabs the attention of the beautiful and charismatic, diane, she falls right under the spell, and may accidentally promise to murder diane’s predatory step brother, javier, in exchange for diane murdering yasmine. but it was all a joke, right? when yasmin turns up dead, diane comes calling, attempting to blackmail neve into murdering javier. stalling for time, neve pretends to go along with diane’s plan until she can find a way out that doesn’t involve murder. but, as she gets to know javier, and falls for him, she realizes that everything diane told her is a lie. even worse, she discovers yasmin probably wasn’t diane’s first victim. and unless neve can stop her, she won’t be the last.

waking romeo by kathryn barker. this book comes out january 4th, 2022. it’s the end of the world, literally. time travel is possible, but only forward. and only a handful of families choose to remain in the ‘now,’ living off of the scrape left behind. among them are 18 year old juliet, and the love of her life, romeo. but, things are far from rosy for jules. romeo lies in a coma and jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. then, a mysterious time travel, ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes juliet question everything she knows about life and love.

anyway, that is all for today! it was honestly a bit of a smaller haul, which i think is good, since i do have so many books to read. but, it is honestly really scary that so many of these books are for 2022, since it still feels like 2020, mentally.

hello everyone! today i am going to be doing the grishaverse book tag. i’m honestly so excited to do this tag, because i honestly really like the book series and the show, so i honestly am so excited to talk about them in this aspect.

KAZ BREKKER: A BOOK THAT YOU SHOULDN’T JUDGE BY THE COVER

the ones we’re meant to find by joan he. honestly, i feel like this book made me think that it was a queer book, but they’re sisters, so i guess that it was something that i didn’t expect. so, i do feel like you shouldn’t judge it.

NINA ZENIK: A BOOK THAT MADE YOU FEEL EMPOWERED.

loveless by alice oseman. i actually haven’t read this book yet, but just thinking about it and the hype that it is getting, it makes me feel so empowered, since it does deal with asexual rep, so i honestly love the hype it gets.

INEJ GHAFA: A BOOK WITH A GOOD BALANCE OF CHARACTERS AND PLOT.

the shadow between us by tricia levenseller. i honestly think that this book had enough plot with the characters and the pot and that we learnt a lot about the characters and the plot and i think it did such a good job with it all.

MAL ORETZEV: A BOOK THAT ALWAYS WILL STICK WITH YOU.

as good as dead by holly jackson. i feel like this is a book that i will care with me for a very long time, since i feel like it was such a hard hitting book and that so much happened. and i think that this book is something that i would always have a part of this book in my somehow.

THE DARKLING: A BOOK WITH A DARK PLOT OR STORY LINE.

kingdom of the wicked by kerri maniscalo. i honestly think that this book is such a dark book and i feel like it was done so well. but, i do feel like that the plot of this book was just so dark and honestly kind of creepy, which made me love it so much.

JESPER FAHEY: A BOOK THAT PEOPLE SEEM TO LEAVE OUT.

if the shoe fits by julie murphy. i feel like that this book was so great, and i feel like it was just so good and i feel like it worked so much. but, i feel like it was such an amazing book with some great rep. and i feel like people should honestly hype this up more.

WYLAN VAN ECK: A BOOK THAT WASN’T WHAT IT SEEMED AT FIRST.

mine till midnight by lisa kleypas. i feel like that i expected this to be some book where they have some night long fling, and than forget about each other for a while, so having it be a book where it’s not that, i honestly didn’t expect it at all.

MATTHIAS HELVAR: A BOOK THAT WAS BAD AT FIRST, BUT TUNRED OUT GOOD.

fifteen hundred miles from the sun by jonny garza villa. honestly, this book started out to be kind of slow, and i feel like it was kind of a mess in the start. but, i do feel like it did become a better book and that the pace did pick up, which i honestly really liked.

NIKOLAI LANTSOV: A WITTY BOOK.

act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert. i honestly feel like this book was so witty and such a fun and exciting book. so, i honestly can’t recommend this book and series enough cause it is just so good and such a fun book.

anyway, that is all for today! this was honestly such a fun book and i really liked it so much. and if you do want to do this tag, consider yourself tagged and make sure to tag me in the post so i can see your answers.