Happy book birthday to these new releases! And what a release day it is – there are so many books I want! I’ve read the arcs for An Unreliable Magic and The Wedding Season but I want all the rest.
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didnโt see comingโฆ
Nora Stephensโ life is booksโsheโs read them allโand she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sistersโ trip awayโwith visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who sheโs convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that theyโve met many times and itโs never been cute.
If Nora knows sheโs not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows heโs nobodyโs hero, but as they are thrown together again and againโin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allowโwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories theyโve written about themselves.
In Charlie Hallโs world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferencesโbut also to increase power and influence. You can alter someoneโs feelingsโand memoriesโbut manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hiddenโa second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.
Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlieโs present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclearโand at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sisterโall desperate to control the magic of the shadows.
With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while you read, light isnโt playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches…
In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatrizโs father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solรณrzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wifeโs sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost.
But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.
When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatrizโs sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfoโs sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatrizโs fearsโbut why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doรฑa Solรณrzano?
Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will help her.
Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrรฉs, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrรฉs will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness.
Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatrizโs doom.
From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stopand Red, White & Royal Blue comes a debut YA romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need…
Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, sheโs spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing thatโs kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principalโs perfect progeny.
But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.
On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers sheโs not the only one Shara kissed. Thereโs also Smith, Sharaโs longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Sharaโs bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Sharaโs trail of clues and find her. Itโll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair-and-square.
Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. And maybeโprobably not, but maybeโmore to Shara, too.
Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston’s I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.
The second book in the A Hundred Names for Magic trilogy, an unforgettable alternative history fairy-tale series from the author of The Bone Witch about found family, modern day magic, and finding the place you belong.
Tala, Alex, and the rest of their friends are safe for now, but know the Snow Queen is still out there. They have to be prepared for when she eventually attacksโand all decide to do so in their own way.
When Ryker comes out of the woodwork, showing himself when he starts attacking American detention facilities and freeing refugees. And the Nameless Sword, a legendary weapon that according to Avalon legend, will make its wielder the most powerful warrior of their time turns up with her name on it, Tala’s life gets messier…But when the Snow Queen arrives with an unlikely ally, the group will have to work together.
The prequel to We Were Liars takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.
A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.
A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.
A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes.
Welcome back to the Sinclair family.
They were always liars.
Four Weddings and a Funeral meets The Wedding Party in Katy Birchall’s The Wedding Season: when a recently jilted bride is forced to attend seven weddings in one summer, her friends devise a series of challenges as distraction.
Freya Scott is getting married. Her wedding to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend, is the first of eight in her calendar this year, and as someone who prides herself on being meticulously organized, Freya is intent on making it the perfect day to remember.
But when Matthew calls things off hours before they walk down the aisle, Freyaโs entire life plan goes up in smoke. Humiliated and heartbroken, the last thing she wants is to attend a summer of other peoplesโ nuptials on her own.
Fortunately, her friends have an idea: together they devise a series of outrageous challenges for Freya to complete at each event, designed to distract her from Matthew and what might have been. From getting stuck in an old church bathroom and needing to be rescued by the vicar to making out with a barman at a French chateau, Freya realizes that despite herself, she might just be having fun.
By the time the final wedding arrives, she will discover that the road to a happy ending sometimes has unexpected detours, that โI doโ is only the beginningโโand that perhaps her own love story isnโt over just yet.
Last summer, Alice Ogilveโs basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. Where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove, because sheโs not talking. Or it was, at least. But now, another one of Steveโs girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Aliceโs exโbest friend. And it doesnโt look like Brooke will be coming back. . .
Enter Iris Adams, Aliceโs tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesnโt have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brookeโs grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughterโs whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit, but Alice isnโt so sure, and with Iris on her side, she just might be able to prove her theory.
In order to get the reward and prove Steveโs innocence, they need to figure out who killed Brooke Donovan. And luckily Alice has exactly what they needโthe complete works of Agatha Christie. If thereโs anyone that can teach the girls how to solve a mystery itโs the master herself. But the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into.
How do you start over when the biggest mistake of your life has more than one million views?
Forget diamondsโthe internet is forever. Social media consultant Isla Thompson learned that lesson the hard way when she went viral for all the wrong reasons. A month later, Isla is still having nightmares about the moment she ruined a young starletโs career and made herself the most unemployable influencer in Manhattan. But she doesnโt have the luxury of hiding until sheโs no longer Instagram poison. Not when her fourteen-year-old sister, Dani, needs Isla to keep a roof over their heads. So, she takes the first job she can get: caring for Camilla, a glossy-maned, foul-tempered hellhound.
After a week of ferrying Camilla from playdates to pet psychics, Isla starts to suspect that the dachshundโs bark is worse than her biteโjust like her owner, Theo Garrison. Isla has spent her career working to make people likable and hereโs Theoโhappy to hide behind his reputation as a brutish recluse. But Theo isnโt a bruteโheโs sweet and funny, and Isla should not see him as anything but the man who signs her paychecks. Because loving Theo would mean retreating to his world of secluded luxury, and Isla needs to show Dani that no matter the risk, dreams are always worth chasing.
Are you getting any new books this week? Happy Reading! ~ Yolanda
I canยดt wait to read Book of Night!
Same, I hope it’s good! I’ve seen okay reviews of it.