I feel quite spoiled this week, not only I’m taking a part in two readalongs this week (one of them is listenalong!), but I have also got accepted for a few titles at NetGalley, which I’m so excited to read! I have started two of them already – Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know and The Square and though very different, I’m enjoying them both. One thing is sure: I won’t run out of books to read soon!
As I have quite a few titles waiting for me, I have put together my list below with publication dates in case anyone else wants to keep an eye on those books!
(All blurbs have been taken from Amazon.)
Big thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my e-copies.
What’s On My NetGalley Shelf
The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication date: 6 August 2020
“She’s single. But it can still be complicated…
Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love.
So she can’t believe it when she meets a remarkable new man.
Followed by another.
And then another…
And all of them want to date her.
Penny has to choose between three. But are any of them The One?”
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
Genre: Contemporary YA
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication date: 27 August 2020 (Hardback has already been released in April)
“It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life – but even in the City of Lights she can’t stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian – who happens to be a distant relative of the novelist Alexandre Dumas – do things start to get interesting, as she starts to unveil the story of a 19th century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Dumas, Eugène Delacroix and Lord Byron.
Two hundred years earlier in the Ottoman empire, Leila is the most favoured woman in the Pasha’s harem. Her position is meant to be coveted; but she is struggling to survive as she fights to keep her true love hidden from her jealous captor.
Echoing across centuries, as Khayyam uncovers the scintillating truth of Leila’s long-forgotten life, her own destiny is transformed forever.”
American Royals 2: Majesty by Katharine McGee
Genre: YA Romance
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication date: 3 September 2020
“Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs to her bodyguard – but even their love is under threat.
Meanwhile, Princess Samantha is under more scrutiny than ever before – and she still longs to be with her sister’s fiancee. But with no sign of Bea’s wedding being called off, she’s surprised to find someone else catching her eye.
Nina Gonzalez is also tangled up with someone she never expected to be. She and Ethan are both nursing broken hearts, and it’s not long before they find themselves pulled irresistably together.
Luckily for Daphne Deighton, Prince Jeff’s grief for his father makes him a prime target for her attentions. She’s the closest she’s been in years to getting what she wants . . . so why can’t she let the idea of her and Ethan go?
As the royal wedding of the century creeps ever closer, will these four young women get what they want – or will their hearts be broken forever?”
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson, Kirsty Logan, Emma Glass, Eimear McBride, Natasha Carthew, Mahsuda Snaith, Naomi Booth, Liv Little, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Irenosen Okojie
Genre: Fiction Anthology
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication date: 8 October 2020
“Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men.
From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today.”
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Genre: Literary Fiction
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication date: 19 November 2020
“In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. Soon, her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people which results in her seeking unconventional help to face her past traumas and current demons.
Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious and sexual identities, You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings – for love, and a place to call home.”
Girl in the Walls by A.J. Gnuse
Genre: General Fiction
Links: Book Depository & Amazon
Publication: 4 March 2021
“Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which boards will creak. She knows where the gaps are in the walls. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It’s home, after all. The home her parents made for her. And home is where you stay, no matter what.
Eddie calls the same house his home. Eddie is almost a teenager now. He must no longer believe in the girl he sometimes sees from the corner of his eye. He needs her to disappear. But when his older brother senses her, too, they are faced with a question: how do they get rid of someone they aren’t sure even exists?
And, if they cast her out, what other threats might they invite in?”
And what books have you all been reading in August so far?
Take care,
Alicja
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