I’ve currently taken a small step back from ARCs, well not fully because I currently have around nine festive ARCs to get through, but no one wants to hear about those right now. These are taking up so much of my time, I just haven’t been paying attention to other ARCs.

I’m also planning to draw my own graphic to use for these in the future, which means I’m also not going to include screenshots of my NetGalley anymore because well, I don’t feel like it. It’s not like I’m going to lie about the ARCs I have.

And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

I love a good thriller so I cannot wait to get started with this. Well, I think it’s a thriller, but it is also published by Disney Hyperion so I don’t know just how scary it will be. Either way, I’m excited. I need some good thrillers for spooky season.

Synopsis: Harlow Ford has spent her entire life running, caught in her mother’s wake as they flit from town to town, hiding from a presence that Harlow isn’t even sure is real. In each new place, Harlow takes on a new name and personality, and each time they run, she leaves another piece of herself behind.

When Harlow and her mom set off on yet another 3 a.m. escape, they are involved in a car accident that leaves Harlow’s mother fatally wounded. Before she dies, she tells Harlow two things: where to find the key to a safety deposit box and to never stop running. In the box, Harlow finds thirty grand in cash, life insurance documents, and several fake IDs for both herself and her mom—an on-the-run essentials kit. But Harlow also finds a photograph of her mom as a teenager with two other girls, the deed to a house in a town she’s never heard of, and a handful of newspaper clippings discussing the disappearance of a woman named Eve Kennedy, Harlow’s grandmother…relics of a part of Harlow’s life she never knew existed.

With these tantalising clues about her mother’s secrets and the power to choose her own future for the first time, Harlow realizes she has two choices: keep fleeing her mom’s ghosts or face down the nebulous threat that’s been hanging over her for her entire life.

A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak by Laura Taylor Namey

I think I’m going to make this my first read of September. I’ve talked about this in my upcoming to be read post, coming on Sunday, so I won’t say too much here. I am excited though, I’m really enjoying contemporaries right now.

Synopsis: Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn’t so sure. More than ever, she’s the chaotic “hurricane” in her household, and she doesn’t always know how to manage her stormy emotions.

So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone—especially her longtime friend Gordon Wallace.

But Flora’s tropical change of scenery doesn’t cast away her self-doubt. When it comes to university, she has no idea which passions she should follow. That’s also true in romance. Flora’s summer abroad lands her in the flashbulb world of teen influencer Baz Marín, a Miami Cuban who shares her love for photography. But Flora’s more conflicted than ever when she begins to see future architect Gordon in a new light.

I Loved You in Another Life by David Arnold

This has been sitting on my NetGalley for absolutely ages. I’ll finally be picking it up either at the end of next month or the start of October. 

I had no idea that the author has written and actually recorded all of the songs involved in the book. I’ll have to see if they’re available yet, hopefully they are. I have a feeling this would be a great audiobook.

Synopsis: Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father’s departure. But after his mom’s unexpected diagnosis, as Evan’s plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer . . .

Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she’s headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the rise. But when a drunk driver takes her sister’s life, that star fades to black. All that remains is a void—and a soft voice singing in her ear . . .

Over it all, transcending time and space, a celestial bird brings strangers together: from an escaped murderer in 19th century Paris, to a Norwegian kosmonaut in low-earth orbit, something is happening that began long ago, and will long outlast Evan and Shosh. With lyrical prose and original songs (written and recorded by the author), I LOVED YOU IN ANOTHER LIFE explores the history of love, and how some souls are meant for each other—yesterday, today, forever.

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