August is usually the time of year when I start my festive reads, sorry to bring that up so early. I’ve already finished two by the time this post goes up and I’ll definitely read more this month, but I won’t be talking about them properly yet as it is too early and also I don’t have pictures for them.
Speaking of not having pictures for books yet, I was very kindly sent a copy of The Dark Place by Penguin and I haven’t had a chance to take a photo yet. I’m starting it around the time of writing this post and my review will be up at the start of August!
The Alice Equation by Davina Stone
I know nothing about this author or this book other than it has fake dating and that’s one of my favourite tropes so, yes please. I’m on such a contemporary romance hype right now and it doesn’t look like it will end any time soon.
Synopsis: Three months of fake dating your best friend? No problem…
Unless you are an anxiety-prone bookworm called Alice Montgomery, and you’ve had a secret crush on said best friend since uni.
Aaron Blake has no intention of falling for anyone, he’s pretty sure he missed out on the love gene. And certainly never, ever Alice. She’s his only friend-who-is-a-girl and he has no intention of messing that up.
But when Alice agrees to fake date Aaron to help him land a top attorney job, (on the condition he teaches her how to flirt) Aaron soon finds out that friendship first and attraction second is an equation he’d never done the math on.
And when secrets from the past surface with dramatic consequences, both Alice and Aaron will have to re-do the sums on this crazy little thing called love…
A sweet and steamy friends-to-lovers romance about finding love and finding out who you really are…
Beach Read by Emily Henry
It’s finally time for my first Emily Henry book and I’m choosing Beach Read first because it’s currently summer. You wouldn’t know that by the weather, it’s currently raining in Brighton when I’m writing this post. I’m hoping it has summery vibes though.
Synopsis: A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighbouring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.
The Frontier by Jacopo Paliaga & Alessio Fioriniello
This has been sat on my NetGalley for a good few months now and I think it’s about time I read it. Don’t worry I’m not a serial requestor who has too many books that I can’t review them on time, this was available as a read now and I got it way after it was released.
Synopsis: When the storm struck, it sowed death across the land. It soon spread to the four corners of the Earth, racking up victims and changing the face of the world forever. For the worse, in the eyes of most. For the better, in the eyes of some. All that stood between mankind and total destruction was a small band of outlaws. They were called… The Frontier.
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