July is (hopefully) going to be one of the busiest and most exciting months of my life. I’ll be able to explain more in a future post, but for now, you’ll have to trust me. For this reason, I’m trying to get as much content scheduled as I can, which means shorter reads. I’m very intimidated by longer books right now.
Change Of Heart by Clare Lydon
I bought this book well over a year ago and I’ve only just realised it has fake dating. I must have read the synopsis because I wouldn’t have bought it otherwise, but I read so many synopses that I’m not surprised I forgot what this is about.
Synopsis: When Erin Stewart hires a fake date for her parents’ anniversary party, she gets more than she bargained for. First, she gets Steph Mitchell, a professional actor with a side order of drop-dead gorgeous. Second, she walks slap-bang into a wall of family stress. Deep breaths, it’s only five days. Plus, with Steph’s help, she can totally get through this, right?
Only, Erin didn’t plan on falling for the charming Steph. She’s also powerless when the simmering tension erupts, with dizzying consequences for everyone. What happens when you fake it, make it, then break it? Erin and Steph are about to find out.
Eat Your Heart Out Vol. 1 by Terry Blas, Matty Newton & Lydia Anslow
This is likely to be my only ARC read of the month. It isn’t published until August, but I want to stay on top of ARCs this year and not leave them until days before I need to review them.
This looks and sounds super cute. I’m not a huge fan of the cover as I feel like it’s too busy, but I love anything to do with baking, so I’m excited to check this out.
Synopsis: Blanca is running away. Away from her mother—the overbearing and strict Riena—and her mother’s narrow idea of what shape Blanca’s life should take. While Riena finds Blanca’s dream of pursuing fashion design a wasteful flight of fancy, Blanca sees possibility . . . and she knows if she doesn’t leave now, she might never. Of course, following your passion isn’t easy, and when Blanca arrives in New York City without a job or a roof over her head, she’s rescued by a kindly baker named Emile, who takes her in. With Emile comes their eclectic group of six friends, all living in the same brownstone, who welcome Blanca into their weird, wonderful family. With them, Blanca learns that her fairy-tale journey can’t begin until she stops running away from her problems and starts running toward her dream.
How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok
As the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder show is coming in a few days, I want to get a YA thriller fix. This is recommended for people who are fans of the series, so I’m expecting good things. It will also be on the slightly longer side compared to some of my recent reads. I’m trying to get through as many books as possible right now because I need to have content scheduled in advance as I’m super busy in July.
Synopsis: A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police’s only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences.
Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris’s ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too—just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris’s sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances.
But with a suspicious detective watching her every move, an enemy-turned-friend-turned-maybe-more to contend with, and only thirty days until she turns eighteen, it’s a race against the clock for Iris to solve the most dangerous case of her life.
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