🔥 Hi guys, I hope you’re having a wonderful day, surrounded by the best readings!! ❤️ Today I’m bringing you one of my favorite posts where I show you my most anticipated new releases of the month. 🥰 I’m SO excited to be another year sharing with you, is really a blessing, so I hope you enjoy these posts and find some new books to add to your endless TBR because as I always say: Good for the soul but bad for the wallet, right? But it’s what we love …BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS, so I hope you enjoy it. The books I choose to add here are just some that I would love to read at some point because they sound like something I’ll personally enjoy, so without more further ado, let’s start! 🔥
February 4th, 2020
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
When “Perfect” Parker Fadley starts drinking at school and failing her classes, all of St. Peter’s High goes on alert. How has the cheerleading captain, girlfriend of the most popular guy in school, consummate teacher’s pet, and future valedictorian fallen so far from grace?
Parker doesn’t want to talk about it. She’d just like to be left alone, to disappear, to be ignored. But her parents have placed her on suicide watch and her conselors are demanding the truth. Worse, there’s a nice guy falling in love with her and he’s making her feel things again when she’d really rather not be feeling anything at all.
Nobody would have guessed she’d turn out like this. But nobody knows the truth.
Something horrible has happened, and it just might be her fault.
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus.
Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another “Astrokid,” and finds himself falling head over heels—fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.
Expertly capturing the thrill of first love and the self-doubt all teens feel, debut author Phil Stamper is a new talent to watch.
Malice by Pintip Dunn
What I know: a boy in my school will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus.
What I don’t know: who he is.
In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I’ll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I’m starting to realize no one is telling the truth. But how can I play chess with someone who already knows the outcome of my every move? Someone so filled with malice they’ve lost all hope in humanity? Well, I’ll just have to find a way—because now they’ve drawn a target on the only boy I’ve ever loved…
February 11th, 2020
Turtle under Ice by Juleah del Rosario
A teen navigates questions of grief, identity, and guilt in the wake of her sister’s mysterious disappearance in this breathtaking novel-in-verse from the author of 500 Words or Less—perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo.
Rowena feels like her family is a frayed string of lights that someone needs to fix with electrical tape. After her mother died a few years ago, she and her sister, Ariana, drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive.
But then Ariana disappears under the cover of night in the middle of a snowstorm, leaving no trace or tracks. When Row wakes up to a world of snow and her sister’s empty bedroom, she is left to piece together the mystery behind where Ariana went and why, realizing along the way that she might be part of the reason Ariana is gone.
Haunting and evocative—and told in dual perspectives—Turtle Under Ice examines two sisters frozen by grief as they search for a way to unthaw.
February 25th, 2020
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked.
And the wolf is angry.
Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened, but not alone.
Elana K. Arnold, National Book Award finalist and author of the Printz Honor book Damsel, returns with a dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it.
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power:
1) Woo the Shadow King.
2) Marry him.
3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself.
No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it.
But Alessandra’s not the only one trying to kill the king. As attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen—all while struggling not to lose her heart. After all, who better for a Shadow King than a cunning, villainous queen?
Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Liv has long accepted that he’s dead, though that doesn’t mean she has given up their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him.
But Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her father’s absurd theories. Done going through the motions for Doug’s sake. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. In that moment, she’s faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. And no one believed him.
Now, she and Doug have a choice to make. They can turn the alien over to the authorities…or they can take matters into their own hands.
Besides the Goodreads link, that I always add in case you want to add the book to your TBR, this time I’ve also added a link to Book Depository, in case you want to pre-order the book there. In that case, I want you to know that as an affiliate, I’ll receive a small percentage of your purchase and it would be REALLY helpful to me, to buy more books, and keep sharing with you ❤️
All the books above look good!
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I’m SO glad you think so, I hope you can find some to add to your TBR, they all sound amazing 😍
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February is going to be such a great reading month! I have a copy of Bent Heavens and I’m excited to start it😁
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OMG 😍, that’s SO excited, I’m looking forward to knowing what you think about it, I hope you enjoy it, honey ❤️
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I’m so excited for The Shadows Between Us!
The U.S. got Cracked Up to Be a while ago – I believe it’s being rereleased after the huge success of Sadie!
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Mee too! Sounds really like everything I enjoy of a fantasy & I know, I’m super excited for the new cover, I think it looks great and matched with Sadie’s, so that makes me happy lol 😍
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Amazing list! They all sound so good and so many I haven’t come across yet. Can’t wait to add them to my TBR.
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Ashley, honey! 💞 I’m so glad you’re going to add some to your TBR… So many good releases in February 😍
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I really love Courtney Summers! I read Sadie and loved it, but the podcast style of writing kept throwing me off. Is “Cracked Up to Be” in the same style?
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I’m glad you enjoyed Sadie, me too, but I understand what you mean and I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s not written in the same way 😊
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Red Hood seems so great!!!
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Sounds amazing, right? I haven’t heard many people mention it, but the promise sounds really good 😍
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I’m really looking forward to reading Cracked Up to Be. I’ve read others by Courtney Summers, and I really like her writing. 🙂
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I read Sadie by the author and I really fell in love with her writing style so with this re-release of Cracked Up to Be it’s the perfect time to read more, so I hope we both enjoy it a lot once we read it ❤️
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Bent Heavens is on my list! I’m also going to look up Red Hood right now because it’s new to me but it sounds awesome 😀
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I’m glad Bent Heavens is on your list! 👏🏻 Sounds like everything I usually love in a book, so I’m excited & Red Hood, it sounds SO good, I’m surprised there aren’t more people talking about it 😍
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So many amazing releases on their way. I’m really excited for The Shadow Between Us. Tricia Levenseller writes incredibly addictive and fun books and again this one sounds fab! Love this post!
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YES!! So many incredible new releases this February 😍 &, without a doubt, The Shadow Between Us sounds incredible, I’ve never read anything from the author, so I’m glad you enjoyed her previous works, I love that you mention that her writing style is addictive, now I’m even more excited 😄
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These are some amazing books being released in February. Thank you for putting them on my taser
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Radar*
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Thanks to you for stopping by, honey! February is a great releases month 😍
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It is!
I love your blog! I’m gonna stop by all the time
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I’d never heard of ‘Bent Heavens’ before but now I’m DEFINITELY adding it to my TBR! Also super excited for Red Hood and Malice.
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I’m so glad you decide to add it to your TBR, the promise of the story sounds SO good! & also Red Hood and Malice. I hope we both enjoy them once we read them 😍
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Cracked Up to Be and Gravity of Us both look so good!
– Emma 🙂
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They both sound incredible, right? it’s a great month of releases 😍
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I really can’t handle these amazing covers. The designers are getting too good at their job!! Thanks for sharing all of these ❤
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I know, right? For a cover lover, it’s absolutely the perfect time to be alive lol. They also sound incredible, it will be a great year of releases & Thanks to you for passing by ❤️
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There are a lot of new books out this month that I’m excited for. The Shadows Between Us is definitely one of the main ones though – it sounds incredible. I already have a copy of Cracked Up To Be to read sometime (it’s an older one that also includes another of the authors books) but I love the new version, the covers stunning!! I hope you get to read and enjoy all of these ❤️
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YES! So many incredible releases this month. 😍 The Shadows Between Us sounds REALLY good, so I hope we both enjoy if we get to read it & I’m dying to read Cracked Up To Be, the story sounds great and that new cover is beautiful 👏🏻
Thanks, honey! I hope you enjoy all your recent and future readings ❤️
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I think it’s one that a lot of people have high hopes for. I’m really looking forward to reading it and the rest of the Courtney Summers books on my TBR – so far I’ve only read two but both were amazing.
Thank you, you too 💜💜
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So many great books! I’m really excited for The Gravity of Us.
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Sounds INCREDIBLE, right? I hope we both enjoy it once we read it 💞
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really want to read cracked up to be!
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