🔥 Hi, mis amores!! I hope you’re having a wonderful day full of good readings & beautiful moments. ❤️ Super excited to have the chance to share with you again this post series, where every month I’ll be bringing you the newest book releases of 2021, obviously focusing on those that sound more interesting and more appealing to me. 🌟 As I always say “Good news for the heart but bad for the pocket” right? that expression never gets old 😂 So if you’re not afraid to let your TBR grow… even more, & you’re dying to know what books are about to come out, this is the series for you. 👏🏻 In these posts, I always include those book releases that, as I said before, resonate the most with me or sound like something that I’ll love, so I’ll only highlight those that I plan to read at some point.
I hope you enjoy this post a lot & above all, that you can find new books to enjoy. 😍 Thank you for choosing to share this moment with me, make yourself comfortable, grab your favorite drink & LET’S GET STARTED! 🔥
‼️ Small Clarification: The dates of some of these books may change due to Covid-19 and everything that’s happening in the world right now, so if that’s the case, don’t hesitate to let me know!
April 1st, 2021 🔥
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
A lyrical and heartfelt collection by an award-winning writer that connects the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American west. Each story is unique, yet universal.
In this book, the impact of wildfire, a wayward priest, or a mysterious disappearance ricochet across communities, threading through stories. Here, ordinary actions such as ice skating or going to church reveal hidden truths. One choice threatens a lifelong friendship. Siblings save each other. Rescue and second chances are possible, and so is revenge.
On the surface, it seems that nothing ever happens in these towns. But Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock shows that underneath that surface, teenagers’ lives blaze with fury, with secrets, and with love so strong it burns a path to the future.
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Random House/Lamb
April 6th, 2021 🔥
The Infinity Courts (The Infinity Courts #1) by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her—including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years.
The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there.
When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradicating human existence once and for all.
As Nami works with a team of rebels to bring down Ophelia and save the humans under her imprisonment, she is forced to reckon with her past, her future, and what it is that truly makes us human.
From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes an incisive, action-packed tale that explores big questions about technology, grief, love, and humanity.
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Simon Pulse
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father’s restaurant, Nacho’s Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans — leaving Pen to choose between disappointing her traditional Mexican-American parents or following her own path. When she confesses a secret she’s been keeping, her world is sent into a tailspin. But then she meets a cute new hire at Nacho’s who sees through her hard exterior and asks the questions she’s been too afraid to ask herself.
Xander Amaro has been searching for home since he was a little boy. For him, a job at Nacho’s is an opportunity for just that — a chance at a normal life, to settle in at his abuelo’s, and to find the father who left him behind. But when both the restaurant and Xander’s immigrant status are threatened, he will do whatever it takes to protect his new found family and himself.
Together, Pen and Xander must navigate first love and discovering where they belong — both within their families and their fiercely loyal Chicanx community — in order to save the place they all call home.
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Little, Brown Books for Young
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother’s imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short.
It’s hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches Talia, he sees them at the precipice of breaking up, and that terrifies him. Alex feels these visions are a curse, distracting him, making him anxious and unable to live an ordinary life.
And when Alex touches a photo that gives him a vision of his brother’s imminent death, everything changes.
With Alex now in a race against time, death, and circumstances, he and Isaiah must grapple with their past, their future, and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present.
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Simon Schuster Books for Young
The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch
Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and I Wish You All the Best.
Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it.
What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen?
Then, Sky’s plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator.
But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.
As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.
The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
What Beauty There Is (What Beauty There Is #1) by Cory Anderson
An exhilarating, emotionally powerful and superbly written thriller that’s Winter’s Bone meets The Road
Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.
Jack Morton has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he’d do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money.
Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Trust no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or help the brothers survive.
Choices. They come at a price.
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Roaring Brook Press
April 13th, 2021 🔥
The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties #1) by Marina J. Lostetter
A legendary serial killer stalks the streets of a fantastical city in The Helm of Midnight, the stunning first novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter.
In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power–the death mask of Louis Charbon. Made by a master craftsman, it is imbued with the spirit of a monster from history, a serial murderer who terrorized the city with a series of gruesome murders.
Now Charbon is loose once more, killing from beyond the grave. But these murders are different from before, not simply random but the work of a deliberate mind probing for answers to a sinister question.
It is up to Krona Hirvath and her fellow Regulators to enter the mind of madness to stop this insatiable killer while facing the terrible truths left in his wake.
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Tor Books
Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve
A moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and himself
Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian—including his girlfriend Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out. But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is now––not just on the stage, but everywhere in his life. Dean knows what he needs to do. Can playing a role help Dean be his true self?
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Amulet Books
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
New York Times –bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky delivers a deliciously twisty YA thriller that’s Scream meets Karen McManus about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror.
New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she ends up with more enemies than friends.
To her surprise, however, the prank attracts the attention of the Mary Shelley Club, a secret club of students with one objective: come up with the scariest prank to orchestrate real fear. But as the pranks escalate, the competition turns cutthroat and takes on a life of its own.
When the tables are turned and someone targets the club itself, Rachel must track down the real-life monster in their midst . . . even if it means finally confronting the dark secrets from her past.
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Henry Holt & Company
April 20th 2021 🔥
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
After her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of 13 young women, a teen returns to her secretive hometown to pick up the trail in this second YA historical mystery from the author of The Silence of Bones.
Hwani’s family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest, near a gruesome crime scene. The only thing they remember: Their captor wore a painted-white mask.
To escape the haunting memories of this incident, the family flees their hometown. Years later, Detective Min—Hwani’s father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared under similar circumstances, and so he returns to their hometown to investigate… only to vanish as well.
Determined to find her father and solve the case that tore their family apart, Hwani returns home to pick up the trail. As she digs into the secrets of the small village—and reconnects with her now estranged sister—Hwani comes to realize that the answer lies within her own buried memories of what happened in the forest all those years ago.
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Feiwel & Friends
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold #1) by Ciannon Smart
This Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy has the twisted cat-and-mouse of Killing Eve with the richly imagined fantasy world of Furyborn and Ember in the Ashes.
Divided by their order. United by their vengeance.
Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom—and vengeance.
Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power.
Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. But power is intoxicating, revenge is a bloody pursuit, and nothing is certain—except the lengths they will go to win this game.
“A thundering waterfall of magic, vengeance and intrigue.” —Samantha Shannon, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and The Bone Season.
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HarperTeen
Where Secrets Lie by Eva V. Gibson
Told in two interwoven timelines—the summer when everything changed, and the summer that changes everything—Where Secrets Lie is a seductive thriller as dark as it is enthralling.
Amy Larsen has spent every summer with her cousin Ben and their best friend Teddy in River Run, Kentucky, loving country life and welcoming the break from her intensive ambitions and overbearing mother—until the summer she and Teddy confront the changing feelings and simmering sexual tension growing between them, destroying the threesome’s friendship in a dramatic face-off.
One year later, Amy returns to River Run dreading what she might find. But when Teddy’s sister disappears, Amy, Ben and Teddy agree to put aside their differences to search for her. As they dig deeper into the dark history of their small town, all three friends must unearth the truths that tie their families to tragedy, cope with their own toxic upbringings and beliefs, and atone for the damage done to each other and themselves.
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Feiwel & Friends
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Personally, my most anticipated book release is A Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer Armentrout. But, life’s too short sounds really interesting!
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What a lovely list! 🥰 I’m really looking forward to The Cost of Knowing as it has such a unique premise & I’d love to see how that plays out 🙂 Personally, I’m very excited for The Half-Orphan’s Handbook, Victories Greater Than Death, and Fugitive Telemetry ❤
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Same!! I’m also very curious to know how the story will be executed 👏🏻👏🏻 & I’ll check the ones you mention to my TBR to grows 😍😍😅
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Great list, lots of brilliant books! I’m excited for House of Hollow, it sounds fantastic!
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OMG, me too!! I think is my most anticipated of the list, sounds like a weird thing that I’ll love 😍✨
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I’m really excited for The Mary Shelley Club too!!!
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Me too!!! Sounds like a lot of creepy fun 😅❤️
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So many good ones! I have read The Infinity Courts and Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet and loved them both!
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That makes me happy!! 👏🏻😄 now I’m even more excited to read them both, they sound like books I’ll love *fingers crossed* 😍
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ahhh this books sound amazing!! they also have such beautiful covers!!🥺💖
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This year’s covers are another level good, right? 😍✨
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House of Hollow looks fab!
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I know, right? dying to read it 😍😍😍
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Great post! I’ve instantly added The Helm of Midnight to my TBR because it sounds amazing & I have SO many of these on it already 😊
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I have an ARC of that one and I’ll be reading soon! super excited, I hope to enjoy it so I can recommend it! 😊✨
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Ahh that’s great! Looking forward to reading your thoughts 😀
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Thank you for sharing thoses!
I’ve added between bitter & sweet aswell as where the secret lies onto my list 😘
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It makes me SO happy that you can find new books for your TBR 🥺🥺🥺❤️
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Amazing list! I’m so excited about quite a few books on here – I hope we both love them 😊
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Yes!! I also hope you both enjoy them, they sound AMAZING 😍
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Interesting choices. I already have Everybody Dies Famous on my TBR. We’ll see if I get to it soon.
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I hope you love it! I would love to know your thoughts once you read it ❤️
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There are just so many good books coming out this month. I think of all of them I am most excited for The Infinity Courts, House of Hollow and Witches Steeped in Gold!
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House of Hollow has me SO EXCITED!! it’s probably one of my most anticipated of the year 😍😍
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some of these sound so interesting!! I am absolutely and 100% excited for the Infinity Courts!! I love Akemi Dawn Bowman’s books so, so much and I can’t wait to read this one!
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I’ve never read anything from the author so I’m very curious! & The Infinity Courts sounds amazing! 😍✨
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This is such a great list of books!! I am so excited for The Forest of Stolen Girls, and THe Infinity Courts!
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They both sound like books that I’ll love!! So I hope we both love them once we read it ❤️
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Excellent list! I’m definitely looking forward to so many of these. The Infinity Courts sounds so intriguing and I like the magical realism aspect of The Cost of Knowing. April has so many unique, upcoming reads!
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Aziaaa, it makes me happy when I see your comments! ❤️ I hope you’re having a beautiful start to the month, honey 🥰✨ & The Cost of Knowing sounds so unique, I’m super intrigued to know how magical realism will be executed 😍
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Hi Sofii!! 🙋🏽♀️💗 Feels great to read your wonderful posts again! I am, and I hope you are too 🤗 I hope you get to enjoy all of these books!
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Some great books!
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Absolutely!! they all sound great 😍✨
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So many great books! I’m most excited for A Crown of Gilded Bones!
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It’s a great month of releases!!! 😍✨
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So excited for Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet !!!!
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Same!!! sounds amazing, it sure will be emotional 🥺🥺
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The Helm of Midnight sounds super interesting! I want to read Witches Steeped in Gold so bad. That cover is so good! Although, I’m getting an edition in a book box and I know they’re doing an exclusive cover so hopefully it’s still pretty lol
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The Helm of Midnight sounds great!! 😍 and also super excited for Witches Steeped in Gold, that cover is SO beautiful, and don’t worry, I doubt that the exclusive cover is ugly, I think it will surely have slightly different colors, but it will surely look beautiful! 🥰✨👏🏻
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Great April release list! All of these sound so good and I have quite a few of them on my TBR. I can’t wait for all of these amazing sounding books. ❤
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This 2021 is giving us the most incredible books so far, I’m excited to read all of my list, but especially House of Hollow, it sounds like everything I love 😍✨
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Great list, I’m very excited for Witches Steeped in Gold!
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SAME!! looks and sounds AMAZING 😍✨
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I can’t wait for The Infinity Courts aaah! That cover is to die for and it sounds absolutely mind-blowing! But my most anticipated release must be Malice by Heather Walter!
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Absolutely!! I think the same, the cover is too beautiful and it sounds epic! I hope the execution is good too *fingers crossed* 😍✨
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Great list! I’m curious about house of hollow!
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Sounds dark and super intriguing, right? I hope to read it soon 😍✨
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Great list, I’m really excited to pick up Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet and Witched Steeped in Gold 💜💜
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They both sound SO good, right? I hope we both love them once we read them 😍😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Everybody Dies Famous in a Small Town sounds similar to When We Were Worthy- Marybeth Whalem
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I’ll have to check out that one too! 😍
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I’m enjoying the audio version.
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This is such a good list! I’m very excited to read The Infinity Courts, it sounds so good! 🙂
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Sounds SO good, right?! this year is blessing us with these new releases 😂😂😂✨👏🏻
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I am always so bad at keeping up with anticipated books 😅 I kinda gave up on these lists this year for that reason
This post is so great coz now I’m gonna go and add majority of these books to my TBR since they sound so damn good 🤩
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It’s an honor to grow your TBR !! 😅 and YES! THEY ALL SOUND INCREDIBLE, right? 😍✨
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