One of the best parts of being a book lover is seeing new books and imagining how good they seem. Sometimes you see a book and you just know.. much the same as when you fall in love. These are some books that I simply just know I’m going to love.
Summer Bird Blue
“Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesnât have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure ofâshe wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.
Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the âboys next doorââa teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesnât take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years agoâRumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.”
The author of my favorite novel ever, Starfish, recently released this beautiful gem and I can’t wait to one day own, read, and rate it 5 Stars. There is no doubt in my mind.. I’m going to love this book. Everything about it sounds amazing.
Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.
The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant âwallflowerâ Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
A #1 New York Times best seller for more than a year, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or âwallflowersâ of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life.”
This is the love of my life’s favorite book and I have no doubt that I’m going to love it too. I’ve wanted to read it for a very long time, but I hadn’t had a real chance to read it till now. I know I’m going to pick this book up very soon!
A Line in the Dark
“The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark.
Jess Wong is Angie Redmondâs best friend. And thatâs the most important thing, even if Angie canât see how Jess truly feels. Being the girl no one quite notices is OK with Jess anyway. While nobody notices her, sheâs free to watch everyone else. But when Angie begins to fall for Margot Adams, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can see it coming a mile away. Suddenly her powers of observation are more curse than gift.
As Angie drags Jess further into Margotâs circle, Jess discovers more than her friendâs growing crush. Secrets and cruelty lie just beneath the carefree surface of this world of wealth and privilege, and when they come out, Jess knows Angie wonât be able to handle the consequences.
When the inevitable darkness finally descends, Angie will need her best friend.
âIt doesnât even matter that she probably doesnât understand how much she means to me. Itâs purer this way. She can take whatever she wants from me, whenever she wants it, because Iâm her best friend.â
A Line in the Dark is a story of love, loyalty, and murder.”
Ever since I first saw this cover I had this weird fascination with this book. I want to read it terribly. It’s a book that is very much a me kinda book and I am really hoping it’s as good as I believe it to be.
Reign of the Fallen
“Odessa is one of Karthia’s master necromancers, catering to the kingdom’s ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it’s Odessa’s job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised–the Dead must remain shrouded, or risk transforming into zombie-like monsters known as Shades. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation will begin.
A dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa’s necromancer community. Soon a crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead–and training them to attack. Odessa is faced with a terrifying question: What if her necromancer’s magic is the weapon that brings Karthia to its knees?”
Everything about this sounds like the makings of a fantastic fantasy. It will be one of the first necromancer books I read and I just have a really good feeling about it.
The Art of Starving
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More Happy Than Not meets Glory OâBrienâs History of the Future in this gritty, contemporary YA debut about a bullied gay teen boy with an eating disorder who believes heâs developed super powers via starvation.
Matt hasnât eaten in days.
His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal. But Matt wonât give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharpâand he needs to be as sharp as possible if heâs going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away.
Mattâs hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldnât be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of peopleâs heads. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space.
So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe?
Matt decides to infiltrate Tariqâs life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. No problem. But Matt doesnât realize there are many kinds of hunger⊠and he isnât in control of all of them.
A darkly funny, moving story of body image, addiction, friendship, and love, Sam J. Millerâs debut novel will resonate with any reader whoâs ever craved the power that comes with self-acceptance.”
I KNOW I’m going to love this book. From the moment I saw the cover (which is 10/10 for me) I knew I had to give it a shot and when I read the synopsis I was blown away. I can’t wait to finally read this book!
Ink
“Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora’s father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into a Skin Book to stand as a record of his good life. But when she discovers that his ink has been edited and his book is incomplete, she wonders whether she ever knew him at all.”
The cover.. the premise.. I feel like this book was created especially for me. I’m going to be so upset if this isn’t a 5 star read for me.
They Both Die at the End
“Adam Silvera reminds us that thereâs no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: Theyâre going to die today.
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, theyâre both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: Thereâs an app for that. Itâs called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventureâto live a lifetime in a single day.”
I’m probably going to cry when I get to read this. I don’t really care. I just know that this story is going to be a beautiful one.
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
“On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls. Some managed to escape. Many are still missing. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husbandâthese are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. A girl who works hard in school and to help her family. A girl with a future as bright as live coals in the dark. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyoneâher mother, her five brothers, her best friend, her teachersâcan see that these dreams arenât too far out of reach. Even if the voices on Papaâs radio tell more fearful news than tales to tell by moonlight.
But the girlâs dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captorsâ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything sheâs been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her lifeâher futureâis hers to fight for.”
This is a gem I found recently and I can’t wait to one day own and read it. It sounds so impactful. I know I’m going to love it.
Jane, Unlimited
“If you could change your story, would you?
Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless. Then an old acquaintance, the glamorous and capricious Kiran Thrash, blows back into Janeâs life and invites her to a gala at the Thrashesâ extravagant island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: âIf anyone ever invites you to Tu Reviens, promise me that youâll go.â
What Jane doesnât know is that at Tu Reviens her story will change; the house will offer her five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her untethered life. But every choice comes with a price. She might fall in love, she might lose her life, she might come face-to-face with herself. At Tu Reviens, anything is possible.”
I ADORE Kristin Cashore. I know that whatever she writes is going to be amazing to me. Plus this is magical realism and I am so pumped for a magical realism from her!
Dealing in Dreams
“At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets.
Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That roles brings with it violent throw downs and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but the sixteen-year-old grows weary of the life. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent founder and cross the border in a search for a mysterious gang the AshĂ© Ryders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles other crews and her own doubts, but the closer she gets to her goal, the more she loses sight of everythingâand everyoneâ she cares about.
Nalah must do the unspeakable to get what she wantsâa place to call home. But is a home just where you live? Or who you choose to protect?”
The day I first saw this cover revealed was a really good day. I LOVE this cover. I don’t even want to know anything else, but because I trust that this author is good and that the contents are going to be amazing this easily makes it onto this list!
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this post. What book on your tbr do you predict to be a 5 star read?
-Till next time!
I am so glad the Throne of Glass covers were changed. I absolutely gravitate towards the covers as they are now with this fiery artistic murduerous female in the front vs. a simple pretty girl. Plus the backs of the cover changed versions are so cool as well! 
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