New Year, New Books!

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

This book is being described as a modern day retelling of Jane Eyre! Um, sign me up please?! Jane moves to Birmingham, AL running away from something in her past. We start to realize Jane isn't the naive dog walker we think she is. She meets charming Eddie, who lost his wife and her best friend in a boating accident. Their bodies were never found which tore Eddie apart. As Eddie and Jane grow closer, questions start to formulate in Jane's mind. Why were Blanche's and Bea's bodies never found? Why is Eddie seeming to follow her everywhere? But the scariest of all, what if ,Bea, Eddie's wife is still alive?

Release date : January 5, 2021

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was one of the best books I read in 2017. I am so happy Angie is giving us the backstory on Maverick Carter, Starr's dad, from The Hate U Give. Maverick Starr thinks he knows what it takes to be a real man. As the son of a former gang leader, Mav does what he thinks he needs to do: deal for the King lords. He can help his mom who works two jobs while he father is in jail. But that all changes when Mav realizes he has a child on the way. He realizes the life he's living isn't easy or even good for a father to be. When he gets a chance to leave the gang life and go straight, he takes it. In a world that expects him to be nothing, he's determined to become something. But when King lords blood runs through your veins, it's hard to leave it all behind. Mav will have to realize what being a man really means.

Release date : January 12, 2021

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah is a extremely talented author. She writes prolific novels but I think she excels in her historical fiction novels. She shows she has done her homework with every event she writes and is great in placing the reader in a completely different time period. The Four Winds transports the reader to 1934 Texas. 1934 is in the middle of The Great Depression. Millions out of work. Farmers are struggling to keep their land as crops are dying, water drying up, and dust is the biggest threat of all. The darkest time of The Great Depression, The Dust Bowl era, has arrived. In this hard time, Elsa Martinelli must make a difficult choice. Fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, to search for a better life.

Release date : February 9, 2021

Yolk by Mary H.K Choi

Emergency Contact is one of the best YA novels I've ever read. It was so engrossing, I didn't even realize it was a YA book. I'm more than ready to read another book by Mary Choi! Jayne Baek is struggling to cope. She's just getting by in fashion school, stuck with a deadbeat boyfriend, and struggling with a eating disorder she isn't quite ready to deal with yet. But that's New York City, right? At least she's no longer in Texas! One the other hand, her sister June is rich with a financing job and a stunning apartment. June has never struggled in her life, quite different than Jayne. Until she's diagnosed with uterine cancer. Now, the estranged sisters with nothing in common are living together. Because sisterly obligations mean a lot more when one of you is dying.

Release date: March 2, 2021

One of The Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

Some authors have a debut novel that I love so much, I am destined to read everything they ever write from there. The Moulite sisters wrote a outstanding first novel and I cannot wait for their second one. I'm sure I'll be writing a review on this one! When teen social activist Kezi Smith is killed mysteriously after a social justice rally, her family is left reeling. As Kenzi is immortalized as another victim in the fight against police brutality, her sister Happi begins to question how her sister is being remembered. Perfect. Angelic. One of the good ones. Which leads Happi and her other sister , Genny, to go on their own road trip to honor Kenzi's memory. But something about Kenzi's past throws a twist in the story that no one sees coming. One that will change everything again.

Release date: January 5, 2021

The Project by Courtney Summers

A book about a cult? It should have my name written on it already. I am a true crime buff and I love a television program about a cult. A book about it and I am all in okay! After Lo Denham's parents died, her sister abandoned her to join The Unity Project. Lo was left in the care of her great aunt but never forgot about her sister. The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most people in the Upstate N.Y region, but Lo knows there is something not quite right. She has spent the last six years trying to prove it but hasn't had much luck. But one day a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming his son has been killed by The Unity Project. Lo sees this as her opportunity to expose the cult and free her sister, Bea. When the investigation puts Lo in the pathway of the group's leader, Lev Warren, she realizes everything she thought was true might not be. Lo never thought she could trust Lev Warren but now she might lose everything if she doesn't.

Release Date: February 2,2021

Act Your Age Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Romance novels have come a long way since I started reading them. In terms of diversity, plot lines, and all they seem to grow over time. Talia Hibbert knows how to write a contemporary romance that makes me smile and laugh till I cry. Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she tries to do right, things just seem to go horribly wrong. But when she ruins a expensive wedding, her parents have had enough. They tell her it's time to grow up and she needs to do it ASAP. Eve just doesn't know how to pull it together. When she goes for a interview for a chef position with Jacob Wayne, a perfectionist bed and breakfast owner, he quickly shoots her down. Then she hits him with her car which she says is a accident...yeah right. Now Jacob's arm is broken, his newest B&B understaffed, and he is stuck with Eve who is flailing around trying to help. Before long, Eve has infiltrated every part of Jacob's life and he hates it. Or he says he does. Over time Eve melts Jacob's frosty exterior and she might end up changing her own life too.

Release Date: March 9, 2021

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

I read the summary for this book and I literally laughed out loud. I cackled picturing this novel happening in real life. Can someone make this into a movie please? One accidental murder, two thousand wedding guest, three cursed generations, and four meddling Asian aunties to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, her mother calls her even more meddling aunties to help clean up the problem. But the dead body is way more trouble than anyone thought, especially when the body is shipped in a wedding cake cooler to a billion dollar wedding that the aunties are working. It's the biggest job ever for the family wedding business and nothing will get in the way of that. Not even a dead body! But this disaster grows worse when Meddy's greatest love and biggest heartbreak unexpectedly shows up. How can Meddy deal with meddling aunties, a dead body, her family's' biggest weekend, and charm her ex back into her life all in one weekend?

Release date: April 27, 2021