What Books I've Bought Lately

I read this book a long time ago actually. I remember rushing through reading it and not really liking the book. But I’ve always wanted to reread it and give it a fair chance. Well I went thrift shopping and I found this book there! I swooped it up because this was exactly what I had been wishing for. A chance to finally reread this book and see what I actually thought about it.

Queenie is a 25 year old Jamaican British woman living in London. She works at a national newspaper, comparing herself to her upper middle class white peers. After a horrible breakup with her long term white boyfriend, Queenie starts finding comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie moves from one bad decision to the next, she ask herself some hard questions. “What are you doing? Why are you doing it?”

Nicola Yoon has written some of the best YA novels I’ve ever read. Every single book I’ve read of hers, I’ve loved. Everything, Everything is my all time favorite of hers! I saw she had a new release coming out this year and I preorder it. I just knew I had to have it ASAP!

Evie has the power to see other people’s romantic fates. But what happens when she sees her own? Evie Thomas doesn’t even believe in love anymore after everything she’s seen. But she finally sees one couple’s romantic fate which ends with then still in love. But everyone knows all the best love stories end with a broken heart, right? But then Evie meets a boy named X. X is everything Evie isn’t including adventurous, daring, and passionate. Falling for X wasn’t in Evie’s plan, due to everything she’s seen. But with X Evie has to question everything she believed. Especially if is love worth the pain?

Mary H.K Choi has such a way with words and characters. Her latest release , Yolk, was so moving and honest. Like every other book of hers I’ve read. Permanent Record isn’t her newest book but it’s one I forgot to read. It was on sale at a bookstore, so why not at that point?! Hoping this one is my newest favorite from her!

After one year of college,Pablo is working at his local twenty four hour deli. He’s dodging calls from the student loan office and trying to figure out what his next move is. Leanna Smart’s life has been nothing but success. Age 15, first #1 single on the pop charts. Age 17, 10th #1 single. Now age 19, life is full of private plane rides, different hotel rooms, and people asking for her autograph. When Leanna and Pablo randomly meet at 4am in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, they know they can’t be together forever. So they promise to keep things low key and off Instagram for as long as possible. But the world find out in about ten seconds…

The Inheritance Games is such a fun and intriguing series. I definitely had my doubts but then I read it…it was GOOD! I knew going into it that it was the first of a series but still. This book is the second in the trilogy and it picks up right where the first one left off. I’m ready for more puzzles, games, and mystery!

Heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces quick. Avery needs to find the man who might hold all the answers to all the questions she needs answered. Like why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a complete stranger, instead of his actual daughters or grandsons. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows she's not a Hawthorne by blood but the clues are hinting that she has a deeper connection to the family than she ever imagined. Grayson and Jameson, two of the magnetic and enigmatic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in two different directions. But there are enemies and threats lurking around every corner and they will do anything to remove Avery from the picture permanently. Let the games begin y'all!

This book was everywhere when it was released this June. I felt so left out, but I had a line of books to read. So I put this to the side and promised myself I would come back to it. But I never forgot that I really was interested in reading this. A romance with Black leads written by a Black author?! I’m starting this book next week and I cannot wait!

Eva Mercy is a Brooklyn single mom and a bestselling romance author. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award winning literary author, who shocks everyone when he shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, and raising the eyebrows of every Black literary person in New York City. What no one knows is twenty years ago, teenage Eva and Shane shared one love filled week together. They may be pretending everything is fine but they can’t deny their chemistry. Or that for years they’ve been writing to each other in their books. Over the next seven days,Eva and Shane reconnect. But Eva isn’t too sure if she can trust him and she needs him out of New York so that her life can get back to normal. But before Shane disappears again, she has some questions that she needs answers to.