Happy Valentine’s Day for those who care – Happy Monday for the rest! Here are some great books to check out this week.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Dear Student (Older Middle Grade, 10+) – A girl is caught in the middle as the advice columnist of her school paper when her two new friends are on different sides of an issue.
Hilo: Gina and the Big Secret – Book 8 in the Hilo series, and a follow up to the outstanding Gina: The Girl Who Broke the World. Gina has a huge problem on her hands when she finds herself on a world filled with monsters. I pre-ordered this one, so I should be able to read it soon!
All the Right Reasons – Cara and her single mom become contestants on a new reality show where her mom gets to meet a lot of single dads while she looks for love.
Bright Ruined Things – A young woman hopes that the celebration of First Night will help her best friend and her crush – both members of the powerful Prosper family – truly see her, but instead the island’s spirits start dying and the Prosper heir might hold the answers to why. It’s a hard, twisty plot to summarize when I haven’t read the book, but I am intrigued by the whole thing and have this on my list of books to check out.
The Chandler Legacies – Five teens at an elite boarding school come together in the Circle, a coveted writing group at the school. They are supposed to write their truths, but the truth might not be enough to change the culture at Chandler. I have this one on my review list for this month.
Books for Adults
#FollowMe for Murder (e-book) – First in a new Trending Topic Mystery series. When Coco launches her social media consulting firm, she had no idea her first clients would lead her into investigating a murder. I pre-ordered this one the first moment I read about it. Sounds amazing!
An Impossible Impostor (Hardcover) – Book 7 in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery series. A man with amnesia arrives at Hathaway Hall, appearing to be the heir, thought to be deceased. So Veronica and her boyfriend agree to investigate the man to see if he is an imposter. I haven’t read this series before, but the story in this one really grabs my attention. I have it on my library list.
Meet Me in the Margins (Trade Paperback) – A woman secretly writing a romance novel at a publishing house that looks down on the genre has to hide her manuscript before she is found out. When she goes to retrieve it from her hiding place, she finds that someone has been reading it – and giving her editing notes. I saw a meme recently about pre-ordering books so you have these delightful surprises in the mail as the books release. I totally took that advice this month, and this is one of the books that will be showing up in my mailbox any day now.