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Adding to Your TBR August 2017

Adding to Your TBR

Adding to your tbr

Adding to Your TBR August 2017

Adding books to your TBR (To Be Read list) is serious business #bookwormproblems I have more books on mine than I care to admit but fortunately, that doesn’t stop me adding more every month. So I am sharing my most anticipated books of August 2017 new releases to help you compile a threatening fabulous list too.

These are the books I am most looking forward to… (In order of release so you can get your pre-orders in before you forget!)

 

Have you read any of these? What’s on your TBR for August?

The Secret History of Us by Jessi Kirby 

Expected: 1 August 2017

A YA thriller with an unreliable narrator.

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When Olivia awakes in a hospital bed following a car accident that almost took her life, she can’t remember the details about how she got there. She figures the fog is just a symptom of being in a week-long coma, but as time goes on, she realizes she’s lost more than just the last several days of her life—she’s lost her memory of the last four years. Gone is any recollection of starting or graduating high school; the prom; or her steady boyfriend Matt. Trying to figure out who she is feels impossible when everyone keeps telling her who she was. 

As Liv tries to block out what her family and friends say about who she used to be, the one person she hasn’t heard enough from is Walker, the guy who saved her the night her car was knocked off that bridge into the bay below. Walker is the hardened boy who’s been keeping his distance—and the only person Olivia inexplicably feels herself with. With her feelings growing for Walker, tensions rising with Matt, and secrets she can’t help but feel are being kept from her, Olivia must find her place in a life she doesn’t remember living. – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber

Expected: 1 August 2017

A psychological thriller full of secrets and promising unpredictable twists.

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Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family’s reputation and with good reason. After her father’s murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie’s closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that’s where she intends to stay.

The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past—starting with her last name. -Goodreads

   

 

Just Friends by Tiffany Pitcock

Expected: 1 August 2017

Well, I had to put at least on contemporary in! I know this sounds like thousands of books just like it but I know it’s going to be just the thing to turn a bad day around.

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Jenny meets Chance for the very first time when she is assigned as his partner in their Junior Oral Communications class. But after they rescue a doomed assignment with one clever lie, the whole school is suddenly convinced that Little-Miss-Really-Likes-Having-A’s and the most scandalous heartbreaker in school have been best friends forever. It’s amazing how quickly a lie can grow―especially when you really, really want it to be the truth.

With Jenny, Chance can live the normal life he’s always kind of wanted. And with Chance, Jenny can have the exciting teen experiences that TV shows and movies have always promised. Through it all, they hold on to the fact that they are “just friends.” But that might be the biggest lie of all. – Abstract from Goodreads

    

 

The Bakersville Dozen by Kristina McBride

Expected: 8 August 2017

I love scavenger hunts and with the chance to read a thriller with a scavenger hunt makes The Bakersville Dozen my most anticipated August read.

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Back in September, the town of Bakersville, Ohio made national news when a video went viral featuring thirteen of the high school’s elite in compromising positions. Now it’s May, and every month since the “Bakersville Dozen” made their infamous appearance on the national stage, one girl has gone missing. Officials are no closer to identifying the criminal.

Bailey discovers a note in her locker on the last day of school inviting her on a scavenger hunt, she thinks it’s just a sweet surprise from her boyfriend trying to cheer her up. But following the clue leads her, instead, to the first official casualty. And another sinister envelope. The killer is close, and it could be anyone… – Abstract from Goodreads 

 

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

Expected: 8 August 2017

I loved Brandy Colbert’s ballet thriller Pointe (link to my 5-star review) so much that she became one of my ‘auto-buy’ authors so the inclusion of Little & Lion is a given.

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When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn’t sure if she’ll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.

But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new…the same girl her brother is in love with. When Lionel’s disorder spirals out of control, Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help her brother before he hurts himself–or worse. – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker 

Expected: 8 August 2017

Disappearing sisters, lies, dysfunctional family… this sounds like a winner!

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One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn’t add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister’s return might just be the beginning of the crime. – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

The Diplomat’s Daughter by Karin Tanabe

Expected: 10 August 2017

After reading the brilliant Nora & Kettle by Lauren Nicolle Taylor, which highlighted the appalling conditions Japanese American citizens were subjected to after Pearl Harbour, I have been more aware of the US/Japanese aspect of WWII. I am strangely drawn to the Second World War but for the most part, my interest has centred on Europe. Having had the privilege of living in Indonesia I have seen relics of their Japanese Occupation and I am looking forward to immersing myself and learning more about the Asian Pacific aspect.

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During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that love can bloom in even the bleakest circumstances.

When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the US Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front—and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi—unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart. – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor

Expected: 15 August 2017

I have been on the fence with this one, it could go anyway. But I’m going to put my trust in the early ratings on Goodreads and give it a go.

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Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them. Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart. 

To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there’s no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?  – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

 

Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popović

Expected: 15 August 2017

Another one I am not too sure about, but again it’s had great early reviews…

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All the women in Iris and Malina’s family have the unique magical ability or “gleam” to manipulate beauty. Iris sees flowers as fractals and turns her kaleidoscope visions into glasswork, while Malina interprets moods as music. But their mother has strict rules to keep their gifts a secret, even in their secluded sea-side town. Iris and Malina are not allowed to share their magic with anyone, and above all, they are forbidden from falling in love. 

But when their mother is mysteriously attacked, the sisters will have to unearth the truth behind the quiet lives their mother has built for them. They will discover a wicked curse that haunts their family line—but will they find that the very magic that bonds them together is destined to tear them apart forever? – Abstract from Goodreads

 

 

 

Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle Prendergast

Expected: 29 August 2017

OMG just look at this cover! #coverlove I don’t read a lot of science fiction, and although I added it to my TBR just for the cover, the storyline is intriguing and the early ratings on Goodreads are excellent.

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He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.

Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.

His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.

Until a human kills her… – Goodreads

 

 

9 Comments

  1. Suzanne @ The Bookish Libra

    Great list! I’m anticipating many of these as well, especially Little & Lion. I just finished Emma in the Night this past weekend and really loved it. Happy reading!

  2. Grace @ Rebel Mommy Book Blog

    SO many good ones here!! Emma in the Night and Wicked Like a Wildfire are two that sound awesome and hope to get to at some point. Happy reading!

  3. Lauren

    Great list! I’m really looking forward to The Bakersville Dozen. I love the Pretty Little Liars vibes it’s giving off, and I love scavenger hunts too! I feel like that part in particular could allow the mystery to go off in some fun ways. I’ve been torn on A Map of Wrecked Girls too. I’ve seen really, really good reviews for it, and not so great reviews…however, I can’t resist an island setting so I’m sure I’ll check it out eventually!

    Lauren @ Lauren’s Crammed Bookshelf

  4. Marie @ Drizzle & Hurricane Books

    I am really looking forward to reading A Map For Wrecked Girls and Wicked like a wildfire, both sound so good and their covers are stunning. I heard good things about Zero Repeat Forever and even if it’s not the genre I usually turn towards to, I think I might add it to my TBR as well.
    Thank you for sharing these books, happy reading! 😀

  5. Olivia @ The Candid Cover

    What a great idea for a post! I have never heard of The Bakersville Dozen and it sounds like one that I would really enjoy. I will have to keep and eye out for that one. I hope that you enjoy all of these! 🙂

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