At an elite boarding school in the English countryside, Nigerian cousins Iyanu and Kitan are thrown into the middle of a schoolwide conspiracy when everyone’s juicy relationship secrets are released, Burn Book style, the week before the annual Valentine’s Day Ball.
This book’s vibe is a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream mixed with Dear White People which I actually really liked! A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays (I named my cat Hermia!!) and I loved how the author wove in issues that teens deal with nowadays such as blackfishing, bullying, peer pressure, sexual identity, cultural identity, etc. I buddy read this book with @bookswithjaybraggs and it was fun to chat with her about the mystery in this book, and speculate ‘who did it?’ This book was a fun, cute YA mystery with a side of romance that imparted knowledge about how to navigate tough situations.
💕 This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin
💕 In the Ring by Sierra Isley
💕 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson
💕 The Darkest Stars (The Broken Stars #2) by Kristy Gardner
💕Daughter of Winter and Twilight (Queen of Coin and Whispers #2) by Helen Corcoran
💕 Time to Shine by Rachel Reid
💕 Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson
💕 Fly with Me by Andie Burke
💕 Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni
💕 A Crown So Cursed (Nightmare-Verse, #3) by L.L. McKinney
💕 This Dark Descent (This Dark Descent, #1) by Kalyn Josephson
💕 Providence Girls by Morgan Dante
💕 Wolf, Willow, Witch (The Gideon Testaments #2) by Freydís Moon
💕 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell
💕 Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz
💕 Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
💕You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
💕 Double Exposure: A F/NBi Enemies to Lovers Romantic Suspense by Rien Gray
💕 The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2) by Megan E. O'Keefe
💕 Cover Story by Valerie Gomez
💕 The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
💕 The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
💕 Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed
💕 Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
💕 A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
💕 Salt Kiss (Lyonesse, #1) by Sierra Simone
💕 The Amazing Alpha Tau Boyfriend Project (Alpha Tau, #1) by Lisa Henry
Make sure to check the TWs for all books if necessary 💕
🦇 September is #BisexualityVisibilityAwarenessMonth! We also have Bisexual Awareness Week between September 16 and 23, and Bisexuality Day on September 23! This is the month to celebrate bisexual people, the community, and (of COURSE), bisexual books! Here are a few coming out this month you can add to your TBR!
💙 Fly With Me by Andie Burke @andiewritesandreads
💜 This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin @tamartinauthor
💖 You, Again by Kate Goldbeck @kategoldbeck
💙 In the Ring by Sierra Isley @sierraisley
💜 Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine @zeineddineg
💖 Time to Shine by Rachel Reid @rachelreidwrites
💙 Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed @tufayelahmed
💜 The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab @veschwab
💖 Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz @rachelrunyawrites
💙 Daughter of Winter and Twilight by Helen Corcoran @glittersandglows
💜 A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney @ll_mckinney
💖 A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
💙 Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones @kbjoneswrites
💜 Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni @aleemawrites
💖 The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu @emdashliu
💙 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell @smhollowell
💜 This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson @kalynmjosephson
💖 How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok @xvictoriawrites
Three exciting new YA books are hitting shelves this week! What's on your TBR?
Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz
Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it’s all pretend–until one of them is murdered. One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out in this killer locked-room mystery.
Someone brought a knife to the party.
To celebrate the end of high school, Izzy Morales joins her ride-or-die Kassidy and five friends on a 1920s-themed getaway at the glamorous Ashwood Manor. There, Izzy and her friends party in vintage dresses and expensive diamonds–until Kassidy’s boyfriend turns up dead.
Murdered, investigators declare when they arrive at the scene, and now every party guest is a suspect. There’s the girlfriend, in love. The other girl, in despair. The old friend, forlorn. The new friend, distressed. The brooding enigma. And then, there’s Izzy–the girl who brought the knife.
To find the killer, everyone must undergo a grueling interrogation, all while locked in an estate where, suddenly, the greatest luxury is innocence.
There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer
Debut author Lisa Springer delivers a spine-tingling, contemporary horror that follows a scary movie buff as she hosts an elaborate Halloween bash on her family’s estate but soon finds the festivities upended when she and her guests are forced to test their survival skills in a deadly party game.
Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful movie club dedicated to the genre. Thus, who better to throw the ultimate, most exclusive Halloween party on all of Long Island?
And with the guest list including the coolest kids in her senior class, her popularity is bound to spike. Hopefully, enough to warrant an expansion into podcasting. Plus, the fact that attractive, singer-songwriter Archer Mitchell is coming is honestly the candy corn on top. Nothing is going to kill her party vibes.
Except…maybe the low-budget It clown she hires to lead a classic round of tag. He’s supposed to be terrifying, though in a comforting, nostalgic way. Instead, the guy is giving major creeps. But maybe Noelle’s just that good at hosting?
Her confidence is immediately rocked when the night’s entertainment axes one of her guests. And he’s not done yet. If an evil, murderous clown thinks life is a game, then Noelle is ready to play. She’s been waiting a long time to prove that she’s a Final Girl.
Everyone’s Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni
Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this big-hearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about family, friendship, and belonging—with a propulsive mystery at its heart. Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, an elite boarding school in the English countryside, reputation is everything. But aspiring photographer Iyanu is more comfortable observing things safely from behind her camera. For Iyanu’s estranged cousin, Kitan, life seems perfect. She has money, beauty, and friends like queen bee Heather. But as a Nigerian girl in a school as white and insular as Wodebury, Kitan struggles with the personal sacrifices needed to keep her place—and the protection she gets—within the exclusive popular crowd. Then photos from Iyanu’s camera are stolen and splashed across the school the week before the Valentine’s Day Ball—each with a juicy secret written on it. With everyone’s dirty laundry suddenly out in the open, the school explodes in chaos, and the whispers accusing Iyanu of being the one behind it all start to feel like déjà vu. Each girl is desperate to unravel the mystery of who stole the photos and why. But exposing the truth will change them all forever.
Truly Madly Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur
The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau
Something Like Love by Christina C. Jones
Bidding for the Bachelor by Jackie Lau
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Have Me Forever by Ally Blythe
Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni
Heat Wave by Elyse Springer
An Act of Devotion by A.M. Leibowitz
Passion Over Power by Karmen Lee
Party Favors by Erin McLellan
Winning Move by Skye Kilaen
False Notes & Broken Frets by Elle Bennett
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waiter
The Electrical Affairs of Dr. Victor Franklin by Catherine Stein
Trouble by Lex Croucher
Guarding the Countess by Jess Michaels
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Cutting Your Teeth by Caylan MacRae
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Death Warmed Over by M.L. Eaden
The Blood-Born Dragon by J.C. Rycroft
The Dragon’s Devotion by Antonia Aquilante
The Envoy’s Honor by Antonia Aquilante
Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black
Baptism of Fire by Jessie Thomas
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta
The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff
Water Horse by Melissa Scott
Silverglass, No. 1 by J.F. Rivkin
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
Wild by Hannah Moskowitz
In The Event of Love by Courtney Kae
A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria
Fandom by Eden Finley
Dare to Live, Dare to Love by Nicole C. Moon
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves
Meeting Her Match by Liz Lincoln
Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo
Don't You Dare by C.E. Ricci
Road Rules by Brigham Vaughn
Fire Season by K.D. Casey
Home Plate by Christina Lee
Blindsided by Eden Finley
💕 Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni (UK edition)
💕 I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
💕 A Vermilion Curse by DC Guevara
💕 The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan
💕 Between Wind and Water by Shawna Barnett
💕 With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson
💕 Gimmicks and Glamour by Lauren Melissa Ellzey
💕 Text Appeal by Amber Roberts
💕 Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald
💕 Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
💕 The Details by Ia Genberg, Kira Josefsson
💕 Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly
💕 The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim
💕 Reality In Check by Emily Banting
Here is the goodreads list of these books.
Make sure to check the TWs for each book if necessary 💕
Today's bi book of the day is Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni!
It's a YA contemporary with a mystery.
It has dual POV Black girl MCs, elite boarding school setting, bis pining, fake dating subplot, messy secrets and yearning musicians.
Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this big-hearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about family, friendship, and belonging—with a propulsive mystery at its heart.
Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, an elite boarding school in the English countryside, reputation is everything. But aspiring photographer Iyanu is more comfortable observing things safely from behind her camera.
For Iyanu’s estranged cousin, Kitan, life seems perfect. She has money, beauty, and friends like queen bee Heather. But as a Nigerian girl in a school as white and insular as Wodebury, Kitan struggles with the personal sacrifices needed to keep her place—and the protection she gets—within the exclusive popular crowd.
Then photos from Iyanu’s camera are stolen and splashed across the school the week before the Valentine’s Day Ball—each with a juicy secret written on it. With everyone’s dirty laundry suddenly out in the open, the school explodes in chaos, and the whispers accusing Iyanu of being the one behind it all start to feel like déjà vu.
Each girl is desperate to unravel the mystery of who stole the photos and why. But exposing the truth will change them all forever.
🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and there are plenty coming out this month! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves this September.
✨ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White @ajwhiteauthor
✨ Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni @aleemawrites
✨ Damned If You Do by Alex Brown @madethisforlu
✨ Storm of Olympus by Claire M. Andrews @cmandrewslit
✨ The Name Drop by Susan Lee @susanleewrites
✨ A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber @stephanie_garber
✨ A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal @hafsahfaizal
✨ If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun @themirandasun
✨ A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak by Laura Taylor Namey @laura_namey
✨ House of Larionne by J. Elle @authorjelle
✨ Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong @thechloegong
✨ Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass @theadamsass
✨ This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson @kalynmjosephson
✨ The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore @byrachelmoore
✨ Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis @kayvionclewis