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Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis was such a pleasant surprise for me! It's a mystery, historical fiction, and family drama with captivating characters and complex relationships.

The story is set in 1866 in France and is about two sisters, Sylvie and Charlotte, who formerly worked as fraudulent mediums and conned wealthy families out of money. The job was part of their family business built by their mother, who has since passed, and their father who is currently very ill. The father's illness reunites the sisters for one last con, but this new job sets off a string of events that leads to wide-ranging consequences.

Both sisters are complex characters and have complicated feelings towards each other. The story references Charles Perrault's The Fairies throughout. The Fairies tells the story of one good sister and one bad sister. Spitting Gold argues that the story would be far more nuanced than that. All stories have more than one side. Sylvie and Charlotte are both the good sisters and the bad sisters. They love each other dearly but also harbor anger and resentment. They both make decisions that both hurt and help the other. They are both doing their best in the world they are living in. This complexity makes for such a riveting story!

While the sisters and their relationship is the star of Spitting Gold, I also loved the mystery plot and the cast of side characters. There's also a sweet Sapphic love story entwined (and a few other delightful queer characters too).

I highly recommend Spitting Gold to anyone who loves gothic mysteries and stories about thorny family relationships. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and it's a story that will stick with me for a long time!

My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tropes/Tags: mystery, historical, gothic, Sapphic, queer

If you liked this I think you will like Spitting Gold: The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner

Links: Storygraph | GoodReads

Spitting Gold will be released on May 14, 2024, and is available for pre-order!

This book was made available to me in advance thanks to NetGalley! I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for this review. The above are my honest feelings on the provided book.

#Carmella Lowkis #Spitting Gold #netgalley #arc review #book review #books #queer books #best of 2024

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New Releases: May 14, 2024

Middle Grade Gooseberry by Robin Gow There’s a lot twelve-year-old B doesn’t know—like what their new name should be after coming out as nonbinary. Or what it would feel like to finally feel at home after moving around to different foster families for years. But there’s one thing B does know: they want to be a dog trainer when they grow up. And when they meet Gooseberry—a feisty stray dog who…

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#Blood on the Tide #Blood Remains #Carmella Lowkis #Cathy Pegau #Cin Wibowo #Flyboy #Jas Hammonds #Jenn Reese #Jes Wibowo #Johanna Van Veen #Kasey LeBlanc #Lunar Boy #My Darling Dreadful Thing #Puzzleheart #Rex Ogle #Road Home #Road to Ruin #Rose Black #Shivaun Plozza #Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) #Spitting Gold #Sydney J. Shields #Tess Sharpe #The Girl in Question #The Honey Witch #The Worst Perfect Moment #Thirsty #Til Death Do Us Bard

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in May 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Farzana's Spite - Felix Graves 🧡 Archangels of Funk - Andrea Hairston 💛 How It Works Out - Myriam Lacroix 💚 Queer History A to Z - Robin Stevenson, Vivian Rosas 💙 Queerceañera - Alex Crespo 💜 Second Night Stand - Karelia Stetz-Waters, Fay Stetz-Waters ❤️ You Can Call Me Cooper - Cali Kitsu 🧡 Gooseberry - Robin Gow 💛 Grand Slam Romance - Ollie Hicks, Emma Oosterhous 💙The Witches of Silverlake - Simon Curtis, Stephanie Son 💜 Drawn to the Enemy - Barbara Winkes 🌈 The Truth of Our Past - Heather Leighson

❤️ Infaust - T.D. Cloud, Ambi Sun 🧡 Garner for Gold - Catherine Labadie 💛 The Z Word - Lindsay King-Miller 💚 Snake Charming - Genevieve McCluer 💙 The 7-10 Split - Karmen Lee 💜 Loving Jemima - Sienna Waters ❤️ The Potion Gardener - Arden Powell 🧡 A Swift and Sudden Exit - Nico Vincenty 💛 The Worst Ronin - Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Faith Schaffer 💙 Murray Out of Water -Taylor Tracy 💜 The Guncle Abroad - Steven Rowley 🌈 The Weight of What Was - Pip Landers-Letts

❤️ The Amazing Alpha Tau Pledge Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 🧡 I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley - Thom Vernon 💛 Malicia - Steven dos Santos 💚 The Sins on Their Bones - Laura R. Samotin 💙 SLUTS: Anthology - Michelle Tea 💜 You Should Be So Lucky - Cat Sebastian ❤️ Death's Country - R.M. Romero 🧡 Cinema Love - Jiaming Tang 💛 The Brides of High Hill - Nghi Vo 💙 Emma - Jenna Kent 💜 Wish We Were There - Lionel Hart 🌈 A Troublemaker in Her Eyes - Genta Sebastian

❤️ I Make Envy on Your Disco - Eric Schnall 🧡 Lavash at First Sight - Taleen Voskuni 💛 Queer Power Couples - Hannah Murphy Winter, Billie Winter 💚 In Repair - A.L. Graziadei 💙 A Heart Divided - Angie Williams 💜 Long After We Are Gone - Terah Shelton Harris ❤️ The Queen of Steeplechase Park - David Ciminello 🧡 Lunar Boy - Jes Wibowo, Cin Wibowo 💛 Hot Boy Summer - Joe Jiménez 💙 Sunhead - Alex Assan 💜 The Summer Love Strategy - Ray Stoeve 🌈 Into the Mouth of the Wolf - Erin Gough

❤️ The Girl in Question - Tess Sharpe 🧡 The Lost Erwain - Mariah Stillbrook 💛 Starfire - Naomi Hughes 💚 Adrift - Sam Ledel 💙 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💜 April May June July - Alison B. Hart ❤️ A Bone in His Teeth - Kellen Graves 🧡 Cabin Fever - Tagan Shepard 💛 Don't Be a Drag - Skye Quinlan 💙 The Ride of Her Life - Jennifer Dugan 💜 The Redemption of Daya Keane - Gia Gordon 🌈 Nearlywed - Nicolas DiDomizio

❤️ The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 🧡 The End of Time - Trudie Skies 💛 Silent Ones - Melissa Polk 💚 Prime Time Travelers - Neil Laird 💙 My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen 💜 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ❤️ Spitting Gold - Carmella Lowkis 🧡 Last Chance - Claire Highton-Stevenson 💛 Road Home - Rex Ogle 💙 Only for Convenience - Shannon O'Connor 💜 Linus and Etta Could Use a Win - Caroline Huntoon 🌈 Finding Molly Parsons - Alyson Root

❤️ Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding - Maia Kobabe, Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier 🧡 See You Next Month - Jamey Moody 💛 Until You Say My Name - Tatum Schroeder 💚 Disembark - Jen Currin 💙 True Love and Other Impossible Odds - Christina Li 💜 Flyboy - Kasey LeBlanc ❤️ Thirsty - Jas Hammonds 🧡 Hands Off - N. Slater 💛 Flooded Secrets - Claudie Arseneault 💙 The Deer and the Dragon - Piper C.J. 💜 To Be Loved - Frank G. Anderson 🌈 Snowblooded - Emma Sterner-Radley

❤️ Blood Remains - Cathy Pegau 🧡 Blood on the Tide - Katee Robert 💛 We Were the Universe - Kimberly King Parsons 💚 Loyalty - E.J. Noyes 💙 Spirits and Sirens - Kelly Fireside 💜 Clean Kill - Anne Laughlin ❤️ The Worst Perfect Moment - Shivaun Plozza 🧡 Oye - Melissa Mogollon 💛 Here for the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen, Lydia Wang 💙 Exhibit - R.O. Kwon 💜 Experienced - Kate Young 🌈 Parenting with Pride - Heather Hester

❤️ Road to Ruin - Hana Lee 🧡 Meet Me in Berlin - Samantha L. Valentine 💛 The Advice Columnist - Cade Haddock Strong 💚 where lost & hopeless things go - Bryony Rosehurst 💙 Pit Stop - Ellis Mae 💜 The Switchboard - Christina K. Glover ❤️ In the Shallows - Tanya Byrne 🧡 Have You Seen This Girl - Nita Tyndall 💛 Another First Chance - Robbie Couch 💙 The Only Light Left Burning - Erik J. Brown 💜 Keepers of the Stones and Stars - Michael Barakiva 🌈 A Little Kissing Between Friends - Chencia C. Higgins

#queer books #queer fiction #queer romance #queer #bi books #lesbian romance #lesbian books #lesbian fiction #bisexuality #sapphic books #sapphic romance #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #book releases #book release

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Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Pages: 336 Publisher: Doubleday Released: 18th of April 2024 Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con. Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional…

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#cons #family #ghosts #gothic #lgbtq+ #Sapphic #séance #sisters

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September 2022 Deal Announcements

September 2022 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Senior marketing executive at Vintage UK Carmella Lowkis‘s SPITTING GOLD, a queer historical debut, set in 19th-century Paris, following two sisters—on the outside, gifted mediums, but in reality, astute con-artists—and when they reunite for one last con at an aristocratic family’s old estate, they begin to question whether they really are at the mercy of a vengeful spirit, and…

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#Alison Cochrun #Alvina Ling #Anthony Nerada #Astra House #Bayleigh Underwood #Carmella Lowkis #David Valdes #Dutton #Elaine Tipping #Elba Luz #Ella Dawson #Emily Riesbeck #Emmett #Eric Smith #Erin Baldwin #Eve Gleichman #Fatima Velez #Fay Stetz-Waters #Galapagos #Graphix #Have You Seen This Girl #Her Dark Grace #Here We Go Again #Hilary Zaid #Hit Me With Your Best Charm #Jamie Carr #John Jacobson #Karelia Stetz-Waters #Kelly Fernandez #L.C. Rosen

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out May 2024

🩷 There's something especially sweet about a sapphic romance. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in May 2024. Which ones are you adding to your ever-growing TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Here For the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen & Lydia Wang 💖 Perfume & Pain - Anna Dorn 💖 Cheryl - Jillian Fleck 💖 A Little Kissing Between Friends - Chencia C. Higgins 💖 Lavash At First Sight - Taleen Voskuni 💖 The Game of Giants - Marion Douglas 💖 We Were the Universe - Kimberly King Parsons 💖 Oye - Melissa Mogollon 💖 The Summer Love Strategy - Ray Stoeve 💖 Noah Frye Gets Crushed - Maggie Horne 💖 Halfway to Harbor - Nicole Melleby 💖 Sunhead - Alex Assan

💖 The 7-10 Split - Karmen Lee 💖 Trust & Safety - Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman 💖 Second Night Stand - Karelia Stetz-Waters & Fay Stetz-Waters 💖 How It Works Out - Myriam Lacroix 💖 April May June July - Alison B. Hart 💖 The Ride of Her Life - Jennifer Dugan 💖 One Night With the CEO - Emily Hayes 💖 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt 💖 A Girl Can Dream - Emily Barr 💖 I Want You More - Swan Huntley 💖 Exhibit - R. O. Kwon 💖 Only a Bridesmaid - Haley Donnell

💖 Thirsty - Jas Hammonds 💖 Housemates - Emma Copley Eisenberg 💖 Don’t Be a Drag - Skye Quinlan 💖 True Love and Other Impossible Odds - Christina Li 💖 Murray Out of Water - Taylor Tracy 💖 The Redemption of Daya Keane - Gia Gordon 💖 Blame My Virgo Moon - Freja Nicole Woolf 💖 From Where We Are - Nicole Zelniker 💖 Cabin Fever - Tagan Shepard 💖 Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness - Guy Babineau 💖 Meet Me in Berlin - Samantha L. Valentine 💖 Behind You - Catherine Hernandez

Paranormal/Horror 💖 Primal Hunt - L.L. Raand 💖 Blood on the Tide - Katee Robert 💖 We Mostly Come Out at Night - (ed) Rob Costello 💖 Flowers from the Void - Gianni Washington 💖 My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen 💖 When the Devil - Emma E. Murray 💖 Honeybites - I. S. Belle 💖 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris 💖 The Worst Perfect Moment -Shivaun Plozza

Fantasy 💖 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 💖 The Fireborne Blade - Charlotte Bond 💖 Chained Destinies - D. Jordan Redhawk 💖 Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne 💖 Grand Slam Romance: Major League Hotties - Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous 💖 Snake Charming - Genevieve McCluer 💖 The Witches of Silverlake - Simon Curtis 💖 Death’s Country - R. M. Romero 💖 Snowblooded - Emma Sterner-Radleygh 💖 Bird Suit - Sydney Hegele 💖 Farzana's Spite - Felix Graves

Historical 💖 The Good Women of Fudi - Liu Hong 💖 Spitting Gold - Carmella Lowkis 💖 Adrift - Sam Ledel 💖 A Heart Divided - Angie Williams 💖 A Liaison with Her Leading Lady - Lotte R. James

Mystery/Thriller 💖 The Deadly Spark - Roxie Key 💖 The Advice Columnist - Cade Haddock Strong 💖 The Lilies - Quinn Diacon-Furtado 💖 Loyalty - E. J. Noyes 💖 Clean Kill - Anne Laughlin 💖 Have You Seen This Girl - Nita Tyndall 💖 The Last to Pie - Misha Popp

Sci-Fi 💖 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💖 Road to Ruin - Hana Lee 💖 Exile in Guyville - Amy Lee Lillard 💖 The Lily of Enarah - Arden Brax 💖 The Z Word - Lindsay King-Miller

#sapphic books #sapphic romance #queer books #lesbian romance #lesbian books #bi books #bisexuality #lesbian fiction #lesbian #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #books

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out May 2024

🩷 There's something especially sweet about a sapphic romance. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in May 2024. Which ones are you adding to your ever-growing TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Here For the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen & Lydia Wang 💖 Perfume & Pain - Anna Dorn 💖 Cheryl - Jillian Fleck 💖 A Little Kissing Between Friends - Chencia C. Higgins 💖 Lavash At First Sight - Taleen Voskuni 💖 The Game of Giants - Marion Douglas 💖 We Were the Universe - Kimberly King Parsons 💖 Oye - Melissa Mogollon 💖 The Summer Love Strategy - Ray Stoeve 💖 Noah Frye Gets Crushed - Maggie Horne 💖 Halfway to Harbor - Nicole Melleby 💖 Sunhead - Alex Assan

💖 The 7-10 Split - Karmen Lee 💖 Trust & Safety - Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman 💖 Second Night Stand - Karelia Stetz-Waters & Fay Stetz-Waters 💖 How It Works Out - Myriam Lacroix 💖 April May June July - Alison B. Hart 💖 The Ride of Her Life - Jennifer Dugan 💖 One Night With the CEO - Emily Hayes 💖 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt 💖 A Girl Can Dream - Emily Barr 💖 I Want You More - Swan Huntley 💖 Exhibit - R. O. Kwon 💖 Only a Bridesmaid - Haley Donnell

💖 Thirsty - Jas Hammonds 💖 Housemates - Emma Copley Eisenberg 💖 Don’t Be a Drag - Skye Quinlan 💖 True Love and Other Impossible Odds - Christina Li 💖 Murray Out of Water - Taylor Tracy 💖 The Redemption of Daya Keane - Gia Gordon 💖 Blame My Virgo Moon - Freja Nicole Woolf 💖 From Where We Are - Nicole Zelniker 💖 Cabin Fever - Tagan Shepard 💖 Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness - Guy Babineau 💖 Meet Me in Berlin - Samantha L. Valentine 💖 Behind You - Catherine Hernandez

Paranormal/Horror 💖 Primal Hunt - L.L. Raand 💖 Blood on the Tide - Katee Robert 💖 We Mostly Come Out at Night - (ed) Rob Costello 💖 Flowers from the Void - Gianni Washington 💖 My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen 💖 When the Devil - Emma E. Murray 💖 Honeybites - I. S. Belle 💖 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris 💖 The Worst Perfect Moment -Shivaun Plozza

Fantasy 💖 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 💖 The Fireborne Blade - Charlotte Bond 💖 Chained Destinies - D. Jordan Redhawk 💖 Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne 💖 Grand Slam Romance: Major League Hotties - Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous 💖 Snake Charming - Genevieve McCluer 💖 The Witches of Silverlake - Simon Curtis 💖 Death’s Country - R. M. Romero 💖 Snowblooded - Emma Sterner-Radleygh 💖 Bird Suit - Sydney Hegele 💖 Farzana's Spite - Felix Graves

Historical 💖 The Good Women of Fudi - Liu Hong 💖 Spitting Gold - Carmella Lowkis 💖 Adrift - Sam Ledel 💖 A Heart Divided - Angie Williams 💖 A Liaison with Her Leading Lady - Lotte R. James

Mystery/Thriller 💖 The Deadly Spark - Roxie Key 💖 The Advice Columnist - Cade Haddock Strong 💖 The Lilies - Quinn Diacon-Furtado 💖 Loyalty - E. J. Noyes 💖 Clean Kill - Anne Laughlin 💖 Have You Seen This Girl - Nita Tyndall 💖 The Last to Pie - Misha Popp

Sci-Fi 💖 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💖 Road to Ruin - Hana Lee 💖 Exile in Guyville - Amy Lee Lillard 💖 The Lily of Enarah - Arden Brax 💖 The Z Word - Lindsay King-Miller

#sapphic books #sapphic romance #books #lesbian books #bi books #bisexuality #lesbian #lesbian romance #lesbian fiction #bisexual pride #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #wlw romance #wlw fiction

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May Book of the Month Predictions

I love Book of the Month. I have found so many of my favorite books thanks to them and I genuinely look forward to choosing my book(s) at the beginning of each month.

Here are a few new releases that I think could be Book of the Month selections for May. These include the three books that fit their month clues that they've posted on their app!

Romance

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren would be a repeat author and is the most likely choice in this category. Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan could be an option too! The Honey Witch is another possibility.

Thrillers

There are lots of exciting thrillers releasing in May. The most likely thriller selection is The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean. It fits one of the app hints and is getting great reviews. One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware is also very possible. Ruth Ware is a frequent BOTM author. If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay and The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton are both getting a lot of buzz and could be options. Finally, Swiped by L.M. Chilton could be a possibility!

Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Romantasy

BOTM has really embraced the romantasy genre and one of the app clues suggests that Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland will be another pick from the genre. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley also fits one of the app hints very clearly, so it will almost certainly be a pick. It's great to see BOTM picking fantasy and science fiction books more often in recent months!

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis will likely be an option too as it was spoiled by the Facebook Predictions Group! I'm very glad to see an LGBTQIA+ book will be an option! Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel is also an option. Patel's previous book was a popular BOTM pick.

Historical Fiction

Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung is getting amazing reviews and is a debut, which BOTM seems to be picking more of lately.

#book of the month #book box predictions #books

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April Reading Recap

April was such a great reading month for me! I found so many new favorite books this month and had a lot of fun reading everything. I don't think I've ever read this many 5-star books in one month before! Here’s what I read in April and what I thought about each:

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab 🌈 The perfect ending to a phenomenal series! I'm so glad I finally read this. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 🌈 This is my favorite kind of romance novel. The characters are loveable and the romance is so sweet that it had me wanting to squeal like a teenager. There’s also depth beyond the romance with themes about grief and persevering through hardships. It’s a romance with layers that uses baseball as a metaphor for life. It's lovely, hopeful, and touching.

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The Sins On Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin 🌈 A queer normative and heavily Jewish-influenced dark fantasy. I enjoyed the found family themes and also thought the plot was surprising and unpredictable.

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Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel I loved this. It's beautifully written, epic, and emotional. This is incredible and left me in awe!

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Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 A sweet and joyful retelling of Pride & Prejudice but gay and with a trans protagonist. 🌕🌕🌕🌕

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow This is an incredible, devastating, and beautiful short story! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens 🌈 A very cute YA queer and paranormal romance. These characters are sweet and the main relationship is wholesome and adorable. There's some great supporting characters too. 🌕🌕🌕🌖

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir This was incredible and not at all what I was expecting it to be. This is a new all-time favorite! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall 🌈 A lovely novella in Alexis Hall's Spires series. 🌕🌕🌕🌖

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Cozy fantasy before cozy fantasy was a big thing. Pretty slow and dated to me now, but I loved this as a kid. 🌕🌕🌖

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis 🌈 A gothic historical novel about two estranged sisters who work as mediums to con wealthy families out of money. It's a little creepy with an intriguing mystery and some great characters. There are some interesting relationship dynamics in this too. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘

How did I do with my reading goals?

I read one of my Book of the Month picks (Project Hail Mary).

I read every day in April and read a total of 3,769 pages.

I continued two series ("Shades of Magic" & "Spires") that I’m in the middle of.

Most of the books that I read this month were over 300 pages.

I read one classic (The Wind in the Willows).

I finished two books (Goddess of the River & Project Hail Mary) from my 2024 Priority TBR!

Note: 🌈 notes books with major queer themes, characters, or relationships. I read a lot of queer books and I want to highlight these for anyone else who wants to find more diverse books.

#books #monthly recap

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Book of the Month's May Picks

Book of the Month posted their May book selections and there are some really great choices! We have 10 new books in total to choose from and they include both science fiction and fantasy! Here is an overview of their main picks, new add-ons, and what I am getting!

May's Main Picks

These are the six main picks for May 2024:

Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland [Fantasy]

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley [Science Fiction] [Debut]

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren [Romance]

Middletide by Sarah Crouch [Crime Fiction] [Early Release] [Debut]

The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean [Mystery]

Real Americans by Rachel Khong [Literary Fiction]

New Add-On Options

Below are the four newest books that you can select as add-ons for your box.

Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston [Memoir] [Debut]

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis [Historical] [Debut]

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson [History]

The Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak [Literary Fiction]

My Picks

First, I'm happy to see Book of the Month picking more science fiction and fantasy this year! I also love seeing so much diversity in the authors chosen!

Both Five Broken Blades and Ministry of Time sound exciting, so I had to get those! I also chose Spitting Gold. I already read an ARC and liked it enough to want a physical copy.

I was tempted by The Return of Ellie Black, Real Americans, and The Lady in Waiting, but I'm putting those on my TBR as possibilities for later!

If you'd like to join Book of the Month, you can currently use the code"PETALS" to get your first book for $5!

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