March TBR

Well, we’ve officially survived one year in lockdown here in the US. Last March, we all left school, excited for two weeks off. What we weren’t expecting was for those two weeks to become a year full of masks, hand sanitizer, and distance learning.

    I agree that this whole thing sucks. Luckily, I’ve found ways to keep in touch with my friends such as movie nights over Zoom. We watched Grease Live the other night.

    Another thing I’ve been doing to keep my sanity is reading. And I’ve done a lot of reading. I started out picking just five books a month for my TBR but based on how fast I’ve been going through these books, I have six books on my TBR this month.

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

The Henna Wars is a book that I’m really excited to read! It’s diverse, it has LGBTQ representation- what’s not to love? I am fully confident that this will be a 5 star reads. 

Synopsis:

Wh en Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants- as long as she isn't herself. Because Muslim girls aren't lesbians. Nashat doesn't want to hide who she is, but she also doesn't want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood best friend walks back into her life. Flàvia is beautiful and charismatic and Nashat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own business, both Nashat and Flàvia choose to do henna, even though Flàvia is appropriating Nashat's culture. Amidst sabotage and school street, their lives get more tangled- but Nishat can't quite get rid of her crush on Flavia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

This is another book that I’m really excited to read. When I read the synopsis for the novel, I instantly thought of Knives Out, a movie that I absolutely adore! When it came out, there was so much hype so I'm sure that I'll love this book!

Synopsis:
    Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortune changes in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why- or even who  Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into the Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne who is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself to survive.

Asylum by Madeline Roux

    Asylum is a book I've wanted to read for a while. It looks like such a good series. I haven't read a lot of horror novels so Madeline Roux is definitely an author I want to read. Her House of Furies series also looks good!

Synopsis:

    For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program- it's a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum- a last resort of the criminally insane. As Dan and his new friends, Abby and Jordan, explore the hidden recesses of their creep summer home, they soon discover it's no coincidence that the three of them ended up here. Because the asylum holds the key to a terrifying past. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Sanctum by Madeline Roux

    I'm so excited to read this spooky-looking series! I think I'll love it so much!

Synopsis:

    Dan, Abby, and Jordan remain traumatized by the summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on, someone is determined to keep the terror alive, sending the teens photos of an old-timey carnival, with no note and no name. Forsaking their plan never to go back, the teens return to New Hampshire College under the guise of a weekend for prospective students, and there they realize that the carnival from the photos is not only real, but it's also here on campus, apparently for the first time in many years. Sneaking away from the sample classes and college parties, Dan and his friends lead a tour of their own- one through the abandoned houses and hidden places of the surrounding town. Camford is hiding a terrible past, and the influence of the asylum runs deeper than Dan ever imagined.

Catacomb by Madeline Roux

    Since I already have the first two Asylum on my TBR, I might as well read the third.

Synopsis:

    Senior year is finally over. After all, they've been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to take one last road trip together, and they're just not going to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice that they are apparently being followed... and Dan starts receiving phone messages from someone he didn't expect to hear from again- someone who died last Halloween. As the strange occurrences escalate, Dan is forced to accept that everything that has happened to him in the past year may not be a coincidence, but fate- a fate that ties Dan to a group called the Bone Artists, who have a sinister connection with a notorious killer from the past. Now, Dan's only hope is that he will make it out of his senior trip alive.

Geekerella by Ashley Poston

    The Once Upon a Con series is one that I'm excited to start. Geekerella looks like so much fun and I'm super excited to read the sequel, The Princess and the Fangirl.

Synopsis:

    Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball, and a meet-and-greet with the actor slated to play Federation Prince Carmindor in the reboot. With savings from her gig at the Magic Pumpkin food truck (and her dad's old costume), Elle's determined to win... unless her stepsisters get there first. Teen actor Darien Freeman used to live for cons- before he was famous. Now they're nothing but autographs and awkward meet-and-greets. PlayingCarmindor is all he's ever wanted, but the Starfield fandom has written him off as just another dumb heartthrob. As ExcelsiCon draws near, Darien feels more and more like a fake- until he meets a girl who shows him otherwise.