December TBR
All I Want for Christmas is the Girl is the Girl Who Can't Love by Chelsea Bobluski
As part of my 12 months, 12 series challenge, I want to finish the All I Want for Christmas series by Chelsea Bobluski. One of my favorite parts of this series is the books can be read in any order.
Goodreads synopsis:
College freshman Savannah Mason doesn't believe in magic or true love. She believes in science, and science tells her that love is nothing more than a biological impulse to breed- an impulse that can, thankfully, be ignored. Which is a good thing because no woman in her family has ever been lucky in love. In fact, all of them have ended up broken-hearted and insist on blaming a mysterious vengeful curse. But Savannah is determined to rewrite her story, and as far as she's concerned, she's never going to fall in love.
Jordan Merrick is a junior at William & Mary and on the fast track to obtaining his life's goal: becoming the next Ron Chernow. He vaguely imagines that someday he'll have a wife and kids. But like Hamilton himself, Jordan's drive is to accomplish his goals as quickly as possible. Love can come another day once his career is cemented.
What neither Savannah nor Jordan planned on is meeting each other, and as they keep crossing paths on campus and Savannah finds herself helping at Jordan's archaeology site, all their reasons for putting their love lives on the back burner start to blur.
Forged together, Savannah and Jorden investigate Savannah's family's curse on love and explore a collection of love letters between a revolutionary soldier and the girl he left behind. But when they come face-to-face with the truth about themselves- Jorden's outlook on love starts to waver and he begins to wonder if he can convince Savannah love is real. But will Savannah run before her heart is able to let go of cynicism and believe in the power of magic and love?
Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
Goodreads synopsis:
Be careful of dark, dark wood...
Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.
rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it's this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Hunstman- the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago- and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive and left in the woods with no memory of the time he'd been missing.
But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver's presence. And it's not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn't know though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own- secrets he'll do anything to keep buried because as it turns out, he wasn't the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Goodreads synopsis:
Paris, July 1942: ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Micheal, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in her family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Pari for nearly twent-five years, married to a Frenchman, and she is shocked by both her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surronds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days shut in at Vel' d'Hiv to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begoms to question her own place in France and to reevalutate her marriage and her life.
A Castle in the Clouds by Kristien Gier
This month, I want to reread A Castle in the Clouds. This book took place right around Christmas so it's perfect for the holiday season.
Synopsis:
Sophie Sparks is a 17-year-old high school dropout. She works as an intern at A Castle in the Clouds, a European hotel. Between a budding romance and dark secrets, Sophie may be more helpful than she thought. As majestic as the building is, there are secrets that the owners hold. And some guests aren't who they say they are.
The Kindred by Alechia Dow
I'm currently reading The Kindred. I'm 100 pages in and it's pretty good so far!
Goodreads synopsis:
To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor.
Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life- apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility's most famous playboy brings.
Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan. He will exasperate his noble famiy to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finaly meet his Kindred face-to-face.
Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne... and accused of the murders. Someone will stop at nothing until he's dead, which means they'll target Joy too. Meeting in person for the first time as the steal a spacecraft and flee amid the chaos might not be ideal... and neither is crash-landing on the strange planet called Earth. But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scandal- and a love- that may decide the future of the galexy.
Only A Monster by Vanessa Len
Goodreads synopsis:
It should have eben the perfect summer. Sent to stay with hr late mother's eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland house, and when her super cute co-woker Nick asks her on a date, if feels like everything is falling into place.
But she soon learns the truth. Her family aren't just eccentric: they're mosnters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And Nick isn't just a cute boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to bring them down.
As she battles Nick, Joan is forced to work with the beautiful and ruthless Aaron oliver, heir to a monster family that hates her own. She'll have to embrace her own monstrousness if she is to save herself, and her family Because in this story...
...she is not the hero.
Messy Roots by Laura Gao
Goodreads synopsis:
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas where her hometown in as foregin as Mars- at least until 2020 when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name.
In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketbal team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter.
Lips Touch Three Times by Lani Taylor
Goodeads synopsis:
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consquences for the kissers' soul.
Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men only had to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to tmept today's savvy girls?
Spicy Little Curses: A demon and the mabassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. Matter becomes complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse.
Hatchling: Six days before Esme's fourtheenth birday, his left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. What does the beautiful fanged man want wirth her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterioius race of demons?
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