My new job as a youth librarian doesn’t start until tomorrow, but Netgalley gave me the go-ahead to change over to librarian status week before last, and, uh… well. You’ll see. ?

(Click the titles for Goodreads links!)

NetGalley:

• Wicked Saints — Emily A. Duncan (april 2nd, 2019)
  • YA gothic fantasy inspired by DnD clerics, involving assassinations, war, bloodshed, forbidden romance
    • (I screamed a little when I received this blog tour email and literally feel this WEIGHT of gratitude in my chest every time I remember I have this waiting for me because WOW talk about anticipated releases ??)
• Love Looks Pretty On You — Lang Leav (jan 29th, 2019)
  • adult poetry collection, releasing
    • Lang Leav is my #1 fave modern poet and I LOVED this so much
• Child of the Moon — Jessica Semaan (jan 8th, 2019)
  • adult poetry collection about abuse, healing, immigration, feminism, and self-love
    • The writing was okay but the themes were WONDERFUL
• Chameleon Aura — Billy Chapata (jan 22nd, 2019)
  • adult poetry collection about love and loss from a Zimbabwean author
• You Are Here — Dawn Lanuza (feb 12th, 2019)
  • adult poetry collection about self-love

• soft magic. — Upile Chisala (released)
  • adult poetry collection about spirituality, gender, and blackness
• The Devouring Gray — Christine Lynn Herman (april 16th, 2019)
  • YA urban fantasy about chosen ones and monsters, pitched for fans of The Raven Cycle + Stranger Things
• Waves — Ingrid Chabbert (may 7th, 2019)
  • adult nonfiction graphic novel about two women and their struggles with infertility
    • this DESTROYED me but it was soooo good!
• Bone Parish, Vol. 1 — Cullen Bunn (may 7th, 2019)
  • adult horror graphic novel about a New Orleans family who makes drugs from corpse ash
    • super creepy and gross, def recommend
• Unfollowing You — Komal Kapoor (feb 5th, 2019)
  • adult nonfiction poetry collection about the end of a “situationship”
    • literally AWFUL and the entire thing was a build-up to an online dating site’s advertisement, yikes

• Somewhere Only We Know — Maurene Goo (may 7th, 2019)
  • YA contemporary about a K-pop star and tabloid reporter falling in love
    • also this title gets the Keane song by this name stuck in my head EVERY TIME I see it
• We Hunt the Flame — Hafsah Faizal (may 14th, 2019)
  • YA fantasy, reluctant royals, inspired by ancient Arabia (wow please & thank you this sounds so good I’m emotional?) and it has ELVES
• Girls on the Verge — Sharon Biggs Waller (april 9th, 2019)
  • YA contemporary about a girl who enlists two friends on a road trip to get an abortion
• Never-Contented Things — Sarah Porter (march 19th, 2019)
  • YA dark fantasy about cruel feyfolk

Edelweiss:

• Goodbye, Perfect — Sara Barnard (jan 29th, 2019; already out in UK)
  • YA contemporary about a girl who must choose whether or not to rat out her missing bestie for her relationship with a teacher
• The Exact Opposite of Okay — Laura Steven (june 11th, 2019; already out in UK)
  • YA contemporary about slut-shaming & misogyny
• Hello Girls — Brittany Cavallaro & Emily Henry (august 6th, 2019)
  • YA contemporary about 2 girls on a road trip to run away from the sexist men in their lives
• Let’s Call it a Doomsday — Katie Henry (august 6th, 2019)
  • YA contemporary about two girls—one who is a doomsday prepper and the other who has predicted the world’s end
• Missing, Presumed Dead — Emma Berquist (may 21st, 2019)
  • YA paranormal about a teen who sees deaths before they happen and has to help one of “her” ghosts find revenge (confirmed f/f romance by the author, yes please give me queer ghost/human loves!!)

Misc. eARCs: 

• Clouded by Envy — Candace Robinson (feb 19th, 2019)
  • YA fantasy about fae siblings and curses
    • thank you, Candace!
• The Same Deep Water As You — Chad Lutzke
  • YA/NA horror/dark fiction, releasing january 11th—I’m not even sure what this is about, but I love Chad’s writing so I jumped at the chance to read it!
    • thank you, Chad!

Kindle Sales & Gifts:

• GOTH — Otsuichi
  • adult horror manga (I think this is also available in standard novel formatting)
    • I read this and gave it 3.5 stars, it was pretty good
• The Restorer — Amanda Stevens
  • adult paranormal, ghost hunter… falls in love with a ghost? maybe? PLEASE?
• Fortune Box — Madeleine Swann
  • adult horror/bizarro about a company mailing out random disgusting/terrifying packages to unsuspecting strangers
    • thank you, Harker!
• Fear the Drowning Deep — Sarah Glenn Marsh
  • YA historical fantasy/paranormal, witches & dangerous sea things!
    • thank you, Colleen!

• Black Iris — Elliot Wake (formerly writing as Leah Raeder)
  • NA contemporary about sex, slut-shaming, queer romance, and bullying
    • thank you, Haley!
• Naked in Death — J. D. Robb
  • adult mystery/romance, this book is the intro to a series that is currently 47 BOOKS DEEP, WHAT AM I DOING TO MYSELF
    • thank you, Haley!
• Rolling in the Deep — Mira Grant
  • adult horror novella, prequel to Into the Drowning Deep
    • thank you, Jayme!
• Collected Christmas Horror Shorts 2 — edited by Kevin J. Kennedy
  • adult Christmas horror anthology
    • free at the time I got it, but it’s now on Kindle Unlimited if you’re still needing some spooky holiday vibes!

How was your December haul?

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