TTT | Top ARCs I Would Love to Get Approved For

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

I’m pretty excited for this, it’s a coming of age book that tackles our relationships to our family, bodies, and cultures. It follows Charlie as she catches the eye of Brian her classmate but she soon finds out that Brian intended to ask her skinny athletic best friend initially. Is Charlie his second choice? Was Charlie ever a choice?

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

This cover has definitely popped up once or twice on my blog but the story matches up that gorgeous cover. After a blood ceremony reveals 17 year old Deka’s “impurity” she is sent to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. This epic high fantasy has magical powers, immortality, and kick ass heroines.

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

I raved about The Hate U Give in my review and this book easily became one of my favorites this year so when I found out there was going to be a prequel I was ecstatic! The prequel follows Starr’s father in his teen years as Thomas weaves a tale of Black boyhood and manhood, and what it is to be a “man”.

Teen Titans : Beast Boy Loves Raven by Kami Garcia

One of my favorite ships have sailed!! Yesss!! You bet I’ll pick up this one 😍

The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club is one of my favorite reads this year (like easily top 5), so I cannot wait till the gang get back together because there is nothing better than a couple of retired sassy British pensioners using their retirement solving cold blooded homicides.

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

The synopsis really gripped me in this one, estranged sisters, the comparability that comes when you’re measuring the success around you to your own shortcomings, and battling an eating disorder. I’ve heard mixed reviews of Choi’s writing but I have a good feeling about this one.

Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin

Hana waitresses part time at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the neighborhood. But things take a turn when an upscale restaurant opens in the same area, to make matters worst a hate attack complicates matters further. And of course there is the growing attraction between Hana and Aydin, the young owner of the rival restaurant. Food and enemies to lovers? Sold.

Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey

This is a rom com with an enemies to lovers trope where Madeleine an owner of a long standing family owned bookstore gets into a rivalry when a chain bookstore opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Jesper the employee who works there is not making life any easier.

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

While King of Scars admittedly was a bit disheartening, I stan anything Nikolai Lanstov so bring on the heartbreak and the emotional tsunami.

Clues to the Universe by Christina Li

This has a found family trope and it’s about two science class partners who become unlikely friends with their mutual love of NASA, rockets, and space. It deals heavily about fathers; those who left us, those who abandoned us, and those who never bothered to be there.