NEW Books Releasing in May 📚 so many great finds!

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[00:00:00]Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel. You already know the drill. I'm here with my most excited video to do every single month, which is to go ahead and look at the new book releases coming out next month.

[00:00:13]I feel like this year so far, new book releases have been so good and I've been just like so excited. My subscription boxes have been good. Everything's been so good. So, I'm excited to look ahead at May and see what's coming out. First, it looks like we have a new Carly Fortune. I actually just recently read my first Carly Fortune and I felt like she was an okay author for me. But this is called Our Perfect Storm and it's expected May 5th. Says best friends have one week in paradise to fix their friendship or fall apart in this hearttoppping, utterly romantic new novel. And George have been best friends since they were 8 years old. Both passionate, impulsive, and headstrong.

[00:00:44]They've always clashed and come back together until now. It's the eve of Frankie's wedding weekend, and she doesn't know where they stand or even if George will show up as her best man.

[00:00:51]Then at the start of the festivities, in walks George for one glorious evening surrounded by her loved ones, Frankie's life is finally perfect. But it all comes crashing down when her fianceé dumps her the next morning, leaving only a note as an explanation. Oh my goodness. Crushed and confused, Frankie returns to her family's home to wallow.

[00:01:04]But George has a different idea and a plan for healing Frankie's broken heart.

[00:01:07]Wants her to go on her honeymoon with him for one week to the lush rainforests and misty beaches of Tofino. Frankie agrees, seeing the trip for what it really is. One last chance to repair their friendship. Even if it means unearthing secrets and long buried feelings neither knows how to handle.

[00:01:19]even if it means falling apart for good.

[00:01:22]This sounds like the unh honeymooners and I think there has to be another one like that where two people go on a honeymoon together. That's not a honeymoon and end up falling in love.

[00:01:30]Again, I I don't think I'm going to pick this one up, but I'm sure if you are fans of summer romances and fans of Carly Ford, you will probably enjoy this. Next, another new Freda McFaten. I feel like I talk about a new Freda McFaden book almost every other month, which is a little bit crazy. This is called The Divorce, and it's expected May 26th. Naomi was living with the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family. Then he kicks her out, hires the city's best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20something. It's brutal end of the story. Naomi should accept defeat, move into a dingy apartment, get back into the workforce, and piece together the shattered remains of her life. Except why should she?

[00:02:05]Instead, Naomi fixates on her husband's new girlfriend. What begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession and then into something far darker. As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realizes her own life may be in danger.

[00:02:16]a twist. But if it keeps your family intact, isn't it worth it? I feel like Freedom Mcbaden writes really great popcorn thrillers. And what I mean by that is if you are in a reading slump, picking up a Freedom McFaten usually kind of will help bring you out of that reading slump. So, will I pick this up knowing it's a new Freedom McFaten?

[00:02:32]Probably not. But the premise does sound good. And if I ever need a new popcorn thriller, this could be a good option. I also love so far that both books have been like purple. A new Catherine Center. If I had to guess, I think this would probably be a book of the month option, if not like a add-on. I have never read from Katherine Center, and I've heard nothing but good things. This is called The Shippers, and it's expected May 19th. After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, Jojo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister's destination wedding on a cruise ship.

[00:02:58]Being married on a cruise, with the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss, and who just so happens to be a newly divorced wedding guest.

[00:03:08]and she decides to woo him during the cruise for some long delayed closure.

[00:03:11]Only problem is her sister's a little busy being a bride at the moment. So Jojo ropes in her childhood bestie Cooper Watts to be her wingman. Cooper who RSVPd no but then showed up anyway.

[00:03:20]Cooper who left town without a word four years earlier and moved to London.

[00:03:23]Cooper who was, if she's honest, the worst heartbreak of Jojo's life. It's bliss for her to see him again in its agony too. And the more they team up for Project Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can't bring herself to ask. Shitboard antics ensue in this witty, heart tugging childhood friends to lovers romance as Jojo and Cooper fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, sing duets, treat sunburns, get jealous, rescue each other over and over, and finally at last figure it all out in the most blissful, swoony, romantic way. It says, "No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center." That honestly sounds really cute. If you've ever read Lin Painters Better Than the Movies, which is a YA romance, that kind of gives me the same vibes. And I think I would really like it, especially as an adult romance, because there has to be some sort of steamy scenes, right? This might be my first Katherine Center. It looks like there's a new series coming from Elsie Silver. This is the Emerald Lake series. It's called Fever's Dream and it's expected May 19th. I'm currently in the middle of the Chestnut Spring series from Elsie Silver. And I do want to read her other one as well. I think it's maybe is it like the car racing one? I don't know. But these covers are really pretty. Out the gate, professional bull writer EMTT Bush is not looking for love. He's looking for a paycheck to save his family's farm from bankruptcy. So, when he agrees to be the leaving man on a hot new reality dating show, Romance Ranch, he's already decided it's all one big performance, I'm already kind of in. Until Julia Silva walks onto his property, smart, snarky, beautiful, and offlimits in more ways than one as the location consultant on set and the little sister of his most bitter professional rival, she's the last woman who should peique his interest. Julia has been warned about EMTT. She knows better than to fall for his cocky swagger, broad shoulders, and smoldering good looks. Plus, she's sworn off relationships. But as Julia and EMTT work together, mutual distaste grows into an unexpected connection and then something more. Soon they find themselves searching for excuses to spend time together and out of reach of the cameras, knowing glances, stolen kisses, secret rendevous. Bill EMTT signed up to play the role of an eligible bachelor, searching for the one. His family's land and legacy depend on him completing the show. The problem is he's already fallen in love, just not with a contestant. I don't know. Elsie Silver, her writing is like so easily digestible. Might have swoomed me on this one. This is a new contemporary romance that I saw someone post about, I think maybe on Reddit, weirdly, and I was like, "Oh, that looks interesting."

[00:05:27]And then I looked it up and I was really interested in it. I kind of hope either Book of the Month or Arvar pick it up.

[00:05:31]It's called Phoebe Burman's Going to Lose It by Brooke Averick and it's expected May 26th. It says, "Meet Phoebe Berman. Despite being a hopeless romantic, she's about to be a 30-year-old virgin. With one month before her milestone birthday, she's determined to finally lose it if her own anxiety doesn't slow her down." This is a debut novel from podcaster and comedian Brooke Averick. Never heard of her, but I'm very excited about this. BB Burman fear is the one thing she wants the most love thanks to an extremely unfortunate first kiss attempt. Ble intimacy anxiety has plagued her since she was a teen. She has so much going for her. A dream teaching job, a supportive and hilarious group of best friends, and all the romance novels a girl could want at her fingertips, but she can't help but beat herself up over the one thing she can't quite seem to figure out. Determined to change this, she drafts up the ultimate guide to losing my virginity checklist. The hope of finally getting laid. Suddenly, she goes from a relatively boring, basically non-existent dating life to juggling three romantic prospects at once. Three is a lot. There's a gorgeous new fourth grade teacher at her school, a former high school classmate that resurfaces through words with friends, and there will always be her roommate who might just be the best friends to lover situation of her dreams. It says it's a brutally honest and completely relatable story for anyone who's ever felt stuck between coming of age and coming apart.

[00:06:34]I think I'm really excited about this one and like I said, I do hope one of my subscription boxes picks it up because I think I will snag this. A new mystery thriller. This is from Rosie Walsh, whom I have never read from before. This is called The One Day You Were My Husband, expected May 19th. Looks like there's two different timelines. There's 2010 and then 2022. 2010 says Carrie and Joanne. Joanne, madly in love, marry on the beach in Thailand. 5 months into their whirlwind romance. Carrie, a British surgical intern, knows she's being uncharacteristically impulsive, but is too happy to care. But as the wedding festivities stretch into the night, armed men swarm the beach and arrest Johan for crimes unknown. In police custody, Johan refuses to see or speak to Carrie. She never sees him again. And then in 2022, Carrie is settled in the English countryside with her husband, Robin, and their six-year-old twins. Okay, I had to do the math for a second. After a difficult entry into motherhood, Carrie has given up her career as a physician and has convinced herself that life as a mother and wife is enough. Though, she stumbles across an online post that makes her realize Johanna is out of prison. Has been out for years. As the memories of their intense, passionate relationship return to her, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about what happened on that beach all those years ago. Even if that means putting her marriage and family in jeopardy. And just when Carrie thinks she knows what she must do, a shocking twist confirms the truth found in every Rosie Walsh.

[00:07:43]Everyone has something. Oh, every Rosie Walsh book. Probably. Everyone has something to hide. Um, The One Day You Were My Husband asks listeners what and whom they would give up to return to a first love into the people they once were. It sounds like something Book of the Month would pick up. That seems really interesting. I kind of want to know what happens, but I don't know if I would pick it up. Another new thriller.

[00:07:59]This is from Alex Finlay. This is called The Anniversary, and it's expected May 12th. Ooh, this sounds scary. It says, "Every year, he comes for them. On one fateful night in 1992, the lives of two 17-year-olds are changed and intertwined forever. And Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested after he innocently tries to break up a fight, but ends up nearly killing someone.

[00:08:16]Jules Delaney, high school royalty, survives an attack by the elusive and terrifying Mayday killer, a serial predator who strikes every May 1st in Midwestern small towns. Oh my gosh. A year later, Jules is struggling with trauma and guilt tormented by one question. Why was I spared? And is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to fresh the unsolved murder of his mother. For the next decade, their lives are revisited on a single day each year, May 1st. As secrets unravel and the past of Quinn and Jules collide, two mysteries edge closer to the truth. All the while, while the Mayday killer is still out there, and the clock is racing toward another May 1st. It says it's an utterly compelling story of the hunt for a serial killer. But it's also a heartfelt and heart-rending novel about fate, innocence lost, and two souls who find that sometimes being broken is the only way for the light to get in. Sounds so good. And the tagline, every year he comes for them. I'm a little interested.

[00:09:02]Another new summer romance. This is from Annabelle Monigan and this is called Dolly All the Time and it's expected May 26th. They begin by pretending. Can they end with something real? I love fake dating. Brick has never met a problem she couldn't solve. Not when her mom left when she was 12 and not at 39 when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So, when she comes across Stuart Whitfield, annoyingly handsome Scion of the of the Whitfield family with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it's in her nature to help. But Stuart's proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargain for because his public dinners and high society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and swinging on the pork. Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She's never relied on anyone besides herself. Can she really start now? Sounds pretty cute. Speaking of Lynn Painter, we have a new YA romance from Lynn Painter. Of course, this is called First and Forever and it's expected May 12th. If I'm not mistaken, I'm almost positive this is potentially a Taylor Swift Travis Kelce situation.

[00:10:02]Buffy Dfano loves three things. Her dad, the family cat, and Minneapolis Coyote's football. So, when she gets booed out of the game and becomes the internet's villain, she is distraught and disgruntled. All she did was shove Coyote Carl away when he made a move on her. But everyone else just saw a woman attacking their team's beloved mascot.

[00:10:18]Eager to clear the air, Duffy agrees to an interview on a hit morning show. She doesn't expect a co-host to join her, especially not the Coyote's star tight end. MVP Connor Cunningham gets tasked with damage control to help his team out of their PR nightmare. He thought that meant saying a few words on the team's behalf. Instead, he finds himself in a highly amusing verbal sparring match with a recently wronged fan on live TV.

[00:10:36]Duffy pelts him with fiery jabs, but is also clearly diehard about the Coyotes color him intrigued and attracted.

[00:10:42]Interview instantly goes viral and the public is obsessed with them. A strong push from the Coyote's PR team to ride the wave results in Connor asking Duffy out despite his distaste for PR stunts.

[00:10:51]He's surprised to discover being with Duffy is much easier than he thought.

[00:10:54]and somehow it doesn't feel fake to him.

[00:10:55]Hering the secret can only blow up, but all he knows is that if he messes things up with Duffy, it'll be the greatest rumble of his life. I don't know if this one is YA. Yeah, it doesn't say. I haven't read any Lin Painter adult romances, but also to be fair, I am not really interested in this one, so I will probably pass on it. But there's that. I really liked the cover of this one, so I clicked on it. This is just a new contemporary literary fiction. This is from Lorie Frankle, and it's called Enormous Wings, and it's expected May 5th. It says at 77, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land.

[00:11:24]She didn't choose the Vista View retirement community of Austin, Texas.

[00:11:27]That would be her three grown children, but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. A Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it's cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking.

[00:11:41]She's she's pregnant. Once word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her. The press and the paparazzi, activists and medical researchers all descending on vista view as Pepper tries to determine her next move. Zon Pepper has some hard decisions to make and some she's not allowed to make. Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality.

[00:11:58]It's about what happens when you don't get to choose. It's about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks, even so late in the day, can still change and then change everything. What? Hey, so I think I'm kind of interested in this. I had no idea what this is about. Pregnant?

[00:12:12]Another new romance. I thought the cover was cute and I saw like a brief glimpse of the synopsis and I was like oo I need to talk about this one. This is called the last page by Katie Holt and it's expected May 12th. A book seller with a dream of running her beloved bookstore versus the owner's out of touch grandson who inherits everything. I saw that and I said, "Okay." Ella has grown up at the last page. A charming local bookstore in New York City where she now works. Her first kiss was in the woman's health section. A boyfriend dumped her in comedy. The owner is like a second father to her and has begun training her to take over the store. So, when he unexpectedly dies and his estranged grandson is left everything in the will, Ella is devastated. Henry doesn't know the first thing about running a bookstore. With his aging mom back in Tennessee, he plans to stay in New York just long enough to ensure things are running smoothly and then head back home. What he never could have counted on was the beautiful, funny book seller who loves The Last Page more than any place in the world and who sees him as the villain who's come to ruin her life.

[00:13:00]When it becomes evident that the store is in deep financial trouble and Henry and Ella are both at risk of losing everything, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and team up.

[00:13:08]despite the inconvenient chemistry blossoming between them. It says if you're fans of Christina Lauren and Ali Hazelwood, you'll adore this. I think I think that's me. I think I would adore this. All right, this looks like the start of a new romanty fantasy series.

[00:13:22]The series is called Deathbringer and the book itself is also called Deathbringer. It's expected May 19th and it's by Sonia Taglia Renie. Hopefully I said that right. Dark academia romanty steeped in necromancy, forbidden love, and a twisty murder mystery. Oo. Set within the perilous halls of a magical institute as a death mage who hates her magic and a poison mage who hates her who hates her are forced to work together to stop a killer before one of them is next. I like that idea. Born with the ability to speak with the dead, Viola hates her magic. It killed her sister Olivia, and if she doesn't learn why, it will kill her, too. Her only hope lies within the perilous walls of Gore Hale Institute of Magic, where Olivia spent her final days there. Viola clashes with Silus, a poison mage whose magic stems from three magical snakes.

[00:14:04]Immortal, tormented, and reckless, Silas is tethered to a life he never asked for and haunted by guilt for his father's death. His hatred for death mages runs deep, and he's determined to keep Viola at a distance. But when an attack forces him to heal her, their fates become intertwined by a magical bond that threatens to upend his loyalties and his common sense. As more students start turning up dead, Viola and Silas are drawn into an uneasy alliance that pulls them deeper into Gorehill's treacherous passageways, where secrets fester beneath the stone and the dead do not rest. And as enemy lines begin to blur and their undeniable attraction grows, Viola and Silas uncover a chilling someone is hunting mages for their magical relics. And even if they can't uncover the killer in time, Viola will be next. Guys, that sounds really interesting. And it's only 430 pages.

[00:14:45]Uh, and it's a series. I might be in there. Another new thriller. It also says romance. Interesting. This is from Norah Roberts. It's called The Final Target and it's expected May 26th. He showed up at Ardan Bow's debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. He showered her with compliments and got her autograph. Then he came to her next event and the one after that. Dustin was just an aspiring writer who wanted advice. Ardan reassured herself. After giving into one of his incessant invitations and chatting with him over coffee, she discovered that ignoring her inner alarm bell had been a terrible mistake. An introvert at heart, Ardan had long craved solitude. But now, after a harrowing assault, she finds herself riding behind locked doors and startling at every sound. and her relief at his imprisonment is tempered by anxiety when Dustin's wealthy mother helps to get him a poulry 5-year sentence at a psychiatric facility. Ardan decides to write a new story for herself, moving to a tiny Oregon town and befriending Gideon, an ex LAPD detective. But while she learns to thrive, Dustin remains his delusional twisted self. As fixated as ever, and now seething with anger, he still believes Ardan's purpose on Earth is to serve and please him, and his job is to protect her. But who will protect her from him?

[00:15:47]Guys, I think I'm interested. I kind of I don't think I've ever read like a stalker story and that sounds pretty good. Ooh, so this says it's a new mystery thriller, but there is the horror tagline in here. I got a little bit excited when I saw that. This is expected May 5th. It's called The Library After Dark by Andy Pelgio. I really like this cover, too. It's very, I don't know, kind of classic looking.

[00:16:06]It says, "A book seller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems." I kind of like this. He's trying to dig up the skeletons in her closet. She'll do anything to keep them buried. Arya Stokes is finally feeling settled. She lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a book seller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith and love by indulging her attraction to a bookstore regular, Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well. As a Valentine's Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive after-dark tour of the Dealis Library, grandiose establishment famed for its immersive genrebased reading rooms, and more notoriously, its rumored hauntings.

[00:16:44]While Arya normally loves all things ghastly, this place holds more dark secrets than she'd prefer Jasper to know. Excuse me. Like that the last time she was here, she left a body behind.

[00:16:52]But when the automatic door entry malfunctions and Arya, Jasper, and the five other people in their tour group become trapped in the library, they are forced to venture through the storied rooms and hidden passageways of the Dalis in search of escape. And Arya quite literally has nowhere to hide from the shadows of her past. Then the group learns there's a murderer in their midst. Now, as she tries to break out of the library's intricate reading rooms, Arya has to decide who she can trust and what secrets are best kept buried if she wants to make it out alive.

[00:17:18]Okay, I really like this one. I don't know. I'm kind of obsessed. A new historical fiction science fiction, which I really like the cover for this one. I feel like this is definitely something Arvar Book of the Month would pick up. This is called Homebound by Porsche Elan. Expected May 5th. Five interlocking lives, one beloved story, a dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together. It's 1983 and Beex can't wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. She's 19, blasting her Walkman and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only person who understood her, is dead. But she has work to do. He left her a half-finish game to complete one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness.

[00:17:52]Little does she know what Beex is making will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a scientist, a sentient automation, and a flinty sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. All are bound together by their search for connection and by a futuristic traveler on a mysterious mission through space. It says, "As a novel about our deep interconnectedness, Homebound is a cleareyed, hopeful adventure into humanity's future and capacity for love." That's like kind of the smallest synopsis I've ever seen and I really don't understand what's happening, but I'm intrigued and I would like to know more. Okay, so this is a new fantasy horror and I really liked the cover of this. And then I didn't realize this is the author of The Book Eaters, which I haven't read, but I am interested in.

[00:18:27]This is called The Girl with a Thousand Faces. It's by Sonia Dean and it's expected May 5th. When Mercy Chan washed up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, she was thrust into the horrors of World War II. She only survived by hiding in oh, I'm going to say this so wrong, uh, Cowoon Wald City, an infamous ghostinfested slum of full of lost and traumatized civilians. Since the end of the war, she has rebuilt her life and found work with the local triad as a ghost talker, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

[00:18:53]These days, the filthy gutters and cramped alleyways of Cowoon feel like home. But the past she can't remember won't let her go. An unusually powerful ghost has infested Koon's waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and- mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realize that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making. 33 years before, mere days ahead of the Japanese invasion, Sunsu Lin and her mother flee Hong Kong, intending to hide out on her mother's ancestral island home. It's beautiful, tranquil, and remote, but also inhabited by ghosts. Ever since the entire village drowned in a storm many years ago, still, it's better than living under occupation. But as the war drags on and isolation sets in, Su Yin is increasingly drawn to the island's grim past, a past that may still have a hold on the present. There's a darkness lurking beneath that idealic ocean and has been waiting many years for someone to return. This has so many good reviews. Oh, but there is one that says DNF. But still, this sounds so good. I'm going to see what other people say about this one, too, cuz I'm a little hesitant, but I am interested. Another new horror. This cover is everything.

[00:19:56]This is called Honey by Ammani Thompson.

[00:19:58]It's expected May 5th. This feels like something Arvar would pick up. It says, "A dark pro provocative adrenaline rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism by a bold new voice in fiction." I'm so excited. It says, "Ursa is in a funk. She's bored of her PhD program, bored of her research on Afropes pessimism. Sorry, afropesimism.

[00:20:18]Bored of the entitled undergrads she has to cater to, but most of all, she's bored of the men in her life, especially the bad ones. When her best friend, Nah, confesses to having an affair with her professor and that he's stolen her research, Ursa is mad. On the quad, Ursa bumps into the professor and witnesses his death. An unfortunate incident involving his sand peligrino and a bee allergy. What she sees that afternoon awakens something in her, a taste for murder. Emboldened, Ursa decides to chase that high. And soon, no sexist, misbehaving man within commuting distance is safe. With each murder, Ursa feels a greater sense of meaning and purpose. Finally, her doctoral research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminists and racial solidarity justify her actions? Will her rampage ever assuage her feelings of rage and revenge? And how long until her actions and buried family secrets come back to haunt her? I'm all for feminine rage. I'm interested in this. Another new contemporary romance. I really like the cover of this one. This is called Burnout Summer by Jenna Ramirez and it's expected May 12th. 4 years after graduation, life isn't going the way Camille Luna expected. Her corporate career is soul sucking. She's in debt from student loans and her breakup with her ex has created a serious rift between her college best friends. When her spiraling lancer in jail for the night, it's Danny Brennan, the lovable burnout from their college click who bails her out and offers the perfect solution to her quarter life crisis, a summer by the beach. Bam is whisked away to Ellswick, Rhode Island. We just talked about Rhode Island, so weird. Her former slacker Dany has taken over his uncle's restaurant and turned it into a seaside hot spot. While Dany has grown into a devoted boss and dog dad, his Carpey DM life philosophy is still as fiery as ever. The hazy summer days start to blur between shifts at the restaurant dips in the ocean and a reignited passion for writing all alongside Dany who makes her laugh like nobody else. Cam can't help but wonder, is it the salty waves that have her feelings so renewed, or is it the carefree friend she always overlooked?

[00:21:53]But summer can't last forever, and Cam's looming student debt reminds her at every turn that the frigid air of corporate office life is waiting. As September approaches, Cam must decide between snuffing out the flames with Dany in order to keep her beloved friend group together and return to the corporate grind or falling into his forbidden arms and setting her old life ablaze. That sounds so cute. I'm actually really interested in that. A new historical fiction horror from Joanna Vanvine. I have two Joanna Van on my TBR. Never read from her before.

[00:22:18]Maybe I have actually. Did was she in the Artvark anthology? I think she may have been. Um but yeah, this looks great. It's called Bone of My Bone. It's expected May 26th. The year is 1635. Mr. Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent and a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying of a dying probably dying man. The gilded skull of a saint. It is said that if you reunite the saint skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elizabeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them.

[00:22:56]A necromancer drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the woman must face a heroine. Some of these sentences are not working. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing something. The magic they seek comes at a cost. At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice. One that could tear apart everything they know or bind them to each other forever. So, I'm really interested in this, but because I already have two Joanna Van Beans on my TBR, I will pass on it for now. But that sounds so good. Another historical fiction horror. This sounds so creepy.

[00:23:28]It's called All Watch Your Baby by Nina Vil. Expected May 26th. It says it's for fans of Victor Lavell and the Reformatory, which I love. The reformatory. It's a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor known as the original welfare queen. Pursued, scrutinized, celebrated, and vilified in the impact her image has had for generations. Okay, again, two timelines. We have 1974 and 1994. So 1974 says, "Lah Turner is already infamous running a wheel of schemes and scams. She's willing to work for what she wants in creative ways. But no business is more lucrative than desperate families looking to adopt a child. And there's only one way to procure children quickly, and the only way to take what's owed you is to cross the line no one is willing to cross.

[00:24:04]1994 says, "Bless has finally found the family she deserved. After suffocating slowly with lackluster parents and a non-starter past, she's found the friends that mean everything to her, that she'd live and die for. As they make their way across the country, one smash and grab at a time, Bless is used to acting fast and thinking on her feet.

[00:24:19]But someone is playing a long game.

[00:24:20]Someone has unfinished business. Soon Bless is trapped in a web of horrors, past and present, where the only escape patch is a path only she can walk if she finds the courage to take it. I think I'm a little spooked by that, but I am interested in it. A new Sarah Gaye is coming out. I have read a Sarah Gaye before. I read Just Like Home and I loved it. This is called Make Me Better, and it's expected May 12th. The cover is crazy. It says, "You were pure once, You Can Be Made Pure Again. Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family to belong to someone.

[00:24:46]That's why she's going to Kindred Cove for the annual salt festival held by the secluded community that lives there. a cult. They promise that healing is possible. Told you. They promise that transformation is inevitable. There is no grief at Kindred Cove because there is no suffering. Nothing is ever lost.

[00:25:00]Celia knows that at that mysterious island surrounded by that impossible ever growing reef, she will find herself. She's ready to be healed. She's ready to be transformed. She's ready to believe. Yep, that's a cult and I'm interested. So, this is a young adult thriller, but by the name and because it's oceany, I was like, "Ooh, I'm kind of interested." This is called The Cove by Claire Rose. It's expected May 5th.

[00:25:20]It says Midsummer meets Fear Street, which love them both in this modern sea soaked folklore debut about fighting to survive and fighting to be yourself.

[00:25:28]17-year-old Lindsey Weinberg has just been kicked out of yet another prep school and exiled to her uncle's farm in the cold, isolated town of Marbury, Maine. But Uncle Levi is gone, leaving the farmhouse under the strict rule of his newly zealously new zealously, why can't I say that? Zealously evangelical wife who runs a reform camp for troubled teens. Up at dawn, manual labor all day, no phones, no computers, no way out.

[00:25:49]When Lindsay meets the twins, Finn and Cass, who live on a nearby island, everything changes. One reckless night, she convinces the others to sneak out for a party. The night is unforgettable, at least the parts they can remember.

[00:25:58]The next morning, they wake in their own beds, clutching seashell tokens, hearts pounding with no memory of how they got home, except one camper never made it back. As disappearances mount and dark secrets rise, Lindsay and her friends must unravel the mystery of the island before the cove claims them all.

[00:26:12]Somebody says that it had some serious Stephen King vibes. See, I don't know.

[00:26:16]Sometimes I like YA horror, sometimes I don't. but I am interested in it. And the tagline does say they've been waiting for you, which leads me to believe there's something in the water.

[00:26:24]And then last, but not least, we have a book that I have actually already pre-ordered. It may probably be an Arvar pick, but I have pre-ordered it cuz I'm excited about it. And it's called I Know a Place, Rest, Stop, and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy with an introduction by Stephen King. This is an anthology series from Nat Cassidy. I have read all of Nat Cassy's backlist, which is only three books, but I knew I needed to have this because Nat Cassidy may be one of my new favorite authors.

[00:26:48]So, it is a short story collection. I know rest stop has been out for a while, but this is just all combined and I'm really excited. And it says, "There are locations in this world where the light doesn't seem to reach where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back. A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night littered with googly eyes. A doctor's office where a bottle of booze and tear stained folder wait on the desk. Tech millionaire's haunted kitchen. A Bible quoting ventriloquist dingy apartment, a yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming.

[00:27:16]These supernatural and sinister locations are your destination, and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Uh, featuring the Bram Stoker award nominated, critically acclaimed nolla, Rest stop, which is apparently one of Esquire's best horror books of 2024, along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before. I Know A Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, is a travel log down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes and teeth. Let's hope you make it home in one piece if the ghost, gory visions, and splatterpunk nightmares don't get you first. I'm so excited for this. Like I said, I've already have it pre-ordered. I'm ready for it. All right, friends. That is everything that is coming out in May that I'm excited for. Some things that I was interested in. Of course, there are so many book releases coming out. For example, Dungeon Crawler Carl is coming out with the first graphic novel, which I think I actually am going to pick up. I think I am because I like it so much and I want to see it. I want to physically see it.

[00:28:03]So, there's lots of things coming out in May. But if there's anything that I missed that you are interested in, please let me know down below. I'm excited to see all new releases. But I hope you guys enjoyed nonetheless. Go ahead and subscribe if you're not already, and I'll see you guys in my next one. Bye, guys.