June TBR (2023)

 Hey guys, this is Abi here, 

And I'm back with my TBR for the month! 

Three out of six of them, I haven't read before, and I'm excited to pick them all up. 

I hope you enjoy it. 

1. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton 

I was meant to be finishing this by the end of May, but life got in the way and I wasn't able to even start it (though I'm frustrated that I could have, if I'd just managed time better)! But no matter, rolling on to June. 

I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hardcastle a few years ago, and even though it took me a long time (back when I thought 10 days was a long time), I still really enjoyed it. 

I'm currenyly just over 100 pages into it, and I'm loving it just as much as the first time. I'm hoping to dedicate most of my next day off to it, maybe even finish it. It's just so articulously written, I never want to put it down. 

2. Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick 

This jaunty looking novel has been in the back of my head for a while now, I bought it on Audible a few months ago, and it's been sat on the unread shelf, almost taunting me because, whenever I go on the app to read something else, I always think, next time. But no longer. If I listen at 2X speed I could get it read in less than a day (3 hours), if I tried. I've always thought Anna Kendrick to be incredibly witty, clever and talented, and I'm very excited to be able to read from her POV. 

3. Little Girls Tell Tales, by Rachel Bennett

Honestly, I put this on here without knowing squat about it. My mum passed it on to me to read because she was done with it, and I fancied a bit of mystery in my books this month (not hard to tell with The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo haha). 

Little Girls Tell Tales is about a girl called Rosalie, who stumbles across a skeleton when she's lost in the marsh. After an extensive search by the police where no body is uncovered, they conclude that Rosalie is telling tales. Fifteen years later, Dallin, estranged from his family, returns unnanounced with Cora, whose sister went missing fifteen years ago, and thinks that Rosalie found her. As dangerous secrets are uncovered, Cora and Rosalie start asking questions about a girl that some would rather keep hidden. 

Despite the consistent three star reviews on Goodreads, the words on the cover were all I needed to get goosebumps. I'm hoping this'll be a short and easy read, and I hope I enjoy it.  

4. Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I've had this book on my shelf, unread for a couple of months now, and it's time I got to it. Since it's release in 2017, this book has only gotten bigger. It came onto my radar when the world and his wife started picking this up- even my brothers- and it's extremely rare for him to read. More than that, everyone loved it too. (Also, there's no way I can pass up the chance to pick up another Taylor Jenkins Reid book. 

Very short list of characters: Monica, the journalist, Evelyn herself, and all of the husbands of course. This is a book about Monica questioning why she, a failed divorcee with a career that's going nowhere, would be chosen to write the biography for starlet Evelyn Hugo, and Evelyn telling her story. Simple premise too, but from what I'm getting from all these amazing reviews, that's all the story needs to be. Highly anticipating this. 

5. Open read- one of the selection

This option is sort of a bumper. Just in case I feel like reading something familiar halfway through the month, or want something quick to fly through. I'll list them here: 

1. The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman 

2. Theatrical, by Maggie Harcourt

3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett 

4. The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas 

5. The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak 

6. The Mercies, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

I'm not going to be making a decision about which one I fancy reading just yet though, it'll just depend on what I feel like picking up on the day. That doesn't mean I won't ask you to write which one you'd pick up in the comments! Comment down below! Which one would you choose out of all of those? 

6. Amari and the Night Brothers (The Supernatural Investigations #1), by B.B. Alston 

This will be the first of many series that I will be reading in the next few months. I have at least three seperate series that haven't been completed yet, and re-reading Amari and the Night Brothers is the perfect book to get started on all of that (also it's the most appealing out of all of them by far, because it's a fun, addictive and fast-paced read that promises to get me excited to tackle all the other books in my TBR. 

Amari and the Night Brothers was one of my favourite reads of the year back in 2021, and I'm very excited to delve back into the world of Amari, as she learns to take her place in the magical school her brother enrolled in and find out what's happened to him. It'll also be nice to get a refresher on everything to do with the world before progressing to Amari and the Great Game afterwards. 

Okay! Those are all the books I plan to pick up during the month of June! I hope you have a wonderful evening and I'll see you all soon! 

Byeeee! 

-Abi xxxxx