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Most Anticipated Book Releases, Fall/Winter 2024

Spring and summer 2024 brought so many amazing books. So many of my preorders came in – it was like Christmas just about every Tuesday. Katherine Center, Abby Jimenez, Carley Fortune, Emily Henry, Tarah Dewitt…the season of romance (mostly)! I can only hope to have as great of a season next year! But what about the books still to come?

But there are some great books still ahead of us yet! These are some of my most anticipated book releases for the rest of the year. This is everything I personally have on preorder that come out in the remainder of 2024:

…looks like I’m going to have an exciting September, too!

Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty

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Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty Book Cover

I love Liane Moriarty. Her deep character work and puzzle-style plot structures are so yummy. With a cover that alludes to the butterfly effect and a high concept premise about death predictions, I can’t wait to read this intriguing novel!

Release Date: September 10th, 2024

We Solve Murders | Richard Osman

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We Solve Murders, Richard Osman Book Cover

The Thursday Murder Club was such a refreshing and humorous story about geriatric sleuths. I’ve been reading more and more mysteries and thrillers, and I’m hoping the tone of this one is similar to his other work. There’s something about investigating a murder! So compelling!

Release Date: September 17th, 2024

If I Were You | Cesca Major

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If I Were You, Cesca Major Book Cover

Maybe Next Time was the first bowl-me-over book of the year. It hit me in all the feels at exactly the right time in my life. Automatic must-buy author for me after that. I actually got an arc of this book on netgalley, so I get to read it early. Another interesting premise, I can’t wait!

Release Date: September 24th, 2024

Intermezzo | Sally Rooney

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Intermezzo Sally Rooney Book Cover

Beautiful World, Where Are You? Is a stunning book. I read it three times in a row. Normal People gutted me, then set my guts on fire. Not sure I can bring myself to read it again, ever. Sally Rooney’s writing is sharp and philosophical and at times damn poetic. Absolutely I’m going to read this…just might be through squinted eyes!

Release Date: September 24th, 2024

Where the Library Hides | Isabel Ibanez

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Where The Library Hides Isabel Ibanez Book Cover

With the way What the River Knows ended, I’d be crazy not to be on the edge of my seat to continue the Secrets of the Nile series. I was pleasantly surprised by book one, and I can’t wait to see what happens next! If you’re looking for an accessible historical Egyptian fantasy with a strong female lead, don’t sleep on this!

Release Date: November 5th, 2024

Variation | Rebecca Yarros

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Variation Rebecca Yarros Book Cover

I read In the Likely Event this year and it absolutely blew me away. I loved every minute of it, and couldn’t put it down. Tears, chills, intense longing…makes this new contemporary romance release from Rebecca Yarros a must read on my list. Looks like it’s going to be on Kindle Unlimited, too!

Release Date: November 19th, 2024

Wind & Truth | Brandon Sanderson

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Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Book Cover Placeholder Image from Tor Publishing

The fifth volume of the Stormlight Archive! The culmination of the first half of the series! More than 1,000 amazing pages practically guaranteed! I have recommended this series to so many people. It’s the most incredibly done fantasy I’ve ever read, and every book has surprised me in the best way. What a name, too!

Release Date: December 6th, 2024

What book releases are you anticipating most?

Do you have any of these on pre-order too?

Book Review:: PS: I Hate You | Lauren Connolly

A human life is fleeting. We only get so much time before we run out. Sometimes, there is no warning. Sometimes, you get a heads up that the end is inevitable. Either way, death is a reminder of our ticking clock, and often shines a spotlight on what is important, and what is not. This is a theme that has come up a lot in my reading this year, and it strikes home every time. Because we’re all alive, and one day, we won’t be. What are we going to do with the time we have?

PS: I Hate You Lauren Connolly Book Cover

Before Josh Sanderson died of cancer, he wrote some letters to those he left behind. To his mother, his grandmother, and his friends. But to his best friend Dominic and his sister Maddie, he left a task: travel to the last eight states he never got to visit using the coordinates he left, scatter some of his ashes there, and read the letter he left for each place – together. The only problem is, Dominic Perry is the reason Maddie fled PA for the west coast. If it were under any other circumstances, Maddie would’ve told them both to kick rocks, but Josh was the only person in the world who loved her, and she’ll do anything to read the letters he left.

I think my favorite part of the whole adventure was that Josh didn’t spell out his reasons for sending them on their quest, leaving Maddie to speculate what his intentions could possibly have been. She comes up with several theories along the way, each of them making her reconsider everything she thought she knew.

I was pulled in from the very beginning by Maddie’s snarky, heartbroken voice. Her backstory is devastating, and she’s developed unhealthy coping mechanisms to survive. In the depths of her grief, she clings to them harder than ever, but the journey through the eight destinations illuminates the need for changes.

Dominic is the strong silent type. Through so much of the book, all we really see from him are ‘looks’. He’s staring at her, he has a strange look on his face, you know the drill. It leaves a lot of room for the reader to project what they want him to be thinking, which is clever. The one complaint I have is that Connolly WAY overused the phrase ‘the man’, when referring to him, especially at the beginning.

The themes in his book are heavy, but it reads very much like a rom-com. There is plenty of banter to enjoy, and a lot of personal growth for our MC. There is a fun cast of friends which make me hope there might be another book featuring one of them (Tula?) still to come. This was my first Lauren Connolly book, and it certainly won’t be my last!

Thank you to Berkley & Netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review. This book will be released on December 3rd, 2024, but it is currently available for pre-order!

Details

Title:: PS: I Hate You
Author:: Lauren Connolly
Genre:: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher:: Berkley
Length:: 432 pages
Audio Length:: 10h
Audiobook Narrator:: TBA
Audiobook Publisher:: Penguin Audio
Published:: December 3rd, 2024
The Litertarian Rating:: 5-Stars
Spice Rating:: 4 (not erotica, but open door and explicit language)

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Book Review:: The Last Love Note | Emma Grey

What comes after losing the ones we love? We hold the ones we have left more dearly & live the rest of our days the best we can. The Last Love Note is a beautiful story about love, grief, healing, and a strong woman forging a new path forward with the pieces left after life shatters around her.

The Last Love Note Emma Grey Book Cover

Kate and Cam fell madly in love in college and never looked back. They married and started a beautiful family. Life wasn’t a cakewalk — they had the usual problems of early marriage: jobs to navigate, whether to expand their family & when… Then things begin to fall apart with an unexpected diagnosis.

This is a story told in two timelines. One is the past, as Kate and Cam navigate the trials and tribulations of Cam’s diagnosis, the other is the present, with Kate on a work trip with her boss, Hugh, who has become a close family friend. Kate is still processing her grief, but it’s been a few years, and her friends are encouraging her to open herself back up to possibility. And Hugh, Hugh is there to help her find her way.

I imagine this book captures the complicated feelings of widowhood quite beautifully. The guilt, the betrayal, the responsibility, and the sheer surprise of any sort of feelings stirring up again. It is both utterly romantic, and heartbreaking. It is a beautiful story, and it was beautifully written.

On the side of flaws, I would say the pacing is overall quite slow. In contrast, the opening sequence was funny and punchy, but I didn’t feel it quite matched with the rest of the story, which was much more retrospective, and, well, gloomy. It also left me a little muddled as to what I should be paying attention to, if I’m honest. I go into books blind (no blurbs), and the false romantic interest threw me off until probably 25% into the book and I realized who we were really there to watch. In retrospect, I can appreciate the details, but it takes a minute to get into. However, if you stick with it, ye shall be rewarded.

This is the kind of book that lingers. I find myself thinking of it every once in awhile, even weeks later, and when I do, I get this big warm fuzzy feeling in my chest that makes me want to read it again. If you are a sucker for true romance, and don’t mind a little bit of real life heartbreak, you’re going to love it.

Details

Title:: The Last Love Note
Author:: Emma Grey
Genre:: Contemporary Romance
Publisher:: Zibby Books
Length:: 384 pages
Audio Length:: 10h 32m
Audiobook Narrator:: Leeanna Walsman
Audiobook Publisher:: Zibby Books
Published:: November 28th, 2023
The Litertarian Rating:: 4-Stars

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