Hi everyone! How are you doing? How was October? Here, everything’s a mess but I guess it’s a mess everywhere. Still managed to have some good times though. Celebrated my sister’s birthday in the lovely city of Reims. Had a few sunny days at home as well. I’m really not looking forward to winter. I just wish we could erase all this bloody year and start over.
Anyway, I’m back on the blog today, yaay! And it’s the first time I’m writing a post with that brand new editor! Exciting isn’t it?! By the way, how gorgeous is this new blog???! I know I know… enough rambling. Today, I’m going to talk about the books I’m REALLY excited to read in 2021! Books I could possibly rate 5 stars… If you know me at all, you would know that it isn’t a rate I give lightly! So… here we go, I hope my list will make your TBR grow even more!
☂️ Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Crazy Rich Asians meets The Princess Diaries ?? Hum…I’m all in!! It’s a story about Izumi, a Japanese-American girl who discovers her senior year of high school that she’s really a princess of Japan.
It deals with royalty, secrets, customs and it takes place in Japan! Finaly a change of scenery! It sounds like a perfect little guilty pleasure, one I’ll probably devour in one sitting!
☂️ Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Probably my most anticipated read of 2021! I’m totally in love with Taylor Jenkins Reid, I’ve loved ALL of her books. I adore her writing and her characters are always so three-dimensional, real and flawed.
This one is about Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party in Malibu. The alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. It sounds AWESOME!
☂️ A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg
Behind every powerful man is a trained woman, and behind every trained woman is the Society. OK, I’m already hooked and I haven’t even read the whole blurb yet!
Taking place in 1926, seventeen-year-old Elsie, along with four other teenage girls, are being trained to win the future President’s heart. This is a chance at the most powerful position in the Society. It’s a story dealing with politics and feminism and I’m all in!
☂️ The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
First of all, look at that gorgeous cover! It’s so pretty I could cry!! This one is science fiction and I’m really really excited about it. This is the story of Cee who awoke on an abandoned island. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.
It sounds fierce, dark, twisted and it’s about sisters!! Apparently it’s a bit like We Were Liars but with a sci-fi scope. I’m 100% here for this!
☂️ The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Another author I’m really into! Rachel Lynn Solomon is one of the queens of contemporary and I’m really looking forward to this one! The Ex Talk features Shay, a producer at a Seattle public radio station, and her new infuriating colleague Dominic. When their boss decides that they will be the perfect co-hosts for The Ex Talk, a show where two exes will deliver relationship advice live, it all gets a bit complicated.
Enemies-to-lovers? Fake exes? Workplace romance? A+ banter? Count me in!
☂️ What’s Not to Love by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
An academic enemies-to-lovers YA with drama and romance? Yes! Yes! Yes! What’s Not to Love is about Alison and Ethan who, since high school began, have compete on almost everything. Of course, both of these two over-achievers have their eyes set on Havard. So when the principal assigns them the task of co-planning a previous class’s ten-year reunion, with the promise of a recommendation for Harvard, they both agree. What they didn’t see coming is the more time they spend time together the closer they become… With banter and slow burning romance, this one sounds right up my alley!
☂️ Sisters of the Snake by Sasha & Sarena Nanua
Deadly magic, hidden temples, and dark prophecies: this sounds thrilling! Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When these two lives collide, everything turns on its head: because Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places – but danger lurks in both worlds, and to save their home, thief and princess must work together. Or watch it all fall into ruin. I bet I’m going to love this action-packed and immersive fantasy!
☂️ How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao
Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying?? Consider me hooked!! This YA thriller is about students at an elite prep school who are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead and they’re the prime suspects in her murder. This story raises questions about the structure of hyper-competitive school environments, strict upbringings, racial identity and the sacrifices made to maintain the image of immigrant success.
I bet it’s going to be an edge-of-your-seat read.
☂️ Influence by Sara Shepard
I really enjoyed reading Pretty Little Liars, I devoured them (even tough she needed to stop the series WAY before the 544th book…) ! I’m really excited about this one because it seems SO addictive.
It’s a twisty mystery that takes place in the fiercely competitive world of Internet stars. To everyone watching online, their lives seem perfect… but are they really??!
☂️ The Future Is Yours by Dan Frey
If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you? I’m intrigued… what about you?! This one is science fiction and deals with time travel!! It’s about two best friends who create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship – and society – apart.
Told through emails, texts, transcripts, and blog posts, this book raises questions about the costs of innovation and how far you’d go to protect the ones you love.
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Are you excited to read those as well? What other books are you dying to put your hands on?
Do you think 2021 will be full of amazing stories?
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Tokyo Ever After and What’s Not to love looks amazing!
Some of these books may have been added to my wishlist…
Yeeees 🤗🤗
Yaaaay, that makes me so happy 😁
After reading Today Tonight Tomorrow, I have high hopes for The Ex-Talk. Solomon has shown me that she can write a great rom-com. I am also excited about Tokyo Ever After and What’s Not to Love.
YEES! 😍😍
Yaaay, I hope they’ll be as good as they sound 😊
Thank you so much for stopping by 😘
I’m excited for the TJR book too! A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions also sounds promising. I hope these all turn out to be 5 stars for you.
Yaaay! 😁😁 It really does, I just recently discovered it 🤗
Thank you so much 😘😘
You have a few that I think will be 5 stars, too. Great list and I hope you end up loving all of them.
Yaaay! 😊
Thank you so much 😘😘
With a cover like that if The One’s We’re Meant to Find is not a 5 star read I will be very disappointed 😩
Oh my god same here!!!
Fingers crossed 🤞
so many of these sound so good! Especially Tokyo Ever After! It’s actually the first time I’m hearing about it but it definitely goes on my wishlist! 🙂 wonderful list that you have assembled here. I hope they all really turn out 5stars for you!
Yaay, I’m so glad! It sounds really promising 😊
Thank you so much!! ☺️
I hope you end up loving all of these!
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Aww thank you so much! I hope so too 😊
Great predictions! Sisters of the Snake sounds so good! I’m definitely adding it to my TBR. 🙂
Thank you! 😊
Yaaaay! 🤗🤗
I didn’t know most of those. Thank you for sharing them 😊
It was my pleasure!! Thank you so much for stopping by 😘😘
Great list, I hope all of these meet your expectations 💜 Ising Malibu sounds so good.
Aww, that’s so sweet thank you!! 🥰
Right?! I’m so excited about it 😁
How We Fall Apart sounds SO good! I really enjoyed One of Us is Lying, so a comp title full of Asian rep sounds right up my alley. I hope you enjoy all of these when you get to them!
Right?! I’m really looking forward to it 🤗
Thank you so so much 🥰🥰
oh my gosh, so many of these look amazing??? i’m so excited for the ones we’re meant to find and tokyo ever after!!
Right??! I’m SO excited to get them 😁😁
Thank you so much for stopping by 😘
Tokyo ever after, The ones we are meant to find and how we fall apart are also some of my 2021 anticipated releases! Hope we all love the. Great post!
Yaaay! 😁😁
Thank you so much 🥰
Ooh, I just heard about The Ones We’re Meant to Find and Sisters of the Snake and I love the synopsis! Thanks for sharing <3
Yaaay! They sound so good 😁
You’re welcome, thank you so much for stopping by 😘😘
Oh my god, how did I miss that a new Taylor Jenkins Reid novel is coming out next year?? News of the month!! 😍
I don’t know!! But now you know!! 😁 So excited 😍😍
I’ve asked for the ARC of the Taylor Jenkins Reid book and I hope I get it because… yeah, she’s a 5/5 star writer!
Aaaaah that’s so exciting 🤗 I hope you get it!!
Totally 😍😍
I’m looking forward to The Ex-Talk and Sisters of the Snake.
Yaaay! 🤗🤗
The Ones We’re Meant to Find sounds absolutely amazing and I am in love with that cover! I’m very excited to pick it up when it comes out!
Right??! I’m SO excited, I hope it won’t disappoint! 🤞
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Malibu Rising sounds amazing! I just learned about the new Sara Shepard and I am CURIOUS.
Yeees I can’t wait 😍
Same here, it sounds really really promising 🤗
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Great list of books! So many I haven’t even heard of yet and can’t wait to be adding to my loooong TBR list. I hope these all end up being five star reads for you! 🙂
Thank you! 😊
Yaaay, I’m so glad!! 😁
Aww thank you! ☺️
Ooh this is such a great list! I definitely have Joan and Emiko Jean’s books on my 5 star predictions as well and I’m extremely excited for The Ex Talk and Katie’s latest book!!!They both sound amazing! I’m already on Rachel’s street team so fingers crossed I get selected for Katie’s as well so that I can get an early arc <3
Thank you! 😊
Yaaaay!! 🤗🤗
That’s so exciting, fingers crossed! 🤞
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A lot of these are on my radar, but not sure if I will pick them up (my anticipated list is filled with a lot of darker, creepier reads!) so I will be really interested to see what your thoughts are. Although I have added Malibu Rising to the TBR. I can always go for another TJR book. Happy reading!
Ouh scary! Aww that’s sweet, I’ll definitely let you know 😊
Yeeeees you do 😍😍
Happy reading to you too! 😘
Ah omg Nyx YOU’RE THE BEST!! I honestly have just been thinking that I hardly know of any 2021 releases so YAY. I am so excited about Tokyo Ever After ah, it sounds brilliant. And also Malibu Rising as well as The Ex Talk. Such a great list eeep xoxo
🥺🥺🥰 So happy I could be of help 😊
Yaaaay!! 🤗
Thank you so much for stopping by and happy readiiiing 😘
Oooh! I just added Tokyo Ever After to my TBR—sounds fantastic!!
Yaaaay! 😁😁