My first post in a new blog for 2025! BookBirdDog (Book Dilettante) has been retired, and I'm starting anew.
Welcome to my new blog: Harvee Reads
How did I start the new year, apart from starting a new blog?
I am still a huge NetGalley fan, and don't mind reading advance copies of books. They are, after all, the writers' galleys before final editing and final print, and their own words matter a lot to me before they are polished and possibly changed by editors and publishers.
My planned January reads? Books soon to be published this month.
To Have and To Hold by Lilly French
a psychological thriller with a dramatic ending
To be published Jan. 17, 2025; NetGalley
Description: Emma and Luke seem to have a perfect marriage until Emma discovers a hotel receipt in Luke's pocket. This leads to at a secluded, supposedly romantic weekend for the two.
Unfortunately the goodreads readers rated the thriller only 2.43 stars.
The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
Publication Jan. 14, 2025; Minotaur; NetGalley
Setting: Icelandic winter landscape
Description: A young girl, Agnes, returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a murder in her family forty years previously. Is it a coincidence a local girl goes missing the very same weekend Agnes is in Iceland? A thriller packed with plot twists.
Strange Pictures by Uketsu is described as horror, mystery and thriller, adult fiction. I don't normally read horror novels but I'm intrigued by this Japanese mystery. The strange pictures have a backstory that connects them.
Publication: Jan. 14, 2025, HarperVia, NetGalley
I have to find some lighter reading inbetween those three thrillers.
Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter
Publication: Jan. 14, 2025; Berkley, NetGalley
Description: a romance with a Meet-Cute trope begins with a stolen latte that Amy spills all over the dress shirt of the man in line behind her
Will I actually read all three thrillers? Depends on how far I get into each book and if they hold my attention.
In My Mailbox
Publication: April 1, 2025; Soho Teen ARC
Description: A lyrical, mythology-tinged debut novel about a Chinese-Filipino teenager whose world of daydreams is destroyed by a family secret. Selina Li Bi’s magical debut perfectly portrays the pain of growing up in a less-than-magical world and introduces a remarkable new voice in young adult fiction.
I'm interested in the mythology in this YA novel.
Please visit Mailbox Monday at I'd Rather Be Reading at the Beach, each week to see books bloggers received.
What are you reading or watching this wintry day?
