Most Anticipated Adult 2020 Releases

 

I don’t read a ton of books that aren’t YA or MG, but there are a handful of others I’m looking forward to reading this year.  My goal is to read at least 3 adult books this year.

 

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The Girl From Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest—a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick—comes a riveting new novel of psychological suspense about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet.

Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.”

Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and held vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye.

Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home. Until late one night she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life, as Arden Maynor.

And now, the girl from Widow Hills is about to become the center of the story, once again, in this propulsive page-turner from suspense master Megan Miranda.

Expected publication: June 23rd 2020 by Simon & Schuster

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Signing Up For The 2020 Cloak and Dagger Challenge

 

If you’ve been following me for awhile, you probably know that I love mystery/thrillers.  I was so excited to see a yearly challenge for these and I just have to sign up.  This is being hosted by Carol’s Notebook and you kind find all the info here.

 

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September 2019 Book Haul (It’s a big one)

 

I have to start with this.  I was prepared for a lot of books in September.  But seeing them all written down is a bit shocking.  I think October may be just as bad, but we’ll see as the month goes on.

 

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The October TBR and Beyond Challenge

 

It’s time for the next TBR and Beyond monthly challenge.  This month’s is a Halloween Escape Room!  You do need to be a TBR and Beyond member to join in on THIS PAGE.  I hope you sign up!

 

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Top Ten Tuesday 9/17/19

 

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.   You can find each week’s topic on her site.

 

This week’s topic is favorite things to eat or drink while reading.  I wasn’t able to think of ten for this.  I’m not a big fan of eating while reading, so I mostly named the things I drink with a couple food items.

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Goodreads Monday 9/16/19

 

Goodreads Monday is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners.  All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.

It’s getting hard to remember which ones I’ve done already, so I’m sorry if you see a book pop up on these more than once.

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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.

What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.

Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.

It was everything.

She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

 

I love mystery/thrillers and have been slacking on my adult reading.  I picked this up last week and I’m looking forward to reading it.  Have you read this?  Have you read any other Ruth Ware books?

 

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Goodreads Monday 9/9/19

 

Goodreads Monday is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners.  All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.

It’s getting hard to remember which ones I’ve done already, so I’m sorry if you see a book pop up on these more than once.

 

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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

 

I feel like I’m the only person who hasn’t read this yet.  What were your thoughts?

 

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August 2019 Book Haul

 

My August haul is pretty big.  Yes, I know.  When isn’t my haul big?  I’m really scared because I feel like September’s will be worse.  At least for purchased books.

 

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Most Anticipated September 2019 Book Releases.

 

I’m going to say it now.  September is insane!  WTH publishers?  I know there are slow seasons and busy seasons, but this is nuts.  I do not have every release listed.  I tried to choose the ones I’m looking forward to and the ones I know a lot of other people are excited for.

 

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September 3rd:

 

 

Kingdom of Souls  *$

The Lady Rogue  *$

There Will Come A Darkness (reading now)  $

The Girl the Sea Gave Back *

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Signing Up For ARC August #ARCAugust

 

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As you can see by the banner, this challenge is being hosted by Read. Sleep. Repeat.  I had joined in on this right after I started blogging, but forgot to do it last August.  I always have a ton of ARCs to read, so this is perfect.

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