A lifelong reader of all things YA and books with heartfelt moments that punch you with all the feels. Currently expanding my reading interests to encompass anything that makes me feel deep and resonate with the characters
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Hello dear friends! While I don’t want to sound like a redundant record always spitting out the same content, I’ll try to make this list more varied than just July content I’m excited for. The following titles are coming out a little later this year but I completely wish they were here already! Whether they’re from old authors I love and absolutely trust for new content or exploring some debut novels or new authors, I’m excited to showcase these ten books.
Hello fellow readers! I can’t believe June has come and gone already. I feel like I’ve been stuck indoors more than not this month at my laptop for my new job. Where has the time gone? I feel like I’m missing out on the sunny days and the relaxing afternoons to read on a picnic blanket. Does anyone ever feel that or is that just me?
I hope either way you’ve been able to go out and enjoy even the littlest of things wherever you are. I know it’s been nice balancing my free time outside of work with friends and books this month and I hope the rest of my summer will continue to be the same.
I thought initially that I would not be able to get much reading in this month because I’ve been training hard and working longer hours at the new job, but I’m quite satisfied with the amount I did get through. Let’s dig into it, shall we?
What did I read this month?
I mostly read through my ARCs that came out this month and that was a nice feeling to be on top of those. I had a good month of reading with most books rated fairly high, including some top ratings of the year. Did you enjoy any of these below?
To All the Boys meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (with a dash of Dumplin’) in this funny, romantic, and heartfelt coming of age story about a teen stand-up comic learning how to be her truest self, from the author of If You’re Out There.
Gretchen has always been more of a “least likely” than a “most likely” kind of girl. So how does she somehow find herself living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms…?
The Best Friend Crush: Why is it suddenly so hard to act normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel? Must be time for a—
Makeover(!): Black leather pants and some red lipstick are apparently enough to lend Gretchen the bravado to do an impromptu set at a comedy club, and catch the eye of—
The Roguish Bad Boy: Jeremy, the alluring young comic who thinks her name is Sabrina. It might just be—
The Perfect Cover: A funny-girl alter-ego that frees Gretchen to explore who she really is—and what she really wants. But as rom-coms have taught her, leading a double life can only last so long.
**The Girl Least Likely comes out June 29, 2021**
Thank you Edelweiss and HarperCollins for this copy in exchange for an honest review.
Ever felt like you had a love-laugh relationship with romantic comedies? You don’t wanna admit that you like them – because let’s be honest you much rather make fun of some of their biggest tropes – yet you know almost everything there is to know about the biggest rom-com hits of the last decade or more. Wouldn’t that technically make you a fan?
Well, The Girl Least Likely is a lot like that and for sure you’d enjoy our heroine Gretchen for this reason. In the vein of various rom-com tropes, each chapter dives fully into one that connects well with the overall story.
A girl falls for her best friend but he doesn’t like her that way (possibly?). She ends up with an alias in the most unlikely ways that she finds herself using to catch the eye of another intriguing guy (who may just be interested in her too?). What could ever go wrong with that? I personally love the falling for the best friend trope but if that’s not your cup of tea, bad boy Jeremy may definitely fill that area.
Down the Rabbit Hole 