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Happy March everyone! It’s that time again where we here at DTRH share our most anticipated reads coming out the next month. As usual, I have linked the goodreads pages for your convenience. Some very exciting books and beautiful covers (looking at you, March 29) coming out this month. I can’t help but be excited whenever a new book with a beautiful cover comes out!

March 1

Gallant by V.E. Schwab
The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra
Edgewood by Kristen Ciccarelli
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Crimson Reign (Blood Heir Trilogy #3) by Amélie Wen Zhao
The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

March 8

A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
One For All by Lillie Lainoff
Cinder & Glass by Melissa de la Cruz
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Love, Decoded by Jennifer Yen

March 15

Being Mary Bennet by J. C. Peterson

March 29

A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
So This is Ever After by F. T. Lukens

And that’s a wrap! What are you all most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments below!

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New Romance Reads on my TBR (Valentine’s 2022)

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Hi friends! Today is love day, and I hope we take some time to celebrate love in whatever form it comes in, platonic or romantic.

This is my last post in the series of romance-themed posts leading up to Valentine’s Day (which is today!). I hope you’ve enjoyed them. If you want to read the other posts, they are linked below.

Thank you for stopping by! I just wanted to reiterate how much I appreciate you all, the community of bloggers and book lovers I’ve found here. I wouldn’t still be doing this without you.

Now onto the list!

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

After having just graduated with a degree in shoe design, and trying to get her feet on the ground, Cindy is working for her stepmother, who happens to be the executive producer of America’s favorite reality show, Before Midnight. When a spot on the show needs filling ASAP, Cindy volunteers, hoping it might help jump-start her fashion career, or at least give her something to do while her peers land jobs in the world of high fashion.

Turns out being the only plus size woman on a reality dating competition makes a splash, and soon Cindy becomes a body positivity icon for women everywhere. What she doesn’t expect? That she may just find inspiration-and love-in the process. Ultimately, Cindy learns that if the shoe doesn’t fit, maybe it’s time to design your own.

I’m such a sucker for CInderella based stories, but Julie Murphy’s take seems to include body positivity and a plus sized woman that just makes it different among the others I’ve read. It’s definitely got me intrigued at least, enough to put it on this list!

How Not To Fall in Love by Jacqueline Firkins

A hardened cynic and a hopeless romantic teach each other about love in this swoony and heartfelt contemporary romance that’s perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and The Upside of Falling.

Harper works in her mom’s wedding shop, altering dresses for petulant and picky brides who are more focused on hemlines than love. After years of watching squabbles break out over wedding plans, Harper thinks romance is a marketing tool. Nothing more. Her best friend Theo is her opposite. One date and he’s already dreaming of happily ever afters. He also plays the accordion, makes chain mail for Ren Festers, hangs out in a windmill-shaped tree house, cries over rom-coms, and takes his word-of-the-day calendar very seriously.

When Theo’s shocked to find himself nursing his umpteenth heartbreak, Harper offers to teach him how not to fall in love. Theo agrees to the lessons, as long as Harper proves she can date without falling in love. As the lessons progress and Theo takes them to heart, Harper has a harder time upholding her end of the bargain. She’s also checking out her window to see if Theo’s home from his latest date yet. She’s even watching rom-coms. If she confesses her feelings, she’ll undermine everything she’s taught him. Or was he the one teaching her?

I love it when there’s chemistry between best friends, especially ones that are very unwilling to acknowledge that there might be anything more between them. This seems like the perfect read.

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2022 Five Star Predictions

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

I have never tried this before because I can barely predict what books I read each year. But I’ve been seeing a number of these posts pop up over the last month and I thought I’d see how accurate (or not) I’d be predicting books I’ll enjoy this year (if I even read them).

I’ll post something in December then to look back on these predictions. Until then, here are the ones I feel I’ll really enjoy!

Book of Night by Holly Black

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus

In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.

Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear—and at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister—all desperate to control the magic of the shadows.

With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.

I’ve been getting into dark academia lately. I absolutely adored A Deadly Education and Ninth House. I have no idea if this will be absolutely amazing but the synopsis has me super excited.