Hey guys! It’s so wild to me that it’s already April. I feel every TBR, I’m shocked that it’s already the next month. I don’t know when I’ll ever not be shocked. Anyway, I feel March was a great reading month for me. I liked everything I read besides one book. Let’s hope that April is just as successful. Let’s dive in to see what I want to read in April!
The Last Murder at the End of the World By Stuart Turton
Genre: Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Adult, Crime, Suspense, Murder Mystery
Pages: 320 pages
Publication Date: May 21st 2024
Publisher: Sourcebooks and Landmark
Plot: Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world.
Outside the island there is the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they learn the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay.
If the murder isn’t solved within 92 hours, the fog will smother the island – and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone’s memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer – and they don’t even know it…
The outstanding new high concept murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling and Costa Book Award winning author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
An ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, an audacious solution.
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Mystery, Gothic, Paranormal, Fantasy Romance, Fiction
Pages: 465 pages
Publication Date: August 22 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Plot: The captivating sequel to the Gothic-infused Belladonna, in which Signa and Death face a supernatural foe determined to tear them apart.
A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He’s hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago…and now he’s determined to have Signa for himself, no matter the cost.
Signa and her cousin Blythe are certain that Fate can save Elijah Hawthorne from prison if they will entertain his presence. But the more time the girls spend with Fate, the more frightening their reality becomes as Signa exhibits dramatic new powers that link her to Fate’s past. With mysteries and danger around every corner, the cousins must decide if they can trust one another as they navigate their futures in high society, unravel the murders that haunt their family, and play Fate’s unexpected games—all with their destinies hanging in the balance.
Dangerous, suspenseful, and seductive, this sequel to Signa and Death’s story is as utterly romantic as it is perfectly deadly.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow By Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Literary Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Coming of Age, Adult Fiction
Pages: 401 pages
Publication Date: July 5th 2022
Publisher: Knopf
Plot: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
The Dead Romantics By Ashley Poston
Genre: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, Ghosts
Pages: 401 pages
Publication Date: July 5th 2022
Publisher: Knopf
Plot: Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead.
When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.
For ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.
Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is.
Romance is most certainly dead… but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.
I’ve been keeping my TBRs light recently. I’ve been kind of just winging what I pick up. I’m trying to make sure I read the books on my Spring TBR. These are the ones I really want to get to or have buddy reads planned. I’m really looking forward to these. I’ve had a slow start this month but hoping that picks up.
What books are you planning to read in April?
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