Today, I’m wrapping up my May. This was an extremely productive month and I was lucky enough to receive a lot of amazing books, so this will be a long wrap-up!

In May, I read 22 books and completed my TBR.

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Recent Reads:

• #89

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Reviews:

• Liar’s Beach & Every Word a Lie
• The Hummingbird Killer, Painted Devils & The Dos and Donuts of Love
• Where The Light Goes
• Yellowface
• We’ll Never Tell
• Morgan is My Name, Good Girls Die Last & Speak of the Devil
• Ride or Die, SH!T Bag & Sing Me to Sleep
• Interview: Maureen Johnson, Author of ‘Nine Liars’

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Haul:

The awesome Samuel Bonner at Penguin Random House Children’s sent me Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu, while the lovely team at Headline sent me Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir.

Thank you to Usborne for sending me The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach and to Candy Ikwuwunna at Penguin for sending me Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou and Liar’s Beach by Katie Cotugno. Also, thank you to Hachette Children’s Group for sending me The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar.

I treated myself to The Three Dahlias by Katy Watson and Reverie by Ryan La Sala. Finally, my Illumicrate pre-order of Yellowface by R F Kuang arrived!

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Netgalley: 

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• Mister Magic by Kiersten White
• Black Heat by Bex Hogan
• He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney
• How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean
• There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer
• House of Odysseus by Claire North
• Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz 
• Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Don’t Look Away by Rachel Abbott