New books.

Here's some new books I've recently acquired...

I've been really enjoying books involving cults lately and The Roanoke Girls has been on my radar for ages so I finally picked it up and I'm really looking forward to reading it. I also finally picked up Thirteen Reasons Why. This has been on my to read list for years as I am always interested in books to do with mental illness. Since the mixed reactions to the Netflix adaption I am even more intrigued. 

As soon as I heard about Moxie I knew I had to get it! It's a YA about a girl sick of the sexism at her school and inspired by her riot grrl Mum decides to start a feminist zine. Dumplin' is another book that's been on my radar for a long time. It's about body positivity with a fat positive main character and I have heard great things about this. You Will Know Me is a new thriller from Megan Abbott and A Place Called Perfect is a middle grade book about a girl who moves to a town where everything and everyone is perfect- and then her Dad goes missing and she starts to question everything (also: look at that beautiful cover!)

A couple of books I was kindly sent for review... 

Yuki Means Happiness by Alison Jean Lester

'Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about adapting to a routine of English practice, ballet and swimming lessons, and Japanese cooking.

But as Diana becomes increasingly attached to Yuki she also becomes aware that everything in the Yoshimura household isn't as it first seemed. Before long, she must ask herself if she is brave enough to put everything on the line for the child under her care, confronting her own demons at every step of the way.

Yuki Means Happiness is a rich and powerfully illuminating portrait of the intense relationship between a young woman and her small charge, as well as one woman's journey to discover her true self.'

Can You Hear Me by Elena Varvello

'In the August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods...
I was sixteen.
He had been gone a long time already, but that was it - not even a year after he lost his job and that boy disappeared - that was when everything broke.

1978.
Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy. An unbearably hot summer like many others.

Elia Furenti is sixteen, living an unremarkable life of moderate unhappiness, until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood.

But then everything starts to unravel.

Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind.
A young boy is murdered.
And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods...'

Without a Word by Kate McQualie

'Lillian had phoned telling her to get Skype up and running. 'I have so much to tell you.' Then, the knock on the door. 'Sorry Orla, I'd better see who it is' she said. Orla waited. Seconds became minutes. She didn't know how long she waited before she realised that something terrible had happened.

For more than a decade, Lillian's disappearance has remained unsolved, and Orla has found it impossible to move on.

Then she receives an unexpected visit from Ned Moynihan, the detective who led the original investigation into her friend's vanishing. Moynihan has been receiving anonymous notes accusing him of having failed to investigate the case properly. He assumes the notes are coming from Orla, yet Orla knows nothing of these letters.

Is somebody trying to tell them the truth about what really happened to Lillian that night?'

I also pre-ordered There's Someone Inside Your House which is a slasher type thriller about a girl who moves to a new school and finds that one by one the students are dying!

Finally one of my most anticipated books of the year the new Celeste Ng book! I am extra chuffed to me taking part in the blog tour for this next month.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

'Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost...'

This sounds amazing!