Based on the themes, I’m particularly interested in Antisocial by Jillian Blake. When it comes to contemporary books, art and social media tend to intrigue. Sadly, the average rating doesn’t inspire much optimism at 3.5 stars.

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Get ready to pour out your savings this month! May tends to be a very active publishing month for young adult fiction. UK YA books are unusually well-represented this week, as are mysteries and thrillers. Of course, the hype for A Court of Wings and Ruins by Sarah J. Maas is reaching its peak this week. On my end, I’ve pre-ordered Release by Patrick Ness and lined up Spellslinger by Sebastian de Castell. I’m also looking forward to Noteworthy by Riley Redgate. I really enjoyed her debut last year.

Last week my laptop completely froze on me, so I had to send it for repairs. This means I’ve not had much of a chance to look through the latest releases. Although, judging from the covers, there seem to be a number of upbeat and summery ones coming up already.

One thing I’m glad publishers do is to re-release books a year or two after they first hit the shelves. Yes, I also wish that paperbacks would come out at the same time as hardcovers, so that’s kind of at odds. Neither do I collect multiple editions. The reason I’m glad is that they put backlist titles on my radar again; titles that I meant to read in the past but for some reason didn’t get to yet. I hope that by including them week in, week out, some of you have found books too that previously fell through the cracks.