Hello Readers,
It’s that time again, my fellow bookworms. Let’s discus January’s new releases. While there are countless books, I’m excited about, I’ve narrowed it down to my top five to share with you. For each title, you’ll find the page count, a brief synopsis, and a Goodreads link to make adding them to your TBR list a breeze.
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The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
It’s that time again, my fellow bookworms. Let’s discus January’s new releases. While there are countless books, I’m excited about, I’ve narrowed it down to my top five to share with you. For each title, you’ll find the page count, a brief synopsis, and a Goodreads link to make adding them to your TBR list a breeze.
Synopsis: Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student
Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s
Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable
tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same.
New York City, 1978: Eighteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for iconic former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Though Annie soon realizes she’ll have her work cut out for her, scrambling to meet Diana’s capricious demands and exacting standards.
Meanwhile, Charlotte, now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art, wants little to do with the upcoming gala. She’s consumed with her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant.
That is, until the night of the gala. When one of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing . . . and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening.
As Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she’d never return: Egypt. But if they’re to have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past—which may mean leading them both directly into danger.
Pages: 352 - Goodreads - Publication Date: January 7th, 2025
Synopsis: The only life Persephone has ever known has
been one of servitude, and she dreams of a life of freedom, buoyed by a spirit
and sense of humour that have never wavered. When a chance encounter with a
handsome thief offers her a chance to leave, she grabs it with both hands . . .
and the thief, Azriel, will just have to keep up.
But Azriel is not everything he seems, and he believes Persephone holds the key to a greater freedom for himself and his people, who have been hunted for years by the king's regent, an evil and sadistic man who will stop at nothing in his quest for power. Azriel has a plan to defeat him, and he needs Persephone — but does Persephone need him?
As her journey brings her deeper and deeper into a cruel and dangerous world, Persephone must quickly learn who to trust . . . and whether an impossibly broad-shouldered thief holds the key to her future, or her ruin.
Once Upon a Broken Heart meets The Queen's Thief in Prophecy, the first book in The Fractured Kingdom trilogy — filled with heart-pounding romance and epic adventure.
Pages: 400 - Goodreads - Publication Date: January 14th, 2025
Synopsis: They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them.
Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult
book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first
time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s
never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in
blood.
Pages: 496 - Goodreads - Publication Date: January 16th,
2025
The Boy I Love by William Hussey (Review Coming Soon)
Synopsis: At just nineteen, Stephen has already survived a year at the front. Now he is returning to the trenches to lead a platoon, despite his wounds. Broken-hearted from the loss of his first love, Stephen wonders what he's fighting for. Then he meets Private Danny McCormick, a smart, talented young recruit. From their first meeting, there's something undeniable between them – something forbidden by both society and the army. Determined to protect Danny, Stephen must face down the prejudices and ignorance of his superiors as well as the onslaught of German shells and sniper fire.
As the summer of 1916 ticks down to one big push on the Somme, can Stephen and Danny stay together – and will their love save them – or condemn them?
Pages: 282 - Goodreads - Publication Date: January 23, 2025
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn (Review Coming Soon)
Unfortunately, the only other "out" boys in his school year are
dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn't going to be easy... Until
fate finally intervenes, and two new mysterious boys join drama club:
Peter, who’s just moved from New York (very chic) and his best friend, Sam.
Patch is confident that one of them (although either of them will do!) will be
his first boyfriend. So armed with his single mum’s outdated self-help books,
his over-supportive best friend Jean and an alarming level of self-confidence,
Patch is confident that this mission will be a complete success. Whether or not
they actually like boys or him is a problem for later.
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King is a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud comedy from rising star Harry Trevaldwyn, a story about boldly being yourself, going for what you want, but never losing sight of who truly has your back.
Pages: 352 - Goodreads - Publication Date: January 30th, 2025
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