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My Most Anticipated Retellings From Jan - June 2020

It's now 2020, it's a brand New Year! And you know what that means? A year chock full of brand new books is ahead of us! And as regular readers will know, what I am most looking forward to is all the retellings! I do adore a good retelling! So here are the retellings I'm most anticipating in the first half of this year!

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My Most Anticipated Retellings From July - Dec 2019

My Most Anticipated YA Retellings From July - Dec 2019

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Can you believe it's July already, and half the year has already gone? What is going on?! Time is moving so fast! But seeing as it's July, it's time to share my most anticipated retellings for the second half of 2019! There are a mix of genres and of age categories, but there's something for everyone!

Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Retelling of Lord of the Flies by William Golding - published 9th July 2019.

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. From Goodreads.

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My Most Anticipated YA Retellings From Jan - June 2019

2018 is drawing to a close, and people are starting to share their lists of 2019 books they're looking forward to, and I'm joining in! Regular readers will know what a huge fan of retellings I am, so today I'm sharing with you the retellings I'm looking forward to in the first half of the year. There are a few others I know of, either in the latter half or the year, or without specific release dates yet, so I'm sure there will be another post in six months time.

96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy & Ava Dash
Retelling of the Indian legend of Shakuntala and Dushyanta - published 15th Jan 2019.

A modern retelling of a classic Indian legend, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story.

Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her.

Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. But she didn't expect to fall in love... with a country of beautiful contradictions, her fiercely loyal cousin, a local girl with a passion for reading, and a boy who teaches her that in Sanskrit, there are 96 different ways to say the word "love." From Goodreads.

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My Most Anticipated 2018 Releases From July Onwards

So the first half of the year is almost over! Where has the time gone? I really don't know - I'm sure it was only January last week! But with the second half of the year comes more books! Inspired by Cait of Paper Fury's How To Be Buried Alive By Books, I'm sharing the books being published in the second half of 2018 that I'm really excited for!

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19 Eagerly Anticipated 2018 Releases

Happy New Year, everyone! It's now 2018, which means a whole year of books to look forward to. I thought I would share with you some of the books I am eagerly anticipating!

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
2nd January 2018


I absolutely loved Nijkamps' debut novel, This is Where it Ends, and her second novel sounds so good! About Corey returning to her home town to find her best friend, Kyra, is dead, and the secrets the town is keeping regarding her death and what happened. It's also a diverse novel with Corey being on the ace/aro spectrum, Kyra having feelings for Corey, and disability involved somehow.

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