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 Garden of the Cursed 6/20 5 stars Katy Rose Pool is the author of another young adult series I loved called There Will Come A Darkness, so I was super excited for a new book by her and it did not disappoint! This was described as a mystery/fantasy but what the synopsis doesn't tell you is there's also a really amazing romance with fake dating trope! I absolutely loved it and how this combined three of my favorite genres in a young adult book. It was a super fun read and my first five star rating in awhile. I'm super excited that this will be a duology, I can't wait for the next one. This book follows a girl named Marlow who is investigating her mother's case. She gets the help of her childhood friend turned enemy Adruis who has a curse of his own to break. The magic in this book was fascinating. I also really liked the world building in this book and there's some LGBT+ representation.

Kismat Connection   In this charming YA debut, a girl who’s determined to prove her star chart wrong ropes her longtime best friend into an experimental relationship—not knowing that he has been in love with her for years. Is it possible to change your fate? Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a total failure, according to her astrology-obsessed mother, and doomed to a happily ever after with her first boyfriend, according to her family curse. Determined to prove the existence of her free will, Madhuri devises an experimental relationship with the one boy she knows she’ll never fall for: her childhood best friend, Arjun Mehta. But Arjun’s feelings for her are a variable she didn’t account for. As Madhuri starts to fall for her experimental boyfriend, she’ll have to decide if charting her own destiny is worth breaking Arjun’s heart—and her own. The Woman Inside A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readab...

  Book Info: Some Shall Break (None Shall Break #2) by Ellie Marney Genre: Young Adult Mystery/Thriller Publishing Date: June 6, 2023   Synopsis: This sequel to the  New York Times  bestselling  None Shall Sleep  is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for. After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis Bell went their separate ways: Emma rejected her Quantico offer and Travis stayed to train within a new unit of the FBI Behavioral Science division. But the unit’s latest case is feeling eerily familiar and Kristin Gutmunsson—Simon Gutmunsson’s eccentric twin—reaches out to Travis to send a warning: Emma is in peril. When Travis and Kristin turn up evidence that points back to Daniel Huxton, the serial killer that Emma had escape...