This week Star brings us her Top 5 Books I Want For Christmas
Let me start this off with: Dear Santa, I have been a good
girl this year, I promise.
Now, if only I had the time and money to read everything.
But, here are some books I’d really like, and ones I hope to
get to buy, and actually read, in 2020 (that’s so gross writing that, by the
way. 2020 isn’t a real decade! Pft!)
Note: These are all 2020 releases, which is why I’m not
really expecting Santa to deliver them to me. Though, if he’s as good as he
says he is…
1) Loveless by Alice
Oseman
Georgia feels loveless – in the romantic sense, anyway.
She’s eighteen, never been in a relationship, or even had a crush on a single
person in her whole life. She thinks she's an anomaly, people call her weird,
and she feels a little broken. But she still adores romance – weddings, fan
fiction, and happily ever afters. She knows she’ll find her person one day …
right?
After a disastrous summer, Georgia is now at university, hundreds of miles from home. She is more determined than ever to find love – and her annoying roommate, Rooney, is a bit of a love expert, so perhaps she can help.
But maybe Georgia just doesn’t feel that way about guys. Or girls. Or anyone at all. Maybe that's okay. Maybe she can find happiness without falling in love. And maybe Rooney is a little more loveless than she first appears.
LOVELESS is a journey of identity, self-acceptance, and finding out how many different types of love there really are. And that no one is really loveless after all
After a disastrous summer, Georgia is now at university, hundreds of miles from home. She is more determined than ever to find love – and her annoying roommate, Rooney, is a bit of a love expert, so perhaps she can help.
But maybe Georgia just doesn’t feel that way about guys. Or girls. Or anyone at all. Maybe that's okay. Maybe she can find happiness without falling in love. And maybe Rooney is a little more loveless than she first appears.
LOVELESS is a journey of identity, self-acceptance, and finding out how many different types of love there really are. And that no one is really loveless after all
2) We Used To BeFriends by Amy Spalding
Told in dual timelines—half of
the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward—We Used to Be
Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood
besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a
boy’s name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they’re no longer
friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the
dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat
thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future
that feels wide open. Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more
than James to continue to be her steady rock, as James worries that everything
she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school sweetheart
parents announce they’re getting a divorce. Funny, honest, and full of
heart, We Used to Be Friends tells of the pains of growing up
and growing apart.
3) The Henna Wars by
Adiba Jaigirdar
When Nishat comes out to her
parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself.
Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is,
but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her
life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.
Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
4) The Falling InLove Montage by Ciara Smyth
Saoirse doesn’t believe in love
at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be
able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A
condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not
looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic
sparks if she’s bound to burn out.
But after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.
Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real.
But after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.
Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real.
5) The Long DistancePlaylist by Tara Eglington
Taylor and Isolde used to be
best friends - before THAT FIGHT, 18 months ago. It's been radio silence ever
since - until Taylor contacts Isolde to sympathise with her breakup: the
breakup that she never saw coming; the breakup that destroyed her confidence
and ended her dreams of joining the National Ballet School.
Taylor's had his own share of challenges, including a life-altering accident that has brought his hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics to a halt.
Isolde responds to Taylor, to be polite. But what starts out as heartbreak-themed Spotify playlists and shared stories of exes quickly becomes something more.
And as Taylor and Isolde start to lean on each other, the distance between them begins to feel not so distant after all ...
A boy. A girl. A one-of-a-kind friendship. Cross-country convos and middle-of-the-night playlists. With big dreams come even bigger challenges.
Taylor's had his own share of challenges, including a life-altering accident that has brought his hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics to a halt.
Isolde responds to Taylor, to be polite. But what starts out as heartbreak-themed Spotify playlists and shared stories of exes quickly becomes something more.
And as Taylor and Isolde start to lean on each other, the distance between them begins to feel not so distant after all ...
A boy. A girl. A one-of-a-kind friendship. Cross-country convos and middle-of-the-night playlists. With big dreams come even bigger challenges.
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