The BPR Monthly Haul includes everything from personal purchases, to ARCs sent from pubs, to library finds. Some months we strike gold and others … well, the gems can be a little elusive.
advance reader copies/finished copies
SYNOPSIS: Juggling her confusing feelings with the rapidly approaching May Crowning, not to mention her hilarious non-star turn in the school play, Brie navigates truth and lies, expectations and identity, and how to—finally—make her mother really see her as she is.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: After escaping a Soviet prison camp, Lina is pursued by a powerful witch and her shadow wolves in a riveting debut that imbues frozen wilderness with fairy-tale magic.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: In a series of interwoven fictionalized stories, Deborah Noyes gives voice to the marginalized women in P. T. Barnum’s family — and the talented entertainers he built his entertainment empire on.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: Set in a kingdom where danger lurks beneath the sea, mermaids seek vengeance with song, and magic is a choice, Adalyn Grace’s All the Stars and Teeth is a thrilling fantasy for fans of Stephanie Garber’s Caraval and Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
purchased books
Synopsis: When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
Synopsis: Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera’s extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
Synopsis: But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them? Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated. Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
Synopsis: When the head of the most admired fashion house in the country opens her prestigious design competition to girls from outside the stylish capital city, Emmy’s dreams seem closer than they ever have before.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
library hauls
SYNOPSIS: At once a sultry romance and a thrilling murder mystery, master storyteller Renée Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet: The Beautiful.
RECEIVED BY: Sha
SYNOPSIS: Raised in the mortal realm, Everly Morrow has no idea she’s a real-life fairy-tale princess—until she manifests an ability to commune with mirrors. Soon, a horrifying truth is revealed. She is fated to be Snow White’s greatest enemy, the Evil Queen.
RECEIVED BY: Sha
SYNOPSIS: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
SYNOPSIS: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
RECEIVED BY: MANDY
What did you haul this month?
Book Princess Reviews 
The covers of the first two books are so lovely! 😍
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Aren’t they though? 🙂
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Pumpkin heads is such a cute read!♥️
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Omg I can’t wait for All The Stars And Teeth to come out, plus I love the cover 😍😍 I’m desperate to get on with The Beautiful but I’m being good and focusing on library books first which should include The Starless Sea soon – my copies finally on transit ☺️ ooh when I catch up I totally want to treat myself to The Evil Queen too, I’ve had my eye on that for a while. I hope you both love these books ❤️❤️
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I would recommend picking up The Evil Queen as a library book because it was a bit of a miss for me. You may love it, but to be safe… Still working towards reading The Beautiful!
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Oh really? My library doesn’t have it atm I don’t think /: Although I believe it was released in Hardback last month sometime so maybe it’s been added since I last checked (it was only out as an ebook where I live previously). And me too; I haven’t read lately so I’m even more behind 😦 I’m hoping to start up again soon and really start getting some of the books that I want to read though. Including The Beautiful & Queen Of Nothing!
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WOW Great Haul! I loved The Beautiful!
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I can’t wait to get enough time on my hands to read it!
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I have not seen This Boy until today. Color me interested.
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I got A dress for the wicked from the library and several Christmas books. I also bought 10 Blind Dates and that second bookworm book I can’t remember the title of… read both already. I DID have The Beautiful checked out from the library but I couldn’t get into it so it was a DNF for now. I got the Christmas shopaholic book by Sophie Kinsella from the library too.
Basically I only bought two ebooks this month and that’s really good for me. Also first time in awhile I bought books!
Let me know what you think of The Evil Queen. I tried to get into it but haven’t gotten into it yet when I had it checked out last. It is on the library ebook wish list again whenever it is available again.
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Am I having a huge memory blank? There’s a Christmas Shopaholic book?
Um, I really really really didn’t like The Evil Queen. I haven’t gotten around to writing a review because I don’t even know what to say about it yet.
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I think it came out this year! Or sometime recently. I wasn’t into it though. I prefer her standalones.
Ohh I had a bad vibe from The Evil Queen. Ohh irony lol. Didn’t even try to force it.
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