Happy Friday! 

Woohoo weekend! Last weekend I called it… Saturday was the PERFECT reading day. I had plans to do some errands in the morning but when I woke up I could tell it was still dark outside, and when I opened the blinds it was absolutely pouring rain. I had breakfast, watched a bit of tv, and then I went back to bed to read and I ended up falling back asleep! It cleared up in the afternoon and then I went to the gym, and right when I got home it started pouring rain again. Yay more reading time. Except that turned into my second nap of the day haha. It was not my most productive day, but I made up for it on Sunday and got everything done on my list.

Earlier this week I started reading a popular true crime book. I only got through the first chapter but it was so scary I had to stop reading. I love thrillers and mysteries but it's just a whole other level when they are describing what happened to a real person. I told my friend who recommended the book to me and she said she had to stop reading it as well, lol, so I felt like less of a baby.

I've read most of the books that were on my last list of books I was waiting to come out so it was time to update my list! 

Here are 5 books I can't wait to come out: 

Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox (January 22, 2019)

This is the third book in the Crimson Lake series set in Australia and I am so excited. Especially because it comes out way earlier in Australia than in Canada so I feel super lucky! 

On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. The boys swear they stayed in their room, and CCTV confirms Richie has not left the building. Despite a thorough search, no trace of the child is found. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators: disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. This case just the sort of twisted puzzle that gets Amanda's blood pumping. For Ted, the case couldn’t have come at a worse time. Two years ago a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation and most importantly his family. But now Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake. Ted must dredge up the area's worst characters to find a missing boy. And the kind of danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril . . .

The Vanishing Star by Maureen Johnson (January 22, 2019) (YA) 

I started reading her books when I found out I was moving to London. This is the second book in the Truly Devious series about a murder at a boarding school. It’s been a while so I might need to re-read the first book in this series, but I am definitely in the mood for a good YA book lately. 

The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with crime. Stevie’s willing to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be back with her friends, and solve the Truly Devious case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, and the guy who lied about his identity—Edward King’s son. But larger issues are at play. Where did the murderer hide? What’s the meaning of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, exactly, is at stake in the Truly Devious affair? The Ellingham case isn’t just a piece of history—it’s a live wire into the present.

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (March 5, 2019)

This author wrote one of my favourite books I read in 2017, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. This one sounds just as promising. 

Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists. . . . But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the record studio has its own ideas. It's the early 1970s and free love and drugs are everywhere, and Daisy wants to experience it all. Billy Dunne and his brother have a band called The Six that won't be playing weddings for long. They are ambitious, hard-rocking, hard-partying. When they land a record deal, Billy's girlfriend follows them to the west coast and life begins. But she finds out she's pregnant on the eve of their first tour, and the pressure of fatherhood and incipient fame make Billy go a little crazy on the road. Daisy and Billy's paths cross when a manager realizes that the key to skyrocketing success is to put them together. But oil and water don't even begin to describe how they mix. . . . And what happens next will become the stuff of legend. Written in the style of an "as-told-to" rock autobiography, Daisy Jones & The Six is an unforgettable ride.

Run Away by Harlan Coben (March 19, 2019)

H.C. books are always on my to read list because you know by now he's one of my faves. But I didn't realise his next book was still so far away! I might need to re-read a few of my old favourites while I wait.

You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Before you know it, both your family and your life are on the line. And in order to protect your daughter from the evils of that world, you must face them head on.

Cemetery Road by Greg Iles (March 19, 2019)

This one is so far away too, but I'm sure it will be worth the wait. I really enjoy this author. Except, one of his books had dog fighting in it and I would just skip ahead a few pages past those parts. The book equivalent of fast forwarding the scary parts lol. 

When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation’s capital lifts him to new heights, Marshall is forced to return home in spite of his boyhood vow. His father is dying, his mother is struggling to keep the family newspaper from failing, and the town is in the midst of an economic rebirth that might be built upon crimes that reach into the state capitol—and perhaps even to Washington. More disturbing still, Marshall’s high school sweetheart, Jet, has married into the family of Max Matheson, patriarch of one of the families that rule Bienville through a shadow organization called the Bienville Poker Club. When archeologist Buck McKibben is murdered at a construction site, Bienville is thrown into chaos. The ensuing homicide investigation is soon derailed by a second crime that rocks the community to its core. Power broker Max Matheson’s wife has been shot dead in her own bed, and the only other person in it at the time was her husband, Max. Stranger still, Max demands that his daughter-on-law, Jet, defend him in court. As a journalist, Marshall knows all too well how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Without telling a soul, he joins forces with Jet, who has lived for fifteen years at the heart of Max Matheson’s family, and begins digging into both murders. With Jet walking the dangerous road of an inside informer, they soon uncover a web of criminal schemes that undergird the town’s recent success. But these crimes pale in comparison to the secret at the heart of the Matheson family. When those who have remained silent for years dare to speak to Marshall, pressure begins to build like water against a crumbling dam. Marshall loses friends, family members, and finally even Jet, for no one in Bienville seems willing to endure the reckoning that the Poker Club has long deserved. And by the time Marshall grasps the long-buried truth, he would give almost anything not to have to face it.

I wish I didn’t have to wait so long for most of these books to come out, but I’m sure I’ll have no problem finding great books to read before then.

Happy Reading :)