OUR YEAR OF MAYBE Rachel Lynn Solomon 384 pages Simon Pulse, January 15, 2019 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I don't have the words to fully express my love for this book. My expectations were kind of ridiculously high; Rachel Lynn Solomon's first book, YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE , was one of my most anticipated books of 2018 and one of my favorite books of 2017 (thank you, NetGalley!). It felt like I'd have to wait so long for OUR YEAR OF MAYBE, but Edelweiss made all of my hopes and dreams come true by granting my request last summer. And this book absolutely lived up to my expectations - and shattered a few to boot! Let's start with what I think Rachel Lynn Solomon's greatest strength as an author is: the characters. Sophie and Peter were both exceptionally written, and I was invested in both of their stories by the end of the prologue. Their relationship is so complicated, and is navigated with such nuance, but they both have parts of their story that exist ind
New year, new books to anticipate! We're still doing this on a month-by-month basis, though - there's just no way I could fit all of my most anticipated books for the year into one post! Here are some of the books that release this month that I'm really excited to read. IN AN ABSENT DREAM by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #4) - January 8: • new Wayward Children book! • a prequel about Lundy! • a new world to explore!! • I really don't need to know anything else about this, I've gone into the other books with basically no information and it's all worked out so far OUR YEAR OF MAYBE by Rachel Lynn Solomon - January 15: • ok so I've already read this one, but everyone else has to • one of my favorite books of 2018 • anything Rachel Lynn Solomon writes is my new top priority and should be yours, too THE GILDED WOLVES by Roshani Chokshi (The Gilded Wolves #1) - January 15: • historical fantasy, which I really want to re