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While We Were Dating

Jasmine Guillory July 13

YOU HAD ME AT HOLA by Alexis Daria reminded me a lot of Jasmine Guillory’s books! It’s light and fun and romantic, and Daria adds the perfect amount of angst and drama to keep you invested in the story. If you’re not familiar with the plot, it features Jasmine, a soap opera star poised to hit it big with her new show for a Netflix-like streaming service. Her co-star Ashton is big in the telenovela world and is hoping for a career resurgence with this new show. When the pair has trouble with creating believable onscreen chemistry, they decide to begin rehearsing together in private, which naturally leads to sparks. Perfect if you want another show biz romance before WHILE WE WERE DATING comes out!

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Blush

Jamie Brenner June 22

M.J. Stark, a New York-based journalist seems to have it all: a promising career, a gorgeous Manhattan apartment and a loving doctor boyfriend. But deep down, M.J. still grappling with the untimely death of her parents and sister in a car accident and said doctor boyfriend is begging her to move coasts and settle down with him in a sleepy California beach town. When things begin to go awry at work, M.J. decides to take the plunge and move, she’s left to fend for herself in her new home. A chance meeting with Gloria, her elderly neighbor, leads to an invitation to join The Dirty Book Club, a secret book club where members read a different erotic novel each month. If you love the book club aspect of this one, then I think you’ll be super into BLUSH, which revolves around a family who finds that their love for “dirty” books might just save their winery.

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The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris June 1

Looking for a fast-paced, read-it-in-one-day thriller that satisfies your inner conspiracy theorist? Sydney Green notices a lot of unwelcome changes to her mostly Black Brooklyn neighborhood and decides to channel her frustration by creating a walking tour to showcase the neighborhood’s history. As she begins her research, she begins to find some sinister secrets behind the push to revitalize their community. In a landscape of thrillers that all feel so similar, I loved the take on gentrification that this one provided. It was well-researched and thought-provoking in terms of racism, gentrification and redlining. I think that the lengths Cole goes to in this story feel pretty necessary in getting her point across. This got lots of GET OUT comparisons and so has THE OTHER BLACK GIRL!

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We Are The Brennans

Tracey Lange August 3

The Plumb family’s four adult children have all spent their entire life waiting for “The Nest,” the once modest trust fund their father set up for them that has since turned into major money. Each of the siblings could benefit from it: Melody is on the cusp of paying college tuition for her twins, Jack, who owns an antique store, has borrowed against the summer home he and his husband share to save his shop and Beatrice is under immense career stress as she struggles to finish her novel and finally break free from her humdrum literary magazine career. At the center of it all is Leo, a former media executive whose addiction issues led to a devastating accident. The Nest is being used to pay off the nineteen-year-old waitress found in the car with Leo and each of the siblings is desperate to get their money back.