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January Reads

 Welcome to my To Be Read (TBR) of January.

I never really stick with these but I try to when I can. They always make me feel like I am completing a goal or something along those lines when I look at it later in the month. Last year my life was a bunch of ups and downs. I wanted to read. I wanted to cook. I wanted to write. I wanted to do a lot of things but my anxiety and depression got the better of me. I was blue for most of 2020.

So now I look at my bookshelves and think they've been neglected. I need to fix that and I've been dying to read for awhile now but wanted to wait until the new year and start fresh. I listed to a few audiobooks last month and I'll talk about those a little later. They were part of my Winter Reads Challenge.

So without further ado let's get to it.

So this month I plan on reading at minimum 3 books. I think that's a pretty decent goal for the month of someone who is just now starting to get back into reading.

Black
by T. L. Smith
Book 1 of 3

I am loyal, but I will betray you.
I am strong, but I have scars.
I am an angel, but the devil.
I met her when I was sixteen and she was a breath of fresh air. She swooped in, making me smile. But then she left, taking my next breath with her.
Her smile could light up a room, making my black heart pitter patter.
I found her again ten years later, with a syringe in her arm.
Blood coming from between her legs.
She was broken and I was glad she was broken. She wouldn't think less of me and my damaged ways.

The Darkest Minds
by Alexandra Bracken 
Book 1 of 3

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.

Aurora Rising
by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Book 1 of 2

From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic. 

Honestly, I am really looking forward to reading Aurora Rising. I enjoyed the first series that they wrote together and could not put them down. Stay with me as we see if I manage to complete these books this month.
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