July New Releases



 It's finally summer which means enjoying a nice iced drink while downing a good story. The days are longer and the list of new releases are just as long.


Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: July 31

  This book is centered around a young sheltered girl, Chula Santiago, and a teenage maid, Petrona,  striking up a friendship in 1990s Columbia. The Santiago's live in a gated community in Bogota, safe from the violence terrorizing the country. Their mother hires a live in maid from the slums named Petrona and Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
 While most of the books I've been drawn to have been YA fantasy or thrillers, I've always been interested in history from a young age and since this book is inspired by the author's own life, I am much more interested.



To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder by Nancy Rommelmann
Genre: True Crime
Release Date: July 1

Amanda Scott drove to the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon and dropped her two children into the Willamette River; resulting in the death of her four-year-old son Eldon. Rommelmann goes through Amanda's past to try to figure out what would cause her to kill her children. Now I'm a sucker for true crime to be completely honest and so when I find a true crime book, especially a recent one, I get real excited, and this book is giving me I'll be Gone in the Dark  feels.



Believe Me by JP Delaney
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
Release Date: July 24

This book is about an out-of-work British actress who is currently working as a "honey trap" for a firm of divorce lawyers. When one of her targets become the main suspect for murdering his wife, the police ask her to lure the suspect into a confession. Need I say more?



Somebody's Daughter by David Bell
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
Release Date: July 10

Michael Frazier's life is thrown into hell when his ex-wife Erica shows up with two bombshells. One Michael has a nine-year-old daughter named Felicity and two she's missing. Unsure whether Erica's telling the truth, Michael rushes to find the child he never knew he had.



Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
Genre: Fantasy, Retelling, YA, Mythology
Release Date: July 31

 Evie has been an outcast in her small town ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned. One day, a girl who had an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears and Evie is convinced that this girl is in fact Anna. However, her friend can't stay in the small town, or on two legs, and Evie tries to find a way to help her.




Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
Genre: Sci-Fi
Release Date: July 10

In the near future, immortality is all-consuming, now that people can live for 300 years. This story revolves around Lea Kirino who is a "lifer," which means that she has been given the potential to live forever. She's a successful trader on the New York Exchange, which has become a legal human organs market. One day she meets her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk and she starts to become drawn into the mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful people who reject society's pursuit of immortality. This book is just giving me Scythe feels so of course I'm excited.




Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Release Date: July 31

"In a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison." Honestly, that'll little blurb has me super exicted for this book. 


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