Eleanor has prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. When she walks into her grandmother’s house one night for dinner, she walks in on a gruesome murder scene and is face-to-face with her grandmother’s killer… but can’t tell who it is. As Eleanor, her boyfriend Sebastian, Aunt Veronika, and lawyer look for answers at this remote Swedish estate, a twisted family history comes into play. This book was so eerie and atmospherically dark and I didn’t want to put it down!

Read if you want a book with
- Multiple murders at the same place
- Locked room mystery
- Creepy atmospheric estate
- Suspicion someone else is around
- Blizzard trapping them in
- No cell service
- Power outage
- Lots of family secrets

Thanks to Minotaur Books for this gifted copy!

"You're like Verinoca Mars, but with roaches."

This was such a fun read! Hal is a great main character - she's working hard to be able to get the Verhaag Scholarship and go to an East Coast school so she can get out of California and away from working in pest control. Because really, who wants to be known as "bug girl" in high school? But Hal has great confidence and drive and I love her personality. When things start to go downhill with the scholarship, she enlists the help of her exasperating (but cute) neighbor, Spencer Salazar, and also tries to join the yearbook club as an extracurricular, which sends her on a hunt for last year's missing yearbook supplements. Everything came together perfectly in the end and this was just a really quick, unique, and enjoyable YA read.

Thanks to Turner Publishing for the copy of this book!

The Romantic Agenda is a phenomenal, compulsive read focusing on two Black asexual main characters, Joy and Malcolm. Joy is very much in love with Malcolm, and Malcolm is so close to Joy that it's been an issue with his past girlfriends. Then comes Summer - the girl Malcolm has been dating in secret - who is willing to accept that Joy comes as a package deal if she's going to be with Malcolm. They head to a cabin for a weekend getaway with Summer's friend Fox. When Joy and Fox decide to fake date, the dynamics of more than one relationship change.

I really enjoyed Joy's open honesty, silly puns, and love for herself. As a main character, I was rooting for her and willing her to move on from pining over Malcolm to find something that was better suited for her. Our Silver Fox was perfection - he's gentle, understanding, grumpy and incredible. While their "fake dating" didn't play out very much in the book, I love how they started to trust each other and open up as they caught feelings. I also really appreciated the discussion about the asexual spectrum through Joy and Malcolm's characters and found it both important to have this representation in a romance novel, and also educational to me as someone who is not on that spectrum. This is a really wonderful romance read.

Read if you:
- Like the grumpy/sunshine trope
- Want a book with ace rep
- Like discussions about boundaries

Thanks to Berkley and Books Forward for the copy of this ARC!

DNF @ 20%