March 2026 Reading Wrap Up!

 It was a crazy month, March! Tons of reading happened. And tons of writing MARKETING happened. (Not actual writing of course, but the marketing of the book is WELL underway!)

Here's what I read this month:

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell: Thanks to the movie I suppose, I was suddenly hearing about this book everyone, so I found a used copy at the store one day and finally got to it this past month. And oh boy, the hype is real and this book is AMAZING! The writing is perfection... the powerful prose and beautiful descriptions and the story... the story is just so good. It's about the wife of Shakespeare, though Shakespeare is never actually named... he is just "the husband" or "the brother" or "the son" etc. So interesting. Not much is known about his wife, but this interpretation is awesome and I hope somewhat true. All surrounding the death of their son, Hamnet. An absolute ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for me!

Man of my Dreams by Jenny Rabe: My friend and I met this author at the writing conference in February and my friend bought her book and then loaned it to me. It was alright, nothing great really. The run of the mill, formulaic romance novel. This one did have a bit of a supernatural twist, but it was a bit eye rolly. I don't know. It was okay... lol. ⭐⭐⭐

Newsletter Ninja 2 by Tammi Labrecque: The second little book in this series about how to build an audience for you author newsletter. It was a frustrating read for me because they make it sound so easy and if you JUST DO IT then people will come. Not so. Not even close. People don't want another newsletter. People don't even look at email. But still they say, it's the most important marketing thing to do as an author. So I'm doing it. I have a newsletter. You can subscribe if you want. YEP! ⭐⭐⭐

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol 8 by Beth Brower: Ah, so sad to have finished the series as we know it now. Number 9 should come later this year. And I guess I'll just start BUYING this series and collect them. Whatever. Resistance if futile. I loved this last one. So good. So many back stories revealed. So many heart warming moments. So much swoon and banter. So much everything. LOVE LOVE LOVE. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: I did my fourth re-read of this book and documented the journey with a reading vlog on my channel. I tried to be entertaining. You should go watch it maybe. See what you think. But bottom line, I love this story story, even if it's very sad and disturbing. It's so compelling. I continue to think of it as a   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  book!

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden: This was the book club choice for the month. The first half was weird and the writing wasn't so great and I thought I might not make it through and that I would end up giving it a low rating. But then it really picked up in the second half and I read it so fast and then thought, well. Okay. That was a pretty good story after all. And now I'm giving it ⭐⭐⭐⭐! Crazy!

Burn the Kingdom Down by Addie Thorley: This was my ARC read for the month ( I think I'll probably have at least one or two a month this whole year, so be warned!) I got this one from NetGalley  just because it caught my attention, and guess what, I was right. It was a really good! I great YA fantasy that was so encaging and page turning and quite unique. You can scroll back a few posts and see my full thoughts on it. But I loved and it gave it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!

Betting on You by Lynn Painter: I snuck this one in at the end of the month just because I could and because I've been dying to read it for so long. It was as expected a fun YA romance with a lot of great tropes... friends to lovers, fake boyfriend, close proximity, etc. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Did you keep track? I rated FOUR books with five stars this month. Crazy! How can April hold up to that??

What did you read and love this month?

Video version of this wrap up can be found here on my channel.

West With Giraffes Readalong!

 Does anyone want to read this book with me? I'm hosting a readalong this month of April! Let me know if you are joining in!

Book Review: Burn the Kingdom Down by Addie Thorley

 Book: Burn the Kingdom Down by Addie Thorley

Genre: YA Romantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In this really awesome YA romantasy, we have two kingdoms with completely different magic and cultures. One lives in a cold mountain and those with magic can move the earth. The other lives in the warm earth and those with magic can cultivate plants. And they both need each other survive.

Our main character, Indira, comes from the gardener kingdom and her sister is forced to marry into the mountain kingdom in order to keep the pact going between the kingdoms. When she suspiciously dies, Indira is forced to take her place. 

And she is determined to use this opportunity to find out what really happened and make the mountain kingdom pay! 

But what she finds there is not at all what she expects. 

This story starts out with a great hook and just gets better and better. I was glued to the pages the whole time and the ending is just... WAH!! Lots of action and twists and turns, with a great magic system and world building. I really enjoyed it... all the way up to five stars! 

It has lots of action, as mentioned, and much political intrigue and all that good stuff, but it does include a romance too... enemies to lovers... but with low spice. It was perfect level for me. So good!

Thank you to Netgalley for the early review copy. This book will be released on April 7! Look for it!

Book Review: We Are Never Getting Together by Janette Rallison

Book: We Are Never Getting Together by Janette Rallison

Genre: YA Romance

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This story is filled with tropes and banter and angst and antics, so you know I totally enjoyed it! We have our girl (who has lots of money) and our boy (who does not have money) who basically hate each other for some reason (enemies to lovers because...spoiler...lol!) so the book starts out with them "fighting" by doing crazy pranks on each other.  And then, as the story goes we of course learn that it was all due to some silly misunderstandings. 

But then when their single parents appear to be hitting it off, they decide to team up to make sure that does not happen! (I'm seeing it being called a reverse Parent Trap story... assuming everyone knows what The Parent Trap movie is!) So our girl (a drama queen) and our boy (a football quarterback star) decided to pretend THEY are together in order to discourage their parents from continuing a relationship... so yes, at the core of all the tropes, we have the fake relationship going on. Which of course means that eventually they will learn the truth about each other and change their minds. I love it when that happens.

It's delightful as expected. I love this author and all the witty fun situations that she creates. I always end up becoming totally invested and immersed because this type light-hearted fun story is my favorite. If it's your favorite style of story too, add this one to your list to read! 

This book will be released on April 7 and thank you to Netgalley for the advanced review copy. 

February 2026 Monthly Wrap Up!

 

The books I read in February!

I did a beta read for an online writing friend. It's a YA fantasy about dryads bringing their conflict into the human world. It was pretty good! If it gets officially published I'll be sure to mention it and pump it up!

Emma M. Lion Vol 7 by Beth Brower: I continued my love for this series this past month and this one might be my favorite? I don't know! I can't choose a favorite, it all melts into one story and just builds on itself until you can't separate out these volumes at all! I'm currently reading Vol 8 and loving and will be so sad to run out of having another one waiting. Vol 9 should be published later this year and I guess I'm just along for this crazy journey now!  The author came and did an event at the library in February and I was scheduled to actually work the event.. and might have perhaps met her and etc... BUT I got sick and had to stay home! I was so so so disappointed!

We Are Never Getting Together by Janette Rallison: This is a fun YA romcom that I read through NetGalley. It will be released on April 7, so look for my official review as it gets closer. It has some fun tropes like enemies to lovers, fake boyfriend, reverse Parent Trap (they are trying to keep their parents apart!) and football jock with the drama queen. So fun. I love all this stuff! If you love it too, keep your eye open for this one!

Ninja Newsletter by Tammi Labrecque: This is a book all the people at the writing conferences say to read... because having an author newsletter is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING! How to get people to come and read it.. now that's a big huge question! She claims to have all the answers and in the second book, which I just finished, she talks about exactly how to do it. And she makes it sound SO EASY and just do this thing and people will come FLOCKING to your newsletter. HA! It makes me crazy, can you tell? Flocking... lol. Anyway, I've started a newsletter on Substack, which is very similar to this blog only... more... authory... and more writing focused and etc... so if you are interested.. you'll all flock there now, right? 

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis: This was the book club book of the month. The premise was cool... all about the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall and the experience our character has becoming one of them for a few months. It's tied into another historical event... some pipe bomber during the late 50s terrorizing New York. So these two stories are combined and also, a character is introduced who started criminal profiling, which helped to find the bomber. It's all interesting, but the writing was so dry and cardboard-y for me and I just didn't love it. It was okay!

If you are interested in a video version of my monthly wrap up, you know you can click on over to the channel! I have a ton of plans for March (some I'm actually accomplishing!) so look to see how that ends up next month! 

What's the best book you read this best month? 

Want to be an ARC Reader?

 Hey friends!

It's time for me to gather some ARC readers for Always Best Buds! I'm going to assume you all know what that means! (If not there is more info on the sign up form!)

I'll be taking sign ups until the end of March, and then you have until the release date, May 12, 2026 to post a review an Amazon/Goodreads and/or your socials. 

So if this book that I've been promoting (see previous posts for a description and a book trailer!) sounds interesting to you, or you just think it would be fun to be part of the journey, go ahead and sign up!

CLICK HERE FOR THE SIGN UP FORM!

I hope to see a bunch of you join me! Thanks so much!

Always Best Buds Book Trailer!

 I made a book trailer for Always Best Buds! Hopefully this will give you a feel for what this book is like: sweet YA romance, boy crazy girls, 80s nostalgia, told through letters. Let me know what you think!

Free School Survival Guide Now Available!

 The characters in my book, Jan and Liv, are very anxious about starting a new school year. About a week before school starts in August 1982, they write up a School Survival Guide filled with worries and fears and how to conquer them, goals, and lists and rules and boy strategies. Also, a playlist of their current favorite music that they think might help get them through any rough patches.

I'm giving that away for free if you sign up for my Substack newsletter! (Which is a lot like this blog actually only for authors!) I plan to post an article in the newsletter no more than once a week... and more likely about twice a month when I'm not promoting a book. I'd love to have you join me there!

So, if that sounds fun, head on over there and subscribe! You should get a welcome email with the link to download the Survival Guide. And hopefully once you read that, you will get a good feel for these crazy girls and what you'll be in for if you decide to read the whole book, Always Best Buds!

I'm Publishing a Book!

If you aren't following me in all the other places, perhaps you haven't heard yet that I made a goal this year to set one of my books free into the wild, aka. I AM PUBLISHING SOMETHING!

I'm done waiting to have the guts to find an agent and a traditional publisher, and since the stigma surrounding self-published books seems to be fading, and after much research, I have decided to go ahead and learn what all that is about and use this first book as my guinea pig. 

Not that I don't love this book, but I figured it is just different enough that it doesn't' stand a chance in the "normal" world of "regular" publishing anyway.  

So this past month I've jumped in with both feet and am doing, or trying to do, all the things! I've started a marketing campaign on Instagram/Threads, with some cross over posts on my new author facebook page and Bluesky.

I've started a newsletter on Substack (which is a lot like blogging, but different too.)

I've created a website.

I've printed up a hard copy of my book and got it proofread.

I've created a cover and blurb.

I made bookmarks to give away as swag.

I put it up on Goodreads and made an author profile. (Still need to connect the author profile to the book, but it won't let me do it until it's official on Amazon.)

I created an Amazon KDP account, but haven't yet put the book up because it's not QUITE ready.

Once it's ready, I will make it available to pre-order. And also call for ARC readers, and also give away a prequel chapter to whoever will subscribe to the above mentioned newsletter. I hope that will include some of you!

But what is this book you ask???

It's called Always Best Buds and is a sweet YA romance set in 1982, told through the notes the two girls write to each other during their junior year in high school. It's in a sort of graphic novel format with the pages looking like actual letters with doodles and pictures and smears and lists and all the cute things 16 year old girls would do.

Here is the official blurb that will be on the back of the book:

“Physics is going to kill me, but I’ll die happy!”

Liv passes the note to her best friend, Jan, on the first day of their junior year, 1982. They are stoked to make this school year a most excellent one. And it’s starting off stupendously with a class full of totally awesome boys.

These dramatic and boy-crazy notes continue all year long, helping them to survive the emotional ups and downs of navigating their first crushes.

Jan is the brainiac.
Liv is the athlete.
Miles is the musician.
Jace is the mysterious new boy.
All of them are band geeks.

And all of them are stressed to the max.

Will their friendship survive the year or will it end in jealousy and messy break ups?

ALWAYS BEST BUDS is a sweet heart-warming romance full of friendship, fun and 80's nostalgia.

I hope it sounds fun to you all and that a few of you will be among my first readers! And if you have a young person in your life (this is YA... but I would consider it lower YA and upper MG if we want to be technical!) then please share with them! 

Stay tuned for the official announcement for ARC reader sign ups and also when that teaser chapter will be ready (most likely this coming week!) 

If you aren't doing so already, you can follow my bookish Instagram to keep updated: @sueyybooks, and if you want to get on the mailing list now for the teaser chapter, you can subscribe to my newsletter here: https://sueysbooks.substack.com/about. Or you can send me a message on my new website and I'll add you to the list myself: https://www.kerrisuejensen.com/connect.

Thank you for following along with this crazy journey! Be looking forward to the official release date, May 12, 206!

January 2026 Reading Recap

 

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol 6 by Beth Brower: There's not much more to say about these books now except if you haven't started reading them what are you waiting for! Emma's story continues and just gets better and better mostly because we as readers get more and more familiar with the characters and more and more invested in all of them. It's like a small town series just sent in this late 1800 time period in England. It's so good. Seriously.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton: This was our book club read for January. I enjoyed finally seeing the inspiration for the movie I've loved and watch so many times over the years. It was a fun read, though I didn't love the writing style a ton. I know a lot of people do, but I found it to be pretty bland at times. I hear that some of his other books are actually better (Timeline I want to check out for sure) so I am definitely curious.

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab: This is the third in the Darker Shades of Magic serious and one that I have been wanting to get to forever. And it felt like it took forever to read too, and I'm not sure why because it's actually an easy read and very fast paced. I guess just because it's such a big book and because I was trying to read so many other things at the same time. Anyway, I got a little weepy when this one ended, having to say goodbye to these characters and leaving them where they are in the end. What a crazy ride it was! I loved the whole series so much and highly recommend if you are into magic and fantasy!

Story Genius by Lisa Cron: I finally finished this one by listening to it. Sigh. It was interesting stuff but still didn't grab me really and I didn't have a big light bulb moment or didn't get anything really wowing and helpful for my writing. She used a LOT of examples of her friend's book as if we were going through the motions for that story and it was so boring for my. I didn't want the details of her friend's book, you know? Anyway. At least I can say I read it and when this author comes to the conference I'm going to in May I can at least now what she's sort of about. Right?

Beta Read: This was a great story by an online writer friend. A YA fantasy about dryads and tree magic and the mixing of that world with the human world and I really enjoyed it! It will be fun to see how it does in the world. 

And that's my January wrap up! Now I just need to get busy and finish some books for February! I think I'm reading about seven books all at once. Why do I keep doing that? LOL!

The Personal Curriculum Club!

 

When I started my BookTube channel just over three years ago, one of my "big ideas" was to do something I called Forced Phases... which is where you figure out something you want to learn about and make it a phase for awhile... do a deep dive and learn all you can.

It didn't really go over very well. I wanted people to join me in the effort, not to necessarily learn the same thing I was learning, but to do their own thing and we'd all talk about it. But it seemed I was all alone with the endeavor.

So I gave up on it.

But then this year my friend on BookTube (Mariandrea at @books_and_bocadillos) suggested we try it again. But this time we'd use the term you are all more familiar with... personal curriculum. You HAVE heard of this, yes? 

Check out our introduction video here, and join us! Figure out your own personal area of study... something fun! Something you've always wanted to do or learn! Something that you might not normally do in the midst of all the craziness. OR... something that fits into what you have planned already!

Just think it up and make a plan and let's do it!

We are dividing the year up into two semesters. Spring semester will go from now (or officially Feb 1) through May. Then we'll take a summer break followed by Fall Semester from September through December. 

At the end of each semester we'll do a live stream on our channels to discuss with you all how it went! We'll also check in with our progress on our own channels about once a month.

In addition, there are two other spaces online where you can connect and discuss your projects. I've created a book club page on Storygraph. Click here to find that. And Mariandrea has added a space on her Discord. Click here to find that. 

And what am I going to study this "semester?" I was intrigued about two different women this past year that I wanted to learn more about so I'm going to do a class about Fascinating Historical Women! And learn about those two and maybe add a one or two more to the list, though I'm not sure who those ones will be yet.

The two I know I'll be studying are Marie Laveau and Mary Pickford! One is called the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and the other is America's Sweetheart and the one of the first actresses in the film industry. My plan is to read one or two non fiction books about them, and then figure out a fiction book that ties into their life or history somehow. Also a documentary, or podcast or movie. We'll see what happens! (Click here to see my BookTube video about my plans!)

Does doing a personal curriculum sound intriguing to you? Do you want to join us? Do you have something you've been curious about? Let me know in comments! I look forward to hearing what you want to do!

 

December 2025 Reading Wrap Up

This month I did a thing and rejoined NetGalley! This will be reflected in my reads this month and upcoming months. I'm excited to be jumping in on reviewing new releases again. Let's do this!

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol 5 by Beth Brower: The story of our heroine Emma Lion, continues. Things are just getting better and better. These books continue to make me LOL so many times.  I want to use the word "snarky" for Emma but when I said that in YouTube someone got mad at me thinking that snarky is a bad thing. But I maintain that she is pretty snarky, especially for her time period! Looking forward to finishing what's available of this series. And then following the journey from here on out as more get published!

Room to Breathe by Kasie West: This was my first NetGalley read of this new era of NetGalley-ing. How fitting for it to be one of my favorite authors! This is her latest YA romance just released this past week on the 6th. In this story, we have our two characters getting locked in a bathroom together. They were really good friends, but something recently happened and they've had a falling out and haven't been talking... until the bathroom that is. Now they have so much time to work it out and solve all their issues. We get the NOW in the bathroom, and the THEN flashing back to previous times. It's great. I loved it as expected. 

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut: This our book club read for the month. And also counted as my last classic book of the year. (The Classic Six Challenge... to read six classics in the year!) I really enjoyed this crazy ride through time and space, trying to figure out what all the allegories were and what point Vonnegut was trying to make. But mostly just enjoying the story and all the weirdness fully. 

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry: I worked on this book for months, just reading snippets here and there on my Kindle. Finally I decided it needed to be finished and the last half went by in only a day or two of reading. So good! This one is about a two girls... one is very devout and religious, so much so that the church has actually called her out as a heretic and she is on the run. The other is the girl who finds her and shelters her. And there are lots of other side characters whose lives are touched by the first girl (Dolssa) who seems to have some sort of special powers. It's based on stuff that actually happened during this time period... the 1200s... in France. (And other parts of Europe of course.) So eye opening and heart breaking and fascinating.

Recursion by Blake Crouch: I got this book at our book club book exchange and decided to quickly read it at the list minute of the year and it ended up being a five star book. Very very un-put-downable, and page turny. It's about our guy who is trying to figure out what's going on with this weird phenomenon where people are killing themselves because of false memories that show up in their brain. Then it starts happening to him. And he ends up meeting the woman who actually causes this thing... and they are working together to try and make it stop. IT's a time travel book with a science explanation behind how that happens. IT's very brain trippy and so much fun and craziness!

Love Me Tomorrow by Emiko Jean: The other NetGalley book I read this month, by an author I've been curious about but haven't got to quite yet. I really enjoyed this one which on the surface also seemed like a time travel book, but I'm not sure that it really ended up as one. Still a bit confused about that part. But our girl is getting love letters from a guy in the future, so she is trying to figure out which boy in her life this could be. But really, the letters and the guys all help her to figure out herself and what she really needs to do for her own future. It's cute and I really enjoyed it.

And finally I read a beta copy for an online writing buddy! It was a mystery that was okay, but not something I'd normally read and find amazing. 

And that was my December reading! I'm excited to start a new year of reading and have so many plans to make it awesome. What are your reading plans for this new year?

(Here's the video version on YouTube of this wrap up!)

READING (and other) STATS for 2025!

  READING STATS for 2025

(We'll be doing a LIVE STREAM again on the Booktube channel. Tori and I will be discussing our stats and we hope you all join in and share yours along with us. It will be Sunday January 11 at 3:00 pm MST... click here to find us. )

TOTAL BOOKS: 66 (Goal was 60!)

Total pages: 20,580
Total Re-reads: 0

Average Length of book: 314

Authors
Men:  17
Women: 51
New-to-me authors: 35

For:
Review for an author:  4

AML Award: 0
Book Club: 10

Readathon/Events: 9 

Forced Phase: 2

Beta Reads: 1

Readalong/Buddy Reads: 1

Banned Books: 0

Fun: 40

Part of a series:19

From:
Print books from the library: 5
eBooks: 20

Print books: 35
Borrowed: 1
Audio: 13

Books I own: 36 

Categories:
YA: 21
Adult: 41
Middle Grade:  4


Genres from the YA Category:
Contemporary Realistic Fiction or Romance: 13
SF/Fantasy: 4

Historical Fiction: 1 

Graphic Novel: 1

Dystopian: 2

Genres from the MG Category:

Fantasy: 0

Graphic Novel: 3 

Contemporary: 1

Genres from the Adult Category:
Historical Fiction: 5
Science Fiction an Fantasy: 4

Dystopian: 0

Romance: 5

Literary Fiction: 5
Memoirs: 6

Other Nonfiction:  5

Classic: 6

Mystery: 3

Horror: 1

Star Ratings:
5 stars: 8

4.5: 5
4 stars:  31

3.5: 8
3 stars: 10
2 stars: 2

1 star: 0

Average Rating: 3.89

Observations:

• Happy to report that starting The Classic Six Challenge absolutely did help me to add more classics to my line up. I will be doing it for 2026 so if you want to join in on the Storygraph page you can click here!  Most of my classics would be considered science fiction. Next year I want to read more romance classics!
• Loving all the memoirs I've been consuming.
• I went from 7 audio books last year to 13 this year. That number really does continue to go up!
• I wanted to add manga to my line up this year... I only read one I would consider manga and it was a middle grade zombie story full of potty humor. Not what I had in mind! LOL!
• Not sure exactly where to put the Emma M. Lion books. I had them in romance at first but have moved them to historical fiction. What do you think?

KDRAMA STATS

I don't think I even watched a kdrama this year. What the heck is up with that? If I did I can't remember what it was. I do know I was in the middle of one that I never finished. I just put a lot more time into reading (and writing) this year. 

YOUTUBE STATS:

The Kpop Konverters

Total videos uploaded in 2025: 3

Subscribers at year end: 40,662

View count at year end: 19,790,718 

So I said was going to quit this channel, and I pretty much did. And yet it still grew by 400 subscribers. Twice as much as my book channel which I am pouring my heart and soul into. I also got 500,000 more views this year. All on old content. It's so not fair. I just want to SCREAM! AHHHHH!!

Suey's Book Banter 

Total videos uploaded in 2025: 121 long videos, 78 shorts

Total Views at year end: 337,904

Total Subscribers at year end: 1,597

So I grew by a couple hundred subscribers in the whole freaking year. Woot. Sigh. I want this channel to do well so bad and it's just... not. 

WRITING STATS:

Should I add writing stats to the year end number crunch?

A Breath of Starlight

Current word count: 92,784

Status: beta reader feedback has been received

Soon to be getting a complete overhaul using reader feedback with plans to query.

The Adventures of Samantha Sawyer

Current word count: 47,967

Status: About half done? Maybe 3/4 done?

Still in draft mode and getting feedback from alpha readers (writing group peeps.)

Always Best Buds

Current word count: 65,025

Status: being turned into a semi-graphic novel

Will hopefully be a guinea pig for self publishing.

Indian Summer (needs new title)

Current word count: 83,842

Status: on hold

Plans to completely revise it, changing up the genre and the intended audience.

Weeping Rayne

Current word count: 41,489

Status: on hold

About half drafted. Not sure what to do with this one. Is it worth reviving at some point?

Love the Boy Band (working title not real title!)

Current word count: 18,604

Status: on hold

About 2/3 drafted. Not sure I'll ever finish this one even though I'm love with the characters.

My Goals for 2026 in Four Categories

 For the video version of this goal list, click on over to my YouTube channel!

Reading

• read 60 books

• read 6 classics

• read banned books and books I own

• read IRL book club books

• finish a few select series (A Darker Shade of Magic and An Ember in the Ashes)

• participate in buddy reads and group reads and booktube events and challenges

Writing

• self pub Always Best Buds

• revise Starlight

• revise Indian Summer

• finish Samantha

• continue to go to conferences

• start writing on Substack and revive this book blog

• don’t quit!

BookTube

• host YA’UGUST

• host a group read/read along

• post author highlights

• post character highlights

• don’t quit!

• announce and host new Forced Phase project

Health/Fitness

• do strength training T/Th/Sa

• do cardio M/W/F

• continue to experiment with low carb recipes

• survive next blood test check

What goals do you have planned for the new year?

Book Review: Love Me Tomorrow by Emiko Jean

Book: Love Me Tomorrow by Emiko Jean

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐1/2

Release Date: February 3, 2026

This is a fun cute story about our girl Emma, who is struggling with the divorce of her parents and the decision of where to go to school. She is a fantastic violin player and wants to go to Berklee, but she also is feeling the need to stay close to home to help take care of her mom and grandpa. 

She helps her mom with their cleaning service and one day she gets a letter from a guy claiming to be her boyfriend...but he's writing from the future. So she is obsessed with figuring out which guy in her life could be the writer. 

Is it her best friend for forever, the boy next door, who she is suddenly seeing in a differently light? Or could it be the guy from high school who is an amazing cello player and is assigned to be her mentor at the classes she is going to? Or... maybe it's the guy who threw up on her shoes at a party? Or actually, it could it be the son of the very very rich family she cleans for!

So many choices!

In the course of all this, and the connections she has with these boys, she learns to be true to herself and do what she needs to do to move on in life and be successful.

I really enjoyed it! This is the style of writing and kind of book vibe that you all know I love! I haven't read any other books by this author, but have been wanting to and now I will for sure put those on my list. The reason I docked it a half a star and didn't give it my normal 4 stars for this type of book is because the ending was a bit of a let down for me. And left me feeling confused. I probably just didn't "get it" and if I could talk to someone about it, maybe I'd be all... OH YEAH! 

Anyway, I recommend this one to all lovers of YA contemporary romance, to people who love a little mix of Asian (Japanese in this case) culture mixed into their stories, and to fans of the author of course. It will be out early next month! (Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read this advanced copy!)