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🎄Day 5 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera



Now this book, I had the pleasure of already knocking out on audio, but holy crap this book is AMAZING!! Definitely needs to be on everyone’s shelf! I can’t wait to reread the physical copy🥰





📋Blurb: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.

But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.

The truth is out there, if we just listen.



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🎄Day 4 - My Dreams Come True by Rocio Carranza



I’ve been wanting to expand in the horror genre and have been obsessed with wanting to read these stories after did her sneak peek videos! I loved getting to meet her & am super excited to have this on my shelf!😁🫶🏼





📋Blurb: Rocio Carranza’s first horror story collection is made up of fifteen dreadful tales that have plagued her dreams and haunted her waking moments for years.

Now she is sharing the madness with stories of oil tycoons consumed by greed and led deep into the sweltering desert (Quemar), a woman driving alone at night when her thoughts take a sinister turn (Forty Minutes), a seductive heiress with a dark secret and a lover who would do anything for her attention (Liliana), a man who begins having the strangest dreams of a former classmate (My Dreams Come True), and so much more.

These tales will make you question your sanity, hide under the covers, and lead your imagination to conjure up the most terrifying things as you lay in the dark...



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🎄Day 3 - All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson



We read banned books in this household & this is a banned book I’ve been wanting to get a hold of! A q***r memoir manifesto & one of the most challenged books in America.





📋Blurb: In a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black q***r boys.

Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young q***r men of color, All Boys Aren’t Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson’s emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. (Johnson used he/him pronouns at the time of publication.)



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🎄Day 2 - Big Chicas Don’t Cry by Annette Chavez Macias



YAYY!! I’ve had my eye on this book for a while!! I first saw it being offered as one of the free ebooks for Barnes & Noble members, but didn’t have an ereader at the time & didn’t have the foresight to get it anyway 😂 Books like this help me feel closer to my family that I usually feel disconnected with.





📋Blurb:Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year in this heartfelt family drama.

Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends―sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for their abuelita. But their idyllic childhood ends when Mari’s parents divorce, forcing her to move away. With Mari gone, the girls’ tight-knit bond unravels.

Fifteen years later, Mari’s got the big house and handsome husband, but her life is in shambles. Erica’s boyfriend just dumped her, and her new boss hates her. Selena can’t seem to find her place in the world―not Mexican enough for her family, not white enough for her colleagues. And Gracie is a Catholic school teacher with an all-consuming crush, but she can’t trust herself when it comes to romance.

As rocky as the cousins’ lives have become, nothing can prepare them for the heartbreaking loss of a loved one. When tragedy reunites them, will they remember their abuelita’s lessons about family and forgiveness―or are fifteen years of separation too much to overcome?



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⚫️eARC Review⚫️




Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho




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I received this eARC from Bindery Books on NetGalley; all thoughts are my own🫶🏼


Oh. My. Gosh. This book deserves all the hype bc holy crap!! The characters? 10/10 The world building? 10/10 The story!? 10 out of freaking 10!! A multiple pov experience with lots of depth & culture. Easy to follow along & it has you constantly wanting to know what’s gonna happen next! I could see myself in the different characters & felt a deep connection with them. This book is going to clutch your heart in its hands!! There are so many deep meanings & messages throughout the book; I just couldn’t get enough.





📋Blurb: In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love?

With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service.

Hammer was one of those children. Now, she’s a jaded soldier waging Ashvi’s perpetual war, thinking only of her own survival. But when she accidentally rescues Viridian, a child with rare and potentially devastating powers, her priorities shift. The girl appears to be the answer to the queen’s prayers—the perfect weapon to restore her kingdom’s ancient borders, even if the colonized cities they reconquer don’t want her version of liberation. Can Hammer protect Viridian from the system that broke her . . . before the girl’s power is unleashed on the world?

Cry, Voidbringer is a gripping saga of how far one will go for freedom and control—and how easily it can all be taken away.


Run to your local bookseller bc Cry, Voidbringer is out now!!✨


💭If you had to choose between loyalty & love, which would you choose?

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🎄Day 1 - You Better Watch Out by James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth



What a perfect way to start out The 12 Days of Christmas!! I’ve been wanting this book ever since I found out about it! Impractical Jokers was a family favorite, so I can’t wait to see what Murr has in store for us in his novel!





📋Blurb: Forty-eight hours until Christmas, Jessica Kane wakes up with blurred vision, ears ringing, and in excruciating pain. A gash in her head and blood running down her face, the last thing she remembers is going for a run and something or someone hitting her in the head.

It doesn’t take her long to realize she is trapped in an unknown, deserted town with five other strangers who share similar stories of being attacked and stranded there. Unsure why and how they got there, she knows one thing for certain, she has to find a way out.

That becomes nearly impossible when someone is meticulously orchestrating their deaths, one by one, and the only thing Jessica can do is watch the life leave their eyes.

The fenced-in town is the killer’s very own playground and there’s nowhere left to hide... she better watch out because she could be next.



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🎄Christmas Advent Calendars🎄



Christmas is coming up quick, so now is the perfect time to get your affairs in order for your special bookworms! Preorders end November 29th, so don’t wait & head to the link in our bios!!😁


🎁You can pick between The 12 Days Before Christmas or a Full 25 Day Advent! Each book is wrapped with elegance, just for you & your loved ones🫶🏼



💝Don’t forget to leave a name & a TBR list/general reading interest in the notes section during checkout!

& stay tuned for an advent sneak peek!! split The 12 Days of Christmas & we can’t wait to show everyone what these advents can contain! Happy Holidays✨

📖Chapter 29📖



It’s been a long road, but I am so thankful to every single one of you who have joined along on the journey. Growing in this community has been a dream come true, & I can’t wait to see where 2026 takes us🫶🏼 Thank you to everyone who’s joined, & to those who’ve stuck around. My love for y’all is immeasurable. I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday! 🥰

The Reading Rabbit Bookshop helped inspire a book! Super excited to read this one!!

Coming to Dallas & Fort Worth Nov. 28 - Dec. 28