February 2021 Anticipated Releases

Hello there, how are you doing? Well, I’m here to give you even more books coming out in February to stack onto your TBR. I know there are a lot of these posts floating around, but I needed to throw my own into the mix. There are quite a few books coming out next month that I’ve been excitedly awaiting since last year, these are just a tiny portion of them! *sweats*

We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida

Genre: Historical Fiction/YA

Release Date: February 9th, 2021

An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco 

Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girls’ school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths.

Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romance (it’s been marketed as romance, but it’s not exactly romance from what I’ve read so far- ARC review coming soon!)

Release Date: February 23rd, 2021

A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife.

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.

This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.

In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.

Review for this one coming soon. My initial thoughts in one word: healing. I’m loving it!

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins 

Genre: Historical Romance

Release Date: February 9th, 2021

The second novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’ compelling new Women Who Dare series follows a female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War.

A reporter has come to Wyoming to do a story on doctors for his Black newspaper back east. He thinks Colton Lee will be an interesting subject…until he meets Colton’s sister, Spring. She runs her own ranch, wears denim pants instead of dresses, and is the most fascinating woman he’s ever met.

But Spring, who has overcome a raucous and scandalous past, isn’t looking for, nor does she want, love. As their attraction grows, will their differences come between them or unite them for an everlasting love?

Beverly Jenkins is my absolute favorite historical romance writer. Her books mesh history and romance together so well, I would highly highly recommend reading her books if you are new to the genre or haven’t read any of her books. Forbidden and Rebel are a great place to start. I already have this new book pre-ordered (and I NEVER pre-order anything).

Gray Hair Don’t Care by Karen Booth

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: February 8th, 2021

Everything went wrong. And then she went gray.

At 47, newly divorced makeup artist Lela Bennett is dreading her next steps. Dating. Meeting people. Not letting herself go. But then she runs into Donovan James and tries something different—sleeping with her sexy crush from college. Unfortunately, in a stupor Lela confesses she was in love with Donovan all those years ago. He responds by leaving while she sleeps. The next morning, her gray hairs are practically taunting her. She knows she has to get it together. Forget men. Embrace her age. Own her gray.

Donovan James is a marketing genius, but his ex-wives will tell you—nothing freaks him out like feelings. Three years after his one-night stand with Lela, he’s focused on his daughter’s lifestyle company, but unprepared to meet the face of the beauty division. It’s Lela. With stunning silver locks and new confidence, she’s no longer swayed by his charms. When business starts booming, the universe seems intent on throwing them together time and again. And suddenly, two people convinced that romance was behind them are wondering if love could be what’s next.

The guy on the cover looks like Keanu Reeves. That’s enough, I’m sold. I’m also excited to see a romance featuring mature main characters over the age of 40. I AM READY.

There are so many more books coming out in February, like A Dark and Hollow Star, that I’m keeping my eye on. Let me know what books you are looking out for next month. My notepad is ready, my pen is poised!