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2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To

2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To

February 4, 2025 Posted by angelreads Top Ten Tuesday 5 Comments

This week I’m sharing some of the 2024 releases I was excited to read but didn’t manage to pick up. To Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and Bookish and is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl.

There were a lot of releases in 2024 and while I managed to read quite a few of them, I still missed a good chunk. So today I’m sharing the ones that I was excited for but just didn’t get to them. But I do hope that I can this year. From some new-to-me authors and some old favs, there is a range of books and authors on this list.

I’m hoping I can get to a few of these in the next few months, especially those that have more books coming out soon. So let’s get into it, here are some of the 2024 releases I was excited to read but didn’t manage to pick up. As always these are in no real order.

Bride by Ali Hazelwood. | Make the Season Bright. by Ashley Herring Blake. | Pucking Sweet (Jacksonville Rays #3). by Emily Rath. | Business Casual (Lovelight, #4) by B.K. Borison.

Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto. | Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1) by Navessa Allen. Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1) by Callie Hart. | Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1) by Kaylie Smith.

Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) by Hannah Grace. | Only and Forever (Bergman Brothers, #7) by Chloe Liese.

And there we go, those are just some of the 2024 releases I was excited to read but didn’t manage to pick up. Have you read any of them? What did you think? Are you planning on reading any of the books that made it to my list? What books are on yours? So, let’s chat!

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  • Lydia
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    February 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM

    Bride has a cool cover.

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  • Cholla
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    February 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM

    Lots of good looking books here! Hope you can get to them all soon.

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

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  • Rebecca
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    February 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM

    Lights Out looks amazing! 🤯 I’ve put myself on the waiting list at the public library.

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  • Dara
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    February 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM

    Not Another Love Song is on my list too.

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  • Marwah @ The Booklore Fairy
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    February 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM

    I’ve heard great things about Quicksilver! I hope you’ll be able to read all these books this year 🙂

    If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairy.blogspot.com/2025/02/top-ten-tuesday-high-priority-reads-for-2025.html

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March was a better reading month than February for March was a better reading month than February for me, and while I’m still stuck in my heated rivalry fanfiction era I managed to scrap out of it a little this month. 

I reread four books from the sweet omegaverse series and honestly had the best time. I also read two of my most anticipated reads of the year and had a blast. Sadly I did also have my first dnf of the year.

What did you read this March? Any standouts? What are you looking forward to reading in April? Let’s chat! 
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I have a love-hate relationship with this series. I have a love-hate relationship with this series. But I ended up really enjoying this one. It’s best friends to fake dating to-lovers. It’s always been you, bad-boy/good-girl, and I loved that. While Save Your Breath has quite a few tropes, it really leads itself to it, and it works. 

Aleks and Mia have known each other for years now. Since they were teenagers, that angst has been building up this whole time. And you can tell right from the get-go, it’s fantastic. I even wanted more of it, because I love pain. When Aleks went to live with Mia’s family as a teenager, sparks flew, but for many reasons, they both put their feelings aside. And well, now they are not only going to be fake-dating, but they might as well be engaged, too. 

I really enjoyed seeing how both Aleks and Mia both tried to hide how they were feeling throughout the whole ‘fake-dating’ situation, but anyone could see it. They know each other as no one else does. Aleks has a lot going on, and while I do think this was brushed over a little too much, Mia is his centre. Mia is a massive music star and is a female in the industry, so yeah, people don’t respect her. Obvsiouly because why couldn’t a female star be badass and write about the things that she has gone through? Aleks and Mia get each other, and that is very clear from the start; they are both just trying to squash everything. We get to see them slowly start to show how they feel, and well, one night it all explodes. 

Overall, I enjoyed this one a lot; it’s not my favourite of the series, but I had a great time reading it. I liked Aleks and Mia a lot as characeters and while I think the mental health aspect could have been explored a whole lot more, I can see why it wasn’t. The romance was slow and spicy, the angst was great, and the payoff for these two was what they needed. 

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🏒Sports/Hockey Romance
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Family Deaths 
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Well February wasn’t the best reading month. I onl Well February wasn’t the best reading month. I only ended up reading 3 books in. 3 pretty fun books but one of my slowest readings months in a while. 

And I’m going to be honest here it’s because I’ve been constantly reading Heated Rivalry fanfics. 🤷‍♀️ I’m having the best time though. 

How was your reading in February? Any 5  star reads? 

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January was a really solid reading month. I read s January was a really solid reading month. I read some books that had been on my tbr for some time, reread a few things that peaked my interest. I also started a few new series. And just had a good time!

I just had a really good start to the year. While February is a little slow so far I’m looking forward to what I can pick up.

What did you read in January? Any 5-star reads? Let’s chat! 

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