Adi in the Life

Adi in the Life Just a girl who loves yapping about books and anything else she’s obsessed with! I’m a firm believer in no genre left behind - romances, thrillers, sci-fi..
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you name it, I’ll read it! This is my only‼️page!!!

05/28/2026

5 debut novels from 2025 that were so good they deserve a spot on your 2026 TBR. 📚✨ These authors immediately earned a spot on my autobuy list for a reason!!

Drop your favorite debut novel from this year below so we can put more people onto some incredible new authors. 🥰

Books mentioned:
🤍 The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
🤍 The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
🤍 Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
🤍 The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison
🤍 The Names by Florence Knapp

05/27/2026

Welcome to Week 21 of Book Series Roulette 📚 where I work through the 30+ book series I’m currently in the middle of, spanning fantasy, mystery, and interconnected romance series!

This week was maybe my most successful yet?!? We retired another ball and can officially say we’re finished with the Windy City series by Liz Tomforde. 🎉 AND I actually liked the last two books!! I gave Play Along 3.5 ⭐️s and Rewind it Back 4⭐️s. Butttt I’m thrilled to get another interconnected romance series off the list!! 🥰

Now this week’s pick…. What can I say, my TBR game, my rules.. 😏 And I am so happy to FINALLY be reading one of my most anticipated new releases of 2026!!! I couldn’t do another interconnected romance series two weeks in a row and I’ve been meaning to read The Midnight Train ASAP. I loved The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and I can’t wait to see how this one stands! Have you read these two??

See you next week for my review and the next pull! 🎱

05/26/2026

The reveal for next month’s Everything Shelf Book Club pick is ~1 min in!!! 📚✨ Are you joining us?

Each month I host a virtual book club over on where we read together, chat in real time, and collectively spiral over our thoughts - and last month’s pick was Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser! 🏰

Have you already read this one? I’d love to know your thoughts and if you agree or disagree with my rating/review? 👀

The link to join the Everything Shelf Book Club is in my bio! ✨

05/24/2026

15 new book releases coming out in June 📚☀️ that I’m immediately adding to my TBR. Any books I missed?! 👀

And yes there will be another long form version of this on my Youtube - hopefully up tomorrow - with alll 30+ new releases! 🥰

Out June 2:
🤍 138 Main by Gavin Bell (thriller)
🤍 Down with the Shipmans by Meg Mitchell Moore (contemporary fiction)
🤍 The Children by Melissa Albert (fantasy/horror)

Out June 9:
🤍 The Missed Connection by Tia Williams (romance)
🤍 Obstetrix by Namoi Kritzer (horror/sci-fi)
🤍 This Immortal Heart by Jennifer Saint (greek mythology/fantasy)

Out June 16:
🤍 The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston (romance/magical realism)
🤍 Tropesick by Lauren Okie (romance)
🤍 Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood (romance/magical realism)
🤍 Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Paré-Poupart, Pablo Strauss (memoir)

Out June 23:
🤍 It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell (thriller)
🤍 Chase Me If You Can by Heather Frances (romance)
🤍 When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams (historical fiction/romance)

Out June 30:
🤍 A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy, Six of Crows series)
🤍Games: A Love Story by Anna Maria Volkova (romance)

05/23/2026

10 book series finished so far this year so you know I gotta rank them.. 📚😏

This is all in good fun - but I really do hiiighly recommend every series in the top 5 if you’re looking to start a new one! 🥰

Do you disagree with any of my rankings?!

Series mentioned:
🤍 The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin
🤍 Castle Knoll Files by Kristen Perrin (How to Solve Your Own M/rder)
🤍 Conform by Ariel Sullivan
🤍 Ernest Cunningham by Benjamin Stevenson (Everyone in My Family Has K/lled Someone)
🤍 The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
🤍 Letters of Enchantment by Rebecca Ross (Divine Rivals, Wild Reverence)
🤍 Perfect by Jeneva Rose (Perfect Marriage, Perfect Divorce)
🤍 Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
🤍 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
🤍 Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch

05/21/2026

5 romance tropes I usually hate and 5 book recs that actually pulled them off.. 📚👀

With the right plot & chemistry, even I can appreciate an insta-love or friends-to-lovers romance book! 🥰 What’s your least favorite romance trope?!

Books mentioned:
🤍 The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O’Clover
🤍 Funny Story by Emily Henry
🤍 Left of Forever by Tarah DeWitt
🤍 Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
🤍 Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

05/20/2026

Welcome to Week 20 of Book Series Roulette 📚 where I work through the 30+ book series I’m currently in the middle of, spanning fantasy, mystery, and interconnected romance series!

We’ve successfully retired anotherrrr ball!!! The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez was OK. I gave it 3 ⭐️s but unfortunately didn’t like it as much as Say You’ll Remember Me. Butttt I’m thrilled to get another interconnected romance series off the list!! 🥰

Now this week’s pick…. What can I say… the roulette machine must be pulling my arm because I said I didn’t care but I didn’t REALLY want to return to the Windy City series by Liz Tomforde. 😅 We’ll see how Play Along goes… hoping I like it better than Caught Up! If you’ve read this series, let me know which one was your favorite!

See you next week for my review and the next pull! 🎱

📚✨ Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An incredible debut that’ll completely change the way you look at the stor...
05/19/2026

📚✨ Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An incredible debut that’ll completely change the way you look at the story of Cinderella
✍️ Fairytale kingdom, 18th century vibes, morally gray women, a pet sidekick, & a little romance
⚠️ TW: Mention of SA, r/pe

📖 This Cinderella retelling told through the eyes of the “evil” stepmother follows Ethel, a widow desperately trying to keep her family afloat while raising her two daughters and her stepdaughter, Elin. With their lives slowly crumbling and the pressure to maintain appearances grows, the announcement of a royal ball 🏰 becomes Ethel’s last chance to secure a better future for her children. What will Ethel do to make sure everything goes to plan and their household secrets stay a secret? Pretty much anything. 👀

💬 Review: What an incredible debut!!! As someone who loooves a fairytale retelling, I really, really enjoyed this one! It was not exactly what I expected going in, but I loved the parallels to the original Cinderella story and the recontextualization of one of the most iconic “villains.” 😈

Ethel was truly the star of this story. Independent, complex (a little morally gray if you will), and impossible not to root for. Her narration was by far my favorite part of the book, especially on audio!!! 10/10 recommend doing the audio to really get the full experience. 🎧 Bessie Carter (from the show adaptation of Bridgerton!) did an incredible job bringing the character to life.

I obviously loved the little sprinkle of romance, 💘 and the darker fairytale setting was immersive and also felt real?! The realities of womanhood and survival during that time period were front & center and made the story that much more powerful.

I really enjoyed this one and while it might not be for everyone, I especially recommend it to mothers (save it for Mother’s Day 2027!!!). At its core, this story really feels like a love letter to motherhood and the sacrifices mothers make for their children. I can only imagine these themes would hit even harder for readers with children of their own. 💗

05/18/2026

New to the The Midday Mug rotation - an espresso martini! 🍸 thanks for sticking through one entire year of weekly midday mugs!!!! Drop your current read below and let me know if you make this recipe at home!! 📚

☕ Espresso Martini (Adi’s version):
Brew a double shot of espresso over 1 tsp of vanilla syrup!

🧊In a shaker, combine 2 oz of vodka, 1 oz espresso, 1/2 oz of coffee liquor and shake vigorously with a bunch of ice!

Don’t forget to top with the 3 espresso beans!

Books mentioned in today’s reading wrap up:
LAST -In the Weeds by BK Borison // Into The Blue by Emma Brodie
NOW - Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
NEXT - The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez // The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

05/17/2026

5 very specific book recs in honor of the first 5 months of the year… and yes they should all go on your TBR. 👀📚

Tag me if you do this too - I’d love to see your picks for these categories!!!! Or just drop them in the comments below! 😇

Categories:
✨ The most unputdownable book
✨ The book that made me cry the most
✨ The book that was the biggest surprise
✨ The book I’d recommend the most
✨ The book most likely to be my no. 1 read of the year

Books mentioned:
🤍 Beneath by Ariel Sullivan
🤍 Into the Blue by Emma Brodie
🤍 Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
🤍 Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
🤍 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden


05/16/2026

Soooo the hype is real with this book!!! This romance completely sucked me in. The tension!!! The yearning!!! The dramaaaa!! 📚✨

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie is such a unique story that will be living in my head rent free for a loooong time. I felt like I was literally AJ in this whirlwind of a romance.

If you’ve already read it, what are your thoughts?! Did you love it as much as I did???

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