Sorry I’m so late with my anticipated reads for July - June has been such a busy month! But it’s not too late - there’s still time to make your library holds and pre-orders for July! Here are my anticipated books of July, in order by US publication date:
Last year I only had one five star book all year, so I'm pretty happy that I have already discovered by third 5 star book of the year - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. I don’t know if I can find the words to describe how much I loved this book! It’s set in the 1950s and 60s in a world just like our own - except that some women have been spontaneously transforming into dragons. No one talks about it and the government tries to cover it up, but our protagonist, Alex, first saw it happen when she was just 4 years old. The book is told as the older Alex reminiscing about her childhood and how it was affected by the dragonning, interspersed with bits of news articles and scholarly writing about it.
