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         Hi, and welcome back to my blog!      Wow! August is almost over and September is just around the corner. No, literally, it's tomorrow. I can't believe we're almost three-quarters of the way through the year already! It seemed like yesterday I was with my family counting down the seconds until 2020. Little did I know that a deadly virus would take over the world and leave me without seeing my friends for five months. And WORSE, that the library would close!     But that was in the past (well...ish). My library has opened again...thankfully. And school is starting up really soon and I'll be able to see my friends then. Right now, though, I am going to discuss the 5 books I will be getting to this upcoming September.     August Recap     While discussing what I'm going to read this September, I will also be telling you how my August reading month went. Personally, I didn't feel like it went that good. And judgi...

My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.75) My Thoughts:      I had such a fun time reading this book! After reading the synopsis, I was hooked. It sounded like such a cool concept and the book did not disappoint. Emmy and Oliver were childhood friends and they had a chance of becoming something more . But Oliver was kidnapped by his dad and now, ten years later, Oliver came back and it's a wild mess of pesty reporters and family drama. Old romances rekindled but Oliver wasn't the same seven-year-old boy who left anymore.      Emmy was one of the main characters (hence the name of the book) and while she wasn't the one kidnapped, her whole life was affected by it. She grew up watching reporters and police come and go, but none was able to find Oliver. She spent ten years hoping—like everybody else—that he would come back home. But the tragedy left her parents shocked and extremely overprotective. Emmy knew her parents wouldn't consent to her surfing, but she loved it. She love...