The Buzziest Books of July | 2025

25 Jul 2025

The Buzziest Books of July | 2025

July hums with energy; sun-drenched days, unexpected adventures, and the kind of heat that makes everything feel just a little more alive. ☀️ This month’s reads match that spirit: bold, thrilling, and impossible to put down. Whether you’re chasing waves or finding shade with a good story, these July picks deliver page-turning escapes and unforgettable characters.


Broken Promises (DCI Gerald Croft Crime Thrillers Book 4)

Sarah Stuart

Release Date: May 23, 2025

DCI Croft is back, investigating a hotbed of broken promises – a political assassination, marital infidelity, and a drowning that leads to a massive inheritance. The stakes are raised when a teenage schoolgirl is murdered. The cases are rocking his marriage, and his duty endangers his life. Can he catch the killers, or is this the end of his career?

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Overmorrow (The Overmorrow Rites Book 1)

by Lancelot Schaubert

Release Date: June 24, 2025

A magical monster named Oblivion kidnaps Ellie’s elder brother. She believes Oblivion wants to use her brother as a backup memory, a backup hard drive. She encounters Overmorrow – a magical rain that wakes up normal New Yorkers to the wonder and horror. But Oblivion makes them forget: if we forget our monsters, they’re free to eat us whole.

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Indifferent Universe

by Joseph Blackhurst

Release Date: June 24, 2025

An all-knowing A.I. was asked: How did our universe begin, how will it end, and what is the meaning of life? The answer follows the life story of Aldo Go—an artist living in a hilarious alternate universe from our own. The reader watches as Aldo is transformed by the ugliness of the modern-day zeitgeist.

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DeWulf’s Twins

by Ulysses Namon

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Identical twin sisters Logan and Alex DeWulf were looking for an escape from the tedium of their modeling career when they got more than they bargained for when they were abducted and taken into space. Being taken on such an adventure is only the beginning. Now that they have been taken away from the life they know, how do they get back?

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The Otero County Disclosure

by Huey Hawke

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Everything you know, everything you understand, is about to change. What answers to big, universal questions does wheelchair-bound Alexa have, and where do her theories come from? How could anyone know her ideas if she’s never been able to talk… until now? Super-bright seventeen-year-old Alexa doesn’t realise that she has someone’s attention.

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Hiding in the Shadows (The Shadows Series Book 2)

by Amy Novoa

Release Date: July 1, 2025

Kirbey thought she left the shadows behind — but she can’t let it go. As she uncovers a scheme manipulating modern markets and hiding behind crypto and digital lies, she realizes some secrets are too big to bury. The truth could cost her everything — or finally set her free.

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Truly Yours (Agent Alma Book 1)

by Miranda Macias

Release Date: July 6, 2025

A gritty FBI agent, an adult performer out to protect her empire, an aggrieved man out to destroy this empire… In Truly Yours, the debut novel by mystery/thriller author Miranda Macias, these characters clash in a narrative premised on one of society’s most lucrative—and controversial—adult sites. Betrayal, violence, heat—whatever it takes to win.

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Klandor Rising: The Complete Series

by B. Ward Powers and Marti Ward

Release Date: June 1, 2025

Born on the Moon, Irene had to fight discrimination on Earth. Then she finds herself in an awkward position on Alpha Centauri 4 when a non-scientist pilot, whom she excluded from the survey team’s reporting, fails to report first contact with an intelligent lemur-like species but has instead been teaching them English and learning from them. (Boxset includes 4 Novellas.)

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Hijinks Investigations

by Jeffrey L. Kohanek

Release Date: May 20, 2025

A dragon appears from nowhere and destroys a Vegas landmark. Agent Cara Cruz, determined to identify who was behind the supernatural event, seeks to question the survivors, but the two young men find themselves targets of an assassin. Monsters and deadly spells plague the trio at every turn. Can they solve this mystery before they end up dead?

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Moonlit Bloodlines (Bloodbound Series Book 1)

by L. H. McGinnity

Release Date: July 20, 2025

Some secrets howl under moonlight. When Lily’s daughter begins shifting into something inhuman, she and her husband are forced to face a hidden legacy of magic, mystery, and blood. A haunting urban fantasy perfect for fans of supernatural suspense, emotional slow-burns—and a love that might not survive what’s coming.

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Maelstrom Within (The Metis Files Book 4)

by Brian S. Leon

Release Date: July 28, 2025

Stuck in a downward spiral of self-pity and guilt over the tragic aftermath of battling a fallen angel, Diomedes cannot bring himself to face the world, let alone the woman he failed to protect. Despite Diomedes’s efforts to forget, a treacherous figure offers a dangerous solution. Just how far will Diomedes go to assuage a guilty conscience?

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Blackdamp (Dark Maelstrom Series)

by T J McLaughlin

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Police officer Allana Vasquez and mysterious stranger Mason Ranger investigate a string of deaths plaguing the Eerie town of Silver Creek. Are they the work of a serial killer or something much more disturbing? With sinister government agents closing in on them, the clues will lead her to a chilling revelation. One that may curse the town forever.

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