There is so much to unpack here; Evans's story themes are often haunting, always powerful, and wonderfully nuanced. She thought the...

The book introduces some fascinating detail and interesting themes, but the story frequently feels choppy and unfinished. In von...

Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...

Each life Nora tries on changes her in some way, whether by erasing her regrets about a path not taken, showing her that she's capable of...

Whitaker's story builds into a tale of heartbreak and desperate hopes for redemption that folds back upon itself with unexpected turns...

Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...

01 The Conquerer’s Saga series by Kiersten White White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover that to...

Waxman offers a nice dose of feminism, realistically fraught mother-daughter interactions, and laugh-out-loud funny moments. Jessica is a...

Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional rescue story to imagine the characters' turmoil and desperate coping mechanisms,...

The emotions and drives of the story feel real, but the tone is darkly playful. I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he...

01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...

Johansen offers peeks at her characters' pasts as well as the forces that shaped the Tearling, and she plays with time and reality to...

There's enough injustice and crooked dealing in this captivating book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title...

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

01 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...

Newlyweds Sam and Annie haven't known each other long. They realize their whole lives could be shattered as the lies they've been telling...

In case you missed it: Aimee Molloy's page-turner is a quick read with a major--if manipulative-feeling--plot twist. The characters in...

Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. The twists and turns here are excellent,...

I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...

The interconnectedness of the characters and the details of household life and power structures of the time period were wonderful and the...