In the second installment in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Alex is as brave, scowling, and unapologetic as ever--and Darlington will...

ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide, she becomes an unlikely...

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her own heritage, flexes her newfound...

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...

Six Favorite Fantasy Reads I love spending Fridays raving about books I've loved! I've also recently posted about favorite reads from...

VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo a quest to secure their...

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! A while back I posted about Six Four-Star...

The more somber tone of book three and the focus on logistics feel appropriate as the recent graduates of the Scholomance desperately...

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of music, and illustrates how love can...

ICYMI: Uprooted is a thoughtful, satisfying, grown-up fairy tale with gloriously imagined details. I ate it up and gave it four Bossy...

ICYMI: This five-star retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin offers kickass female protagonists, haunting twists and turns, wonderful,...

The early story captured my attention with ballet, an orphan's struggles, and Depression-era Chicago, but once Nocturne shifted into dark...

The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Remy and Sena to a storm-wracked...

If you can focus on the good qualities of the prominent (and giant...and talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find...

Book two of the series continues to be playful, mischievous, wonderfully detailed about Victorian life, and full of supernatural...

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Science Fiction Reads I realize I just said this last week regarding mysteries, but really, doesn't the cold...

Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...

A.G. Riddle's time-travel story centers around reconciling the inability to change what has already occurred, but the necessity of doing...

The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...

I wished for more of a focus on the character of Tess and her personal story--and less on political strategies, power plays, and the many...