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

01 The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda Arden Maynor was a small child when she sleepwalked into a storm and was washed away. Three...

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

01 The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone...

I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery, the first...

Nick is an appealing character, I adored the detailed setting, and the mystery's resolution makes sense without seeming too easy. I'm...

Lu offers complex motivations, clashes between idealism and realism, editorialization about class and race, and futuristic advancements...

01 The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren Christina Lauren is the pen name for Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who write as a team....

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine, a little romance, and lots of...

01 Skyhunter by Marie Lu My copy of the book unfortunately does not have this gorgeously mesmerizing cover. But I'm still excited to read...

01 Fable by Adrienne Young There's a freckle-faced young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne...

I love an intersection of historical fiction and mystery, two genres I love. Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements.

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, and fears feel real and true.

The beautifully complementary, mismatched partnership between Devlin and Falco was my favorite aspect of the book.

I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. Pippa and Ravi are great characters--I'll definitely read the others in the series

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.

The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.