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- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds
- Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at water (I'm sorry, but I can't stop the puns), making the reader wonder about the nature of multiple mysterious
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in
- Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition
fraternity members and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery
- Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn
Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/21/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading What Happened to the Bennetts, the upcoming mystery from the prolific 01 What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline In Lisa Scottoline's upcoming mystery What Happened Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition
it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy
- Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries
- Review of The Project by Courtney Summers
of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the seemingly harmless, benevolent group The I'm intrigued by stories about secrets and mysterious communities or private groups, so the focus on
- Review of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
this smart, funny young adult book complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in
- Six Bossy Favorite Literary Fiction Reads from the Past Year
What We Can Know. 02 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time
- Review of Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook
Cook's connection to deceased authors feels mystical and mysterious--it's all deeper and shapes her more
- Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch
Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo #timetravel, #mysterysuspense, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview
- Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series. #mysterysuspense, #series, #historicalfiction, #london, #fourstarbookreview
- Six Great Stories about Robots
Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands , a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery
- One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, the author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition
But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that
- Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
setup of key characters leaving off without finishing their illuminating thoughts in order to keep the mystery
- Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
My smart friend Kathy mentioned these books on social media and was correct that these are fantastic. Rogue Protocol tracks Murderbot's travels to look into the goings-on of the questionable and mysterious
- Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year
She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition
Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided
- Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious
- Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition
themes about society's reliance on attention and outside stimulation; a gritty modern-day, small-town mystery
- Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition
introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/3/25 Edition
Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery
- Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious interesting read. 05 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo The Night Tiger is a wonderful historical fiction mystery I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You. 06 Uprooted airborne dragon battles within the books, and yes, the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time
- Review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Family Upstairs, Jewell provides sinister goings-on, incredible cruelties, desperate self-preservation, mysteries #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #threestarbookreview















































