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excited to read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery

Daisy Jones & the Six  explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

the only home she's ever known in order to save her genetic brother, she realizes that the revenge fantasies

For example, his fantasies upon seeing her wearing red lipstick take an instantaneous, (for me) alarmingly

Blanchet's young adult fantasy Neath Trilogy--and her debut novel--to be published next week. Blanchet In Blanchet's young adult fantasy debut, Herrick's End, Ollie's only friend has disappeared,

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books What made them your favorites?

the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, The Likeness (my absolute favorite

thousands of titles; my double- and sometimes triple-stacked bookshelves; the fact that many of my favorite

She is also the author of The Khorasan Archives fantasy series (The Bloodprint is the first book in the

The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The

But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by

My favorite dragon books are the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik; His Majesty's Dragon is the first. #dragons, #fantasyscifi, #threestarbookreview

Some of my absolute favorite aspects of the book were the various characters the Martels encounter, characters

Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

Elizabeth Strout is one of my favorite authors, and this recently published book is her newest in the

heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which I thought was a fantastic Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well What are some of your favorite cold-setting books?

groups radicalizing new members, and kids sending each other literal death threats in defense of their favorite

be involved. 03 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell My friend James mentioned this one as a favorite

In despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place

This book made my Greedy Reading List of My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

These were my favorite elements.

This Woven Kingdom is the first in Tahereh Mafi's fantasy trilogy of the same name.

newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4; I'm reading a young adult fantasy

Morris offers some revenge-fantasy satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of

established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one, along with other old favorites

Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books

The two disparate stories intersect in an unlikely way in 1890s Arizona Territory, and fantastical elements Jess's voice was fantastic. What are some of your favorite historical fiction books?

First: this amazing cover. Second: Starter Villain is playful, darkly funny, big-hearted, and wonderfully weird. I loved it and I can't wait to read more John Scalzi books. “I can’t tell if you’re joking with me,” I said. “I’m mostly joking with you.” “That ‘mostly’ is doing a lot of work in that sentence.” The cover of Starter Villain shows a grumpy-seeming cat's head on a human torso clad in a suit with "Meet the new boss" across the top, so obviously this was going to be a Bossy read. And I love that this is my first review of 2024. Bring on the weird and wonderful books! In Starter Villain, Charlie's a substitute teacher, divorced, struggling emotionally, socially, and financially, and living in a house his half-siblings want to sell. Then he inherits his long-lost uncle's parking-garage empire. Which turns out to be a cover for a vast supervillain business--complete with an evil lair in an island volcano. I held up my hand, and then looked around the room, at the room full of probably-assassins. "Do any of you know my uncle personally?’" No one responded. "How many of you are here to make sure that he’s dead?" All the hands went up. Could this be an unexpected new start that will point Charlie in a productive new direction? The recently deceased Uncle Jake, an old-fashioned villain, made a lot of enemies--and they're ruthless, well-funded, and out for revenge. Charlie will have to quickly get up to speed and figure out friend from foe in order to stay alive. This villain business is more complicated than it seems. There's crossing, double-crossing, a wonderfully savvy and knowledgeable second-in-command, nefarious plots, sentient cats, and more. This was playful, smart, funny, and weird. I loved it, and I can't wait to read more John Scalzi books. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? The premise of this novel calls to my mind another book, which I loved, Natalie Zina Walschots's Hench, as well as loose associations with How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying).

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

Jimenez inevitably offers great banter and fantastic premises, and she incorporates real-world issues

written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed here are some of my favorites and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Garlic and Sapphires may be my favorite Reichl includes her own photographs and some of her favorite recipes, which together make the book feel

That was their favorite tool.

Happy Place, scheduled for release April 25; and I'm reading the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult fantasy Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood home and town in favor

You can find more books like this on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young , Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama; and I'm listening to the first in the prolific Marie Lu's young adult fantasy

What are your favorite time-travel books?  

Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

recommendations so that I could beef up my Dragons shelf on Goodreads and put together a post of my favorite

Although the first section felt manic and uneven as Green hurtled through time, the second point of view offered lovely perspective on human connections and duty to each other. Green is just an ordinary young guy, dancing, drinking, living it up. But something's off: he's started hurtling through time, and he can't stop, which means he can't hold onto relationships or grasp his present before he's off again. Zada is a scientist from the future who becomes aware of Green's problem and seeks to help him. But doing so may require her to jump into Green's timeline, and she knows that there's no assurance she'll ever get back to her own original time again. A meeting of the two characters could alter their lives forever. I had significant difficulty getting through the initial portion of this book. Green's party-guy, train-of-thought-spewing, reactive personality made it tough for me to follow what he was trying to express and tough to care about him as a character. The early scenes felt zany and disjointed, even without the time travel element. I was very close to abandoning the book. But I'm glad I stuck with it. The calm and thoughtful perspective offered by Zada's later point of view made for a far more cohesive story--and that's saying something, as the novel is, after all, a time-jumping frenzy in a futuristic setting. It's unclear whether the book's having been written by two authors accounts for some of this drastic split. Alternative perspectives later in the book (family, friends, and Zada) served up a surprisingly vulnerable, sympathetic Green that was not evident to me in the early portion of the book. The story centers around Green's activities, but because of the shift in point of view away from his own, he largely drops out of the plot and the story takes off without him. The off-screen, forward-thinking future version of Green didn't jibe with the early image of him for me, but his unexpected, spot-on predictions and savvy intuition allow for the resources for the most interesting portion of the story to occur in the future, as a crack team attempts to understand how to send Zada back to meet him in time. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication edition of this title courtesy of NetGalley and John Hunt Publishing: Cosmic Egg Books.

Kuang explores colonialism, resistance, knowledge, and power in this hefty (454-page) fantasy, published this year and on many "top fantasy" lists. 02 Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Who's in for some inciting of

time while her wife Odette soars high above on the trapeze of their magical circus, the Circus of the Fantasticals with a ringmaster ruling his crew with dark powers--and someone who's after what the Circus of the Fantasticals

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased

The found-family element of My Heart Went Walking was heartwarming and a favorite aspect of mine.

She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search

Here are some of my favorite books on this theme. I think you should know that going in, because it’s not the only fantastic thing, but it is one of the fantastic things in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays.

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal

book recommendations by theme that kick off the chapters (courtesy of Alfie and the bookstore) are a fantastic

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

The rest of the gang is fantastically spunky, tough, kind, and loyal--with nonbinary representation and