taken with the premise of conflicts and mystery in a post-colonial West African city, but I didn't feel very

how her single mother founded a school, through to Roy as an award-winning author, to her mother's 2022 For my review of the first book in this series, The Thursday Murder Club , please check click this link

Trying to do the right thing seems to not work out very well for Denny.

Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? It's intriguing, and I was definitely hooked for the second book in the series. The second book in this series is Hell Bent. I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

And in 2020, Cook opened a bookstore called Harriett's Bookshop in Philadelphia, which was one of Harriet's Anna Quindlen is also the author of After Annie , One True Thing , Every Last Thing , Object Lessons

I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... shifts, and many chapters are short, but I felt connected to each of the characters and thought the varied

Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

NASA contact, Molly, who sends her audio messages (and occasionally forwards along episodes of Romy's favorite

(One minor example: When Gette is a grown woman, she conveniently recalls a moment when she was a very

Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series What are some of your favorite fairy tale-type books or retellings?

reading a second Carley Fortune novel might be a nice way to close out the summer, so I went back to her 2024 More Romantic Reads Carley Fortune is also the author of Meet Me at the Lake , Every Summer After , and

It's a young adult book, with lots of love and attraction but very little steaminess (none explicit),

makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns, What are some of your favorite historical fiction books you've read lately?

But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. The Murderbot series (check out my reviews of three first three books here; the others are searchable on this blog) is another, very different book that also does this wonderfully.

a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and she's starting to wonder if she's ventured very final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery series

As she's putting her former favorite romance books in a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

about small-town Ireland; I'm reading Changeless, the second in Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series , Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love) The series takes place in 1870s London, and as in book one, the immensely appealing, practical, fearless ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Like Changeless, above, As Good As Dead is a sequel in a series I've loved (book one is A Good Girl's

I'm working on a new list for this summer, but meanwhile I hope you'll enjoy some of these Bossy favorites Carley Fortune is also the author of Every Summer After. 02 Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld's

Do you have any favorite reads set in Australia? 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

Henry's Beach Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List

and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even stronger as the series This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all Novik is also the author of the Scholomance series: A Deadly Education , The Last Graduate , and The I feel compelled to also mention that Novik has a series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series

is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

unintentionally negated his own vehement denial of climate change (views he aggressively spouted off that very evening to the uncomfortable gathered guests); and not very cleverly revealed thinly veiled dastardly

gifted at identifying nuances of color, creatively drawn to designing clothing, and seemingly at the very

On the other hand, wasn't that the very definition of life? Constant adaptations brought about by a series of never-ending mistakes? Exciting news for story-to-screen fans: the book is reportedly being adapted into a streaming series

The secondary character of Thomas Noble was my favorite in the book.

The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while Madeline Martin is also the author of The Librarian Spy and various romance series.

relationship, Ann Liang's This Time It's Real; and I'm reading the third book in Tamsyn Muir's dark, eerie Locked Tomb series, Nona the Ninth. The Locked Tomb series so far is dark dark dark, with death, nefarious plotting, and gleefully gruesome For my review of the first book in this series, Gideon the Ninth, check out the info at this link. Book four, Alecto the Ninth, is expected to be published early in 2024.

A book that takes a very different look at unexpected single motherhood--its tone is much lighter, and

And although this title is labeled as part of the series Better Than the Movies, book 2, this one has I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book.

adversity and overcoming difficulties; I'm reading This Woven Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

This section was my favorite part of the book.

This is very minor, but Block's occasional emphasis on certain words and infrequent, but present, perplexing

But Brody is beginning to think that the couple may be hiding a very good reason for wanting to get rid

Very very happy. #alternatereality, #timetravel, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview What are your favorite time travel

I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

The very end felt a little abrupt to me, but by that time I had already become satisfied with the lead-up I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Alcove

The novel builds to almost the very end before this mindboggling plausibility is somewhat cursorily presented

has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very She's a mid-level video producer on the verge of a layoff--unless she accepts a job in which she documents

Very early on, the family setup and characters in This Is How It Always Is rang false to me, as though

Eve spent very little time exploring options upon discovering her unplanned pregnancy; it was so easy

for a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and some days she wonders if she's ventured very

But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers; and I'm reading the slim, powerful nonfiction The Secret Book of Flora Lea is scheduled for publication May 2. 02 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Sutanto Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of what she is certain is a murder. How to Say Goodbye is scheduled for publication July 18, 2023.

01 The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek young-adult author, shy Helen is excited to be part of the adaptation of her work into a television series

into role-playing video games and write fan fiction, to bond with a few classmates through watching favorite

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day

Reading Now I'm reading A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti, my book club's first read of 2023