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continues regularly listening to and transcribing Om's confidential sessions with Big Swiss, then not very

The very end of the story brought to light a sudden burst of twisty complications and cemented the course

And I love that this is my first review of 2024. Bring on the weird and wonderful books!

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her I listened to the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series, The Adventures strategically and to great comic effect) fairy tale, and I delighted in the story itself as well as the varied I am alllll in on this series and can't wait for the second installment.

road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very

These complicating factors often lead to invasive measures unlikely to prolong life but very likely to

Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly

Now First of all, seeing the gorgeous colors and designs of these three covers together is making me very

I very much enjoyed her vulnerability as a young woman and especially the glimpses we got into her self-assured

It is about seeing yourself as the main character in a very interesting—or maybe even quiet—life that

Like every boy in Lee County I was raised to be a proud mule in a world that has scant use for mules. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire.

What are some of your favorite books about the immigrant experience?

I very much enjoyed the matter-of-fact acceptance of Kiran and his interests, his expression of his identity

And there is so very much else to delight in here. Brennan mentions Tamora Pierce's Immmortals series (the first book is Wild Magic) as inspiration for

Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

missing girls, you might also like the book Before She Disappeared, although the tone of that book is very

loose end and it seems assured that it will be wrapped up, but the specifics aren't laid out, and the very

This is not sentimental and is very powerful, and I've already been brought to tears while listening

Unlike other witches whose powers peak during certain series, Clara's powers as an Ever span all of the Griffin's second witch-focused, standalone book is scheduled for publication in 2022.

The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun story of three very different women who answer the wartime call to

spent showing the tasks of daily life (and almost-claustrophobic interconnectedness) within a tiny, very

reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery series working-class Glasgow family and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series A Rip Through Time #1) by Kelley Armstrong In the first book of Kelley Armstrong's Rip Through Time series 02 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart In the second novel from the author of Shuggie Bain, which won the 2020

Lady Tan's Circle of Women is my first book club read of 2024, and wow, does this one start off with

The mother is also intent on controlling every nuance of every conversational exchange, and she is outrageously And the reveal toward the end of layers of tragedy felt far-fetched; how was the very existence hidden

The last quarter of the book involved some transformation, action, and surprises, and the ending is very

Lockwood notes that she is not a Christian but is very much “of” the church because of her upbringing This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. I found them all fascinating and very different from each other.

The greatest threat of all to [American Indians'] identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter

In the third book in the series, the significant romantasy elements take a back seat to quests for knowledge Violet's chronic illness and accommodations, which were introduced and highlighted in book one of the series “I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every This installment of the series offered less page time to the dramaaaatic elements, but there's no denying that this series is romantasy--and for me, the romantasy pieces are the least intriguing elements.

Bennett also wrote a very different book, The Vanishing Half, which I found powerful and fascinating.

Her second book, Anywhere You Run, is scheduled for publication in October 2022.

Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling self-esteem--and when she was starting out, she naively signed away most of her rights to the millions the series She's months late delivering the newest installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing This is a zany romp, as Libby's determination to push on to an ending for her series combines with her lack of commanding details around the mission she has set out on to cause upheaval at every turn.

It may very well feel like oversimplifying for those familiar with mental illness to watch the character emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very

different names bestowed upon a baby boy; I'm reading the first in Dani Francis's dystopian romance series None of the paths are too easy or perfect, but each offers varied satisfaction and challenge in the form This is the first in a series. 03 The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr In a seaside Irish town in the

this as an audiobook, and it was such a slow build, I was both eager for it to ramp up in pacing and very I was on the verge of becoming impatient, but Waters masterfully draws out the sinister threads of the

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R.

In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself

Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments? Dust Off the Bones is Howarth's upcoming sequel to Only Killers and Thieves, due out in summer 2021.

The tone of the book feels very earnest, and we spend a significant amount of time in Greene's thoughts

It seemed especially off-putting somehow that Miles (who as a male had no markings) was so very interested

*Spoiler* This may not be an enormous spoiler, since Gordievsky would not have lived (or at the very

stories of the youth and origins of the siblings' recently deceased parents--their beloved mother and very

provide honest reflections about their work's meaning in their lives, although the tones of the books are very

And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and The story has been adapted into one season of a television series.

but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every 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 Check out my reviews of Lessons One and Two in the Scholomance series, A Deadly Education and The Last

; I'm also listening to the first in Antonia Hodgson's smart, charming, intricately plotted fantasy series , The Raven Scholar ; and I'm listening to the first in Devney Perry's romantasy series, Shield of Sparrows And after a series of unlikely, unfortunate events, bookworm Neema becomes one of them--the least threatening competition become ever heightened, characters must forge previously unthinkable loyalties and use every

It was very stressful!

Side note: I'd like for this story to also become a movie, thank you very much.

Vigil has been one of my most-anticipated reads of 2026.