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She builds the world in her book gracefully--her job as a game designer probably plays into this ability But she can't stop trying to destroy the heroes' false perfection that is devastating so much of the world

I love a book about books, but I was confused as to why the characters would seek out and spend prolonged Who would have stuck around to find this out? Who would give him the benefit of the doubt so many times? Who would be brought to tears and then move in to help him, without his having shown remorse, reflection The idea that the group would even consider asking Sloane to shift her life plans in order to stay local

the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret and the destruction that would teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seven decades and across the world

Indiana—a state that had lost 25,000 men fighting the Confederacy just a half century earlier—would soon A majority would soon elect a Klansman as their mayor. Should they call the police, they would be reporting something already known, and even encouraged. He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.

I adored that El's mom seems like a peaceful hippie and inspires iconic obsession in the world of magic

since then, and she wasn't a titular character, so I felt like it was an ambitious possibility that I would I think if I had understood the interconnectedness of the stories up front, I would have felt positively

dramatic emotional turmoil and external sources of conflict (when they're advised to "trust no one," they would reality, but I didn't mind and was hooked on the roller coaster of a story, wondering what the heck would

In Dark Roads, characters figure out their places in the world, find internal strength when they need

insufferably mischievous but in rare cases redeemable; all manner of creatures coexist in and visit our world

I found myself trying to slow down and savor Novik's irresistible Scholomance world while reading The

I would follow this family anywhere just for peeks into their snuggly, bickering, heartwarmingly obsessive

Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World , Yours Truly , The Friend Zone , and The Happy-Ever-After

I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.

She revels in the wonders of the natural world, soaks in her father's rich stories, loves her sisters

Orenstein didn't hit any false notes for me and kept me satisfyingly wrapped up in the elite gymnastics world The premise of Dear Emmie Blue made me wonder if the story would feel too far-fetched. one of them), Bea is surprised when a show producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would

reputation over the safety and security of its teenaged students. 02 I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World

I started The Unhoneymooners curious to find out how Ethan would grow to be a redeemable character worthy (Side note: I can easily envision this as an excellent rom-com that I would definitely watch.) reviewed the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating on this site, as well as Love and Other Words

Feyre is drawn into a dangerous, glorious faery world of wicked beasts and complicated alliances to live

Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River  as well as Heft and The Unseen World .

And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form I also wasn't sure that certain driving forces of Korelitz's story made sense (why would anyone in this My mom told me about a movie with a plot centering around a stolen book idea, The Words (starring Bradley

of Stars is 878 pages, so if you never hear from me again, just know that I'm still out there in the world

debut novel has remained largely under the radar since its publication last June, but I adored it and would has never met, in the conversational tone of a pen pal writing to someone who will love her and her words She uses Old Norse words in her speech and thoughts; she frequently mentions bravery, combat, wisdom, She can make no mark on the world--she cannot write or draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through sometimes desperately creative attempts to preserve lives; and the occasional triumphs that the rest of the world

The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World

insufferably mischievous but in rare cases redeemable; all manner of creatures coexist in and visit our world

She's set on finding her father again and on making her way in a rough world made for men in order to

List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world

“I am no saint—none of us are—but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude. his compulsion to use and his longtime inability to stop causes him to share multiple times that he would He feels he would do anything to be free of the chokehold of his addiction, which he feels is more severe

little bit of a stretch, like calls to like, and it seems plausible that damaged, sick individuals would

McCann is also the author of Let the Great World Spin, which I liked, but not as much as I did this book

lives that any one of them could be a murderer or a god come down to earth and not one of the others would

Turner’s book These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (despite the title, which Also, Aubrey was such an evil git, I admit to having hoped he would meet a more specific and particularly

In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather

It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's the very end of the book Vivian writes something wonderfully matter-of-fact to Angela regarding this; words

I imagine that I would have preferred to read the print version of this title. didn't feel at all convinced that the person trying to sort out the convoluted situation at the end would

I've been saving French's newest book because I've had such high hopes that it would be stellar, so my Did one of them want so desperately to stop him that they would kill to keep him quiet? holiday and about the mistakes she feels she's made, Mae makes a plea to the universe to show her what would duo also wrote the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating as well as Love and Other Words

and myriad inhabitants show the interconnectedness of us all and celebrate the wonders of the wild world

Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this. Rooney has a new book scheduled for publication this fall, Beautiful World Where Are You. 06 The Great

I couldn't figure out any reason why Joe would not have a British accent, but he did not, although he uses words like "tetchy" and "proper" and is meant to be British.

but in any case, it was impossible to imagine that the very-much-set-in-their-ways Mikey and Alice would

But she can't stop trying to destroy the heroes' false perfection that is devastating so much of the world

Junie would likely be charming, and her joking dialogue and zingers might land more solidly, in person I loved feeling confident that all would work out in some fashion, and ultimately the teen romance here

Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this. Rooney has a new book scheduled for publication this fall, Beautiful World Where Are You. 06 The Great

Matthew Perry “I am no saint—none of us are—but once you have been at death’s door and you don’t die, you would think you would be bathed in relief and gratitude.

It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies connection is passionate but clandestine, and they manage to evade the scandal and punishment that would

and shaping her own way of honoring Tony, their life together, and their hopes for the future that would

to find their true selves and then to be true to themselves, and while I felt confident that things would

Only when the two women's worlds intersect can they piece together the full stories of their husbands

Arienne knew since she was a young girl that because she was born with magic, her future would end with

aren't quite as they seem. ...and so this was her life, because it had always been her life, and it would either kill her, or she would survive it.

stun medieval British society with her vow of celibacy and ambitious pilgrimage halfway around the world