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  • Review of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

    Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series

  • 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

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    exploration of fate and mortality; a serial-killer story based on real-life events; and a collection of fantasy Novik's newest work, Buried Deep , is a collection of thirteen stories that span the worlds of her fantastic

  • Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo

    Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology.

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition

    But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition

    imagined nationwide hubbub (a la "baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy

  • Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

    , comfortable current life, the husband she loves, and her kids--or upset everything to explore the fantasy

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    For more fantasy novels I've loved, please check out the titles at this link .

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery, fantasy, contemporary The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    feminism and LGBTQ love; a Maine-set mystery solved by retired CIA operatives; an epic historical fiction fantasy

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    doesn't the cold winter also feel like the perfect time to cozy up with a science fiction story with fantastic included a thought-provoking robot-focused story (A Psalm for the Wild-Built), the newest novel by the fantastic You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. But Harrow the Ninth also offers fantastically bratty episodes on the parts of various characters; frenzies

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    multigenerational family story told through two timelines; the final book in a darkly playful young adult fantasy series; a quirky, campy mystery and revenge fantasy; and a young adult thriller with outlandish circumstances

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories

    multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic interesting possibilities. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy

  • Six Captivating Nordic Stories

    Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy #nordic, #Vikings, #series, #fantasyscifi 04 Norwegian by Night ​ Sheldon Horowitz is 82 and lives with

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the

  • Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge

    More Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Mwaa haa ha!

  • Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy

  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm.

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    Harrow The Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began

  • Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

    A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began

  • Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

    mention that the essence of his story remained intact through years and "a million" versions (including a fantasy

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related

  • Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

    You might also like Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI, Six More Fantastic

  • Review of Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir

    But Harrow the Ninth also offers fantastically bratty episodes on the parts of various characters; frenzies

  • Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells

    This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this connections and surprisingly (to Murderbot, if no one else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #offbeat, #uniquePOV, #LGBTQ, #threestarbookreview

  • Review of To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

    Eowyn Ivey is masterful at intertwining fantastical elements with the grounding of the vivid details Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

  • Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

    Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang #fantasyscifi, #historicalfiction, #siblings, #youngadult, #comingofage, #threestarbookreview

  • Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

  • Review of The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

    This book is on my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. #youngadult, #dystopia, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger

    Professor Lyall is one of my favorite characters, as is Lord Akeldama, a fantastic, over-the-top, preternaturally #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #LGBTQ, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • 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 The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

    Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

    captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic

  • Review of Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger

    The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique talents, clever minds, a nose for mystery, and next-level bantering capabilities. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick constantly tests her mother's patience, as she's more apt to occupy herself by dismantling a clock or to arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries, than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era young lady. So she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes that the students at Mademoiselle Geraldine's aren't simply learning to dance and dress, but to use household items as weapons, use their feminine wiles to distract, and use diminishing assumptions about young women to craftily spy on unsuspecting victims. Sophronia is an immensely likable, clever, quick study who defies societal expectations. I loved the steampunk aspects--the airship transport, steam-powered mechanical animals, and the mechanical robot servants within the alternate Victorian England setting. I was also intrigued by the crafty finishing school nemesis, the oddball teachers and quirky school leadership, the persistent young people's shifting knowledge base, and the strange mystery at hand. This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School. I listened to Etiquette & Espionage as an audiobook. More Love for Author Gail Carriger I loved the first book in Gail Carriger's five-book (plus a prequel short) Parasol Protectorate series, Soulless and its sequel, Changeless .

  • 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. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

    The Scottish speech patterns were fantastic (but what a job for the copy editor!). #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #LGBTQ, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

    The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm

  • Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition

    bestselling author haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic

  • Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

  • Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love

    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

  • Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

    Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

  • Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

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

  • Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

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

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