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Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships Click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm!

The details of everyday life are fantastic, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book--or any historical fiction/fantasy series you love?

The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Years earlier, Remy failed to protect her young charge, and now she's determined to locate the grown-up

In The Awakening, the first book in Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series, she set up a romantic fantasy Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon Twenty-year-old Violet was hoping to live out a studious, satisfyingly quiet future in the Scribe Quadrant

young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy She's had to rely on her survival skills to make it these long four years, and if she can find her father She's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and a beautiful Malibu I haven't read a young adult fantasy book lately, and Fable is getting great reviews (Reese Witherspoon

I love looking back over my year to highlight my very favorite reads. What were some of your favorite reads of the year? Let's do some Bossy book talking! Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental. Oddly, her brother Bear, beloved by all who knew him, disappeared fourteen years earlier.

Chakraborty's Daevabad fantasy trilogy, The City of Brass ; and I'm reading Olivia Hawker's upcoming

The Gothic Undercurrents It's the perfect time of year to read some spooky, dark, gothic tales. Impossibly, the centuries-old figure bears a shocking resemblance to Elsie. Purcell takes us through the disturbing events surrounding one family living two hundred years apart by Allison Saft I adored the romantic setup and seemingly ill-fated attraction in Saft's young adult fantasy-mystery But the great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist

Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year , and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year. 01 Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman I loved this young So Cy leaves his ten-year-old daughter Bess with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels for two years. (Two years!)

But each of these series is complete, so if you haven't read them yet, you won't have to wait years for White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy These six books were published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces

Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

Which standout books have you read this year? The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. For my full review, please see When We Were the Kennedys. 04 Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Twelve-year-old

Maas's popular young adult fantasy about the collision of faeries and humans, the first in a series; Maas I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while. of several of its beloved young people, and a fresh tragedy that brings the pain, grief, and loss of years

Lists: Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any other romantic comedy or are the stars of the popular paranormal television show Intangible , and for multiple seasons they've yearned

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm currently reading three fantasy titles: one young adult novel to be published It's been years since the tragedy, and Emery is home on the island of Saiorse, running her family's business

In Dear Girls, she writes affectionately about her family, and those parts resonate. And I do love hearing the stories of women in comedy.

Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian Carey (which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. Oddly, her brother Bear, beloved by all who knew him, disappeared fourteen years earlier. The split between the largely blue-collar area and the privileged Van Lear family is shown to be stark The Van Lears' story draws in many of those who orbit around them; it's full of tragedy upon tragedy, I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

It's a revenge fantasy, but the issues at the heart of the story are real and weighty and important. about her fury at what many of her fellow female students have to put up with from young men who won't hear I imagined that the alligator angle might make for a campy revenge fantasy. And it is revenge fantasy. The author builds a framework in Deadly Waters of brutalized women's fear and anger, establishes the

fourstarbookreview 02 My Lady Jane: The Lady Janies Series ​ I'd had My Lady Jane on my to-read list for a couple of years fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots--with an oddball fantasy This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

During the annual, chaotic community fair preceding this holidays, which this year is a rainy business Ten years later, we join the voyeuristic public and the insider news bursts in exploring what really happened years earlier. But in the ensuing years, Camilla can't stop obsessing over the unusual aspects of the siege: the violence Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke?

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

If you're familiar with actor Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Steve won't be surprised by the breadth and depth of drug-related and porn-related stories he includes in Yearbook This is a collection of essays and recollections that comes from Rogen's heart, and Yearbook feels like Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley's upcoming literary fantasy; Empire facts and indications that the opioids they distributed (to the tune of billions of dollars in profit a year

young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy She's had to rely on her survival skills to make it through the past four long years, and if she can

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

White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy These six books were published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces But each of these series are complete, so if you haven't read them yet, you don't have to wait years

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

01 The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Fifty-year-old Elle is in her happy place--the house where make: stick with her contentment and comfortable current life and husband--or fulfill the dreams and fantasy : the evangelical church she grew up in and the inspiration and judgment she experienced there; her yearning

One year later, they find themselves sitting in a fluorescent-lit classroom in their seaside town with He is, as always, wearing a corny, optimistic motto on his T-shirt. But they soon realize that Mr. Anabin is capable of powerful magic, that he knows where the teens have been trapped for the past year At almost 650 pages long, there's enough page time for Link to build various realities, tear them down I received a prepublication edition of this book (which was published this time last year, oops!)

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an upcoming year-end Greedy Reading List I'll be posting--and I'm always thankful for books and reading Which standout books have you read this year? What made them your favorites? This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. For my full review, please see When We Were the Kennedys. 04 Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Twelve-year-old

Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy I've been putting Marie Lu's books into my son's hands for years, but I have never read a single one.

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling Phoebe arrives at the decadent Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, wearing a green dress and heels 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).

Fifty-year-old Elle is in her happy place--the house where she's spent a whole life of summers. , comfortable current life, the husband she loves, and her kids--or upset everything to explore the fantasy Characters are often lying, feeling betrayed, or actively in fear. (I loved my husband; I idolized my sister) seemed like shortcuts that avoided providing what I was yearning One tiny detail with no bearing on anything significant that nevertheless kept jumping out at me: almost

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year last year Still, Dorothy was supposed to be in stasis for years after suffering an emotional loss.

during Pandemic Times, one of the genres I find myself gravitating toward listening to is young adult fantasy I think the pacing and the fantastical worlds lend themselves well to audiobook form. Klune shows that we can be held back by fear of what we don't understand, or by a fear of either recognizing what we want or a fear of pursuing a need for our general happiness. story because of the tone and setup of the city and office for Linus, but Henning's narration didn't bear

multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic soundtrack to that musical, or the twenty-five-year anniversary of the book's publication)--well, maybe interesting possibilities. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy When Zeus, fearful of what she might be capable of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects

Here's the premise of Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the For the next few years she dabbled in college, she partied, she drifted, she dated a professional football I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young

Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War. Annis lives with her mother on a Carolina rice plantation in the years before the Civil War, and when enslaver--the man who raped her mother and sired Annis--turns his lascivious attention to her, she fears In order to see the story through, I kept reminding myself that I was bearing witness to a fictional I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! Feel free to comment and let me know!

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 . Please click here for my full review of Life After Life . 05 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully But in the ensuing years, Camilla can't stop obsessing over the unusual aspects of the siege: the violence Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke? Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite books of the year

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

If so, I'd love to hear what you thought. Do you have any favorite books that involve time travel? After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000.

In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You, rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking Please click here for my full review of Betting on You. 05 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration of crows' senses of community and cleverness, which she hopes set a tone for the year to come; to a captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic

01 Dear Emmie Blue This is a lovely light summer read so far. So far, Lia Louis's Dear Emmie Blue doesn't require the reader to do much, if any, LA-LA-LA-ing and taking (Click here for my full review of Dear Emmie Blue.) These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy

In 2014 Turkey, ten-year-old Narin is living near the Tigris and is affected by a disorder that will Her relationship with Sonny Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control I was particularly intrigued by the fits and starts of Morgan's younger years, her struggles to find Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack The Civil War is looming, and Junie is a sixteen-year-old who has spent her whole life enslaved on an

science fiction story Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, the author of The Martian; and a young adult fantasy Una, Ellie, and Cullen cope with grave situations and life-and-death struggles that threaten to tear

powers uniquely in some instances, and as the group wavers between silly teasing, joking, curiosity, and fear , Eleanor wavers between overwhelming joy and bitter suspicion and revenge fantasies.