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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Paper & Blood, Kevin Hearne's second and final book in his quirky 01 Paper & Blood by Kevin Hearne In Kevin Hearne's latest book, the second and final installment in his

  • Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

    I’m not sure where it leaves us for the second book but I can’t wait to find out. I really liked Roth's Divergent, but the second book in that series fell off for me and I didn't read

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition

    The book is written in a second-person stream of consciousness, which is taking a little bit of getting

  • Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling

    I promise I'm going to talk about this book, but first let's talk audiobooks for a second.

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

    podcast last summer; All the Light We Cannot See author Anthony Doerr's newest wonder; the irresistible second songs felt incredibly powerful as a closure to her story. 04 The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik This second review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik, and The Last Graduate is the second In this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly

  • Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

    I've got enough other favorites in this vein to make a second list sometime. In the second book of the series, Siege and Storm, The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous The Cruel Prince is the first book, The Wicked King is the second, and the final book, The Queen of Nothing kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change

  • Review of Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab

    I read half but didn't finish this second in the Monsters of Verity series. This is the second in Schwab's Monsters of Verity series; the first is This Savage Song, which I gave

  • Review of In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road #2) by Rachel Hartman

    This second installation departs from a focus on Tess and her personal growth.

  • Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

    It's essential to recall the details of past book events in order to grasp the fascinating changes here issue: various characters were said to take part in frequent (disdainful) sniffing, particularly in the second

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition

    This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03 Last week I took a chance on Writers & Lovers despite my recent need to have all story lines work out

  • Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina

    John Hart has also written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series

  • Review of The Light After the War by Anita Abriel

    joy; a more settled life in Venezuela; the evolutions of their careers; and their attempts to find a second Abriel says that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change

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

    Second: Starter Villain is playful, darkly funny, big-hearted, and wonderfully weird. There's crossing, double-crossing, a wonderfully savvy and knowledgeable second-in-command, nefarious Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous people--is due for some changes

  • Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas

    I listened to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series (read wonderfully by Kate

  • Review of Herrick's End (The Neath #1) by T.M. Blanchet

    I can't wait to read the second book in the series, Herrick's Lie, which is scheduled for publication

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    created the horrific system of oppression, control, torture, and death—even with a promise of potential change Power by Naomi Alderman It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change When the people change, the palace cannot hold. This is the second M.R. Carey book on this list, but I couldn't help myself.

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    I also enjoyed the second book in this series, A Course of All Treasons . The Briar Club , and The Alice Network , as well as The Phoenix Crown , which she wrote with Janie Chang

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

    The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the Warsaw Ghetto to her second

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    books from that list made it to my final Favorites list here, which means that in approximately the second Second: Starter Villain is playful, darkly funny, big-hearted, and wonderfully weird. There's crossing, double-crossing, a wonderfully savvy and knowledgeable second-in-command, nefarious energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight of fancy that changed

  • Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

    The second book of the Scholomance is The Last Graduate, which builds on book one's dark humor, dangerous

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition

    The second book of the Scholomance was The Last Graduate, which builds on book one's dark humor, dangerous

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    promising talent and her best friend from high school (who's now a high-powered agent), Emma gets the chance home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring, career-building, lucrative, and life-changing Only, the last thing Charlie Yates wants is someone changing his (terrible) script.

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI

    Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition

    relationship between frenemies; and the gloriously dramatic young adult debut from Shelby Mahurin (with a second Dove is Shelby Mahurin's first book in her young adult trilogy by the same name (Blood & Honey is the second

  • Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White

    I'm in love with the title of the second book in this series, A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy.

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

    Luckily, a few of my reads during the second half of the month were standouts. involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift and change in her ways, she's sometimes out of step and old-fashioned, often grumpy--and she's facing immense changes offers messy, imperfect characters in often difficult situations, and they find their way through having changed

  • Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year

    I listened to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series (read wonderfully by Kate Emma Makepeace returns in the second book in the series, The Traitor, and when one thing leads to another

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Vengeance Road is the first book in Bowman's Vengeance Road duology; Retribution Rails is the second. There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt, The Star Garden, and Light Changes This is the first book in Rae Carson's young adult Gold Seer trilogy set in Gold Rush-era America; the second

  • Review of Dream State by Eric Puchner

    journey to forgiveness, ultimately set against the backdrop of dramatic local implications of climate change When a stomach bug ravages the wedding guests and Charlie himself, will Cece use it as a chance to bow aspects of their lives, then much later, and seemingly abruptly, the story is somewhat focused on climate change

  • Review of The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young

    Click here for my review of Adrienne Young's Fable, and click here for my review of the second book in

  • Review of The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

    With dual storylines, multiple generations, assumed identities, otherworldly beings, wonderful chance (and life-changing) encounters, and a rich English countryside setting.

  • Review of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

    This is the chance you waxed about so long ago. Letters from family and friends get him through multiple winters--until an unexpected visitor changes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition

    another try, listening to a fantastic audiobook of Abi Daré's Nigerian-set fiction, and reading the second Kirstan recommended this book, and I love it so far. 03 Namesake by Adrienne Young Namesake is the second

  • Review of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

    Fleets, and her father was a Black activist who abandoned the family for the cause, later starting a second The family invents a Portuguese grandmother and changes their last name in order to play up plausible

  • Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu

    In Steelstriker, the second and final book in the series, the last free nation in the world has been

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

    and emerges a bestselling author haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second 2021, courtesy of NetGalley and Celadon Books. 03 The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike This is Pike's second

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition

    The second book is Daughter of the Siren Queen. 03 Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder Lilah Hunter

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice-- I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most I loved it and I'd read another book by her in a second.

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories

    These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world. I think the second book in the All Souls series ( Shadow of Night ) is even stronger, as it delves more

  • Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into

    important underlying plot lines remained oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second the author of The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , The Alice Network , and, with Janie Chang

  • Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    competitiveness with Neil that I was disappointed to learn that Rowan had almost always consistently been the second-place regret through much of the story made me so sad for her--I was glad when she took charge and started to change their intense experiences during the story's short window of time offer them opportunities to shift and change

  • Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year

    In his second novel, Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart offers the story of a working-class Glasgow family and Click here for my full review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot. 06 The Change by Kristen surrounding aging, change, and unexpected new beginnings. The tone of The Change is largely campy, as middle-aged women heroines unite against the book's sometimes Click here for my full review of The Change.

  • Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner

    Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the second in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Hell Bent, in

  • 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. The Shadow and Bone Netflix series offers intermingled Grishaverse characters and storylines, and a second

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

    brother shoots a dog going after the family's sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events that will change but the story is largely an atmospheric story of isolation and loss set against the drama of climate change the climate is cold (check out these other Bossy reviews of titles with cold settings ), and climate change I love the second installment's return to my favorite aging assassins and their quick-thinking, spry, In between, Raybourn allows friendships and love to grow and change.

  • Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

    In the second book of the series, Siege and Storm, The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous The Cruel Prince is the first book, The Wicked King is the second, and the final book, The Queen of Nothing kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change I've got enough other favorites in this vein that I could probably make a second list sometime.

  • Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    It's not that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any

  • Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn

    I look forward to reading the second book in the series, Bloodmarked.

  • Review of Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

    Clancy's first novel, The Second Home, was published last year, when the author was 52.

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