Rachel Hartman is also the author of the Seraphina series. The second book in the Tess of the Road series, In the Serpent's Wake, was published last month.

The Queen of Nothing is the final book in Black's Folk of the Air trilogy (I mentioned the series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series). twisted humor, various satisfying endings (including regarding Jude and Cardan) that did justice to the series

I adored the first book in the series, Fable, in which the title character relied heavily on her survival

My very favorite books from December! When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material Lincoln Highway, click here. 05 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith I'm all in for the Cormoran Strike series In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be And a very minor issue: the "Hey, pretty girl" greeting from the recently met grown-man male detective I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

in a series from a favorite author. Maggie has long leaned on rereading her favorite fantasy series for comfort and security. She eagerly awaits the final book in the series, and by now she feels like she personally knows the characters is a slow-burn mystery in which Tana French serves up deep character development; a prominent, brooding But he can't seem to find peace and quiet; in this third novel in French's series, the community reels

A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with classmates realize, which is just how El wants it--fears she might accidentally take him out before she can master El is grumbly and abrupt, not looking for friends-nor making very many--as she speaks plainly and bristles However, I am ALL IN on the series: El, Orion, the burgeoning alliances, and the twisty turns Novik has The Last Graduate, the second book in this series, is slated for publication in June 2021.

(I mentioned her Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series twentysomething Krishan has moved home to live with his mother and grandmother in the city of Colombo, Sri He begins the long journey to the war-torn area of northern Sri Lanka to pay tribute to Rani, and he's

I knew immediately that I would definitely read the next in the series. of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

The Books I'm Reading Now Library audiobook alert: I'm listening to the twisty mystery First Lie Wins Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr. Ibrahim are septuagenarians feeling let down after the thrills, danger, and success of their first solved mystery For my review of the first book in this series, The Thursday Murder Club , please check click this link

The third and final installment of Bardugo's Ninth House dark fantasy series offers more gritty corruption In the first two books in this series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide. More Leigh Bardugo Books Leigh Bardugo is the author of the first two books in this series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, as well as The Familiar, the Shadow and Bone series, the King of Scars duology, and other

This is the second in Schwab's first series for adults, Villains. I very much enjoyed Schwab's young adult Shades of Magic series; the first title is A Darker Shade of As of August 2020, there's no publication date for a third in the Villains series. #fantasyscifi, #series, #threestarbookreview

really enjoyed Hearne's Ink & Sigil last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series

I very much enjoyed harking back to the childhoods of the Fetch, Row Finn, and Jonathan Tear to better I already miss my favorite characters from the series. read this ending to the trilogy before delving into the prequel because I'd read the others in the series

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series takes place in Victorian London, and the immensely appealing Carriger has written five Parasol Protectorate series books and a short prequel, so if you're up for This book was part of the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love. #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #LGBTQ, #series, #fourstarbookreview

I didn't include some obvious options like the Harry Potter series or Roald Dahl's The Witches, nor did are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series romance of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books and the angst, emotions, and forbidden love of the Twilight series I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more There are four books in this series from Harkness, and I found the others even more magical than this

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All three books in this series held up for me in a big way. The Bear and the Nightingale is the first in the series, and The Winter of the Witch is the final book #fantasyscifi, #russia, #youngadult, #series, #fourstarbookreview

Katherine Arden finishes out the trilogy in typical mesmerizing fashion, with her usual masterful balance This book follows the other books in the series, The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower I highly recommend this series. #russia, #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #fourstarbookreview

But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

I gave this first book in the series three stars, which for me meant it had promise but didn't knock I’d forgotten that there was a second book in this series, American by Day, which I now recall that I #nordic, #heartwarming, #series, #fourstarbookreview 05 We, the Drowned ​ I own this book. humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring adventure, “nefarious company,” a town run by women, and “a mysterious #nordic, #series, #historicalfiction What are your favorite Nordic-set or -focused books?

Henry's upcoming romance story-within-a-story, Great Big Beautiful Life ; I'm listening to the first mystery in a series, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens; and I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's haunting and mysterious Story , Happy Place , and Book Lovers . 02 The Life We Bury ( Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens In this mystery This is the first in a series of three books about Joe Talbert. 03 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Black Woods, Blue Sky , literary fiction about a single mother and mysterious ; and I'm reading Death at Morning House , a stand-alone young-adult mystery by the author of the Truly Devious series, Maureen Johnson. But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was. is a stand-alone young adult novel by Maureen Johnson, who is also the author of the Truly Devious series

This is the first in Muir's Locked Tomb series, and I'm excited to the second, Harrow the Ninth. #fantasyscifi, #series, #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series. Five books in the series have been published, and a sixth is scheduled for 2021. I love when I find a new-to-me series with multiple books already available for me to binge read. I can’t wait to read the others in this series. #mysterysuspense, #series, #historicalfiction, #london, #fourstarbookreview

I really liked Roth's Divergent, but the second book in that series fell off for me and I didn't read #fantasyscifi, #timetravel, #series, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic series But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set his mysterious powers that allow for shifts in time and space. The details of life at the time are wonderful, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers I loved Pike's first novel in this series, The Lost Queen, and so far this book is reminding me of The

Kills Well with Others , the newest novel in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Killers of a Certain Age series Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn The first installment of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series author of the wonderful Killers of a Certain Age , which was the first in the Killers of a Certain Age series And I loved A Curious Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series (There are currently nine books in the series.) 02 The Antidote by Karen Russell A terrible dust storm

stepdaughter who are dear to each other; I'm listening to Lena Dunham's newest memoir about devastating, mysterious novel courtesy of Libro.fm and Harper. 02 Famesick by Lena Dunham In her new memoir, the creator of the series Through various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations, Dunham

01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles . This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments? I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year .

band, its making, and its unmaking, through interviews with various characters that illuminate the mysterious their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious The story has been adapted into one season of a television series.

emotional underpinnings, Say You'll Remember Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery , the first in a series, Murder by Memory . . 03 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite In Olivia Waite's slim science-fiction mystery In this outer-space-set mystery, Dorothy must figure out who's behind the destruction and how to save

For my full review--I rated this mystery 4 stars--please check out this link . Other mysteries you might want to gift: Richard Osman's charming Thursday Murder Club series , Steve Kill for Me, Kill for You , or the most recent in Tess Gerritsen's retired-spies-in-Maine Martini Club series elite training, magical abilities, and complex conflicts between classes in the first in this dystopian series This is the first in a series and I'm really looking forward to reading the next installment.

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 #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #didnotfinish

In the third book in the series, the significant romantasy elements take a back seat to quests for knowledge But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved Violet's chronic illness and accommodations, which were introduced and highlighted in book one of the series 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.

setting in 19th-century Scotland; I'm reading Kate Atkinson's most recent Jackson Brodie mystery, Death This is the sixth installment in Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series, but it can be read as a stand-alone Leigh Bardugo is also the author of Ninth House , Hell Bent , the King of Scars series ( Rule of Wolves is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and

Beneath the Keep, to be published 2/2/21, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (three other books are in the series, The Queen of the Tearling, The Invasion of the Tearling, and The Some of the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace, and also the Fetch Maura; Brenna and Arlen; Aislynn and Liam); these bonds are similarly key in the final book of the series Throughout the series there is a dark undercurrent that serves as either a motivator for warped debauchery

Keep, which is set for publication next week, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (there are three other books in the series, the fantastic Queen of the Tearling as well as The Invasion I'm curious to see if the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace) are He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the mystery with some darkness and depth.

A series of elaborate falsifications, outrageous subterfuge, and outright lies creates a tangled web Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell #5) by Deanna Raybourn The fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell series I listened to this as an audiobook, which is wonderfully narrated, as the rest of the series has been I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of (There are currently eight books in the series, with a ninth scheduled for publication in 2024.)

lightfiction, #heartwarming 02 Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel ​ Boy oh boy, this fifth book in the series is so very good so far. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site

excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in the Skyhunter series When a mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, our main protagonist Talin Lu has written the Legends, Young Elites, and Warcross series. 02 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy Flora's brother as well as their childhood friend, the laird's son, are both serving in the military,

Switzy; and I'm listening to Leigh Bardugo's newest dark fantasy novel, the third in her Ninth House series existed) and The Guest. 03 Dead Beat (Ninth House #3) by Leigh Bardugo In the first two books in this series , Ninth House and Hell Bent, we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving a mysterious Leigh Bardugo is the author of the first two books in this series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, as well as The Familiar, the Shadow and Bone series, the King of Scars duology, and other books.

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King's dry, lovely mystery featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes and a young Mary Russell, The Beekeeper's crews on quests, please check out the titles at this link. 02 The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell Mystery Soon they're working together to solve the mystery of a senator's kidnapped daughter, and Mary is quickly King is also the author of many other mysteries. 03 Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Novic When Sara Nović

one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series This fifth book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series (this is the first full-length book in the set) starts Later in the book, the gems that make this series so unexpectedly poignant and funny and delightful shine #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #offbeat, #uniquePOV, #LGBTQ, #threestarbookreview

end of her marriage, Strangers ; I'm listening to Listen for the Lie author Ashley Elston's upcoming mystery Anatomy of an Alibi ; and I'm listening to Jennifer Givhan's mystery-thriller-horror story featuring courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 02 Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston I loved Ashley Elston's mystery one of my Bossy Fiction Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List ; and it was on my recent list of Four-Star Mysteries novel Salt Bones made it onto multiple best-of lists for 2025, and I've been in a mystery-reading mood

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine Fable, the first in a planned two-book series, offers pirates, a little forbidden romance, a handful

listening to A Steeping of Blood , the second in Hafsah Faizal's supernatural fantasy Blood and Tea series of Blood (Blood and Tea #2) by Hafsah Faizal The first installment in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming found family, steady For my review of the first book in this series, please see A Tempest of Tea .

The first installment of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series was a fun, darkly funny, feminist If Raybourn keeps writing this series, I'll read every last installment. author of the wonderful   Killers of a Certain Age , which was the first in the Killers of a Certain Age series And I loved A Curious Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series (There are currently nine books in the series.)

Love Experiment, a spinoff of The Soulmate Equation, which I loved; I'm reading the upcoming Western mystery and I'm listening to A Perilous Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries. Raybourn I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries.