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  • 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

  • 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 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 More Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    Six More Favorite Fantasy Reads This is the second of three fantasy-favorite lists I'll have for you But the evening leaves her forever changed, and she's bent on finding answers--and revenge. don't inspire great confidence, but collectively, they fight to find a path forward in a world that is changing

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    Abriel has said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change floods of food, fashion, and joy; the evolutions of their careers; and each of their attempts to find a second

  • 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

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

    I listened to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series (read wonderfully by Kate The True Love Experiment. 06 A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn This second

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/8/22 Edition

    I'm reading Alias Emma, a fast-paced new mystery from Ava Glass; I'm listening to The Becoming, the second

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

    invents an alternate identity of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet Women; I'm reading Less Is Lost, the second

  • 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 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

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence important underlying plot lines remained oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second

  • 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 Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

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

  • 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

  • Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

    important underlying plot lines remained oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second

  • Review of Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano

    Finlay dips her toe into a criminal underworld in the second in Cosimano's campy mystery series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition

    03 And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgeman #1) by Nick Jones Joseph Bridgeman only looked away for a second

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous people--is due for some changes 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

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    then it is over and the knaffea is just a pleasant memory—like a lovely dream that you forget a few seconds too rigid) but also for how to become more aware of issues surrounding local eating and how to effect change Famous Author Mom's whirlwind. 06 Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl Here's the second So this second listing is actually evidence of my restraint.

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction

    Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage by Jon Finkel (2024) Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second

  • Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan

    Although she wasn't trying to change her status from introvert to extrovert, she did want to open up I loved it and I'd read another book by her in a second. Any Bossy thoughts on this book?

  • Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu

    moments, a noble quest, a reluctant heroine, and complications that upend everything just in time for the second

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    But when she gets the chance to rework a script by the famous screenwriter Charlie Yates, she bends over help with their dad, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring, career-building, life-changing Only, the last thing Charlie Yates wants is someone changing his (terrible) script.

  • Six Books about Brave Female Spies

    And while the second section isn't a complete surprise, I found it really satisfying. 04 The Nightingale list. 05 Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin This is the first book in Graudin's young adult duology (the second Graudin also wrote The Walled City. 06 The Alice Network by Kate Quinn In this second book on the list

  • Six Fantastic 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.

  • Review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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

  • Review of Namesake by Adrienne Young

    Namesake is the second and, sadly, final book in Young's duology about the wonderfully strong, ruthless

  • Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

    Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change Her brother is jealous and cruel; her uncle has become bitter and petty since his fortunes have changed Wilson Moon is a drifter displaced from his tribal lands, and a chance meeting between Wil and Victoria Victoria's life changes dramatically.

  • Review of Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller

    I’d forgotten that there was a second book in this series, American by Day, which I now recall that I

  • Six Bossy Favorite Historical Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    brother shoots a dog going after the family's sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events that will change On the side, she shows her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying

  • Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

    Check out my review of her book Skyhunter, and look for my upcoming review of the second in that series

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

    here for my full review of True Biz. 04 A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) by Freya Marske The second A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began

  • Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

    Tokyo Ever After is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming

  • Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

    01 A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began

  • Review of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

    And perhaps most confusingly of all, in this second life she's lost some of her original, lifelong, rigid

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition

    Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition

    The Kingdoms is her second book. 02 Warcross by Marie Lu Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic

  • Review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

    This second book in Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy follows Vasya's continued adventures and challenges

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