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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/26/26 Edition

    fiction novel The Secret Book Society , and I'm listening to the first in John McMahon's FBI-focused mystery #1) by John McMahon I'm not sure where I heard about this book, but I believe it was in a roundup of mystery

  • Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter

    But Liz, who is often embedded with the baseball team to gather footage and social media material, isn't But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by

  • Review of Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1) by Lyla Sage

    For example, his fantasies upon seeing her wearing red lipstick take an instantaneous, (for me) alarmingly

  • Review of I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang

    rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here  and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy

  • Another Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power. Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. for my full review. 05 The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy This bighearted novel holds a mystery Voss  is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition

    Happy Place, scheduled for release April 25; and I'm reading the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult fantasy

  • Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

    A mysterious therapy center lies in the California desert, and its services are free, but they're only But participation requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious, purportedly helpful

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works. 03 The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick A mysterious without debilitating sorrow, but participating requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious

  • Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper

    This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries surrounding long-ago Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    justice, Heart, Be at Peace ; I'm listening to the 31-hour audiobook of the latest Cormoran Strike mystery I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason

  • Review of The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus

    She must flee her London home, and she heads for the Cornish coast where she was once mysteriously washed the bad-guy Revenue Officer was going to serve as the villain; the Sea Bucca was going to serve as a mysterious

  • Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green

    featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious able to communicate with the Carls--thereby becoming the spokesperson for a movement to protect the mysterious With funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, fantastically bizarre elements; imperfect and wonderful friendships

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery

  • Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

    ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.

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

    In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and Cosby's Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery

  • Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to the mystery Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction, mystery

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

    listening to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing attraction characters, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house

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

    , Roaring Twenties-set historical fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, and the newest in a young adult mystery review of The Light Pirate. 03 The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson The fourth mystery The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson. here for my full review of Tell Me an Ending. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery

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

    ; The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) McManus's great, character-driven sequel to her young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying; and The Great behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    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. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo

    Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was Brutal violence is at the heart of the mystery--and there's enough bashing people over the head that But Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the mystery's resolution coming, and I was

  • Review of Wreck by Catherine Newman

    And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.

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

    A mystery surrounds a deadly moment, and the book ends with a hopeful, imperfect, heartbreaking way forward story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world; it's a mystery Please click here for my full review of This American Woman . 04 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Mysteries When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest There are mysteries at the center of the story, but for me this was a captivating, atmospheric dive into

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

    month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery , and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. American Girl by Wendy Walker This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House In A Murderous Relation, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house of debauchery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition

    Cosby's Southern small-town murder mystery, All the Sinners Bleed; and I'm reading The Night Tiger author Bao, a detective set on uncovering the mystery of the woman's identity and death, has long been fascinated also the author of The Night Tiger, a title I listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

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

    My Bossy takes on more great reads are to come--but I do have some fantastic July favorites to share melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries

  • Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved The ending leaves us on another cliffhanger and sets up potentially intriguing, mysterious conflicts

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition

    witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're Lucky, Stacy Willingham's mystery Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many civil servants offered a mysterious Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house for the summer

  • Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean

    But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious The details of princess life, privilege, and pressures are fun and fantastic, including elaborate clothing

  • Review of Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth Haddon

    When she catches wind of a valuable, mysterious piece of technology on another planet, she banks on her

  • Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

    SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries

  • 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. her inconvenient romantic feelings for Nikolai (and vice versa) and begins to come to terms with the mysterious

  • Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

    When Jaryk learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood orphanage has died under mysterious The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery

  • Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

    Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the

  • Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long

    The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes

  • Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

    This is an engaging and quick read, and the old-fashioned mystery stories within the story are intriguing The murder mystery stories were written decades before the book's present-day events take place and are There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures #mysterysuspense, #booksaboutbooks, #gothicnoir

  • 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 #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #twostarbookreview

  • Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

    In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition

    and a gothic setting in 19th-century Scotland; I'm reading Kate Atkinson's most recent Jackson Brodie mystery string of unsolved art thefts--and he's led to Burton Makepeace, an old hotel that also hosts Murder Mystery

  • Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros

    Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/12/25 Edition

    family drama and dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie, mysterious Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.

  • Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen

    darkly funny, and the situations range from that of a Sarah who is being paid to act out necrophilia fantasies

  • Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore

    her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much. #mysterysuspense, #siblings, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate

    The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved in a mysterious The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her wonderfully loyal friends making plucky efforts Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition, as well as in Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming mystery set in glamorous Capri by Katy Hays, Saltwater year, the wealthy, powerful Lingate family returns to Capri as thought to quash rumors about Sarah's mysterious

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