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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

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

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

, 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

mention that the essence of his story remained intact through years and "a million" versions (including a fantasy #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #twostarbookreview

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a revenge fantasy, but the issues at the heart of the story are real and weighty and important. I imagined that the alligator angle might make for a campy revenge fantasy. And it is revenge fantasy.

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

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

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

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

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.

What I'm Reading Now: Three Fun Fantasy Stories I'm reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases powerful than any of her classmates realize--fears she might accidentally take him out before she can master Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Through a series of unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but

01 Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy

The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction about the secrets of an Old Hollywood starlet; and A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske's fantastical Edwardian England story of mystery and love.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves

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

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

Over the course of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established that they were and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and fresh faces--in a new set of intertwined, mysterious unexpected comes to town, our sleuths realize that not everyone is who they say they are; that old mysteries

Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood World War II-era orphanage has died under mysterious The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's

This title was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read. 03 Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters ruined by sinister I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy heroine and a dark plot twist; and a prolific mystery author's first in a series, where almost everyone

As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately Click here   for my full review of The Boy from the Sea . 06 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

I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

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). In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious Are Here . 10 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

They remain driven by doubt and fear and desperation; some are deluded by a fantasy of what medical science to become a patient, and I, the clinician, agree to try to fix you, whatever the improbability, the misery

In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather