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  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

  • 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

  • Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn

    Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries

  • Review of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

    I listened to Good Material as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

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

    forgiveness; historical fiction about strong women and the power of books; and the first in an FBI procedural mystery investigators who reinvent methods of finding their culprit in a smart, intriguing, and satisfying mystery

  • The Once and Future Queen (Lives of Guinevere #1) by Paula Lafferty

    Vera struggles against the powerful, mysterious former presence of herself as Guinevere, looming like

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy

  • Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play

  • Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

    connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

  • Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

    Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/25 Edition

    When a neighbor dies mysteriously, Cordelia's mother insists they leave town in the middle of the night

  • 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

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

    Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham Through years of various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations

  • Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

    colonizers expect Anequs to either adhere to their strict customs and expectations--all of which are a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition

    Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

  • 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 Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

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

    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.

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

    heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries

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

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition

    But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

  • Six Great Stories about Robots

    Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands , a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising

  • Six Bossy Favorite Literary Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    What We Can Know. 02 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

    depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition

    the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    As always, Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the universe into understandable pieces, using humor and globe, operate as one system, "powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials cutting-edge research. 09 Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery the remarkable cooperation across many branches of science that led scientists to "solve the great mystery

  • One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition

    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

  • Review of Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook

    Cook's connection to deceased authors feels mystical and mysterious--it's all deeper and shapes her more

  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

    Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final,

  • Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

    ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition

    playful dive into life as a villain in a fantasy story, Long Live Evil ; I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery

  • Six Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange adventure, a mystery The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path #1) by Antonia Hodgson The first book in Hodgson's trilogy is smart, mysterious

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery, fantasy, contemporary out One Last Stop. 02 The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell In Lisa Maxwell's The Last Magician, a smart master I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition

    Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition

    introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries

  • Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge

    Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery

  • Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

    It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

  • Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken

    Along the way, they face deathly threats, mysterious magic, a tangled web of lore and superstition, and

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