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

    dark academia novel, Blood Over Bright Haven ; and I'm reading Frances White's fantasy story about mysterious

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

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

    Frankie and Zeke come up with an enigmatic phrase and attention-getting artwork, and they spread the mysterious

  • Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

    For more mysteries and thrillers I've reviewed that you might like, click here.

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

    01 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

  • Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith

    These are generally deep dives into mysterious, often creepy situations. Strike and Robin was hinted at but not consummated. 03 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith In the third mystery

  • Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

    and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking

  • Review of Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

    My book club likes to tackle a mystery read as one of our summer books, and this was our most recent

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition

    a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic.

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    Ava's inexperience is essential to her storyline, and her limited perspective creates a mystery regarding

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition

    Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

  • 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

  • Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary

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

    of essays about joy and wonder; The Survivors, Jane Harper's newest Australia-set, character-driven mystery 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 The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 08 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    on the tone of this one yet; Connor is a little snarky, but I believe the plot is going to include mystery #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

  • 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

  • Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II, and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year, Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare

  • Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

    In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and

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

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition

    a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young man's bravery; a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition

    She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House

  • 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

  • Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had

  • Review of Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

    spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious #mysterysuspense, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

    Ballad with my book club, and this week I reviewed When Ghosts Come Home, Wiley Cash's character-driven mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, disturbing undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

  • Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper

    of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/10/20 Edition

    For my full review, see One to Watch.) 03 Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery by Nev March It's 1892 in British-controlled He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for her debut title.

  • Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    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 Plus there is something mysterious about both the caretakers of the children and island, like maybe something

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • Review of Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim

    Meanwhile there are odd creatures doling out questionable advice, a mysterious stepmother, a land struggling

  • Review of The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young

    the suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious

  • Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris

    Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind.

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

    newest gorgeousness, a dystopian gem, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mystery past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal mysteries

  • Review of The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22) by Lee Child

    Reacher novels since 1997, so whether you're committed to the series or you only dabble in suspense, mystery #mysterysuspense, #series, #threestarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/1/22 Edition

    her future, shares her reliance on alcohol and her experience with depression, lists her long-term, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition

    relentless oppression and hopelessness of slavery, the resigned, broken existence of the imprisoned, the masters 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. factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war between Languoreth's husband and his allies and Lailoken's master The details of life at the time are wonderful, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    lifesaving Black neighbors--who share resources, offer advice, and otherwise keep to themselves--and their mysterious

  • 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

  • Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    their experiences in an internment camp during World War II, as well as the novel Fallen Mountains, a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition

    siblings Bellatine and Isaac, a woodworker and a con artist and street performer, are reunited to claim a mysterious

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/8/21 Edition

    Now I'm reading what may be a perfect summer read with plenty of nostalgia; a dark, mythology-filled mystery

  • Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    by Mary Roach Science writer Mary Roach has a way of immersing readers in what may be unfamiliar or mysterious Entangled Life is Merlin Sheldrake's enthusiastic ode to the supremely important and mysterious life

  • Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

    incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

  • Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi

    I loved Pobi's mystery; the character of Page, a retired detective who is pulled back onto a case; and This was a really compelling mystery/thriller—with a smart underlying commentary about gun ownership, It wouldn’t have made any material difference to events, but not putting that protection in place felt I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

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