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through various avenues of hell, and the worldbuilding felt slim and glossed over during some of the many Cain is savvy, street-smart, and living in the capital. Each of the three main protagonists begin to understand their own power--and when their paths intersect ; a strange world full of vengeful creatures; and satisfyingly proud, brave moments for each of our main Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted

Lora Beth Johnson hooked me immediately with the premise of Goddess in the Machine and with main protagonist she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many I loved the main characters' fashion, banter, and stubbornness. imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a catalyst for the human main May finds herself willing to surgically alter her facial features for a sum that might keep her family

tableau, but the reasoning for this forbidden love didn't hold up for me, and I was frustrated by a main

Six Great Bossy Mystery Reads I didn't read as many mysteries last year as I typically do, but here are She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. Listen for the Lie  offers a fascinating story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main full review of The Return of Ellie Black . 06 Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld I was taken with the main love an Alaska storyline) and the polar bear-focused parts of the story, it felt far afield from the main

In Tochi Onyebuchi's fantasy mystery, main protagonist Boubacar is a war veteran and a private investigator He must delve into his own past connections and dredge up painful, complex past dynamics and loyalties

Grant's thriller is set in the wilds of Idaho, with a wilderness expert of a main character who has fought to trust others and be vulnerable--and who may find herself deeply betrayed again. estranged old friend Janessa goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Emlyn must team up with the man

There's a health crisis and solution that involves the two main characters in key ways and which complicates Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years please see The Dead Romantics. 06 Happy Place by Emily Henry Six longtime friends gather for one last Maine I was impatient with the prolonged lack of communication but loved the main characters' interactions For years they've taken annual trips to their friend Sabrina's cottage in Maine with the rest of their

ICYMI: This series by Naomi Novik introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully Temeraire is young, greedy, vain, and outrageously loyal to Will, and Will is attempting to civilize Naomi Novik is also the author of richly wrought fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted

novel explores early Edinburgh surgical schools, questionable methods of obtaining study subjects, a main

Harrow The Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main You probably haven’t met one before, coming as you do from this backward place, but it’s like a man only Kingfisher writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them she slots fantastically imperfect and wondrous main installment in the series sets up an overlooked princess who becomes a heroine; deadly monsters who may

the past feel light years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain This summer they head to Maine to camp, fish, and hike. Maine, like other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey When she finds that she's pregnant, she begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young pregnancy through the view of a main

Bardugo Bardugo's rich world-building sets the scene in Spain during the Inquisition, as a scullery maid Wang doesn't shy away from a dramatic reckoning for the story's main characters in the end. One may upend everything across four worlds--and one may possibly be able to save them all. Jensen The first in Jensen's fantasy series ticked many of my boxes--strong female main character, a This is my kind of "romantasy": adventure, fate, a strong main female character, a Chosen One setup--

mystery on a magical ship full of uncertain alliances, deadly vendettas, and a sassy and flamboyant main relationship and has no interest in one--she doesn't have time for frivolity when she's chasing so many novel explores early Edinburgh surgical schools, questionable methods of obtaining study subjects, a main Cain is savvy, street-smart, and living in the capital. Each of the three main protagonists begin to understand their own power--and when their paths intersect

The main male protagonist was off-putting to me in his arrogance at first, but Carley Fortune is the

in Elizabethan London; and I'm reading One Golden Summer , Carley Fortune's newest romance, in which main female sex holds her back from being able to find the knowledge she seeks, and she dresses as a boy to gain

01 Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi In Tochi Onyebuchi's newest fantasy mystery novel, main protagonist

Marske doesn't skimp on presenting multiple magical elements, which I loved--and she includes many detailed , saucy, passionate encounters between our main characters. (This reminded me of the measures taken by the main protagonist in another book I recently read, A Study

Morris offers some revenge-fantasy satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of our main Like her main protagonist, Wanda M. Morris is an attorney.

fiction read is that real, weighty issues can be raised within the satisfyingly sweet story: characters may cope with abuse or alcohol abuse; they may struggle to feel self-respect, a healthy body image, or to more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are wonderfully faulted love-crossed main After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would Bea consider starring in a season of Main

key references to them we find that the secretive, haunted author has attempted to work through the pain It's necessary for the reader to sustain a suspension of disbelief so that this hole in our main protagonist's

I loved the main characters' fashion, banter, and stubbornness. Murderbot (check out my rave review in Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI) may and the imminent demise of the human race that they seem perched to enact serve as a catalyst for the main

imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them slots fantastically imperfect and wondrous main Kingfisher is also the author of many other novels.

The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure

Jac Matthis is a romance novelist whose first book tanked (the main protagonist chose her career over a man, enraging readers who'd been counting on a different happy ever after), leaving little audience But it looks like she may have to rely on her annoying next-door neighbor Wes to try to gain the attention After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would Bea consider starring in a season of Main

in which a man lives out multiple overlapping lives, deceiving and lying all the while. Jewell offers a peek at the psychologically twisted motivations of the story's main protagonist, his slow unraveling of his terrible lies, all of which pick up speed as various women race to unmask the man understandably, looking for companionship, adoration, and love fell into the web of this abomination of a man-child

We can see what Jessamyn is unaware of in this campy story: her acting may be sound, but her singing Readers will likely have a clear sense that our main character is prepared to burn it all down on her

The main protagonist is cutthroat, darkly funny, and fascinating in her rejection of expectations.

Many reasons have been given for the decline of the climate-change movement in the twenty-first century Within this timeline, Tom Metcalfe, one of our main protagonists, is an academic fascinated by the past and they were idiots who were throwing it all away, even as their high culture lamented or roared in pain Our main protagonists force or are faced with resolutions, which are not always peaceful or wholly satisfying

Many years ago, everybody here would wake early because there was much to do and only so many hours in Now they wake early because there is much to do and only so many days left. There's a poignancy here because the main protagonists have lived long enough to lose loved ones, and And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .

I love reading Naomi Novik's books without exception--just check out the links to my many rave Bossy Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted

amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery, her debut novel. In Nita Prose's novel The Maid, main protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and her access to the room, her eccentric manner, and other's manipulations of her innocent vulnerability may Prose has built an interesting premise with Molly as an unreliable main protagonist. story--as with the account of Patient Zero's experience and his two degrees of separation from the main

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is the author of fantasy novels featuring main But one day a man visits Eilis, explains that his wife is carrying Tony's baby, and vows to drop the

Bardugo's rich world-building sets the scene in Spain during the Inquisition, as a scullery maid with Cotado lives in a grim house on a shabby street in the new capital of Madrid, working as a scullery maid Greed and manipulation rule the day for all involved, with our main protagonists paying the price.

mother-in-law, who severely curtails her ability to practice medicine, as in the family's opinion, Yunxian's main See presents Yunxian as a feminist in many ways, but doesn't allow her to feel more modern than might

It makes me so happy to survey the many books I've loved reading, thinking about, writing about, and Harrow The Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main Brendan is not the main protagonist, despite the novel's title, yet he is central to the story in that details of a life of moneyed ease and an abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main Within this timeline, Tom Metcalfe, one of our main protagonists, is an academic fascinated by the past

weaves together timelines, threads of family history, and long-held secrets now revealed, while her main trail Nell has laid out for her, she discovers more about her family's history, uncovers secrets, and may In many ways this felt like a Secret Garden (a book I was obsessed with as a child) for grown-ups, with

The book includes many detailed accounts of tracking online tweets and online message board messages, His main interest, Robin, is strong and savvy, yet even she is coping with trauma and the aftermath of But the building of the mystery is satisfying, and having spent five prior books with the main characters

influencer wakes up in the gritty, unforgiving 1800s, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear; I'm listening to Mai 01 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Caro Claire Burke's debut novel features main protagonist Natalie, prepublication version of this title courtesy of Knopf and NetGalley. 02 Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai

Wang doesn't shy away from a dramatic reckoning for the story's main characters in the end. , and what he lacks in training he makes up for with the desire to learn more about the forces that may uncover an enormous magical secret, it could not only mean the undoing of the magical hierarchies that many opens in a prison, with female inmates participating in their weekly book club in rural Abbott Falls, Maine Main protagonist Violet Powell is being released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving

In Gareth Brown's debut fantasy novel The Book of Doors, main protagonist Cassie Andrews works in a New One of these customers is a kind older man she's become dear friends with. happening to Cassie and Izzy when Cassie takes possession of the book, and soon a rumpled Scottish man He just may be the only one seemingly without nefarious intentions. Authors of time-travel books must decide whether characters may change past events or simply witness

Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby. surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery, her debut In Nita Prose's recent novel The Maid, main protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and Prose has built an interesting premise with Molly as an unreliable main protagonist. Mary was a captivating main protagonist--alternately desperate and hopeful, but always dogged in her

Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative peek into a gritty period, as her main She's learned to bite her tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be

Bunny begins with an outcast main protagonist in a MFA program who's infuriated by her twee fellow seminar

There's a health crisis and solution that involves the two main characters in key ways and complicates If you've agonized through the main relationship's ups and downs throughout the story, you might just

I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he navigated tough situations and emerged with hope Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. Who is the man? Can he be trusted? Is any of this even real? He wants to grow up and become a journalist, but for now his main goal is trying not to attract too much Boy Swallows Universe has many larger-than-life characters, especially its villains.

series, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi as an audiobook, narrated by the fantastic Lameece Issaq and Amin , and I was hooked on the lightning-fast banter; the gruff and independent, saucy, and irresistible main

The section on hog butchering may be an eye opener for anyone (anyone?) often luminous or gritty, and the author doesn't pretend to have easy answers for the beleaguered main

They nickname our main protagonist Jordan. Although it seems clear to the reader that ultrareligious, mainly abstinent, guilt-ridden, and generally when a decades-old mystery seems to be the cause of a new friend's aunt's disappearance--and Stevie may

Walker offers an unreliable main protagonist, her dedicated new psychiatrist, increasingly inexplicable which Jane believes them seem to indicate that her ability to live on her own and care for her child may that is posed (but not extensively explored), one in which Jane is sane and the alternate realities may

Peace ; I'm listening to the 31-hour audiobook of the latest Cormoran Strike mystery, The Hallmarked Man Bossy reviews of books set in Ireland, please check out the titles at this link . 02 The Hallmarked Man Within this setting, one of our main protagonists is an academic fascinated by the past (the years surrounding