Some aspects of Surrender Your Sons felt deeply real and intimate, but I couldn't get past the details that didn't fit.

01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his...

This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.

The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.

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Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.

Bea and her friends-like-family NYC network of loved ones, including her therapist Miriam, are endearing and wonderful.

Nazemian takes the reader to a powerful time in NYC through the experiences of characters that I cared about. Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love...

I loved Alex and Henry and really all of the characters, the banter, and especially McQuiston's politics lite.

There were a million ways this story could have felt less real and messy and fascinating. But it was just wonderful.