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Mar 26, 2021

Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

Do you love witchy books like I do? I love a good witch-focused book, and I've been wanting to put together a Greedy Reading List on this...

Mar 23, 2021

Review of The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

In this satisfying final book in the trilogy, Black's characters show darkly funny humor and trade biting remarks, and creatures of all...

Mar 18, 2021

Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was smiling at all of it in delight....

Mar 4, 2021

Review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Each life Nora tries on changes her in some way, whether by erasing her regrets about a path not taken, showing her that she's capable of...

Feb 26, 2021

Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

01 The Conquerer’s Saga series by Kiersten White White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover that to...

Feb 24, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition

01 Machinehood by S.B. Divya In her debut novel, Divya offers a society set in 2095. Humanity is reliant on homemade and commercially...

Feb 18, 2021

Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Johansen offers peeks at her characters' pasts as well as the forces that shaped the Tearling, and she plays with time and reality to...

Feb 15, 2021

Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

Feb 12, 2021

Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire

01 The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...

Feb 5, 2021

Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love

01 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden This is an ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story that takes place within a small...

Feb 1, 2021

Review of Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

Jan 16, 2021

Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

A book I loved, in case you missed it! Jesuits in space find extraterrestrial life--and explore the limits of their faith. This is unlike...

Dec 21, 2020

Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Addie grapples with what it means to only be able to whisper in the world rather than shout. What is the value of a life that must be...

Dec 16, 2020

Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...

Nov 18, 2020

Review of Fable by Adrienne Young

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine, a little romance, and lots of...

Oct 21, 2020

Review of A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, and fears feel real and true.

Sep 21, 2020

Review of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

I loved this book. If you're in for a new character-driven, superhero-focused, smart, wicked, and action-packed book, this is it.

Sep 16, 2020

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition

01 The Pull of the Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia, doctor, Kathleen, and a young volunteer,...

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