

Review of One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult...
Jun 22, 2021


Review of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story to dive into on a hot summer's day....
Jun 16, 2021


Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
ICYMI: I've been thinking lately about robot books and specifically about this great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon...
Jun 15, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a memoir about coping with chronic illness; a twisty mystery in which people aren't always what...
Jun 14, 2021


Review of Namesake by Adrienne Young
I love Young's tone and her characters. Namesake was fantastic, and I wish more books were coming in this series. Namesake is the second...
Jun 1, 2021


Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod
Axelrod offers a light fiction romance that's heavy on engaging passages about making music, band life, and tricky interpersonal...
May 27, 2021


Review of The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
This is captivating without being melodramatic, romantic without any overdone elements, and wonderfully steeped in legend. This is Pike's...
May 26, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a...
May 24, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates's novel about slavery, with magical realism that offers a...
May 10, 2021


Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
ACOTAR often read like a romance novel featuring fairies; I listened to this as an audiobook and admit that at times I shrieked when I...
Apr 26, 2021


Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
El is a grumpy, powerful, smart, straightforward character I was obsessed with, and I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible....
Apr 8, 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 26, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the newest book from Elle Cosimano, in which a misunderstanding has potentially enormous...
Mar 24, 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 23, 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 18, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition
What I'm Reading Now: Three Fun Fantasy Stories I'm reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases excellent dark humor within...
Mar 17, 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 26, 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 18, 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...
Feb 1, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition
01 The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone...
Jan 28, 2021