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I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy.

Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. Because our main protagonist is hiding from her mother and the coven, who desire to use Lou to further pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman fighting against the establishment and The Man --until she marries The Man himself.

Elle and her oldest friend Jonas have just crossed a line, betraying their spouses--and may have set experienced there; her yearning for her estranged father in Ghana, whom they all call the Chin Chin Man Gifty is an appealing main protagonist, and Gyasi's story s fascinating so far. 03 The Haunting of Hill

from Henry Fry about a young man resolving complicated questions about his romantic life, career, and medieval life and is built upon the framework of facts from the lives of Julian of Norwich and our main

On the surface, the main players in this book by Abby Jimenez are too outrageously beautiful, obscenely The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly painful

I had so many favorite reads this month, I'm saving back two from the past week for April in case I need 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 When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions. The ways in which the family members reconvene were not neat or without pain, but were intriguing.

marriage, sex, politics, public and private behavior—and of course "society," which almost serves as a main A lady’s maid in love with the lady, racy scenes, angst, wonderful details of a life in service to a In this upstairs/downstairs novel, set in nineteenth century New York, Mary Ballard is a lady’s maid But on her own time, Mary is Irish exile Maire O’Farren, and she keeps mixed company as part of a secret Hardinger offers up many crisp and varied details of the time, she captures Bertie’s speech patterns,

Miller was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease, her own personal experiences coping with pain Told Me by Laura Dave Hannah has just celebrated her one-year anniversary of marriage to Owen, she may be making the slightest inroads with her teenaged stepdaughter Bailey--and she may finally be getting Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with

I wanted to love that book more--there was so much love for books, and the main protagonist had a gloriously --but I found myself distracted by what felt like too many silly, slapstick moments or details that didn't

The vivid setting is as essential to the book as a main character, and references to real-life celebrities

I read and loved so many books in the past year, I can't resist more more more roundups of my favorites Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain story--as with the account of Patient Zero's experience and his two degrees of separation from the main Sea, familiar Strout characters Lucy Barton and her ex-husband William flee New York City for rural Maine

I was completely taken with the compelling story of the spunky main players; the shockingly blatant,

by Elle Cosimano In Elle Cosimano's first book in this series, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, we meet main protagonist Finlay Donovan: an author and a recently single mom, divorced from a cheating man who's

of Utopia Avenue, click here. 02 The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez On the surface, the main The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly painful In Leila Sales's young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit

I began this project out of the perverse craving for a cult campfire tale that so many of us possess. Montell looks to language as a main source of power and belief in order to explore the ways in which

The main protagonists are young, but their concerns are weighty.

The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers --mainly charmingly caring, funny, quirky, honest ones who add a lovely levity to the story.

wrap-up and a series of denouements and moments of redemption—yet Jewell also leaves you wondering if a main

Wings by Sue Monk Kidd In 1803 Charleston, plantation owners wield cruel and immense control over their many people considered disobedient; the oppressive power exercised over the humans who are considered by many meaning in life; and the fraught, heart-wrenching, tender, likely ill-fated romance between the two main

Gold glitter rains down on the congregation during the low-tech church services (no one looks up to see the leader's daughter doing this until the main protagonist peers up, late in the book); the bible is

The author winds old Scottish folk songs throughout the book, using it as a fluid way of binding the main

Normal People could carry many trigger warnings. Rooney delves into issues of mental illness by laying out the main protagonists' loneliness, depression

Future Witches, Harrow writes about three sisters raised by a powerful mother who refused to leave the man Each of the three main protagonists here is a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis, Your blood may boil when you read the incessant underestimating of women and condescending tone of the Hill had told the papers, "if this is what happens when women gain some measure of power, we have grave

The only problem is, Olive's nemesis, the groom's brother and best man Ethan, who despises her, also Olive was sarcastic to Ethan too, but she's our main protagonist, so we can see that she's afraid of

Star Is Bored Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in his novel, main

This character is later key to bravely resolving the main and significant conflicts of the story when a story about feeling stuck, and friendship, and listening to your instincts, with vampires serving mainly

I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country. King, surprising revelations, shifting alliances, opaque political machinations, and enmity between main which offers wonderfully flawed characters, plot twists and revelations, great banter, and endings you may

frequently been very drunk, often sleeping rough, and has repeatedly been shaken down for money he may or may not owe to unsavory characters--he drinks so much that in his sober hours he isn't ever quite about faith and meaning in life; and the heart-wrenching, tender, ill-fated romance between the two main one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (these include Gilead, Lila, and Home), you may

Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which the main Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every Harry August has been born (in a train station in 1919) many times. Some lives are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of pain.

The fantastic main players are back: Kell, the ward of the Red London's royal family who once thought

This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works lovely. 05 Jackaby ​ Jackaby is the first in a young adult supernatural mystery series, with memorable main realizing that I'd figured out the basic facts behind the mystery (although I hadn't figured out the many

The great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist

chock-full book, our narrator is trying to piece together the events surrounding the shooting of a man Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism. 06 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Main Gifty is an appealing main protagonist, and the journey Gyasi took us on was fascinating.

At one point, one of our main characters notes that academic commentaries through the ages have struggled

The only problem is, Olive's nemesis, the groom's brother and best man Ethan, has been extended the same I also have a friend named Anna Kendrick, and not only because the celebrity Anna Kendrick is from Maine

When a mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, our main protagonist Talin Casey is in the awkward, sometimes painful age and stage of shifting from young adulthood to being a

officer sending and receiving secret wireless signals, managing a network of agents across Europe, and maintaining for Leia; and her youthful obsession and affair with the gruff (and married) Harrison Ford--who is a main leader and trainer of the French Resistance despite the physical limitations of her false leg (which she gained

said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change the main

Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in this novel, Byron's main the varied demands of an enormous star, and Lane explores the characters' challenges of striving to maintain

The other plotline concerns Lurie, a man who has adventures and challenges with his surprising, loyal gives a fittingly old-fashioned quality to the writing that feels as though it suits the time, the main imprisonment; experiences cruel and potentially fatal betrayal by one of their own; faces the wild and its many

Lexie is the captivating character here, although she exists largely off page and in the main protagonist's The Drowning Kind is the newest story by McMahon, the author of The Winter People (and many others). There are many instances within the book in which a character begins to share key information and is

It may make me feel all the feelings, and/or may be intriguing and make me think, and it's usually engaging Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most good, and they make mistakes and pay for them and live within their awful messed-up moments and their painful Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood In 1963 the Woods were a typical Catholic immigrant family in Mexico, Maine Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence

Christian (with a name her parents purposely gave her in order to create assumptions that she is a white man ) within mainly white educational, religious, and societal frameworks. She became pregnant with Immanuelle by a man outside the claustrophobic community and died when Immanuelle Henderson's witchy tale is taking its main protagonist to a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure

sequel to the young adult mystery The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, which again features the fantastic main It seems his livelihood may be on the verge of obsoleteness as the heavily harvested woods dwindle, and and more concerned that regardless of what is uncovered about the mysterious death, his whole life may Davidson, and it's wonderfully wrought so far, with plenty of tension and few black-and-white answers but many

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, But the main protagonist Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful, and things do ultimately It's a true life-or-death dilemma for a man with two stark options: safety and loneliness or potential Against enormous odds, the team may just be finding some of the lifesaving answers they were sent to character in common between the two books; this person appears at the end of The Boy on the Bridge but is a main

Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, as an audiobook, which was 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 she can walk through a magical red door, she finds unexpected circumstances--and realizes that she may Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what may

The Second-Chance Books I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every Harry August has been born (in a train station in 1919) many times. Some lives are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of pain.

My very favorite Bossy May reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure

overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong, kind man unrequited love for her; the general outline of the disturbing situation at the heart of the book’s main

Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the main other historical fiction books that look promising. 03 West ​ This isn't strictly a Western, but the main optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple times with being preyed upon by a man