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  • Review of Fable by Adrienne Young

    young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/26/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm currently reading three fantasy titles: one young adult novel to be published

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story  as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan). In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious Are Here . 10 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

  • Review of Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

    spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious #mysterysuspense, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

    and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    They have a fantastic selection of titles, offer spot-on recommendations, and can order almost anything As always, Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the universe into understandable pieces, using humor and globe, operate as one system, "powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials cutting-edge research. 09 Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery the remarkable cooperation across many branches of science that led scientists to "solve the great mystery

  • Review of Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

    My book club likes to tackle a mystery read as one of our summer books, and this was our most recent

  • Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

    Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, the appearance of additional silent companions, haunting stories

  • Review of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

    this smart, funny young adult book complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy

  • Review of The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You.

  • Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary Laura Amy Schlitz has also written the children's book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village as well as Splendors and Glooms, a Gothic mystery about puppeteers that

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    see Rednecks . 02 Bride by Ali Hazelwood Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

  • Six Captivating Nordic Stories

    Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring adventure, “nefarious company,” a town run by women, and “a mysterious

  • Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward VenCo by Cherie Dimaline VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious James is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but she and her grandmother are folded into

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    Graham's Cold War Cookbook. 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books

  • Review of The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22) by Lee Child

    Reacher novels since 1997, so whether you're committed to the series or you only dabble in suspense, mystery #mysterysuspense, #series, #threestarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

    Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming (January 16) novel of Victorian England and Arctic mystery Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition

    narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of coming home.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley's upcoming literary fantasy; Empire

  • 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

  • Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

    This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. #mysterysuspense, #southern, #fourstarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition

    make: stick with her contentment and comfortable current life and husband--or fulfill the dreams and fantasy

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition

    a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young man's bravery; a mystery

  • Review of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

    Inside, the mysterious Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, the second in Elle Cosimano's playful Finlay Donovan mystery series; I'm reading Quantum Girl Theory, a recent gothic mystery about a finder of missing girls from Various misunderstandings during a publishing meeting about Finlay's upcoming mystery novel result in her receipt of a mysterious note implying that Finlay is involved in something sinister--and offering Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. 02 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's recent gothic mystery

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    posted about favorite reads from certain genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. 05 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett In

  • Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner

    The heart of the mystery the emotionally tortured Frankie uncovers in the wilds of Wyoming in One Step Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was I love a character-driven mystery but haven't read any of Lisa Gardner's other series. author of Before She Disappeared, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, as well as multiple other mystery

  • Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter

    This slim, intriguing book packs a punch, featuring revenge fantasies mixed with magical realism.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Lisa Gardner's newest Frankie Elkin missing-person mystery, Still Our Yesterdays; and I'm listening to Kirsten Bakis's gothic novel set on a cold, remote island with mysterious

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something two timelines, a decades-old tragedy, and a modern-day descendant's discovery of her family's link to mysterious There are two mysteries surrounding the Turner Tragedy: the whodunit aspect and the unexplained disappearance This is a long (it's almost 550 pages), winding story with complicated connections and mysterious motivations Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of family--those you

  • Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper

    of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/8/21 Edition

    Now I'm reading what may be a perfect summer read with plenty of nostalgia; a dark, mythology-filled mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition

    bestselling author haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic relentless oppression and hopelessness of slavery, the resigned, broken existence of the imprisoned, the masters But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set his mysterious powers that allow for shifts in time and space. The details of life at the time are wonderful, and some characters wield magic and hold mysterious powers

  • Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

    incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition

    his daring wife; I’m reading Steelstriker, the second and final book in Marie Lu's science fiction-fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition

    the Newman's Own brand. 03 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries

  • Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

    I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young

  • Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan

    In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different In Erin Kate Ryan's recently published historical fiction mystery Quantum Girl Theory, Mary Garrett focuses science fiction," but Quantum Girl Theory is rooted in historical fiction and offers a solid, twisty mystery

  • Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    The story is more of a thriller than a mystery; after a time we aren't wondering what happened, rather

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    that breaks and finds its way back together again; I Have Some Questions for You, a boarding-school mystery Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

  • Review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood

    Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery to this steamy interspecies romance Misery Lark is the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre in the region, and she'd prefer to literally the Alpha of the Weres, and he's as unpredictable, volatile, and unforgiving as any Were stereotype Misery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition

    lives in two eras and forced to choose; and I'm reading The Box in the Woods, a stand-alone young adult mystery time travel. 03 The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson The Box in the Woods is another young adult mystery Johnson's Truly Devious series offers dark scenes, wicked mystery, blossoming attraction, loyal friendships

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    I've had a fantastic reading month. If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

    This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series. #mysterysuspense, #series, #historicalfiction, #london, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch

    Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo #timetravel, #mysterysuspense, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding developed, but they're important to the structure and the odd interconnectedness at the heart of the mysterious identical personal experience; and detective Gaspary from the future's Night City investigates their mysterious

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