"People can refuse to see a possibility. Maybe they don't want it. Maybe it never occurs to them, or is even awful to them. But people make bad choices when they don't know the full range of choices. People come to wrong conclusions if they don't understand all the possible questions." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Where Nirrim lives, crime … Continue reading The Midnight Lie | Marie Rutkoski | Review

"The difference between monsters and people ... is what we do." RATING:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Hidden deep in the mountains of Colorado lies the Inn at Havenfall, a sanctuary that connects ancient worlds--each with their own magic--together. For generations, the inn has protected all who seek refuge within its walls, and any who disrupt the peace … Continue reading Havenfall | Sara Holland | Review

"Everyone knows I can't parallel park. Hardly anyone can parallel park. That doesn't make me a bad driver." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: It’s Zoey’s eighteenth birthmas and the Nerd Herd has been scattered across the country busily adulting for almost a year when Stark calls them back to Tulsa to surprise Z. But all is not well in … Continue reading Loved | P.C. & Kristin Cast | Review

"How big is your brave?" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it's no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his temper and breaks things. Leighton doesn't have time for the … Continue reading If These Wings Could Fly | Kyrie McCauley | Review

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz—or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the … Continue reading Assassins Quest | Robin Hobb | Review

“Illusions were, as far as I could tell, nothing but lies. My mother was a wonderful liar.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform … Continue reading Belle Révolte | Linsey Miller | Review

"No hard feelings, you piece of shit." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does — she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a … Continue reading The Unspoken Name | A.K. Larkwood | Review

"I remembered less from my own life than I did from the books I read." RATING: ⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic … Continue reading The Hazel Wood | Melissa Albert | Review

"It will not lie down till it eat of the prey' and drink the blood of the slain." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 SYNOPSIS: When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter's companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious … Continue reading The Pure Heart | Trudie Tweedie | Review

"They called me a "bitch", the she-wold, because I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Born under the crumbling towers of Oren-yaro, Queen Talyien was the shining jewel and legacy of the bloody War of the Wolves that nearly tore her nation apart. Her … Continue reading The Wolf of Oren-Yaro | K.S. Villoso | Review