Book Lovers by Emily Henry — Review
A sharp, funny romance about a literary agent who thought she was the big-city workaholic and discovers she's been misreading her own story.
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Book reviews from The Diary of a Bookworm — YA fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, and crime.
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher — Review
A bone-dry, darkly funny fairy tale quest about a princess who decides the only solution is to commit a little murder.
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The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd — Review
A literary mystery about maps, memory, and the places we create when we need them most — haunting and wholly original.
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The Atlas Six by Olivia Blake — Review
A deviously clever dark academia fantasy where six brilliant magicians compete for a place in a secret society, and trust is the most dangerous currency.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan — Review
A luminous debut that weaves Chinese mythology into an epic quest driven by a daughter's fierce love for her mother.
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Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn — Review
Bree Matthews steps into the full complexity of her power and her lineage in a sequel that deepens everything Legendborn established and refuses easy …
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Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber — Review
Evangeline Fox makes a deal with the Prince of Hearts to stop a wedding — and finds herself trapped in a game far more dangerous than anything she agreed to.
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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik — Review
El's senior year at the Scholomance was supposed to be about surviving graduation — but the school seems to have other plans, and so does El herself.
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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao — Review
Zetian enlists as a Chrysalis pilot to avenge her sister — and discovers she has the power to tear down the entire system that killed her.
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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes — Review
When a billionaire leaves his entire fortune to a girl who never met him, she's forced to move in with his grandsons and solve the puzzle he left behind — …
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — Review
A tea monk who has lost their sense of purpose encounters the first robot to return to human society in a century, and the two of them try to figure out what …
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan — Review
A nameless peasant girl steals her dead brother's destiny and remakes herself as the monk Zhu Chongba in this breathtaking historical fantasy set at the fall of …
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The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri — Review
A servant with dangerous magic and an imprisoned princess form an alliance that becomes something far more complicated in Tasha Suri's lushly imagined …
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — Review
Ryland Grace wakes up alone in a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth with no memory of how he got there — and the fate of humanity depends on him figuring …
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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley — Review
Daunis Fontaine goes undercover to investigate a meth crisis devastating her Lake Superior community — a gripping thriller that is also a profound portrait of …
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Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo — Review
Nikolai Lantsov and Zoya Nazyalensky face Fjerda's war machine in the King of Scars duology's conclusion — and Leigh Bardugo delivers the Grishaverse send-off …
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Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas — Review
Before he became the father Starr knew, Maverick Carter was seventeen, in a gang, and facing the hardest choice of his life — Angie Thomas tells that story with …
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A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir — Review
Sabaa Tahir brings An Ember in the Ashes to its thunderous conclusion, gathering every thread to answer the question the series has always been asking about …
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab — Review
Addie LaRue has been alive for three hundred years and forgotten by everyone she meets — until a young man in a Brooklyn bookshop remembers her name.
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig — Review
Between life and death, Nora Seed finds a library where every book holds a version of her life — and must decide which one is worth returning to.
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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn — Review
Bree Matthews arrives at UNC early college and stumbles into a secret society, a mother's hidden history, and a version of Arthurian legend that was never told …
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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas — Review
Yadriel summons the wrong ghost and finds himself stuck with Julian Diaz — a boy he definitely didn't like when he was alive, and definitely shouldn't be …
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik — Review
El Higgins attends a school that wants to kill her, wields magic dark enough to level cities, and will not ask anyone for help — until she has no choice.
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Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko — Review
Tarisai has been sent to love and then destroy the Crown Prince — but what happens when the love turns out to be real?
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