Happy Half Hour (5/4/26)

Today, we’re chatting about a girl who is starting over while keeping secret that she’s spent the last year in juvenile detention; an adversary to a villain who needs to save her kingdom’s magic before she becomes its greatest threat; and a new mother—a scholar steeped in fairy lore—who is wrestling with the legacies and madness of motherhood.

FREE GIRLS by Kristen McCallum | 9781250320261 | 7/7/26
ADVERSARY TO THE VILLAIN by Hannah Nicole Maehrer | 9781682816721 | 8/4/26
QUEEN MAB by Emily McBride | 9780374617820 | 8/4/26

Additional titles we mentioned:
I KISSED HER FIRST by Betty Cayouette | 9781250291196 | 8/25/26
LETHAL KISS by Taylor Grothe | 9781250433879 | 10/20/26
CALL ME TRAITOR by Everina Maxwell | 9781250362339 | 12/1/26
I AM THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED by Emily Zinnikas | 9781250454782 | 9/15/26
THIS WRETCHED ALCHEMY by Tina Mars | 9781250456564 | 11/10/26
UNIVERSE OF GRACE by Rachel Calnek-Sugin | 9781250430021 | 11/17/26
VICTORIOUS by V. E. Schwab | 9781250192233 | 10/6/26
A CURSE OF BEASTS AND MAGIC by Jeaniene Frost | 9781250395993 | 5/26/26
FALLING FOR A VILLAINOUS VAMPIRE by Charlotte Stein | 9781250352378 | 10/27/26
THE TAROT TRIALS by Katee Robert | 9781250412355 | 10/20/26
THE MIRROR OF INFINITE ENDINGS by Stephanie Garber | 9781250462039 | 9/22/26
THIS WILD WANTING by Sophie Gonzales | 9781250352521 | 11/17/26
BETWEEN YOU A RIVER by Kimberly Garza | 9781250819871 | 12/1/26
ENORMOUS WINGS by Laurie Frankel | 9781250423771 | 5/5/26
WILD ASTER by Anna Hogeland | 9781639739158 | 12/1/26
YOUR BELOVED REMAINS by Quinn Connor | 9781250461049 | 10/6/26
POSSESSION ISLAND by Sarah McCarry | 9781250326645 | 12/1/26
NIGHTCURSE by Emma Hinds | 9781250369550 | 10/13/26
HOT GIRL MURDER CLUB by Ashley Winstead | 9781250401212 | 7/14/26
THE ANNIVERSARY by Alex Finlay | 9781250360755 | 5/12/26
GIRL DINNER by Olivie Blake | 9781250883452 | 10/21/25