For today’s Genre Friday spotlight, we’ve got a romance for everyone: a whirlwind fling with a work enemy while stranded in Paris, an unexpected connection after a business partnership at an event hotel, a thief who falls for a woman despite his on-the-run lifestyle, an enemies-to-lovers regency romance prompted by a fake marriage proposal, and an […]
Tag: starred review
Day’s YA: WAKE THE BONES
WAKE THE BONES by Elizabeth Kilcoyne97812507908287/12/22Wednesday BooksAges 13-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley The woods are shifting, and the devil is returning. At 19 years old, Laurel Early dropped out of college, returned home to the family tobacco farm where she grew up, and resumed her taxidermy projects with her best-friends-turned-family, Ricky, Garrett, and […]
Author Spotlight: Jennifer Saint (5/10/22)
Jennifer Saint has established herself as an expert at retelling Greek myths from a feminist perspective and elevating the voices of women. In her newest novel, ELEKTRA, she reimagines the myth of the House of Atreus from the viewpoints of three women: Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon; Cassandra, princess of Troy; and Elektra, daughter of Clytemnestra […]
Fantasy Spotlight (5/5/22)
Today we bring you a fantasy spotlight of new and upcoming bestsellers, from a world filled with shadow magicians and secret societies who will do anything for power, to Victorian London and Edinburgh, where gifted children must hide their talents from the rest of the world—all while combating the forces that threaten to end them […]
Sneak Peek: June 2022 Indie Next List
The June 2022 Indie Next list features 9 Macmillan titles! CULT CLASSIC by Sloane CrosleyISBN 9780374603397 | on sale 6/7/22 3 starred reviews! “Novelist and essayist Crosley (THE CLASP, 2015; LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE, 2018) casts a spell with lightning wit, devilish dialogue, and walloping truths about how little reason there is to anything resembling love.”–Booklist, starred […]
YA Spotlight (5/2/22)
This YA Spotlight is filled with romance with Casey McQuiston’s mysterious and romantic YA debut and a last year of high school story about a girl finding her own place. I KISSED SHARA WHEELER by Casey McQuiston “In a novel brimming with classic YA plotlines, crisp writing, humorous asides, and fully fleshed characters and relationships—many […]
Author Spotlight: Sally Hepworth (4/27/22)
Sally Hepworth has quickly established herself as a expert at writing gripping domestic thrillers, full of compelling and twisty family dynamics. In her newest release, THE YOUNGER WIFE, we follow a family as a man divorces his wife, who is suffering from dementia, to marry a much younger woman—much to his daughters’ dismay. With every […]
Starred Review Round-Up (4/14/22)
We’re seeing stars! These titles all received multiple starred reviews: IF AN EGYPTIAN CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH by Noor NagaISBN 9781644450819 | on sale 4/12/22 “The short chapters keep the pages turning during the first two sections as the narrative heads toward the inevitable catastrophe, and the meta-fictional third section helps readers process what may have […]
Day’s YA: OUR CROOKED HEARTS
OUR CROOKED HEARTS by Melissa Albert97812508263676/28/2022Flatiron BooksAges 14-18 E-galley is available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Dana and Ivy are mother and daughter, and they’re inextricably linked not only by their blood, but also by their connection to the supernatural. Ivy is seventeen, and is just discovering the secrets that have been kept from her for […]
Historical Spotlight (4/13/22)
This historical spotlight features a former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife as they barnstorm across America, a woman and a nation struggling to be reborn from the ashes, and a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic. WINGWALKERS by Taylor Brown “Vivid writing pops off the page […]
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