“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.” Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It’s a simpler life: head…
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Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood
“You are no lesser person because of what you survived. Your faults, vices, trauma, pain… those make you as much wholly you as all the joy and talent and love and vibrancy in you.” Victoria, a wildblood, was forced to start as a tour guide with Exotic Lands Touring Company when she was six. Twelve…
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
“The way she speaks. As if each word is carefully planned, deliberately feasted upon before easing from her tiny, puckered lips like elegant vomit.” Iraxi is a survivor of a flooded kingdom on an ark with the remnants of her people. However, she is despised as the commoner who turned down their prince and may…
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather
“Theirs was not a cloistered order, but there was the world and then there was their world, and the line between them as stark as any screen shielding the inside of the cloister.” Stolen from Goodreads: The Order of Saint Rita—whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need—bore witness to and…
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
“His voice had that light veneer of humor that we all get, because if we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are. It’s like telling stories at the bar about the worst pain you’ve ever been in. You laugh and you brag about it, and it turns the…
Last of the Talons by Sophie Kim
“Truly, Reaper. Must you punctuate your every point with violence?” After the destruction of the entire Talon gang, eighteen-year-old Shin Lina, the Reaper of Sunpo, is forced to become an assassin for the country’s most feared crime lord. All that keeps her from turning on her ruthless master is the love of her darling little…
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
“We’re all just scattered, lonely specks out here, unless we try to be more. We shouldn’t be brutal just because the universe is.” In the years since humanity has taken to space, Earth has sent forth members of the faith to the stars to convert the colonies. The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita,…
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
“You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.” Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere…else. But…
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
“We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” During the age of heroes in Greece, Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Their paths should have never…
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“She seems to enjoy your company, she may even like you, and yet. Don’t deceive yourself, my boy, this is not a love story.” In this pulse-pounding neo-noir, Mexico City is an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily police streets when a…
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