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Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas
The love story is between two men who spend most of the book trying to ruin each other. The reason the book works is a third person, who is twenty years old and dresses like a child on purpose.
Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas
The love story is between two men who spend most of the book trying to ruin each other. The reason the book works is a third person, who is twenty years old and dresses like a child on purpose.
Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray
The most powerful criminal in the city is a small elderly woman who bakes pies. She got there because the law said her money would stop being hers the day she married.
Buried in the Woods Below by Daniel G. Miller
There really was an amusement park on Big Island, and it really did close. Nobody fell from the Ferris wheel. This novel borrows the ruins and invents the tragedy, and the borrowing is the interesting part.
Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
The finest chapter in this savage animal novel is the one where a small suburban terrier stands in the road and argues, sincerely and rather well, that the book's hero is wrong.
The Wolf Queen’s Curse by Kaylee Archer
A woman who has been a servant since she was nine walks into a Cardiff pub, orders a drink she has never tasted, and drinks it too fast. The best thing in this werewolf novel is not the werewolves.
The Last Emperor of China by Paul French
One young American woman watched the end of imperial China from inside the empress's sitting room, wrote it all down, and was left out of every account since. This book is what happens when her diaries are finally read.
Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen
Three women, three generations, one house. Each of them swears she will not repeat her grandmother's mistakes, and each of them finds a new way to make them.
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Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas
The love story is between two men who spend most of the book trying to ruin each other. The reason the book works is a third person, who is twenty years old and dresses like a child on purpose.
Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray
The most powerful criminal in the city is a small elderly woman who bakes pies. She got there because the law said her money would stop being hers the day she married.
Buried in the Woods Below by Daniel G. Miller
There really was an amusement park on Big Island, and it really did close. Nobody fell from the Ferris wheel. This novel borrows the ruins and invents the tragedy, and the borrowing is the interesting part.
Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
The finest chapter in this savage animal novel is the one where a small suburban terrier stands in the road and argues, sincerely and rather well, that the book's hero is wrong.
The Wolf Queen’s Curse by Kaylee Archer
A woman who has been a servant since she was nine walks into a Cardiff pub, orders a drink she has never tasted, and drinks it too fast. The best thing in this werewolf novel is not the werewolves.
