The Burning Side
By Sarah Damoff ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "" A life together is forged in ten thousand choices."..."
The Serpent and the Wolf
By Rebecca Robinson ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 ""Unease threaded in her stomach for only a moment, and she shoved it down with the force of a blow. Fear was the most dangerous emotion she felt- one that summoned the infectious curse crawling beneat..."
The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""I was an odd bird, I knew that. People had told me that most of my life. But I'd learned to live with loneliness in a way my sister never would. She'd never had to. I'd be afraid for her if she eve..."
Honey in the Wound
By Jiyoung Han ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""She has seen to it that he tasted their sorrows. She has seen to it that he did not forget, that his final breath was taken in the remembered torments of his own creation, no honey in the wound to s..."
Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""...for if you were to forge new kinds of weapons, and those weapons flew farther and sailed higher than anything before them, it stood to reason that the payloads might strike beings hovering at alti..."
Kin
By Tayari Jones ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""People who are well loved always think there is more out there for them to enjoy."..."
The Keeper
By Tana French ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""Cal has always known that Lena's chosen weapons are barricades, not artillery, but he never thought she would use them against him."..."
Sisters in Yellow
By Mieko Kawakami ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""No matter the relationship, the person who earned the money never forgot it was theirs. In their heart of hearts, it was them letting someone else use the money. As a favor."..."
Mad Mabel
By Sally Hepworth ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""This is a love story, by the way. It may not seem like it, what with all the blood and guts and murder, but nevertheless, that's what it is. And there is no greater love story than that of platoni..."
Guilt
By Keigo Higashino ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""Truth isn't an easy thing to find, and sometimes in the end it's barely worth finding."..."
Good People
By Patmeena Sabit ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "“They gave her freedom because they believed that was how they would keep her from bad ways. And in return she served them water in their own skulls.”..."
King of Kings
By Scott Anderson ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "In some ways, this is a variation on the chicken-or-egg riddle, a debate point upon which reasonable people can disagree. On the one hand, the Iranian rebellion represented one of history's greatest c..."