21 These Deadly Games by Diana Urban

August 13, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the police, she dies. If you tell your parents or anyone else, she dies. Are you ready? When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged […]

First Line Friday 7/30/21 Briarheart by Mercedes Lackey

July 30, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

From beloved fantasy author Mercedes Lackey comes a fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty. Miriam may be the daughter of Queen Alethia of Tirendell, but she’s not a princess. She’s the child of Alethia and her previous husband, the King’s Champion, who died fighting for the king, and she has no ambitions to rule. When […]

First Line Friday 7/23/21 The Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman

July 23, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

In this dark and twisty feminist historical thriller, a teenage girl starts a new life as a grave robber but quickly becomes entangled in a murderer’s plans. Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her “aunt.” With no relations that she knows of, Molly […]

First Line Friday 7/16/21 Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

July 16, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

From New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer comes a blockbuster fantasy series about a kingdom divided by corruption, the prince desperately holding it together, and the girl who will risk everything to bring it crashing down. The kingdom of Kandala is on the brink of disaster. Rifts between sectors have only worsened since a […]

First Line Friday 7/9/21 The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino

July 9, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Tess Matheson only wants three things: time to practice her cello, for her sister to be happy, and for everyone else to leave her alone. Instead, Tess finds herself working all summer at her boarding school library, shelving books and dealing with the intolerable patrons. The worst of them is Eliot Birch: snide, privileged, and […]

First Line Friday 7/2/21 Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

July 2, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

From Stephanie Garber, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval, Once Upon a Broken Heart is the first book in a new series about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox was raised in her beloved father’s curiosity shop, where she grew up on legends about immortals, like the […]

First Line Friday 7/3/20 The Falling in Love Montage- Ciara Smyth

July 3, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She […]

First Line Friday 6/26/20 The Kinder Poison (The Kinder Poison #1)-Natalie Mae

June 26, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Holly Black, this enthralling fantasy adventure follows a teenage girl chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown. Zahru has long dreamed of leaving the kingdom of Orkena and having the kinds of adventures she’s only […]

First Line Friday 6/19/20 The Court of Miracles- Kester Grant

June 19, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris’s criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine […]

First Line Friday 6/12/20 The Faithless Hawk (The Merciful Crow #2)- Margaret Owen

June 12, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Dangerous magic, a tormented romance, and lethal betrayals come to a head in the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen’s The Merciful Crow. As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she?s hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow […]