The plot hadn’t really got going yet - a lot of backstory - but something exciting was going to happen soon. It had to: the title promised it.

“Guards are of no use in a library.” Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Wasting talent like yours is like burning a pile of money in front of a poorhouse. It’s cruel and it stinks.

And, once that’s done, winning the peace, as they say, will be much more problematic than winning the war.

Live in a crisis long enough and it just becomes normal.

Old men always think they know better than everyone else, even when the world has long since changed around them.

When a shark offers up a pearl, be wary of its teeth. My father liked to tell me that when we were sailing, though I found this lesson most often applied on land.

A tale of intrigue and secrets comes alive when six friends find themselves against an unknown enemy.

A murder mystery party with friends sparks a hidden set of skills for Pippa Fitz-Amobi in this prequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

When Addison Haywood’s magic breaks and the Shadow Garden starts to suffer, three generations of Haywood women must work together, with the help of a mysterious visitor, to untangle the mystery of the Bonner’s Bourbon and a death from twenty-five years prior.

Emily Wilde, a young Oxford professor, puts her research above all else. She's logical, level-headed, and listens to her head (not her heart). While on her last research trip, Emily makes some mistakes interacting with the locals, but more than makes up for it as her research on the Hidden Ones uncovers unexpected knowledge, friendship, and love.

The King of Scars series is the last set of books (so far) in the Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo. This epic duology follows the stories of King Nikolai Lantsov, his Grisha General Zoya, Grisha spy Nina, and those wanting to keep Ravka from war. Myth becomes reality as the book closes on the Grishaverse… for now.

The Six of Crows duology is the second set of books in the Grishaverse written by Leigh Bardugo. This fantastic story follows Kaz Brekker and his merry band of misfits through an impossible heist, betrayal, and the chance to keep a disturbing weapon out of the wrong hands. These books are fun, feisty, and leave you wanting more.

Alina Starkov never imagined she had the power of the sun. Once she learned she was the first Sun Summoner, she was thrown into a life of glamour, opulence, illusion, and betrayal. Her mentor, the Darkling, works with her to destroy the Fold - a tear in their home country of Ravka - until Alina learns the truth about the Darkling, the history of Ravka, and the magic trying to simultaneously hold it together and rip it apart.

A rollercoaster fantasy series full of magic, mystery, mayhem, and a bit of love and redemption thrown in. A great series for teens and older!

The House in the Cerulean Sea is about an unassuming man in an unassuming city in a government job devoid of all personality. But despite the dreary world, he works for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY). After seventeen years, his near-perfect performance in his role vaulted him on an assignment to an island home to some of the most magical of magical children. And it’s there that his bubble pops, and his life is changed forever.

Our main character, Lara Barnes, is plagued by the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Todd Sutton, on their wedding day. His disappearance matched an identical disappearance from thirty years earlier on the same day in the same place.

I knew nothing of this book when I began reading - and I was surprised. Taking place in the early twentieth century, The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a spell-binding story of love, family, words, and actions woven together with a little bit of magick and just enough “what ifs” to make you believe in worlds beyond ours.