A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
A Most Agreeable Murder feels as if Bridgerton and Agatha Christie came together, with a sprinkling of Twilight, and made a book.
The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.
Through Smoke and Sand by Corrie Hathaway
What if we could handle the hard things better if we soaked up magic and wonder the rest of the time?
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Wasting talent like yours is like burning a pile of money in front of a poorhouse. It’s cruel and it stinks.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.
Half Bad: The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself by Sally Green
And, once that’s done, winning the peace, as they say, will be much more problematic than winning the war.
In An Orchard Grown From Ash by Rory Power
My young friend here is using a dull knife when a sharp one would be better.
In a Garden Burning Gold by Rory Power
She could protect him, or she could do what was right. But she was sure now that she could not do both.
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Where the ice and the fire met the ice melted, and in the melting waters life appeared: the likeness of a person bigger than worlds, huger than any giant there will be or has ever been. This was neither male, nor was it female, but was both at the same time. This creature was the ancestor of all the giants, and it called itself Ymir.
The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
Live in a crisis long enough and it just becomes normal.
The Bone Shard Emporer by Andrea Stewart
Old men always think they know better than everyone else, even when the world has long since changed around them.
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
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.
Play the Fool by Lina Chern
When Katie gets mixed up in a murder investigation, she relies on tarot cards, luck, and help from a cute local cop to help solve what happened to her friend Marley.