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Identity by Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts’ new book Identity delivers on all the tropey goodness I’ve learned to love and expect from her work – a scrappy, relatable heroine in Morgan Albright, a gruff yet swoon-worthy, respectful hero in Miles Jameson, lovely and well-fleshed out friends and family members in both the Jamesons and the Nashes, and finally, a happy (if hurried) ever after.
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The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
Given the last six months we’ve all lived through, The Duke Who Didn’t is exactly the kind of book we need in this moment. It may sound like hyperbole, but I’m not sure I can explain how cathartic it was to cry over characters who just want to learn how to be good to each other, who get to set (and enforce) boundaries for how they want to be treated, and who reclaim their power only to use it for everyone’s benefit.
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Mean Streets by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Thomas E. Sniegoski
Mean Streets is one of the best anthologies I've read in a while. It only has four different pieces in it, but they're all novellas, and all by strong, experienced writers. I don't think any of them are here riding on someone else's name on the book cover.
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The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
September 11th is a hard day for me. My father was working at the Pentagon at the time, and I spent most of the day thinking he had been killed. I was only 22 years old, fresh out of college and working at my first job, which I left in tears that terrible Tuesday morning as the jets from NAS Oceana screamed over my head on their way to protect the President in Washington.
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New (to me) Arrivals!
It was a day for books -- totally unplanned, four of them showed up on my doorstep at once. The first three were chosen for me by a Bibliologist over at Tailored Book Recommendations. (If you send me a recording of you pronouncing 'bibliologist' successfully, I will send you a picture of your favorite animal being cute as a reward, because my goodness.)
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Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Noelle Stevenson presents a world that is basically a cross between a renaissance faire with magic and, like, the MythBusters (if half of the MythBusters were evil monsters and the other half morally ambiguous types just trying to do their best, and you don’t know who’s who until it’s time to save the faire from fiery destruction).
