Thanks to Tor.com for the free advance copy of this book.

Ava and Jules are sales associates at an IKEA-like store, and they have just broken off their relationship. The first day they see each other at work again, an elderly shopper wanders into a wormhole that has opened in one of their showrooms. Naturally, Ava and Jules are selected to travel the multiverse together to find her.

FINNA is only about 100 pages long, but it packs a whole lot into those pages. It's hilarious while also taking aim at capitalism, and it's effortlessly diverse in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.

The parallel universes Ava and Jules find themselves in are wonderfully inventive, and the post-breakup arguments and conversations between them are heartbreakingly real. FINNA is full of love, action, and sticking it to the man.

I do wish it was longer! I would have loved to spend more time on a few things referenced in passing, particularly Ava's anxiety and depression. I'm definitely looking forward to picking up HOMESICK, Cipri's collection of short stories from 2019.

Gideon hates her life of servitude in the Ninth House. When house heir, necromancer, and Gideon's nemesis Harrowhark drags her along on a journey to the First House, Gideon is still trying to think of ways to kill Harrow. But when the trip turns out to be a battle of puzzles between each House's necromancers for immortality, and necromancers and cavaliers begin dying, Gideon snaps into action.

Apologies for the worst summary of all time there, because how can you describe this book?! CLUE, but with reanimated bones, is the best I can do. And it's EXCELLENT. Muir throws us into this universe with no exposition, and readers are left to figure out the House structure as we go along. It's a little confusing at first, especially trying to track who belongs to which house - I made good use of the list of characters at the beginning of the book. Regardless, I was immediately swept into the action.

Gideon's sarcastic wit and Harrow's intensity make them a hate-to-love for the ages. Each person from the other eight houses felt real and distinct - no small feat for the number of characters in this book. And the fight scenes! I was on the edge of my seat, especially for the final battle. (AND! AND! That ending! How very dare you! Give me the sequel now!)

I do have to note this, though. Unless I missed it, every character was explicitly white. Pale skin, glowing hair, the works. I thought it was a big missed opportunity. You've got reanimated corpses and mind-controlled skeletons and a whole hierarchy of types of magical specialties...but every person in the solar system is white?

MEAN is author Myriam Gurba's memoir about coming of age as a mixed race queer Chicana. She looks back at her childhood and teen years through the lens of the repeated assaults on her body she endured. It's a look at the life of a girl drowning in misogyny.

This book is incredible. Gurba's writing is next-level. Her words hold multiple meanings and call back to each other throughout the book. Layer that with her biting, black humor and MEAN is a sharp punch to the gut.

Her memories feel jumbled and yet the story unspools at a carefully determined pace. It's that way women decide whether we can only trust you with a joke about harassment we endured or with the full horror of our traumas. With this book, Gurba is trusting her readers with everything.

Ove is a grumpy guy who follows strict rules for how to live his life and attempts to enforce these rules with the rest of his neighborhood. However, when a friendly young family moves in next door, they begin to see the softness Ove is hiding under his curmudgeonly mask.

Oh boy. I am sorry about this review, y'all. I know Ove is very special to a lot of you. I will begin by saying this is all my personal views coming in to play. And I would like to note that I enjoyed Backman's writing style very much. It was breezy and fun and I chuckled a lot.

However, I think I read this book at the wrong time and in the wrong place. I'm sure if I'd read it in 2012 when it was published I would have found it heartwarming and sweet and begun recommending it a lot. But as someone reading this book in America today, the only thing I could think was "this guy would be a Trump voter." And that's that for me, more or less.

I did roll my eyes and heave a huge sigh at the "his heart is too big!" medical reveal. That was just a cheese too far, even for me.

Jessica James has always had a huge crush on Beau Winston. Since they were kids, his presence reduced her to gibbering. After being away at college, Jessica comes back to town and thinks her dreams have come true when Beau whisks her away from a fundraiser to make out in the hallway. But it's actually his twin brother Duane, who Jessica has always considered a pest. When she realizes Duane's the one with the lifelong crush on her, Jessica wonders if she's been dreaming about the wrong Winston brother for all these years.

TRUTH OR BEARD is so cute! Jessica is quirky and funny and Duane and all his brothers have the most loving relationships. I don't read a lot of romances with super manly heroes - let alone mechanics warring with bikers - so it was a little strange to encounter a book with a lot of small town traditional gender role stuff. On the other hand, even if there is a lot of "go get your woman" talk, Duane still has a lot of emotions and is allowed to feel and express them all, which I really appreciated.

Lots of you have told me that this book is the weakest of the series, and that several further down the line are your favorites, so I'm looking forward to reading about the rest of this sweet family!

Thank you to Tor.com for the free advance copy of this book.

Elisha's family is drowning in debt. To pay it off and give his younger sister a chance at an education, he signs up to become a Docile - contracted out to live and work for a trillionaire. Most Dociles choose to be injected with Dociline to help them forget and move happily through their contract but Elisha plans to refuse the drug, even after learning his Patron is Alex Bishop, the handsome young CEO of the company that makes Dociline.

I feel torn about this book. It's inventive and queer and deeply engrossing - I completely lost track of time while reading; it's one of those books where you sort of get tunnel vision while reading it. I found Elisha's descent into a Docile-like state even without the drugs to be horrifying and fascinating to watch. DOCILE wrestles with already thorny issues around consent and power while taking them into an extreme scenario.

But about halfway or so in, I began to