This is a beautiful book! One of the best dystopian set in the future books I've read!
This post-apocalyptic world is now mostly filled with water and most people live on boats. They make port (as few and far as they are between) to trade in what goods they have. Some are looking to set up new places to live and some are acting like pirates- pillaging and taking from anyone they encounter.
Our main character, Myra and her youngest daughter Pearl have been on their own for a long time. Myra is on the search for her older daughter who her husband ran off with when the floods started to come. They save a man, Daniel, who's boat was overthrown and then they find a big ship with a crew that become like family.
She gets the crew to decide on heading north against dangers from the floods and people when she hears her older daughter might be in a colony there.
I loved Myra and Pearl. Pearl has only known life in the floods and is plenty resourceful. Myra slowly finds herself and what she's capable of during the course of the story. Myra is a good mother.
Good debut and looking forward to more by this author!

Poor Ellie is constantly bullied in her high school. She tries to escape that by writing fanfiction. It's her solace. One day, she is recused by Ky in a highly unusual situation.
I liked that Ellie was so disbelieving throughout the whole book of what Ky represented..... Even as she kept getting to see the truth throughout.
I was particularly interested in this book being set in Greece which is pretty cool. The blend of Little Mermaid and Greek mythology was very well put together.

I loved this book which is a book about authors but is also so much more!
I loved getting to learn about "penny dreadfuls" -stories for the lower classes. I loved that Sarah included the two main characters stories within this story.
I love everything about Fletcher Walker! Having, himself, come from the "gutter" and his helping get other street urchins away from horrible situations with the Dread Penny Society. I loved that it was his reason of writing these stories- to help fund his cause.
Elizabeth Black was a fun, witty, and driven female lead. I loved that she wrote penny dreadfuls as Mr. King, it being her true passion, all the while still writing her more accepted silver fork novels. All this to be able to help her girls school to educate those girls that may not have had a chance elsewhere.
I liked the dynamic of Fletcher and Elizabeth's slow but beautifully growing love story.

This spooky, gothic tale is a perfect read too bring in the coming fall.
Sophronia is a widow that the town believes is surely a witch. Gabriel has come to town to be a minister. He is intrigued by the widow and doesn't care what the townspeople think of him getting to know her. Mysterious and creepy things start to happen to them both.
I loved the aspects of bringing Edgar Allen Poe into the story and the ties his works have to the mysteries that are happening.
Perfect fall read... Pick it up now!

This book was well written and I was so pumped for it all in the first half of the book. The second half just lagged for me.

Nate, aka CaptainMal, runs a billion dollar site on the dark net called Kyte. This is where people sell drugs and guns -illegal trades. FBI Agent Lisa is hot on his tail and wants to take him down. These are the two main characters and I didn't care for either of them.

I don't really have much to say about this book.

A tragic moment in history on Sept 11 brings the two characters, Lucy and Gabe, together. This starts a whirlwind romance that ends when Gabe leaves to follow his dream of photographing the world.
Lucy is left behind and eventually finds Darren, who she dates and marries and has kids with. But he thoughts are never far from Gabe and him the same of her.
About halfway through this book, I had an inkling of why this book was being written the way it was. I didn't know the full extent of it but I did kind of guess it. The end had me in tears. Beautiful story.

3.5 Stars

A new "school for the Gifted" is opening up in this Colorado town. This seemingly pits 4 long time friends and their families against each other vying for their kids to get a spot in this school. The parents and even the kids themselves compete against each other and let their morals go to do it. None of the characters are very likeable. I especially had a hard time with Beck and rolled my eyes everytime we came upon him. I wish we had more of Azra as she was the only charger I could really stand.
The book is a bit boring for most of it and didn't get a whole lot interesting until the end when a bit secret comes out because of a part of the admissions process.

I really liked Nikki and that's probably the one thing I really liked about the book. We don't find out why she chose her "other" career path or what tragedy happened in her childhood until nearer the end of the book. By day she is a used bookstore owner (I love how much she loved books and reading and the reason she did) but by night she follows cheats and liars. She is tough as nails, knows how to defend herself really well, has a smart head on her shoulders, and cares very deeply for her only family-her brother.
The big part of the story was a little confusing at times. There's a CEO from a tech company that hires her to follow a woman they say has stolen from the company and that's all I can say for sure.
All I know for sure is that anyone who gets in the way tend to not be alone for very long.

Thanks to BookishHq for a free copy of the book.
I had such high hopes for this but it didn't live you too this hopes for me.
Raymond Khoury does do a really good job at imagining a world where the Ottoman Empire exists today. We have a heavily tattooed man, Ayman, who can time travel and comes from 1683 to 2017 in Paris. He is found naked (because can clothes really time travel? Not here!) Kamal is an officer in the sultan's (yes we have a sultan leader) secret police that is sent to this mysterious stranger and question him.
This new world is bloody, where you can still be beheaded for anything from being a murderer to being a teacher
There is a TON of description in the beginning parts of the book and it gets a little confusing. 8 never got really interested work any of the characters or what happened to them.