Much to Watch, More to Read
Last night’s Grammys was one of the biggest nights of the year for music. The ceremony was held in New York City for the first time in 15 years and brought out new and old artists from the industry. The incredibly talented Kendrick Lamar opened the awards with a killer performance that set the bar real high for everyone who followed.
What were some other most notable moments from the show? People pleaser Rihanna took the stage with DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller to perform “Wild Thoughts.” Between RiRi’s flamenco dancer emoji look and her envious dance moves, she got us all feeling some type of way. Fan favorite Cardi B and Bruno Mars came together to sing their latest hit, “Finesse,” and gave off all the ‘90s vibes. Lady Gaga hit the high notes in an emotional tribute to her Aunt Joanne. U2 sang on the Hudson River. Kesha’s performance highlighted the #MeToo movement. Lastly, Rapper Logic along with Best New Artist Alessia Cara closed out the ceremony with “1-800-273-8255,” which brought attention to suicide prevention, racial and immigration injustice, and the very pressing need for equality and love.
Besides the Golden Globes, the Grammys, the SAGs and everything else in between, including pre-Oscar movie watching, some of the all-time sports moments of the year are coming up. The Super Bowl is this coming Sunday, and it should be a "great game," as they say. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles will take on the longstanding champs, the New England Patriots, at 6:30pm ET. Whether or not sports is your thing, there will definitely be an abundance of hot new TV ads to catch and many chicken wings to consume. The other much, much more exciting sporting event (in my opinion) of the season is the 2018 Winter Olympics, which are only a stone’s throw away. They’ll be held in PyeongChang, South Korea this time around and officially begin on February 9th --- that’s only 10 days from now! --- and run for two weeks to the 25th. From hockey to ski aerials, curling and halfpipes and the bobsled, there’s an abundance of events to watch starring athletes from around the world at the top of their game.
Speaking of the Winter Olympics, if you’ve been watching the latest season of “The Bachelor,” you’d know by now that ABC is doing its own special spin on the event and the series, called “The Bachelor Winter Games.” Full disclosure: I am beyond excited. The show will feature past contestants from both “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” seasons competing against international contestants of the same show. Since the current season of “The Bachelor” keeps delivering straight fire reality TV week after week, I have total faith that this new show will also bring juicy, quality indulgent smut to the masses. What a delight as the winter dread carries on.
If award shows or sports or reality TV aren’t your thing, no sweat. Here are some books to check out this week:
In Chloe Benjamin’s THE IMMORTALISTS, it's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children --- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness --- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
THE PERFECT NANNY by Leila Slimani tells the story of Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, who decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic apartment in Paris’s upscale 10th arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. From the first sentence, we were hooked!
When you read THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement --- a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. THE WIFE BETWEEN US exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage --- and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.
On a final note, be sure to check out the very special Bookreporter.com Valentine’s Day contest running now through Wednesday, February 14th at noon ET. We're giving readers the chance to win one of our five prize packages, which includes one copy of each of the featured titles and some delicious chocolates. Click here to see the included titles and enter the contest.
Happy reading!
5 Things To Obsess About This Very Moment, in no particular order:
1. An Elena Ferrante weekly column is coming to the internet
2. Meryl Streep + "Big Little Lies" season 2 is everything to love right now
3. Finn Wolfhard will star in THE GOLDFINCH adaptation
4. "The Handmaid's Tale" season 2 trailer
5. Leonardo DiCaprio will be in an upcoming Tarantino movie about Charles Manson
--- Nicole Sherman
Special Feature: ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL by Sarah Vaughan
Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart.
Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute the case: an experienced professional who knows that the law is all about winning the argument. And yet Kate seeks the truth at all times. She is certain James is guilty and is determined he will pay for his crimes.
Who is right about James? Sophie or Kate? And is either of them informed by anything more than instinct and personal experience? Despite her privileged upbringing, Sophie is well aware that her beautiful life is not inviolable. She has known it since she and James were first lovers, at Oxford, and she witnessed how easily pleasure could tip into tragedy.
Most people would prefer not to try to understand what passes between a man and a woman when they are alone: alone in bed, alone in an embrace, alone in an elevator… Or alone in the moonlit courtyard of an Oxford college, where a girl once stood before a boy, heart pounding with excitement, then fear. Sophie never understood why her tutorial partner Holly left Oxford so abruptly. What would she think, if she knew the truth?
THE AFTERLIVES by Thomas Pierce (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Kirsten Potter
Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age 30. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights or angels, Jim wonders what, if anything, awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
BETWEEN ME AND YOU by Allison Winn Scotch (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Julia Whelan and Tim Campbell
When their paths first cross, Ben Livingston is a fledgling screenwriter on the brink of success; Tatum Connelly is a struggling actress tending bar in a New York City dive. They fall in love, marry, become parents, and think only of the future. But as the years go by, Tatum’s stardom rises while Ben’s fades. Now all they can do is think back. A life of passion, joy, tragedy and loss --- once shared --- becomes one as shifting and unpredictable as a memory. As the pieces of their past come together, as they explore the ways love can bend and break, Ben and Tatum come to see how it all went wrong --- and wonder what they can do now to make it all right. Reviewed by Leah DeCesare (www.leahdecesare.com).
CARNEGIE'S MAID by Marie Benedict (Historical Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Alana Kerr Collins
Clara Kelley is not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie requires skills he doesn't have, answering to an icy mistress who rules her sons and her domain with an iron fist. What Clara does have is a strong resolve coupled with an uncanny understanding of business, and Andrew begins to rely on her. But Clara can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Reviewed by Amy Gwiazdowski.
CITY OF ENDLESS NIGHT: A Pendergast Novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Rene Auberjonois
It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes that Grace has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. D'Agosta knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so he is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene also assigned to the case. But neither are prepared for what lies ahead, as it quickly becomes clear that a diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area. Reviewed by Ray Palen.
GRIST MILL ROAD by Christopher J. Yates (Thriller)
Audiobook available; read by Dan Bittner, Will Damron, Graham Halstead and Saskia Maarleveld
The year is 1982. The setting: an Edenic hamlet some 90 miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends --- Patrick, Matthew and Hannah --- are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again --- with even more devastating results. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN by Robin MacArthur (Fiction)
Audiobook available, performed by Suzanne Elise Freeman
It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away, Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. As she begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women --- a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer and an owl-loving hermit --- as they seek love, bear children and absorb losses. All the while, Vale’s search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Maggie Hoffman
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children --- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness --- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
MAD HATTERS AND MARCH HARES: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland edited by Ellen Datlow (Fantasy/Short Stories)
Audiobook available, read by C.S.E. Cooney and Eric Michael Summerer
Between the hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative wordplay and the brilliant mathematical puzzles and social satire, ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read, enjoyed and savored by every generation since its publication. Ellen Datlow asked 17 acclaimed writers to dream up stories inspired by all the strange events and surreal characters found in Wonderland. MAD HATTERS AND MARCH HARES features stories and poems from Seanan McGuire, Jane Yolen, Catherynne M. Valente, Delia Sherman, Genevieve Valentine, Priya Sharma, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Angela Slatter, Andy Duncan, C.S.E. Cooney, Matthew Kressel, Kris Dikeman, Kaaron Warren, Ysbeau Wilce and Katherine Vaz. Reviewed by Maya Gittelman.
A MAP OF THE DARK by Karen Ellis (Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Lisa Flanagan
A teenage girl has disappeared from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads obscures the fact that she did not go willingly. With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man who may have been killing for years, FBI Agent Elsa Myers’ carefully compartmentalized world collapses around her. Everything she has buried --- her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother's death --- threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences. Can our most painful childhood secrets be forgotten? Or will they always find their way back into our adult lives? Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman.
THE MUSIC SHOP by Rachel Joyce (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Steven Hartley
On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb, there is a music shop that is jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon, the shop attracts the lonely, the sleepless and the adrift; Frank, the shop’s owner, has a way of connecting his customers with just the piece of music they need. Then, one day, into his shop comes a beautiful young woman, Ilse Brauchmann, who asks Frank to teach her about music. Terrified of real closeness, Frank feels compelled to turn and run, yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems, and Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen, as well as a past it seems he will never leave behind. Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman.
THE NIGHT MARKET by Jonathan Moore (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by James Patrick Cronin
It’s late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city’s last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that’s eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He’s pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and then is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to find his neighbor, Mia, reading aloud to him. She says she saw him being carried into their building by plainclothes police officers, who told her he’d been poisoned. Carver doesn’t really know this woman and has no way of disproving her, but his gut says to keep her close. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
OATHBRINGER: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy/Adventure)
Audiobook available, read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer
Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together --- and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past --- even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. Reviewed by Stephen Hubbard.
THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD: A Memoir written by Maude Julien, translated by Adriana Hunter (Memoir)
Audiobook available, read by Elisabeth Rodgers
Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor --- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." But they could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. Reviewed by Amy Haddock.
THE PERFECT NANNY by Leila Slimani (Psychological Thriller)
When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic apartment in Paris’s upscale 10th arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Reviewed by Jesse Kornbluth for HeadButler.com.
A STATE OF FREEDOM by Neel Mukherjee (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by Sartaj Gerewal
Five characters, in very different circumstances --- from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city --- find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. Reviewed by Jane Krebs.
THE STOLEN ANGEL by Sara Blaedel (Thriller)
Audiobook available, performed by Christine Lakin
When the granddaughter of the wealthy Sachs-Smith family is kidnapped, Louise Rick's skills as a trained negotiator are put to work. She is tasked with helping the desperate mother negotiate what soon turns into a life-or-death situation. The kidnappers will only exchange the deathly ill little girl for an infamous stained glass panel --- known as the Angel of Death --- that has been in the family for generations. But the Angel was recently stolen from the family home. Racing against the clock as she matches wits with a criminal mastermind, Louise will be taken to the depths of human depravity. Will she be able to find the little girl before her time runs out? Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
SUNDAY SILENCE by Nicci French (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, performed by Beth Chalmers
Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police consultant --- Frieda Klein is many things. And now she's a person of interest in a murder case. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda's house. The corpse is only months old, but the chief suspect appears to have died more than seven years ago. Except as Frieda knows all too well, he's alive and well and living in secret. And it seems he's inspired a copycat. As the days pass and the body count rises, Frieda finds herself caught in a fatal tug-of-war between two killers: one who won't let her go, and another who can't let her live. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub.
TELL ME MORE: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan (Essays/Personal Growth)
Audiobook available, read by Kelly Corrigan
It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences. Now, in TELL ME MORE, she’s back with a deeply personal and often hilarious examination of the essential phrases that turn the wheel of life. With refreshing candor, a deep well of empathy, and her signature desire to understand “the thing behind the thing,” Corrigan swings between meditations on life with a preoccupied husband and two mercurial teenage daughters to profound observations on love and loss. Reviewed by Carole Turner.
THE TRANSITION by Luke Kennard (Dystopian Fiction/Satire)
Audiobook available, read by Joe Gaminara
Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? You are not alone. We know. We can help. Welcome to the Transition. While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Freed from your financial responsibilities, you will be coached through the key areas of the scheme --- Employment, Nutrition, Responsibility, Relationship, Finances and Self-respect --- until you are ready to be reintegrated into adult society. At the end of your six months, who knows what discoveries you’ll have made about yourself? Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele (Memoir)
Audiobook available, read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Patrisse Cullors’ story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. Here, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. Reviewed by Maya Gittelman.
THE WIFE BETWEEN US by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Psychological Thriller)
Audiobook available, read by Julia Whelan
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement --- a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. THE WIFE BETWEEN US exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage --- and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. Reviewed by Kate Ayers.
WINTER by Ali Smith (Fiction)
Audiobook available, narrated by Melody Grove
Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art is seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a 15-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshifting WINTER casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love. Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
BECAUSE I WAS A GIRL: True Stories for Girls of All Ages by Melissa de la Cruz (Anthology, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Social Issues, Teen Anthology, Women’s Issues, Young Adult 13+)
BECAUSE I WAS A GIRL is an inspiring collection of true stories by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges, and opportunities they've faced…because of their gender. Edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, the collection includes writings from an impressive array of girls and women who are trailblazers in their fields, including bestselling authors Victoria Aveyard, Libba Bray and Margaret Stohl; industry pioneers like Dolores Huerta, Trish McEvoy and Holly Knight; renowned chef Katie Button; aerospace and mechanical engineer Emily Calandrelli; and many more. Reviewed by Lillian B., Teen Board Member.
THE EMPRESS by S. J. Kincaid (Adventure, Dystopian, Dystopian Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Futuristic, Science Fiction, Young Adult 14+)
Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side and now they can find a new way forward --- one where creatures like Nemesis will be given worth and recognition, where science and information can be shared with everyone. The ruling class, the Grandiloquy, has held control over planets and systems for centuries --- and they are plotting to stop this teenage Emperor and Nemesis. Nemesis will protect Tyrus at any cost, but she cannot protect him by being the killing machine she once was. But if proving her humanity means that she and Tyrus must do inhuman things, is the fight worth the cost of winning it? Reviewed by Makayla H., Teen Board Member.
FOLLOW ME (The Amateurs, Book 2) by Sara Shepard (Mystery)
Audiobook available, narrated by Renee Chambliss
It was the perfect night for a party. That is, until twenty-one-year-old Chelsea Dawson disappeared. The social media star was last seen enjoying a beautiful summer night at the Jersey Shore with her friends. But after an explosive fight with her ex-boyfriend, she vanished without a trace. When Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison hear about the suspected kidnapping, they notice a jarring detail about the victim: she looks exactly like Aerin's sister, Helena, who was killed five years earlier. Seneca is convinced she knows who killed Helena, and she can't shake the feeling that the same person has taken Chelsea. Reviewed by Makayla H., Teen Board Member.
GUNSLINGER GIRL by Lyndsay Ely and James Patterson (Western/Dystopian)
Audiobook available, narrated by Christie Moreau
Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great ... In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity's struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot. Reviewed by Caitlyn K., Teen Board Member.
LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE by Claire Kann (Contemporary Romance/LGBT)
Alice had her whole summer planned. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the romance feels she did not ask for. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated --- or understood. Reviewed by Gabby B., Teen Board Member.
ZENITH by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings (Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult 13+)
Known across the galaxy as the Bloody Baroness, Captain Androma Racella and her motley crew of space-bound privateers roam the Mirabel galaxy on the glass starship Marauder, taking what mercenary work they can find to stay alive. When a routine job goes awry, the Marauder’s all-girl crew find themselves placed at the mercy of a dangerous bounty hunter from Andi’s past. Coerced into a life-threatening mission, and straight into the path of a shadowy ruler bent on revenge, Andi and her crew will either restore order to the ship --- or start a war that will devour worlds. Reviewed by Ilona K., Teen Board Member.
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