Top books I read this year!
These are the books I read in 2020 that got a 5 star rating from me, in order that I read them! Only counting fiction & not rereads.
A girl volunteers as a sacrifice to rescue her friend & crush from dying. She plans on being the first to manage an escape before she’s drowned- but she doesn’t expect to actually have any feelings for the witch meant to fall in love with, and then kill, her.
The final book in the Truly, Devious trilogy! This book wraps up all the mysteries, past and present, of the series, in a fun, surprising, and satisfying way. If you like overlapping unsolved murder cases, posh schools, and girl detectives and you haven’t read this series, what are you doing?
This book takes place in a world where magic is common place yet still thought of as something “weird” to cultivate or care about. Senior year finds the president of his magic club yearning for his- probably straight- best friend, dealing with magic he’s never imagined, and lost in the face of everything changing.
Rin’s father used to be the gravedigger, dealing with the town’s bodies being laid to rest and with keeping the bodies in the forest- the bone houses- at bay. But when the bone houses start breaking the rules they’ve been adhering to for ages and actually attacking those in town Rin, and a stranger with his own quest in the forest, must find out the cause. A true fairy tale, involving zombies (ish)!
The final book in the Winternight trilogy! This series is all winter magic, Russian folklore, and a girl refusing to conform to what society asks for her. She’s also in love with death, and gets to be more and more of a BAMF in each book.
A woman decides to take her ticket out of a lower class, uninteresting life by taking the job her rich former school friend offers her. Even though that job is to nanny her friend’s stepchildren, and she has absolutely no experience with kids. Not to mention that these kids also spontaneously combust.
2 agents of a long, convoluted time war fall in love in a series of letters that evolve from taunting to longing. Poetic, science-y, romantic, and very gay.
The First Son of the US has always hated the youngest Prince of England- which is how he winds up in such a bad predicament that he has to pretend to be his long term best friend just to squeeze out of an international incident. And if Prince Henry is hot, funny, and kind of not actually boring, well- he still hates him, and he’s still straight. Right?
Master thief, Rags, is blackmailed by the royal sorcerer into a heist that will probably kill him- except, he manages to survive it, and winds up with an actual, living Elf, and a quest to save the world. Plus a piece of enchanted mirror in his heart, ready to kill him at the first look of any of them actually trying to save the world.
Korey Fields is dead- and Enchanted can’t remember why she’s in the room with his body. The superstar taking teenaged Enchanted under his wing should have been a amazing miracle, but as he turns more lustful and more possessive of her, it turns into a complete nightmare.
Dark fantasy about a world where water only comes from the blood of the people, turned by the immortal magic user in town. Well, until Emanuela killed her. Now she’s on the run, and on a quest for another source of either magic or water. Finding another town full of water should be the answer to her prayers- but she knows something’s wrong. And she can’t let it go before she shows the world what- even if that means tearing the world apart first.
The sequel & final book to The Merciful Crow! A masterpiece of a second book with such fantastic character work, tension, world building, and romance, it completely lives up to the first book. Just as much magic and cunning, just with more betrayal, heisting, and gods.
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