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- The Little Known by Janice Daugharty. LibraryThing Early Reviewers Book. Coming of age story set in a poor, segregated town in South Georgia. African American 12 year old boy Knot ends up with a bag of money when a bank robbery near him goes wrong. I love the way Knot is paralysed by the money, he has thousands of dollars but each note is too big for him to spend so he becomes a cautious Santa and of course no recipient spends the money on what he thinks they should. His pathway to adulthood is woven around his attempts to fix the various significant issues in his life.
- Ill wind, No Love Lost, Heat Stroke, Oasis, Chill Factor, Midnight at Mart's and Windfall by Rachel Caine. Supernatural romance-ish in which hotrod loving Joanne and her weather working powers end up in the middle of a war between the Wardens, the Djinn and the Earth herself. Not startlingly good but hypnotic in that way attractive emotional writing can be.
- The Alleluia Files by Sharon Shinn. Shallow self-centered Jared the angel falls for Tamar, rebel with a cause. I think I’ve overdosed on books where the dramatic tension is about a culture that simply *cannot* get over being sexist/racist. Maybe it’s just that all the books in this series end in a resolution that makes you think the culture is going to improve and then every new book tells you it got worse instead. It’s a bit like that awful epilogue to Harry Potter – I wanted them to have learned from their mistakes.
- Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods by Sheri Tepper. Sequel. Marianne reset her life in book one and Marianne2.0 doesn’t understand everyone else doesn’t remember how the day will go, but gradually as she grows up she has more unexpected experiences and learns to cope. Sadly, her enemies haven’t forgotten her and she gets mindwiped and sucked into an alternate reality. Has an interesting take on what it would be like to grow up twice with your adult personality sitting there in the background nudging you at critical times – when both of them ‘own’ the body, whose needs are more important?
- Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Coming of age story in the Liaden universe; can stand alone. Theo, a young woman growing up on a ‘safe’ world run by scholars struggles with her incompatibility with said world culture and blossoms when her mother takes her off planet on a mission of her own. I enjoyed this!
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