The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Whisperwood

Iris Carden ❤️ loved this book because...

This is one of those books that prove to me that indie published books can, and often are, every bit as good as traditionally published books.
This fantasy story is about a woman forced by circumstance into a strange place, where she has to use strength and skills she never suspected she had. It’s a timeless story about discovering strength, finding community, and standing against the intolerable.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Alex Woodroe,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Whisperwood as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

When curious nomad Anna hears about Whisperwood, a town that's not on any maps, that nobody goes to, and nobody comes from, she sees an opportunity to hide from her violent witch-hunting ex.

But not everything is peaceful in the isolated community. A vanishing town, a gruesome funeral rite, an emergency field surgery-these surprises and more test Anna's resolve.

Prevented from leaving the frontier settlement by folk magic she doesn't understand, Anna lends helping hands everywhere she can, but quickly finds that investigating the forest too closely could end up being the last thing she does.

FLAME TREE PRESS is…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of A Dangerous Fossil

Iris Carden ❤️ loved this book because...

I read this novel in under a day. Palaeontology should be a fairly safe occupation, but not for Jurassic Gemma. For her it involves suspense and danger, and threats apparently from all sides.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John J. Delaney,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked A Dangerous Fossil as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Fossils aren't dangerous, are they?
Jemma didn't think so.

When 'Jurassic' Jemma Thorne and her dog, Dino, find an incredible fossil on a Dorset beach, she doesn't realise that it will lead to a trail of greed, jealousy and murder.

As the guilt of her past comes back to haunt her, Jemma must fight to protect her family, her friends, her town and herself.

Can she overcome her demons and escape from the danger surrounding her?

You’ll love this gripping mystery, because everybody loves reading a book that they can’t put down.

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My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Keeper of the Archives

Iris Carden ❤️ loved this book because...

This is the story of one person, doing her best, in a place where the government ignores those in poverty, a crime lord seems to run rampant over the city, and her own family suffers the unique threat of an abusive man.
It’s a story of strength, overcoming obstacles, and finding allies in unexpected places.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Lynne Stringer,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Keeper of the Archives as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 13, 14, 15, and 16.

What is this book about?

After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away. But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kores experiments. Eden manages to get a job in the governments Archives, taking the place of one of Kores victims, but Izrod keeps snatching more government employees. Is Eden safe? And…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Strange

By Iris Carden,

Book cover of Strange

What is my book about?

Get comfortable, dear Reader.
Settle in tight.
The Narrator’s here
with some stories tonight.

Will we have magic,
or just coincidence?
Will our character learn,
or are they too dense?

Will you trust a scientist,
who grows strange plants?
Faced with a monkey’s paw,
do you take a chance?

These stories will cover
a weirdly wide range.
One thing’s for sure:
they’ll all be … strange.

Book cover of Whisperwood
Book cover of A Dangerous Fossil
Book cover of Keeper of the Archives

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