The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Bird and the Sword

Jennifer Ivy Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

I loved the originality of this book, the immersive world-building, and the emotional complexity of the characters.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Amy Harmon,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Bird and the Sword as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Heart of a Valkyrie

Jennifer Ivy Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

I loved the depiction of a strong heroine, the depth of character development, and the immersion into Norse culture during the Viking age.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Melanie Karsak,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Born hearing the call of Valkyries. Dreaming of distant shores. Torn between the past and the future. Destined to become a legend.

Iceland, 976—Freydis Eiriksdottir, born to a völva mother and berserker father, lives a quiet life on her remote farmstead in Iceland. Busy dreaming of the sea and haunted by the loss of her mother, she has no idea what the Norns have in store for her. When her father, Eirik the Red, marries the daughter of a powerful chieftain, the course of Freydis’s life changes forever.

Deciding that Freydis would be better off with the gothar, Eirik sends…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Unwrapped in Røros

Jennifer Ivy Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

I was enthralled by the originality of the paranormal aspect of this timeless Viking romance. I have never read anything like it before, and loved it!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Hanna Park,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

I survived the Big C. And now, every day is a candy cane kiss. I'm making up for lost time-living large and rocking around the Christmas tree at my best friend's wedding. Destination-Røros, aka Christmas Town, sparkling lights, and real-life reindeer. And then, what to my wandering eyes should appear-Rurik Andersen, this giant from a mystical place, wraps me in his balsam scent, stuffing my stocking with naughty and nice.


The skies dance, ribbons of light touching the heavens-the ghosts of Christmas past hide within the twinkling stars. The centuries leave me. How many winters must I survive without her?…


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Dragon of Denmark

By Jennifer Ivy Walker,

Book cover of Dragon of Denmark

What is my book about?

Skårde the Scourge, bastard son of the Danish king Harald Bluetooth, is a fierce Viking warlord who earned the prestigious title Dragon of Denmark through victorious battles and lucrative Viking raids. When his royal father announces that Skårde will forge a Viking alliance through an arranged marriage to the daughter of Richard the Fearless, the Dragon of Denmark considers the voyage to Normandy an infuriating banishment.

Illegitimate daughter of Richard the Fearless, the Viking Duke of Normandy, Ylva is a Druid priestess and Celtic healer with the otherworldly gift of sight. She learns that she must leave her Breton village behind and travel to Normandy, where she will marry the Viking brute that she has foreseen in a terrifying vision.

When the Frankish king, determined to drive the Vikings from Normandy, attacks and seizes Richard’s clifftop fortress, the Dragon of Denmark must ally with Ljósálfar Light Elves, a Viking völva with powerful seiðr magic, and a vitki-- a shapeshifting sorcerer who can assume the form of a falcon--to reclaim the ducal palace.

Dragon of Denmark is a sizzling, scintillating blend of historical fiction, Norse mythology, paranormal fantasy, and steamy Viking romance!

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