The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Tower of Thorns

Kay Camden ❤️ loved this book because...

I love Juliet Marillier's worlds and characters. Her writing is so immersive and detailed but perfectly clear and never gets in the way of the story. She leaves a constant thread of romantic tension between characters that I can never get enough of.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Juliet Marillier,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Award-winning author Juliet Marillier’s “lavishly detailed”* Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall.
 
Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn’s bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges. But trouble has a way of seeking out Blackthorn and Grim.
 
Lady Geiléis, a noblewoman from the northern border, has asked for the prince of Dalriada’s help in expelling a howling creature from an old tower on her land—one surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of thorns.…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Kay Camden ❤️ loved this book because...

Plot, characters, and plot were all exceptional.

  • Loved Most

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

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Simone St. James,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Haunting of Maddy Clare as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.

1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.

Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death.…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Twice Shy

Kay Camden ❤️ loved this book because...

I love the grumpy sunshine trope, and I can be a bit picky sometimes about how it's done. This book does it right!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sarah Hogle,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

'This book is the perfect dose of sweet, hilarious joy. . . We are in love' bestselling author Christina Lauren

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If you dream something hard enough, it might just come true . . .

Maybell Parrish lives with her head in the clouds, which is the sensible choice because her fantasy life is wonderful. She runs a cosy coffee shop, surrounded by friendly colleagues and delicious baked goods, and is together with the man of her dreams - the one she's now certain doesn't exist. In real life, she works in a thankless job surrounded by screaming children, blocked…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Unquiet

By Kay Camden,

Book cover of Unquiet

What is my book about?

Unquiet spirits. A gathering underground war. And a love that complicates everything. UNQUIET is the first book in an exciting urban fantasy trilogy featuring a wholesome small-town hero, a mysterious anti-heroine, and a world of unquiet spirits, razor-toothed demons, and thunderbirds.