Amanda and Jenn discuss books about disabled heroines, high fantasy, and a bunch of murdery reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations, and Custom House Books, publisher of Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas.

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Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (rec’d by Suzanne)

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marion Keyes and Kate Bowler’s book Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved (rec’d by Kristi)

Books Discussed

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Bridgid Kemmerer

The Pretty One by Keah Brown (tw: discussion of suicidal ideation, racism, ableism)

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

The Element of Fire by Martha Wells (cw: abusive parent)

The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg (TW murder)

Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke, narrated by JD Jackson (cw: racial slurs)

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw slavery)

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu  

The Lost Man by Jane Harper (tw rape, domestic violence, child abuse)

As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney (tw: violence towards women & children, including imprisonment, rape, child abuse, domestic violence; suicide, graphic violence)

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Xenogenesis/Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler (tw: compulsion/coercion, tentacles) (Dawn #1)

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