Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Need books? Enjoy One of Our Favorites from 2017
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Need books? Enjoy One of Our Favorites from 2017
During this episode of Booklovers, Andrea, Amy, and I talk about some of our book favorites from 2017.
Questions? More suggestions? Topics you’d like to hear us cover in the future? Comment below or hit us up on Twitter – @ClermontLibrary or on Facebook.
Favorites
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty is a sf/murder mystery that examines social issues as it answers whodunit. The book starts with a woman waking up in a cloning vat on a spaceship. When she stumbles out of the vat she sees her other crew members also getting out of vats which is odd enough. But what’s horrifying are the bodies. Their bodies. Murdered. The six crew members are the only ones who could’ve committed the murders but none of them have their memories from the past 20 years. How do you solve a crime when you might well be the murderer.
Ultimate locked room mystery which is fun but then you get flashbacks from all of the crew, exploring who they were before getting on the ship and the secrets they’re hiding. Super skillful writing, keeping all six story lines with the out of sequence storytelling in perfect balance.
* Book
* eBook
* eAudiobook
Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully’s prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
* Book
* eBook
* eAudiobook
According to a Source by Abby Stern. Ella Warren works for celebrity news website, The Life, as a club reporter. She’s assigned to stake out Hollywood’s hottest clubs and spy on the celebrities inside. When Ella is pressured by her Devil Wears Prada-type boss to find an exclusive story to keep her job, she has to decide if being in Hollywood’s elite inner circle is worth jeopardizing her friendship with actress Holiday Hall, her budding romance with Holiday’s agent, and her family.
* Book
* eBook
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard. For fans of The Magicians by Lev Grossman, the Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab or American Gods by Neil Gaiman. There’s a dark secret hiding in the heart of New York City. It’s a society of magicians – powerful houses with names like Merlin, Prospero and Dee who vie for power by having champions fight magical duels. Winner takes control of the magical world. The stakes are even higher this time because the champion who’s got the best chance of winning is the one with a secret agenda. To destroy the hierarchy and power hoarding from the inside. Skillfully written.
View all episodes
By Booklovers: A podcast for readers
5
44 ratings
During this episode of Booklovers, Andrea, Amy, and I talk about some of our book favorites from 2017.
Questions? More suggestions? Topics you’d like to hear us cover in the future? Comment below or hit us up on Twitter – @ClermontLibrary or on Facebook.
Favorites
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty is a sf/murder mystery that examines social issues as it answers whodunit. The book starts with a woman waking up in a cloning vat on a spaceship. When she stumbles out of the vat she sees her other crew members also getting out of vats which is odd enough. But what’s horrifying are the bodies. Their bodies. Murdered. The six crew members are the only ones who could’ve committed the murders but none of them have their memories from the past 20 years. How do you solve a crime when you might well be the murderer.
Ultimate locked room mystery which is fun but then you get flashbacks from all of the crew, exploring who they were before getting on the ship and the secrets they’re hiding. Super skillful writing, keeping all six story lines with the out of sequence storytelling in perfect balance.
* Book
* eBook
* eAudiobook
Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully’s prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
* Book
* eBook
* eAudiobook
According to a Source by Abby Stern. Ella Warren works for celebrity news website, The Life, as a club reporter. She’s assigned to stake out Hollywood’s hottest clubs and spy on the celebrities inside. When Ella is pressured by her Devil Wears Prada-type boss to find an exclusive story to keep her job, she has to decide if being in Hollywood’s elite inner circle is worth jeopardizing her friendship with actress Holiday Hall, her budding romance with Holiday’s agent, and her family.
* Book
* eBook
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard. For fans of The Magicians by Lev Grossman, the Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab or American Gods by Neil Gaiman. There’s a dark secret hiding in the heart of New York City. It’s a society of magicians – powerful houses with names like Merlin, Prospero and Dee who vie for power by having champions fight magical duels. Winner takes control of the magical world. The stakes are even higher this time because the champion who’s got the best chance of winning is the one with a secret agenda. To destroy the hierarchy and power hoarding from the inside. Skillfully written.