Tag: Patricia Wrede

As of today: I have completed the 2017 Sirens Reading Challenge!

As part of this challenge, I’ve read many books I would not have read otherwise. I loved some of them (N.K. Jesimin’s The Fifth Season, for example). I flat-out hated others (I alluded to one such here). Most were somewhere in between.

The experience of reading so many new-to-me authors and books was definitely positive. I do have some more specific thoughts about my experience of the challenge overall, but I’m letting them coalesce for the time being. Once I can write about them with some coherence I’ll post more. In the meantime, here’s what I read (books I especially liked marked in bold).

Guests of Honor: Required

• Zoraida Córdova, Labyrinth Lost
• N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
• Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

Required Theme

• Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
• Franny Billingsley, Chime
• Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices
• Marika McCoola & Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga’s Assistant
• Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
• Jewell Parker Rhodes, Bayou Magic

Additional Theme Books

• Susan Dennard, Truthwitch
• Laure Eve, The Graces
• Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road
• Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
• Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede, Sorcery and Cecelia

Middle Grade/Young Adult: Select Five

• Leah Bobet, An Inheritance of Ashes
• Cinda Williams Chima, Flamecaster
• Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
• Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs
• Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

Adult

• Mishell Baker, Borderline
• Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Immortals
• Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library
• Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood
• Kat Howard, Roses and Rot