![Book Review: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Summer-Sons-by-Lee-Mandelo-255x255.jpg)
Andrew and Eddie grew up together, but then Eddie left to start his graduate program early, and now he's dead and haunting Andrew. When Andrew arrives in Nashville, he realizes there was a lot Eddie didn't tell him and sets out to solve the mystery of his friend's death while navigating grief, sexuality, a dangerous ghost, and Eddie's mysterious new...
![Book Review: Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow Book 3) by Rainbow Rowell [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Any-Way-the-Wind-Blows-Simon-Snow-Book-3-by-Rainbow-Rowell-255x255.jpg)
Their road trip didn't go quite as planned, and Simon is still depressed. Back home in England, Simon and Baz work through relationship struggles and try to learn about a new supposed "chosen one," Penny attempts to remove a demon curse from Shepard, Agatha starts working at her dad's place, and they all try to figure out where to go next in life and what makes them...
Jasper and Crimson are finally getting a bit of a break and just enjoying life together, Jasper even getting a job with a supernatural investigation agency. But between Crimson's draw to turn a fledgling and old enemies still out to get them, their easy new life doesn't last...
En has just been turned into a vampire, with Ichii as his guardian to show him the ropes. As he helps Ichii make his blood deliveries during the week, he learns about the difficulties of vampirism, but he also makes friends and starts feeling something for...
![Book Review: Firestarter (Timekeeper Book 3) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Firestarter-Timekeeper-Book-3-by-Tara-Sim-310x310.jpg)
Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...
![Book Review: Chainbreaker (Timekeeper Book 2) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Chainbreaker-Timekeeper-Book-2-by-Tara-Sim-310x310.jpg)
Danny and Daphne, clock mechanics, get sent to India to help figure out why clock towers are falling and how time is continuing on without them, but a mysterious stranger keeps showing up and seems intent on getting to Danny. When Colton realizes Danny could be in danger, he sets off to try and save...
![Book Review: Timekeeper (Timekeeper Book 1) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Timekeeper-Timekeeper-Book-1-by-Tara-Sim-310x310.jpg)
In an alternate world where time is controlled by clock towers, relationships between mechanics and clock spirits are forbidden. But when Danny, a mechanic, meets Colton, a clock spirit, he finds himself falling in love, while also unraveling the mystery of a nearby stopped...
It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...
*Announcer voice blasts out over the speakers*: And now... it's time for the main event! The cream of the crop! The cherry on top! The one, the only, the top ten books of the year post! RAAAAAAHHHHHHHH (Just humor me and imagine crowd sounds here.) Well that was fun! Maybe I should intro all my blog posts with an announcer... Anyway, this has been a weird year. Perhaps that explains why...
![Book Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Time-Travelers-Wife-by-Audrey-Niffenegger-310x310.jpg)
Henry has a genetic condition that causes him to time travel against his will. It's not an easy life, but then he meets Clare, who already knows him from the many times his older self visited her in the past as she was growing up. This is their love...
