(3) YA No one can know that Jetta's necromantic power animates her family's renowned shadow-puppet shows. When she and her parents must flee--amid a rebellion--they make an unlikely ally in Leo, a young man with his own secrets. A heroine whose supernatural ability and bipolar disorder are both significant, but not defining, characteristics; a vivid world inspired by nineteenth-century South Asia; and an epistolary structure make for a particularly compelling fantasy-romance.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher

(3) YA In this sequel to The Girl from Everywhere, Nix discovers a prophecy that she will lose the one she loves to the sea. Determined to beat fate, she pursues--via her time-traveling ship--an opportunity to learn how to alter history. Nix's inner journey to embrace life even if it means loss adds more depth to the adventure and fantasy elements of the narrative.

Reviewer: Lauren Chambers

(4) YA Aboard their ship Temptation, Nix travels through maps to different times with her captain father. But he just wants to return to the time before her mother died, 1868 Honolulu, even though it could endanger Nix. A love triangle feels unnecessary, but this exciting time-travel adventure with many impressively evoked settings, real and mythological, will please genre fans.

Reviewer: Lauren Chambers