(2) YA High schooler Danny and her mom arrive in Tempest, California, under mysterious circumstances. There, Danny meets a group of queer girls called the Grays, who weave magic in "a braid of traditions." The Grays need help: their most powerful member has become distant and her magic unresponsive. Capetta organically alternates narrative perspectives and time periods in this atmospheric story that thought-provokingly explores the magic within young women and in women loving women.

Reviewer: Jeannie Coutant | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019

(3) YA In a magical, Italy-inspired setting, the Capo takes over Vinalia and poisons Teodora di Sangro's powerful father. Teo hatches a plan: with the help of a genderfluid strega named Cielo, Teo will shape-shift into a boy, impersonate her brother, travel to the Capo's Palazza, and find the antidote. Told in rich metaphorical language, this high fantasy offers a compelling interrogation of gender, power, and familial duty.

Reviewer: Rachel Marsh

(3) YA Zara is living her dream: cast from obscurity to star in a classic Greek tragedy with a famous director in a legendary NYC theater; and she's falling in love with gorgeous lighting assistant Eliza ("Eli"). However, mysterious deaths--possibly related to a curse on the theater--threaten the girls' idyll. Murder-mystery meets psychological thriller meets sweeping romance in a story both tragic and beautiful.

Reviewer: Jeannie Coutant

(3) YA Cade attempts to gather the remnants of humanity--scattered throughout space since Earth's long-ago destruction--in a desperate bid to save them from extinction by way of the sinister Unmakers. Capetta's rich prose captures the lonely, alien beauty of life in space, and the plot sustains tension on both personal and macro levels, earning its dramatic, high-concept resolution.

Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

(4) YA In a far-future universe, loner musician Cade learns that she was subatomically "entangled" with someone in an experiment meant to adapt humans to space life. While searching for her imprisoned counterpart, she bonds with a host of intergalactic misfits. The world-building is creative and provocative, particularly the poignantly drawn human diaspora, but its internal logic falters under a twisty plot.

Reviewer: Claire E. Gross